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Cats Wearing Ties

Previously:Cats Taking Selfies, Cats Stuck in Things

Marina, concerned: “aw, they have to go to work!”

Second to last one asdfghjjlljsjrjtngj

They’re just wishing they were bigger than you.

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Accurate.

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so tired of this ratchet ass hood

Villagers are fucking cheap. Out of 128,000, they donated like 322 bells and I donated the rest! Waste of my damn time. Why even have a donation thing? Let me just pay for it myself. They have no problems accosting me for my sharks though!

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Dido Elizabeth Belle

Scotland (1779)

oil on canvas

Scone Palace, Perth (private collection of the Earl of Mansfield)

Although this painting falls outside the usual scope of this blog, it is one of my favorite historical European paintings. Dido Elizabeth Belle was the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Sir John Lindsay and enslaved African woman named Belle.

This painting was most likely commissioned by her father, the nephew of the Earl of Mansfield, and depicts the beautiful and vivacious Belle alongside her cousin, Elizabeth Murray.

The first time I saw this painting was in an art history classroom, accompanied by a story regarding the dehumanization of Africans in the Unites States, and the scores of visiting Americans who were scandalized by this painting. In America and several places in Europe, contemporaneous paintings always depicted people considered Black in subservient positions in relation to people considered White, if they bothered to paint them at all. To raise a bastard daughter of color alongside legitimate heirs was antithetical to American thought.

Dido Belle was raised and educated alongside the other highborn daughters of the household, and remained a favorite of the Earl and her father well into her thirties, after which an advantageous marriage was arranged.

Her position in the Earl’s household supervising the poultry yards was typical for any lady of high birth at the time, but her job overseeing the lord’s correspondence was usually a task reserved for a highly educated male clerk or scribe and is evidence of her importance and elevated rank. She received an allowance of £30 per year, more than any except the heiress herself and a sum unheard of at the time for any illegitimate daughter.

Upon Lord Mansfield’s death in 1788, Belle was furnished with a £500 lump sum in addition to a £100 annuity, as well as a suitable marriage to John Davinier, with whom she had three children. In Mansfield’s will, her status as a free person was carefully confirmed, since many would have been all too happy to divest her of her fortune.

Belle died in 1804 and was interred in St. George’s Fields, the parish to which she and her husband belonged.

My interest in this story was renewed recently when I learned that an upcoming film, Belle (currently in production), will be a dramatized biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle’s life. The titular role will be played by South African actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

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Cultural Appropriation: A conversation by Sanaa Hamid

This body of work is an exploration of the extent of cultural appropriation and encourages a discussion about it. I give the appropriator and the appropriated the opportunity to defend themselves and create a dialogue between them, while maintaining a neutral stance myself. I am not attacking those who appropriate, merely educating and creating awareness. Neutrality is key in this series, as i remove myself from my political and social status and opinions, stripping the problem to the most basic issue; taking an item that means a great deal to somebody and corrupting it.

“I’d like to make this a long term exploration, with a lot more participants as a form of generation-wide debate. If you’d like to be photographed to give your point of view, please do not hesitate to pop me an email at sanaahamid@yahoo.com.” - Sanaa Hamid

I often wear bindis, as do many of my friends, and to me it is for a few reasons.

1. The middle of the eyebrows is an aesthetically pleasing place to put crystal gems and it highlights the eyes and forehead.

2. I feel connected to my third eye and having the sticker placed there reminds me of my spiritual connection to the world and my chakras.

3. I have travelled to India and have always felt a strong connection with the culture there. Even before I visited I wore bindis and it served as a small reminder and link to the country and people. I feel it is a respect in someways.

I also sometimes use paint instead of stickers, or eyeliner to create a design in the centre of my forehead. When I was in India I asked a couple of women why they wear bindis and they replied that it was for married women, or a link to their religion and spirituality or simply a matter of fashion. I asked if I offended anyone wearing them and they all replied no…

Everyone has the right to their own opinions and some folk will feel hurt or insulted by a lot of mundane things that others do. You cannot please them all! I have been accused of cultural appropriation on many ocassions (on tumblr solely) for the use of bindis and my dreadlocks (of all things seriously?) but I feel rongly accused, especially when one or two girls then called me racist.

Religion should be more fluid and malleable, without the separation that we have in our society between different organisations and groups that essentially worship the same source or essence. They all teach very powerful lessons and through their stories and metaphors enlighten us in our journey. Organised religion has caused a lot of great suffering and division in the world which need not have happened if instead a world unity had been prevalent. Just because a white person has adopted a symbol coming from other cultural roots does not make it any less valid a statement. I agree that respect for the original meaning/purpose behind the token, in the form of acknowledgement, is needed and if that person is bringing no harm to others or the meaning of the symbol then it should be fine. Looking at what Hitler did to the Swastika is a fine example of how a religious symbol could be taken and completely destroyed into something harmful, so respect must be taken. We use the Ohm symbol in a lot of art and decor, tattoo and body modification and fashion. Is this not the same as using a bindi or wearing a turban? If you feel a link to the item or token then why not use it as self expression.

Less hate, more love, less duality, more unity.

Please comment if you want to discuss more, I’d like to go more into this topic with you guys!

I scrolled through re-blogs and, as expected, it seems a lot of white people just don’t understand the concept of appropriation. “But I’m appreciating your culture and using it as a fashion statement, why can’t you accept that?” Except you’re totally overlooking the meaning. You can claim wanting unity and all that jazz, but it’s really just about “Ooh that’s pretty I want to wear it. But I’ll shame you for wearing it and not adapting to Western customs.”

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you guys remember that cute skater guy that confessed to playing cello in high school musical?

he’s now a convict for armed robbery :-)

OMFG

shoulda stuck to the status quo

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Fish tacos! #food

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I dooooo hope we get approved for this apartment. /fingers crossed. So we can finally move out. The apartment is so clean and airy. PLUS there’s a balcony so I can grow some herbs! Yay! I hate buying them all the time.

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