alaskamattel:

i was watching someones insta story and they’re at drag world and someone asked adore at a panel what her fav song of hers is and she said her song 27 club bc she almost died of a drug overdose in december like??? were any of y'all at drag world and heard that??? is adore alright now? 

Listen to her what’s the tee episode, she talks about it there

(Source: itstrixiemattel)

newfavething:

thecrownedgoddess:

01030104 replied to your post: The reaction to Zadie Smith’s makeup comments are…

Children/women in Asia are exploited for producing overpriced makeup from mines or assembly by hand for basically peanuts, but since women who can afford to purchase it feel ‘empowered’, it’s still ‘feminist’ despite being unethical 🙄

There is this complete inability in certain aspects of Western feminism to look beyond Western hyperindividualism that has recently absolutely been capitalising on ‘feminism’ in its most non-threatening way (everything a woman does is feminist, I have to like every woman for being a woman, don’t ever criticise my behaviour, buy these ‘cutesy feminist slogan’ t-shirts made in a sweatshop in Asia etc.) as a means of acquiring more money and exploiting more women/non-western women. Include the cultural pressures associated with makeup and grooming women all over the world face (albeit all in differing capacities and intensities), and the backlash gender nonconforming women get from men and women alike for being gender nonconforming, and you can see that makeup isn’t all that empowering in the cultural context and global structure.

Zadie doesn’t want her daughter to internalise this culture and its cultural pressures, knowing full well that you can’t really escape it, thus limiting her daughter’s (future) makeup use to an arbitrary 15 minutes. I don’t find this at all offensive. But I guess we all get defensive when someone criticises something we are majorly in to.

(I apologise for this semi-rant)

yes!!! girls and women making clothes and other products in appalling conditions in asia are this weird blindspot of western feminism. almost all my female friends are deeply committed to women’s rights but i know very few people who really care about this particular issue, which is such a mismatch. i’m as culpable: i think a lot about ethical clothes-buying and now only buy from clothes outlets that have meaningful policy on this BUT there are lots of other things i don’t think about… cosmetics… fruit… (i know lots of fruit pickers in sicily are women kept in slavery by men who sexually abuse them)

do we have any ideas about this, other than checking clothes’ outlets policies and trying to buy fairtrade? fairtrade is so much easier for some products than others…

If you really need clothes, buy them from charity shops or second hand off eBay

newfavething:

there is literally no Christian writing out there on love and relationships that doesn’t make me feel a bit sick

Let’s write some!

newfavething:

there is literally no Christian writing out there on love and relationships that doesn’t make me feel a bit sick

Let’s write some!