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The Greatest Curve of All Time?

(via thelovenotebook)

West Side Story 1961 - “I feel pretty”

There’s more detail in the post, but it’s great to see a black woman artist feeling license with the retro look. Mainstream treatments of the early-to-mid-1900s give the impression that only white women existed in glamorous spaces or pin-up culture (with white American nostalgia fed by shows like Man Men). Although spaces on tumblr like Black Vintage or Nigeria Nostalgia Project do great work contesting that erasure, I love how this video brings the glamorous women pictured on those blogs to life for a contemporary audience.

when someone you don’t like says hi to you at a party

Devon doesn’t think she’s a black model cause she’s “fair skinned” and has an “international look” 

#delusion

“I’m light skinneded and I appeal to everyone because I’m light skint” dark skinned Naomi who is a legend is right ther. The fuck was she thinking?

Even with all the craziness going on in my world. I’m still finding new ways to be happy. I can’t allow negative happenings, to destroy my happiness.