"The Opposite of War isn't Peace...It's Creation."

J. Slater Contemporary Artist- Chicago IL., New York, NY.
-Graduate of (SAIC) School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Rappers who publicly support gay marriage

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  • Kanye West
  • Jay-Z
  • Nicki Minaj
  • 50 Cent
  • Lil B
  • A$AP Rocky
  • Fat Joe
  • Queen Latifah

Please stop fucking acting like Macklemore is this special snowflake for being a rapper who supports gay marriage. I know yall love to pretend that black people are homophobes, so obviously the music we make must be homophobic, but that is bullshit and Wacklemore is not the first rapper to publicly support gay marriage.

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Perfection is so much more of a journey or process than it is a destination. The sooner we understand that the more content we will be with ourselves.

“I just want to get a huge parachute sheet like material and twirl in it under the sun. Next to a body of water of course.”
-slater

My life.

native-detroiter: kinkyturtle: avri-wallflower: sourcedumal: Fuck special snowflakes who think like this. Gurl bye Your ass ain’t fucking special because you don’t wear makeup. You’re not fucking better than the woman with large breasts who wears tank tops. You’re a piece of shit because you are putting sexist stereotypes onto other women in some anti-feminine bullshit. If you don’t like it, why’d you comment on it? I think it’s awesome and you’re probably one of the girls up there that wears makeup and shortshorts and tiny tanktops. And most kids today wear makeup because they think they aren’t pretty and need it. So deal with it. And get over yourself. girl bye. lemme tell you something: I wear tons of fucking make up. I wear short dresses. I walk around with a face that looks about as fake as it can get outside of a fucking barbie doll. and I like it that way. and, despite what you seem to think, no, it’s not because i think i’m ugly. i just fucking like makeup (and trust, i’ve spent years examining my own motivations and how they’re tied to internalized self-hated, fatphobia and misogyny so don’t EVEN cause you don’t know what you’re talking about). I also read ravenously; engage in discourse regarding philosphy, art, economics, politics, race, gender, sexuality; make subversive art; and love comics and film and music. I’M A FUCKING PERSON IS WHAT I’M SAYING.  like how fucking deep is this goddamn image when the spine of the book JUST SAYS THE WORD ‘BOOK’. this kind of bullshit narrative, other than furthering a misogynistic dichotomy that pits women against each other, is also a complete fucking fallacy. A huge majority of average women DON’T DO THIS. you aren’t the lone plain jane in an army of cake-faced, bottle blonde barbies—if you look around, you’ll see that most women just throw on jeans and tops and very little makeup.  I get that this kind of shit is an attempt to fight back against media-made images of what womanhood is supposed to be. I get it. (thought isn’t it interesting that the “weirdo” in the picture is still thin and conventionally attractive??) but attacking other women who you perceive as being stupid or carbon copies because of their fucking appearance doesn’t fight back against shit. it actually does EXACTLY what the patriarchy wants us to do—engenders more hatred and competition between women.  but you know, whatever, continue to think you’re so goddamn special. i’ll be over here reading AND wearing hot pink lipstick and having a hell of a time doing it.  ^ that’s what im saying. does makeup and tank tops (dont most ppl wear tank tops anyway?) stop you from reading? who drew this, taylor swift? Renlogging for the epic comment(ary).

native-detroiter:

kinkyturtle:

avri-wallflower:

sourcedumal:

Fuck special snowflakes who think like this.

Gurl bye

Your ass ain’t fucking special because you don’t wear makeup.

You’re not fucking better than the woman with large breasts who wears tank tops.

You’re a piece of shit because you are putting sexist stereotypes onto other women in some anti-feminine bullshit.

If you don’t like it, why’d you comment on it? I think it’s awesome and you’re probably one of the girls up there that wears makeup and shortshorts and tiny tanktops. And most kids today wear makeup because they think they aren’t pretty and need it. So deal with it. And get over yourself.

girl bye.

lemme tell you something: I wear tons of fucking make up. I wear short dresses. I walk around with a face that looks about as fake as it can get outside of a fucking barbie doll. and I like it that way. and, despite what you seem to think, no, it’s not because i think i’m ugly. i just fucking like makeup (and trust, i’ve spent years examining my own motivations and how they’re tied to internalized self-hated, fatphobia and misogyny so don’t EVEN cause you don’t know what you’re talking about).

I also read ravenously; engage in discourse regarding philosphy, art, economics, politics, race, gender, sexuality; make subversive art; and love comics and film and music. I’M A FUCKING PERSON IS WHAT I’M SAYING. 

like how fucking deep is this goddamn image when the spine of the book JUST SAYS THE WORD ‘BOOK’.

this kind of bullshit narrative, other than furthering a misogynistic dichotomy that pits women against each other, is also a complete fucking fallacy. A huge majority of average women DON’T DO THIS. you aren’t the lone plain jane in an army of cake-faced, bottle blonde barbies—if you look around, you’ll see that most women just throw on jeans and tops and very little makeup. 

I get that this kind of shit is an attempt to fight back against media-made images of what womanhood is supposed to be. I get it. (thought isn’t it interesting that the “weirdo” in the picture is still thin and conventionally attractive??)

but attacking other women who you perceive as being stupid or carbon copies because of their fucking appearance doesn’t fight back against shit. it actually does EXACTLY what the patriarchy wants us to do—engenders more hatred and competition between women. 

but you know, whatever, continue to think you’re so goddamn special. i’ll be over here reading AND wearing hot pink lipstick and having a hell of a time doing it. 

^ that’s what im saying. does makeup and tank tops (dont most ppl wear tank tops anyway?) stop you from reading? who drew this, taylor swift?

Renlogging for the epic comment(ary).

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DESIGN: Poetic Cosmos of the Breath by Tomás Saraceno

The dream of Argentinian artist, Tomás Saraceno of recreating the distant skies is recurrent in his spectacular installations.

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ugh i would give anything to have a house made of that or at least a dress

Black behavior, then has often been fascinating to “scholars” whose various studies about us are almost always silly generalizations about the whole race. If sociologists applied the values to Ulysses (that classic absent father) as they do to black families, Penelope, a welfare mother, would have been damned for not getting a job, while Telemachus would have been persecuted in school as a product of a broken home and tracked into a class for slow readers with social adjustment problems.

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Rediscovering Black History. Review of The Black Book. New York Times Magazine (11 August 1974):14+ Reprinted by the permission of International Creative Management, Inc. Copyright 1974 by Toni Morrison. 

from What Moves at the Margin; Selected Non-Fiction Edited and with an Introduction by Carolyn C. Denard. 2008. p. 49

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