“it was only ever a metaphor” hundreds of people had to act collectively in peckham this weekend to stop the immigration raid, activists were working around the clock last night to make sure that flight to rwanda didn’t take off. but if you’re removed everything seems like a play
you're laughing... i'm walking around in the cold wearing a floppy nightcap, stripy pyjamas and carrying a little candle because you woke me up with your shenanigans and you're laughing
think the point of this was to go after a widely loved painting to demonstrate that there won’t be much to conserve if things keep going the way they are (painting is protected and will probably be fine, frame might need a clean though)
as black and brown people we must move beyond “white people can’t handle spicy food” as our only joke. what if one day they can? then what? we must plan ahead!!!
one day i will be an old lady stood by a big pot of something on the stove and everyone will immediately say that it’s my famous really good dish but it will simply be because i’m an old lady stood by a big pot of something on the stove
sorry to bring it back up but i think it’s interesting how the lack of art education means that not only do people not understand why this was a relevant protest but also just how complicit our cultural institutions are in the conditions of the world today
so crazy how there was a brief moment in time, however imperfect, where it looked like we were about to take the emphasis off western beauty standards in some way shape or form, and then it all came back even more violently than ever before!
no offence but people who say we have to respect the queen because she works hard wouldn’t know a days work if it fell through their loft conversion lol
saying this forever - the conditions in which you are even able to do things for a man out of love and not out of dependence or necessity for security as if he’s your employer are so vastly different
[male author describing a female character] she walked boobily, she tossed her hair, her brain was like a hotel lobby she’d checked out of many years ago
this is obviously wrong but it’s also sad she feels this way and is projecting it onto everyone else. the pop culture of therapy in an individualistic society devalues the acts of care we can give to each other as friends, family, community, reduces it to work
lmao that heartbreaking dev patel interview has me fondly remembering the white boys in my primary school ranking all of the girls by appearance and making a show (body shaming et al included) of putting the black and brown girls last
most of those boys are so young and spent that match getting knocked about and yanked around and shithoused and still only lost by a single penalty. they’re giving their winnings to the NHS and have maintained solidarity throughout, still insanely proud of them ❤️
fr a single ticket to the met gala is more than my yearly salary half of the costumes probably cost around half of that a piece.. and yet i would still do better than this! makes u think
i have annoying recurring thoughts about how donald trump likes citizen kane and elon musk likes parasite. how do they. what do they see when they watch those movies