God I loathed Eat Pray Love. Especially the part where she was in India talking about how happy the poor people looked doing manual labor. I threw the book against the wall.

Watching that god forsaken movie (I dont’ remember if I made it all the way through, I’ve tried to erase the memory) I remember being completely sympathetic to her first husband.

“And I realized that barista not only held my coffee. But also the deepest needs of my soul. Taking the cup from him, I was in communion with a godhead that would free me and nourish me. Of course I didn’t tip him. That would have insulted the soul-work that we had performed together.”

Bella Hadid wouldn’t have had the same face without the parents she has now, so no she definitely would not have been able to get the top modeling gigs she has now without her parents being who they are. She’s had a ton of work done. No snark at all. She was beautiful before but not necessarily super model status.…

His first time on the show, he had a 25 year old model as his “girlfriend” and anyone with any sense could tell she was hired for the part. He introduced her, loudly, as “MY GIRLFRIEND” so that everyone could see that he was with the 6 foot model. And they looked like they had just met. These people are so gross, and…

this is one of the most American articles I’ve ever read: an article exhorting you to purposefully choose a bread sans flavour. If that doesn’t sum up the average American culinary palate, than I don’t know what.

My little sister is in Rwanda right now with a group of kids from her (bullshit Evangelical) college. Here’s the description of their “mission”: “Gordon College students immersing themselves in the various development initiatives responsible for assisting Rwanda to be one of the most hopeful developing countries in…

I really like how you articulated this. I lived in West Africa for several years and I’ve found it difficult to explain why exactly the kid thing grates on me without sounding like a joy-hating monster. On one hand, it is easy to do because there is ALWAYS a kid who wants their photo taken. I will usually take a…

It’s like she’s literally using Barbie Savior’s Instagram as a how-to guide.

And yet I feel like those tourists saw black children in the towns they lived in... but probably ignored them, or worse.

Where I live, public schools had to start putting “Don’t photograph the children” on their gates, especially schools in beach towns on the Caribbean coast because the fucking tourists won’t stop taking pictures of the “cute little black kids”

The whole thing felt like that Instagram account savior Barbie. If you don't follow it go check it out - it's Debra messing in plastic. And it's amazing.

It all feels vaguely like poverty tourism to me. There’s this exotification of Africa in the Western world, and a lot of these programs feel exploitative of that. It’s not the nursing or the building houses per se; it’s the thinly veiled self-congratulatory nature of it all.

Yeah, that’s what’s so eye roll-inducing to me. The kids, the head wrap, all the beaded necklaces, the captions about finding beauty in simple things (they DO have mirrors in Africa, Debra)... it’s all very self-congratulatory and poverty-tourist-y.

It’s so great to be in England! Let’s go to a local school and surround ourselves with kids for a selfie so everyone can see how adorable the natives are! Isn’t it weird that they laugh too!? #universallanguage

I have no problem with people—white or otherwise—doing work like this. What I do hate (and something I saw a lot when I lived in Cape Town for 5 months) is when people take pictures with children and then post them on the internet. I only shared images of kids whose names I knew and who I actually developed…

Thanks for saying this 1000 times better than I could.

Empathy for the racist attacker comes at the expense of empathy for the woman attacked while doing her job, that’s why. People have the attack right in front of them, and still talk about how the reporter *might have done to incite her attacker. This is literally taking empathy away from a black woman doing her job to…

I can’t fucking believe people are saying the mom popped off because she’s grieving and saw the reporter, who is simply doing her fucking job, as if that’s somehow acceptable. But then they say that totally doesn’t excuse the racism and assault, and I consider that woman putting her hands on the reporter to be…