politically conscious jewelry

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politically conscious jewelry
34-year old Kali Arulpragasam is not just the big sister of style icon M.I.A, she’s also the creative mind behind the line Super Fertile. She uses her dramatic jewelry to bring issues like class disparity and cultural ignorance to the forefront. Collections like Endangered Species, Rich Girl vs. Poor Girl, and Tourism (Terrorism Affects Tourism) clearly speaks for itself. I think she’s a genius. I mean what better way to get our generation more involved than to surround it around fashion; stylish jewelry that we would totally wear. To see more of Super Fertile collections visit the website Superfertile

HU's First White Homecoming Queen

via Mello Dee:

ETA: The winner is from Hawaii and calls herself Hawaiian. Her mother is Italian and her father is from Guam. Yet the headlines, for the most part, call her white. This is a good case for discussions on race, nationality and ethnicity. Also self-identification versus ascribed-identification."

When Cultural Appropriation Goes Too Far.

(pic via iindia.)

"Perhaps it was curious exploration, but to me it has always felt like the new-ager obsession with India feeds into the belief that Americans don’t have their “own” culture, so they need to participate and steal from “mine.” Even though I had adopted a Western lifestyle and it was definitely “my culture”—one trip to India made that very clear. Furthermore, it felt very convenient for people that hadn’t experienced life as a person of color and an immigrant in this country to participate in a culture by choice, one that I had been discriminated against for being a part of. My ambivalence to Westerners adopting and often distorting what I knew as my “home” culture has only grown, where yoga practice for me is sometimes my fight to deal with my anger around cultural appropriation."

Samhita - When Cultural Appropriation Goes Too Far.
Full article HERE.

(via Mrjjude.)

Poverty on Pine Ridge.

All photos by Aaron Huey and can be seen at the New York Times interview here.



Aaron Huey arrived on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota at the start of a self-assigned photographic road trip to document poverty in America.
The poverty he found on the reservation stopped him cold.
“Pine Ridge is the scariest place I’ve ever been - more so than in a Taliban ambush,” Mr. Huey said. ”It was emotionally devastating. I’d call my wife late at night crying.”

Overwhelmed by the poverty – and at the same time by scenes of people trying to maintain the Lakota way of life – Mr. Huey abandoned the rest of his nationwide project to focus on Pine Ridge. Five years later, he’s still photographing on the reservation, which includes the Wounded Knee battlefield.
Mr. Huey, 33, is a photgrapher for National Geographic Adventure and National Geographic Traveler. He also freelances for The New Yorker and Geo. In 2007, he photographed in Afghanistan for The Times.

(via Indigen)

In the News: Interracial Couple Denied Marriage Liscense.

Read the article
HERE.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

-Barack Obama

Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back On Online-Dating Sites

(via Hi My Name is Kia)


Your Race Affects Whether People Write You Back is an
interesting article by dating site OK Cupid on the stats of how many replies you will get back based on your race. As you can see - Black women are overwhelmingly undesireable. The article can be read HERE.

"It’s hard for me to really explain how it feels to be a part of the group that is overwhelmingly undesired. To be seen as universally unattractive. Of course there are so many factors that led to how this data came to be, geography, age, culture and so on, but let’s not kid ourselves. The data would tell a similar story no matter how you slice it."- excerpt from Kia's response: