This comment is really all that needed to be said about this.

There’s a world of difference between reading a good book by an author who happens to be a woman of color, telling people about that book and recommending it to others; and publicly proclaiming your intention to avoid books by straight white men to score enlightenment points.

Talk about the books those women wrote. What you enjoyed about them. What you disliked about them. Recommend their books to other people. Start book clubs that feature them.

She's essentially creating the conditions (the gradual disappearance of said tribe through erasure, that she claims to be fighting against) by centering her own non-African body. Europeans are something else.

She needs to raise awareness for African wildlife next!

It bums the fuck out of me that you know there are people who would feel uncomfortable by some of the original images but are all too enthusiastic about the appropriations.

They are! WHY NOT JUST POST THOSE. The women in the original portraits are all absolutely gorgeous.

So brave. So moving.

Good lord this is headache-inducing. The original portraits are so gorgeous too...

her?

can I plz smoke with you and Jia and whoever else from the Jez staff wants to sometime? I’m probably older than you and live across the country but we can Skype. Lemme know, thx.

The dancing dog tho

I'm in an airport laughing my head off at these. I'm probably on a watchlist now.

I’m fucking CRYING at the eminem one.

Laughing uncontrollably hard right now. One coworkers came by to make sure I was ok - thought I was choking. Thank you for this.