Can we just talk about how taylor swift takes her own fans to court for making merchandise on ETSY, sued her old guitar teacher for using her name on his website as if he didn’t give her everything she has, finds a problem in every single streaming site because she wants her fans to only be able to purchase her album - even when Apple agreed to fix the issue she had she STILL hasn’t agreed to be apart of Apple Music, and talks passionately about issues pertaining to her but never about actual social justice issues. Yet the media and promotional team doll her up as some american sweetheart who loves her fans and is super sweet and generous. I don’t know about you but I am not here for that or for her AT ALL
like tbh, it makes me really uncomfortable when white photographers go someplace ~~exotic~~ like india or pakistan and take a picture of a dark-skinned light-eyed child and put it in their portfolio with some bland name like “portrait of a young girl at well in wheat field, manipur, india, 2015.” like what kind of commodification of brown bodies is this?? did you pay this child? did you pay her family? do you know anything about the area you’re in other than the shit you read on wikipedia? do these people mean anything to you past their aesthetic???? please cut out this trend of photographing nameless identityless faces designed to further your artistic experience and start seeing them as real live human beings who exist outside of the boxes you put them in.
Anti-Asian racism is when the media keeps producing and reinforcing negative asian stereotypes, and it’s apparently “funny” and “entertaining”, and it’s not even considered to be racist.
-Mod H







