desi damsels

i dont think people realize how much strength it takes to pull yourself out of a dark place mentally. so if youve done that today or any day, im proud of you <3

buying something & telling your parents it was cheaper than it actually was just so you can avoid a lecture on spending...

did your parents make you practice going to bed early because school was starting soon, or are you normal?

when you’re brown, you have two ways of pronouncing your name... the english way, and the desi way 

people who grew up with strict parents are actually the best actors because we gotta control our facial expressions, heartbeat, blood pressure, etc..

shoutout to brown girls with naturally think eyebrows who got made fun of for it before white people adopted them as a fashion statement. 

desi parents care more about containers than their first born child smh 

random brown people staring at you to figure out if you’re the same type of brown as them is one of my favorite things 

whenever a teacher mentions india, everyone in the room just stares at me. like what do you want me to do? break out in bollywood dance and make it rain samosas? 

i may be a 5′0 fat solid 2 in america but in india im a solid 10 and a walking green card 

you ever look at your guy friends sometimes like if this were 100 years ago, we’d be married by now...

when you think your parents are watching porn but they’re really just watching breathing exercises 

wait so technically every indian movie is a musical  💀

sending tiktoks to each other: a love language 

seriously though south asia has a huge colorism problem. or rather, colonial hangover.