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Ariana Grande is darkening her skin and changing her features to look Racially Ambiguous to sell to a wider audience and it needs to be addressed

Black people, who invented hip-hop, jazz, and rock and roll, have long been tastemakers of American cool. In many ways, fashion, music, and slang are dictated by black people no matter how little credit they get for it..

In fact:

“Our research shows that black consumer choices have a ‘cool factor’ that has created a halo effect, influencing not just consumers of color but the mainstream as well,” said Cheryl Grace, senior vice president of U.S. Strategic Community Alliances and Consumer Engagement, Nielsen.

Thus, presumably, if you want to be cool and sell records, you ought to start acting black. In fact, it’s great if you’re not black and act black because you get the benefits of being cool without the baggage and limitations of being subjected to racism.

Its what the Kardashians, Iggy, Justin Bieber, Ariana, and alot of other celebrities do in order to rise in popularity as well as be accepted into the black community.

  Grande’s music is largely influenced by hip-hop and R&B, meaning that in order to build a fanbase, she needs to court listeners (ahem, black folk) with those musical preferences. Grande, who is quick to shut down any perceptions about her ethnicity being anything but Italian. Most people presume Grande is Latinx, not necessarily black, when mistaking her race, but I am here to tell you, most Latinos are part black, sis. 

Thus, for years, Latinx women have been sounding the alarm: Grande is doing brown face. Look at her tan!! Look at how she speaks! Look at her music!

The point is: Most of us don’t get to pick and choose which parts of blackness we get to have — only white folks seem to have that luxury. And we need to give her the SAME ENERGY we give the kardashians.

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Someone asked us:

So I’m getting the nexplanon implant and I have one concern. The website itself says it’s for up to 3 years whereas someone I spoke to from PP informed me it was 5. Which is it?

Lots of people have been asking similar questions about their implants and IUDs here on Tumblr and at Planned Parenthood health centers across the country. Why does a birth control method suddenly work for longer than originally thought? And why do different sources have different information? And is it safe to keep it in?

Here’s the deal: When Nexplanon was initially approved by the FDA, research studies proved that the implant works to prevent pregnancy for up to 3 years. However, scientists have continued to research the implant, and new studies show that it continues to work and is safe to use even longer — up to 5 years. These are the same kind of reliable medical studies that resulted in the implant’s approval for use in the first place. That’s why health care providers like Planned Parenthood are telling their patients that it’s effective for up to 5 years.

But hold up – why does Nexplanon’s label, its website, and all its other marketing materials still say it only works for 3 years, then? That’s because changing the labels for certain medicines, like birth control, can be a very long, expensive process. When a medicine is proven to be safer or longer lasting than originally thought, it’s often not considered urgent to update the label and other materials. This is called “off-label use,” and doctors do it all the time for all kinds of medicines.

There are other birth control methods that last longer than what their labels currently say. Mirena and Liletta — two hormonal IUDs — have been proven to now work for up to 7 years.

Doctors and nurses who keep up with the latest and most reliable research on birth control know what’s up. So if you plan to get (or already have) the Nexplanon implant or the Mirena or Liletta IUD, you can use it safely for longer than the label and the website say. If you don’t want to, remember that it’s up to you if you want it taken out sooner. You’re the boss.