times are hard for dreamers

Postmodern Loneliness is a series by Mexico-based artist Idalia Candelas.

hi everyone! So I’ve recently started a band about a year back and we have been Doin so well! We play a combination of Latin style psychedelic rock, rhythm and blues. We call it the brown blues! We are a xicanx Banda that now needs some help! We have been posting on our insta (@TEADOROTHEBAND) some patches as well as have many other incentives for donating! Every dollar counts! This fund will go towards getting our demo started so that we can have professionally mastered track of our ancestral aesthetic ! Everyone who donates will get something like I said!! I appreciate it so much!!luv lili

(via elreydimas)

Purchase prints here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/263328543/self-love-cactus-botanical-print?ref=shop_home_active_1

Because I was taught to stay away from certain styles because they were too “mexican”. With phrases like “the bigger the hoop, the bigger the hole” when I loved wearing big earrings. Being told that red hair against my brown skin looked “ghetto” instead of fierce and bold. Wearing stylish flannels like the pretty pastel haired girls on tumblr and being told I look like a “chola”. Working hard to get rid of my slang because society taught me that it was “unflattering”. That bright red lips were too much. That my natural intense brows are now a makeup “fad”. When in reality all this shit was made up by people that want to put us down for claiming our own identity. 

R.I.P mi hermanito.

Honestly, I don’t even know what to say. Spread the word.

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