I have an absolute understanding and awareness of the image I project, and there’s just not a lot of roles for women who look like me. Here’s the thing: We’re in crisis mode as black actresses. Not only in the sheer number of roles that are offered and that are out there, but in the quality of roles. When you only have two or three categories for black actresses, therein lies the problem.
I am everything I’ve learned and more, still it calls me.
Here it is
The gifset I’ve been waiting for
*tenderly frames this for my wall*
I go through a phase of not reading any fic then going through all my ao3 ‘this author has updated’ emails at once and leaving like 30 comments on the same persons stuff cause I’m now like 8 chapters behind…oops
Inspired by this post, here’s a graphic and a link roundup:
No new content Sept 1 2017, in protest of Tumblr @staff‘s complete lack of effort to take any action to control rampant white-supremacist hate speech on this platform.
(There’s even a lovely write-up of it from this very month: Nazis On Tumblr Are Attempting To Make White Supremacy Hip.) (There’s a change.org petition about it too, which has a nice write-up of exactly how much absolutely-nothing Tumblr @staff are willing to do about egregious hate speech.) (No, I’m not involved with either of those links, nor the original post I’m referecing above, I just thought I’d Google it before I made a graphic. I know very little about this but it all seems pretty gross, now doesn’t it.)
I’m posting this now, then I’ll put it in my queue on the 1st and have that be the only thing that posts on that day (for those of us who can’t shut our queues down easily, that’s a solution). And then, no posts, no replies, no chats, no inbox, no messages, no visits to the site for the duration of the 1st in my timezone.
[Image description: On a blue background, white bold text says: “9/1/17 Tumblr Strike: This blog is posting no new content to protest Tumblr’s unwillingness to take action against white nationalist hate speech”]