The Kinecktor.

hey guys!! i’m finally uploading my senior film, trash cat! i hope you guys like it because it was seriously a blast to work on and such a great learning experience :3 some awesome people who helped me (and whose tumblrs i know) are zbogucki, cameronbutlerart, dawnmbennett, jingleschram, and inkohit!

also be sure to check it out on vimeo so you can watch it in hd~

That is gross beyond imagination to me. Issues of colorism and shadeism should be discussed within our community. It is not gonna be solved by a bunch of non Koreans telling us that they know what we “really” look like. That they know better about our skin tone than the actual people who have them.

Honestly? There’s also a lot more variation to our skin tones than the standard, oh let’s make them darker and especially yellower, stance y'all seem to be adapting. Are there Koreans who do have darker, yellower skin tones? Yeah. Are there people who don’t? Also yeah.

Stop fucking pulling this shit. It’s super anti-Asian and racist.

I’ll start out by saying that I am East Asian myself, I’m not talking over non-East Asian people as someone who is non-East Asian, because I am literally Chinese, and a tan-skinned East Asian person at that.

Secondly, the ask was coming from an extremely biased view of what people actually do on these blogs. I can only speak on what I specifically do and how I edit my photos (I don’t know the process of the other blogs), but what I do before I edit them is I scour the internet to find their tannest pictures. Sometimes they’re not very tan at all, sometimes they are very tan.

Then, I take photos that look like the background of this post, and I make them look as close to those pictures I found as I can. I don’t assume I know what their skintone is or undertones are because I don’t, I literally go off of pictures I found.

But now I’m going to get to the part that I actually think is pretty shit of this response tbh, ESPECIALLY as someone who is Chinese. Colorism is an issue that affects all East Asians, and to say that colorism in kpop only affects Koreans is actually pretty fucking disgusting. Do you know how many kpop idols are Chinese (some had to leave because they were so abused because they’re Chinese but that’s another story)???? Do you know how many kpop idols aren’t Korean?? You guessed it, A LOT. Jackson Wang, Victoria Song from f(x), Huang Zitao, Wu Yifan, Lu Han, Mark Tuan is Taiwanese, Zhang Yixing, Fei from Miss A, Han Geng from Suju, Zhou Mi, Jia from Miss A, Henry Lau, etc. are all Chinese, and that’s just off the top of my head. Yes, they’re singing in Korean, but they’re still Chinese, and wow guess what??? They get whitewashed too, just like the Korean idols! And that’s just Chinese kpop idols, don’t even get me started on the nonChinese, non Korean, east Asian kpop idols such as BamBam from GOT7.

Stop acting like Asian people live in a vacuum and that it’s only non-Asian people doing this, because I’m Chinese and my people are getting whitewashed and damaged from the whitewashing of kpop idols too, as kpop idols are just kind of indiscriminately whitewashed by people, regardless of where they come from. Once these Korean photographers washed out Chinese idols and non-Korean idols, it became our fucking issue too, as then it became pretty fucking clear that the issue of colorism to East Asians doesn’t only affect Korean people. You’re not going to watch people wash out Chinese kpop idols and then turn around and tell me this isn’t my fucking problem, that’s not how this is going to work.

Signed,

i agree!! i agree with them that maybe white people/non East Asian people who do this might be stepping out of line, I never actually thought of it the way that they put it but I can see that point and where they’re coming from.

My beef is when they assumed that it’s only white ppl doing this and that non-Korean East Asian people magically don’t have a right to do something about this/talk about this/have a voice about this when a lot of these pictures are of Chinese idols. So we can get whitewashed too and destroyed but yet we can’t talk about East Asian colorism because these Chinese people are singing in Korean? We can be hurt by this too but we aren’t allowed to talk about it, only they can?? Bullshit.

@Akon Lighting Africa  #AkonLightingAfrica

Today, 600 million Africans still don’t have access to electricity, particularly in rural areas.

In far too many parts of Africa, night-time economic activities are practically non-existent. Women cannot make productive use of their time to carry out the most basic household tasks. Children who help the women cannot study at night without proper light and complete their homework by candle light, an additional expense for parents. Moreover, without access to electricity, over 3.5 million Africans die every year from harmful pollutants or fires in the home produced by costly and toxic solid fuels.

To meet these challenges, Akon Lighting Africa seeks to provide a concrete response at grass roots level to Africa’s energy crisis and lay the foundations for future development. Launched in February 2014 by international music star, Akon, leader Thione Niang and entrepreneur Samba Bathily, this initiative aims to develop an innovative solar-powered solution that will provide African villages with access to a clean and affordable source of electricity.

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#flâner episode 1 from #strollingseries  gaëlle & christelle talked about black french culture, “bande de filles”, afrofuturism, fatou, sisterhood & more

May 25

The #BlackSoldiersKilledByCops hashtag honors black soldiers who sacrificed their lives abroad only to be killed by cops at home.

Walter Scott

Anthony Hill

Brenda Williams

Kenneth Chamberlain

Denis Reynoso

Stanley Gibson

Roman Ducksworth