perks-of-being-chinese:

“Lemonade was not made for me, either. As a Singaporean Chinese woman, I would be lying if I said I was familiar with the complex, myriad ways Beyoncé explores black female personhood, sexuality, and spirituality in the film. But as a non-American, non-white woman, what I am familiar with is appreciating art that is not and will never be made with me in mind. This is a process that white people are now struggling with more publicly than ever. It seems to me that much of the pain in this process comes from entitlement, which often stems from ignorance. I wonder: Do white people in the Western world understand just how much of global popular culture is tailored to their tastes and their histories? Do white people in the Western world know that, for non-white people who wish to participate in and discuss global popular culture, being well-versed in white cultural and musical history is almost compulsory? Do white people in the Western world know how laughable it is that they feel excluded just because a popular work of art dares to be less culturally legible to them?”

— Beyoncé’s Lemonade: A Lesson on Appreciating Art That Wasn’t Made for You | Consequence of Sound (via luxuriousvulgarity)

(Source: consequenceofsound.net, via not-your-cute-little-asian-girl)

targuzzler:

me putting salt and pepper on my damn.. food!

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fingerguns-pewpew:

talleyelash:

There is a comprehensive list somewhere but I’m on mobile so I’ll link it later if u want… but my issues w this mess are as follows:

-she wore a Native American headdress in one of her videos
- calls her self “Lolita lost in the hood” and “ghetto Nancy Sinatra”
- her name isn’t Lana del Rey it’s Elizabeth Grant she just picked ldr because it sounds “"exotic”“ and she was “hanging out with a lot of Cubans” and “it sounded beautiful rolling off the tip of the tongue”
-if u can’t see why that’s an issue its bc fucking thousands of latinxs have to face deportation and profiling just bc of our names, so why does some rich white girl get to profit off the struggles of actual latinxs
-this isn’t really strictly problematic but it’s fucked up that she grew up rich but she thinks she’s hood and glamorizing parts of latinx culture that were brought from us struggling, dealing with poverty and drug culture. Like she really thinks it’s cool but these stereotypes are so fucking harmful and are things a lot of us have been forced to confront from a very early age and suddenly she’s making songs abt it because it’s sooo exotic and edgy~
-Chola isnt a costume but this privileged ass white girl thinks she’s special for drawing teardrop tattoos on herself
-wants to be latina sO FUCKIN BAD
-that tropico “art film” shit she did was just her playing dress up as a latina the whole time, she even dressed like virgen de guadalupe ???? It’s kinda fucked up to dress as a cultural and religious icon from a culture she’s not even a part of ??
-all of Florida kilos was her exploiting stereotypes of latinxs (specifically Colombians) and cocaine
-wants 2 act like she’s brown and down from the barrio

Tldr she wants to be Latina so fucking and all she does is profit off stereotypes of latinx culture without having to deal with any of the consequences of actually living it.

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