Born in Color Podcast

🌦Everything is working out in my favor

🌦All of my desires are achievable

🌦I am connected to my spirit

🌦My life is full of amazing opportunities

🌦I am surrounded by positive energy

🌦Everything I need is already within me

🌦I am admired, loved and appreciated

After almost 200 days since Breonna Taylor was murdered, her case will be presented to a grand jury by Attorney General Daniel Cameron. 

— WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

It means that it’s time to go harder than ever before for Breonna Taylor. 

1. GET OFF YOUR LAZY *** AND SIGN THIS THIS AND THIS PETITION

2. DONATE TO BREONNA’S FAMILY IF YOU CAN

3. MAKE SOME CALLS DEMANDING JUSTICE! Numbers are included in THIS Twitter thread.

MORE INFO INCLUDED IN THIS TWITTER THREAD.

It’s time to show everyone that WE CARE ABOUT BREONNA TAYLOR. We want JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR. 

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Additional Resources:

1. What are my five best qualities?

2. In my life, what do I desire, ultimately?

3. When it comes to life, what ‘moves’ me?

4. What does the evolved “me” look like?

Last winter, when Chung Soo-young saw a man rushing out of the women’s restroom at a chain coffee shop in downtown Seoul, the first thing she did was to scan all stalls in search of a hidden camera. Like many other South Korean women, Chung, 26, constantly worries that she could be secretly filmed in private moments. Her fear spiked, she says, when she saw the intruder and “realized I can actually be a victim.”

In South Korea, microcameras installed in public bathrooms for surreptitious filming are an everyday concern. Police data show that the number of “illegal filming” crimes sharply increased from 1,353 in 2011 to 6,470 in 2017.

The fear of digital peeping Toms has led women to stuff tiny balls of toilet paper into holes they find in public bathroom stalls or cover the holes with tape. Six months after her bathroom incident, Chung decided to act and put together her own “emergency kit” to thwart molka, or hidden cameras.

She started a crowdfunding project for the kit, and the response was greater than she had expected. More than 600 people bought the kit, which costs about $12 (14,000 Korean won) and includes a tube of silicone sealant to fill up holes, an ice pick to break tiny camera lenses and stickers to patch up holes.

Thinking of her kits as a “stopgap,” Chung also started building an archive of illicitly recorded videos and pictures she found online to demonstrate how serious the problem is. In September, during a search, she stumbled on a video of herself from that December day.

Once filmed, molka videos are quickly shared online. With the right search words in Korean, it is not difficult to find pictures and videos of women in bathrooms and changing rooms on file-sharing platforms and social networks such as Tumblr and Twitter. Thumbnails of such videos, tagged with an estimated age of the filmed women or the filming location, are posted with a messenger ID. Anyone can contact the seller, who is often the one who shot the film, and get gigabytes of voyeuristic videos for pennies.

South Korean Women Fight Back Against Spy Cams In Public Bathrooms

If you are familiar with the fashion world, then you have heard of the online boutique “Are You Am I” before. However, if not, Are You Am I is an LA-based luxury brand (their words not mine) created by Rumi Neely. You may have seen some of their garments on the likes of Instagram models and influencers. It’s crazy because while I was trying to do my research on this brand, there is barely any information on it. There’s not even a wiki page, which I found odd? Because as a brand, wouldn’t you want more information out about you? But, maybe that’s just me. 

The brand launched in 2014, but it didn’t gain traction in popularity until late 2018 (from my observations). According to their website (the only source of information I have), they are a sustainable brand that makes their clothes by hand in Los Angeles. They are mostly known for their silk garments, where they create one pieced fabric dresses and tops that you could honestly make yourself with a sewing machine and will power. 

But, I digress because what I really want to focus on is their clothes. Now, trust me I, love the clothes at Are You Am I, and honestly, If I had the money for them, I wouldn’t be complaining as much as I am right now. However, I’ve made an observation about their clothes that I don’t believe should go unnoticed, and I know others have the same concerns as well. From far away, the silk pieces don’t look like anything special, they’re cute and stylish, and the people wearing them look great. But, like a Monet from far away, it’s okay, but up close, it’s a big old mess.  

As you can see, the ends are fray and, in their words, “raw-edged.” In their details of their silk pieces, they state that the hem is purposely made like that. To me, it just looks lazy and cheap. Like does it kill you to hem the fabric? What makes this annoying and infuriating is that they sell these garments for $90-$500. Imagine spending that much on something when it doesn’t even look professionally sewn. 

I’m not the only one that has noticed this; multiple people on twitter have pointed out the hemming on these designs. But, because it’s written off as a “stylistic” choice, costumers can’t complain.