She obviously thought no one would notice.

Wouldn’t read but would read reviews.

their spawn will be a mayonnaise on wonder bread sandwich

I would also like to call out Louise Linton on sounding like an obnoxious supporting character in the Superman universe, like an heiress who tries to date Clark Kent so he’ll report positively on her family company or something.

This lady is Margaret Laurence personified. White/European people going into Africa, unasked, and shoving their horse shit all over the place. This lady ought to be a cautionary tale but the industries of NGO’s and travel colonialism is alive and well in sub-Saharan Africa. Europeans think nothing of black African…

So, noramally I don’t fully get controversies about inaccuracies in memoirs, because my understanding is that memoirs are supposed to be loose and factionalized retellings that capture the “mood” of real events, feature composite characters, made up situations that resemble real ones that occurred several times, etc.

Actually, by the late XIX century and early XX century only half of the population were cable to spesk spanish, cultures didnt mix that much, it is until recently that indigenous have been integrares therefore tour claim of having mostly spanish blood is quite possible

Her work was sold costly and she benefited from that and had a luxury lifestyle, through the misappropriation, of cultural elements that weren’t her own.

You pretty much summed up artists from Coyoacán. Wealthy part-time communists

Around 1945(not 100% but pretty sure), my great grandmother had returned to Ajijic with my great-grandfather after his return from the Philippines where he was injured during an attack on an air station where the mexican air force was stationed. He was a mechanic. He recovered in Mexico City and they took the bus back…

“Frida Kahlo, since her death 62 years ago today, has become such a staple of American culture so as to seem ubiquitous.”

We should start by telling that native people are mostly hairless, and the display of Boso (lip hair) and abundant eyebrows were seeing as a display of how much Spanish blood you had. And while it wasn’t conventional beauty at that point it was never related to native cultures.

Also, during this time in Mexico, there…

“She sells this sticker, with an image of Kahlo underneath the words “MY CULTURE IS NOT A FASHION TREND!””

i really don’t consider wearing such a thing to be cultural appropriation. the blouse has no particular significance beyond being a traditional article of clothing. this is an ancient garment, worn by many many many cultures since very early times (upper paleolithic, most likely). a specific design ON a blouse such as…

There is a difference between dressing “like X-ethnicity or culture” and dressing like someone who is a different race or culture than you are. Just like I can dress up like Wonder Woman or Boy George without whitening my skin or doing anything weird or offensive, someone else can dress up like Lil Jon or Rick James…

Per my great grandmother, in her minimal English, “Frida Kahlo was a mother fuck.”

yeeeaah. I find it troublesome that an article about “how Frida Kahlo really was” makes no mention of her wealthy and elite background. I think she was rad, and I love her work, but ya can’t really talk about who she was without talking about her family.

She was not communist she was from the very wealthy elite, she was white, she appropriated native cultures, she is taken out of her context she was a supporter of the government movement to erase diversity under the mixing of races

Ugh ugh uuuugh. This is so dumb and petulant. The players’ shirts commemorated the Dallas officers who lost their lives, too. Like, come on. Why do people insist on creating this idiotic dichotomy whereby if you’re pro-respecting black people you’re automatically anti-all cops ever? That is not a helpful position for…

Sounds like those officers need a safe space on account of being triggered, huh?