#creativeanger

168/365 We can’t go wrong Can’t get fucked this time Speak up now, lose Or get left behind

Alright so I have manyyyyy mixed feeling about this article right here. I am straight up just going to start off with copy/pasting some quotes from the author that ENRAGED me here.... ALSO WHILE READING THESE QOUTES, KEEP IN MIND THE AUTHOR IS OF EUROPEAN DESENT- THE AUTHOR IS WHITE AND SAYING ALL OF THIS.

“At my house, getting dressed is a daily act of cultural appropriation, and I’m not the least bit sorry about it”

“I step out of the shower in the morning and pull on a vintage cotton kimono, [big deal]”

“The idea that I ought to stay in the cultural lane I was born into—outrageous”

“But please, let’s banish the idea that appropriating elements from one another’s cultures is—in itself—problematic”

“The cultural appropriation police, who jealously track who “owns” what and instantly jump on transgressors”

So she says all of this ( in my view- IGNORANT ) stuff, but hold on... she goes on to tell you how some things are very very wrong to do/ educate you...

“Blackface is never cool-Someone else’s culture or race—or an offensive idea of it—should never be a costume or the butt of a joke”

“Sacred artifacts are not accessories”

... SLOW CLAPS FOR THESE *sarcasm to the max.. YAY IM SO GLAD YOU THINK THESE ARE WRONG, NO WAY, WOW EDUCATE US *more sarcasm. BUT WAIT, HOW CAN U NOT SEE THAT STEALING ANOTHER PERSON’S CULTURE IS THE SAME AS DRESSING IN A KIMONO- KNOWING YOU ARE CULTURALLY APPROPRIATING, BUT THINKING IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO DO SO AND OH “BID DEAL”. 

Then she goes on to say that Cultural Appropriation is wrong but...

some things are just ... “cultural appropriation done right”. WHAT. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING.

also... some more “extraordinary comments”...

“Cultural appropriation can sometimes be the savior of a cultural product that has faded away” ..NO IT RECREATES HISTORY THAT IS INCORRECT- WHITE WASHED IT.. RECOLONIZES IT ONCE AGAIN, YOU AS A WHITE PERSON HAVE NO RIGHT TO “BRING BACK SOMEONE ELSE’S CULTURE”. Especially with the privilege you have and the history of white colonization & the damage it did to minorities & their cultures!

“Sharing values, sharing visions, sharing the economics, I think it’s the easiest way to work”...“This is the magic of style. It’s the magic of art. It’s the magic of the design.” “And it’s a magic that I’d be happy to appropriate for my closet”

FOR REAL? IT IS NOT SHARING. DID U ASK THE COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE THAT YOU ARE APPROPRIATING FROM, WERE YOU INVITED TO WEAR THEIR CLOTHING, DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT CLOTHING REPRESENTS AND THE HISTORY TIED TO IT? SORRY HONEY, IT IS THE OPPOSITE OF MAGIC.. ITS THE REAL WORLD of WHITE PRIVILEGE & IGNORANCE. 

Anyways, this article is so “beautifully” ignorant as it says oh cultural appropriation is not okay.. but then saying wait but it is. The very title of it saying culture approbation is either “very wrong” or “very right”.. contradicts itself. Cause well, sorry to burst bubbles, but cultural appropriation is just VERY WRONG. 

Enough of me expressing my anger and trying to make it into..what a prof of mine calls.. “creative anger”. Which is essentially getting mad, but in a way to make change, raise awareness and put your anger to creative use. So anyways, my amazing viewers.. embrace you sadness and anger on this topic & leave me comments or just simply put your emotions to extraordinary use!! Hope you enjoyed this piece & critic the specific quotes I have placed in these comments :)