awesome story. black doctors and nurses are the best.

We need more of this

I'm not a PoC but this is just incredible, *exceptional*, culturally sensitive patient care, period. Absolutely should be shared with every healthcare professional I know.

We should always keep in mind that we are treating an entire person, not simply their condition, and the effects seemingly minor kindnesses can have on them long after they leave our care.

If you want to support black doctors who are just starting out, Farrah-Amoy Fullerton, a fourth-year med student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham just set up a way for people to help black fourth year med students transition to their residencie. This often means moving to a new city where they won't get a paycheck for weeks. Black students are also less likely to have access to generational wealth to keep them afloat during school. So if you have a few bucks and want to buy a graduation gift for a future black doctor, check out this article or search #medgradwishlist on twitter.

We need more black doctors to because doctors are often untrained on how to diagnose conditions in black peoples vs white people and are taught black have a higher pain tolerance and just a whole bunch of other ridiculous things........ black people need black doctors

Pls rebog. I wanna know what to get my pet mad scientist to work on.

³ghost headphones: headphones that are invisible and weightless, but act like regular headphones that are summoned and dismissed at your discretion. Audio quality on par with Sony wh-ch720n.

⁴Minecraft camera: you can switch your perspective from first person, third person, and reversed third person. You can also take screencaps.

⁹toothbrush tongue: tongue that does the job of a toothbrush when you want it to. Generates its own toothpaste.

A long time ago I was in a typography class and I had an assignment to draw a word out of its material. Like writing "Rock" and drawing it to make it look like it's carved from stone. I chose "Hair" and I was proud enough of the result that I ended up posting it online to Twitter. Whoever I showed it to online, I got a weird reaction like "Oh...cool." which was strange cuz I was expecting to get complimented on it. It turned out that no one thought it was a drawing. For months, everyone I showed it to thought that I was playing with wet hair clippings in my spare time like some nasty little freak.

This is the drawing btw

HOOoWoW!!

Bald white bitch (affectionate)

Video description: A tiktok by @MyBonesAreLegos. A Black person with shoulder length braids stands in a parking lot and says, in a peppy tone, “Has this ever happened to you?” A white person walks up and says, “Whoa, what the fuck?” the ‘Whoa’ is drawn out. They begin playing with the first person’s hair. The scene cuts to the first person standing alone again, saying, “Then you need bald white bitch.” They show a photograph on their phone of a white person with closely buzzed hair. “Check this out!” The next scene is a POV shot from the second person, panning up from their outstretched hand to show the first person and the Bald White Bitch standing together. The hand reaches for the first person with a drawn out and cartoonish “Hwow!” before switching to the Bald White Bitch and playing with their hair instead. “Problem solved. Bald White bitch saves the day yet again.” End ID.

art by @BottlngSunshine

Is it about butchering black girls’ hair to keep white people comfortable? Is it about a woman visiting the same violence on her daughter as was done to her by her mother a generation prior? Is this girl just too… “different” to go into the world unaltered? Does she need to be toned down so she can succeed? Does she need to be defenseless before she is deemed safe by powerful people who would do her harm if given half a reason? Is one of those people holding those scissors?

[I.D. digital art of a young girl medusa sitting in a chair in a kitchen, crying as a woman cuts the heads off of medusa’s snakes. the woman’s head is out of frame, but her blonde hair is visible as she pulls three snakes taught, beginning to chop them with scissors as blood spurts. four snakes have been cut already, their remains lying dead on the floor as the rest of the snakes, all sporting pink bows around their necks, cower in fear. the majority of the illustration has been colored in black and deep saturated yellows and oranges, while medusa’s skin and hair are green. her pinafore has the same color palette as the background. her knees are also scuffed, bruised with orange and one of them bandaged. her cut strands of snake hair are not bandaged and continue to bleed. end I.D.]

There’s a sequel!

“Becoming Me.” by BottlingSunshine

Image ID: A digital illustration of a young Medusa woman braiding her green snakes in front of a mirror and while her eyes are covered with a sleep mask. The mirror is centered in the drawing and surrounded by the orange-pink background. She is wearing a white sleep mask with “closed eyes” on it and a black top with white lacey ruffles at the collar and cuffs. Two snake heads are seen in the mirror while the rest are out of view. The front of the vanity holding the mirror is littered with various dolls and stuffed animals with their eyes crossed out, candy, an image of eyes in a round frame that are also crossed out, nail polish in pink and black, ribbons, and a friendship bracelet plus polaroids. The wall above the vanity is pink and near-white striped and covered in small polaroids or photos taped on the wall and various portraits in yellow frames. The yellow frames show the woman as a young girl holding her arms anxiously with her head cut off from view, covering her face, or simply have dark static backgrounds. There is a sharpie on the lower shelf of the vanity. End iD

From the artist, re: the second image.

been styling my hair based on mountain dew flavors

Idk what they put in my genes that my hair does this stupid shit all by itself

Pinkie Pie ass hair

hair stylists: are you sure you want to cut two inches off? short hair really doesn’t match your face shape :/ 

barbers: here you go man

@footnotesnake what you said in those tags is the realest shit I’ve ever seen in today yo. Literally why I do my own hair.

literally! the only places that have been nice to me were owned and operated by people of color and yeah id much rather cut my own hair than deal w The Horrors

Same, mostly! But I’m glad you had positive experienced with stylists of color though! And I’d agree that they’re usually a lot nicer. Every white stylist I went to ended up fucking up my hair somehow. The Horrors are real.

Brazilian hair care company Seda released a new product starring Tiana in her loose hair glory!

(The lady in the photo with Eudora and James apparently is Alcione, a very famous Brazilian singer!)

Because how did this hair company do Tiana better the first time than Disney itself

How to draw Afro textured 4c hair - an explanation/Tutorial

For those of you that don’t know what 4c hair is, 4c hair is a hair texture type that contains coils to small and tight that the hair appears to be more puffy rather than curly ( like to photo below ) this is in NO WAY to be confused with curly hair. there is a drastic difference.

As a black artist that primarily draws characters with 4c hair, I’ve been asked many times to do a tutorial on 4c hair so here we go~

before we get into 4c hair, lets take a moment to fully understand it by talking about hair texture in a general sense first

let’s take a look at this example of straight hair vs curly hair ( 1 type straight hair vs 3 type curly hair )

If you take a moment to compare the two you’ll notice straight hair is flat, it has no texture. Straight hair perfectly hangs down similar to liquid-like silk. It’s lack of curl pattern is the reason as to why it hangs perfectly flat.

curly hair on the other hand doesn’t lie down flat and silky like straight hair, It’s more thick. Curly hair in it’s raw and unstyled state has a trapezoid like shape this is because the sides of the hair spread more outward.

So why is this? Why is straight hair flat and curly hair thick?

the answer to that question is a thing called piling up. When it comes to hair texture, the shape of the hair strands aren’t the only thing that matters, its how the strands coexist with each other, Curly hair strands coexist by piling up on top each other.

moisture also effects hair texture too, different hair types absorbs moisture differently, thus the thickness of each hair type is different. 

…..soooo, how does this all relate to how to draw 4c hair?? 

Well let’s take a look at the drawing below. Notice how the arrows go outward more as the hair texture gets curlier. As we’ve already discussed, this is because hair piles up, The curlier the hair texture, the more it piles up on each other, the bigger it gets, the more outward the arrows go.

Out of any hair texture, 4C hair has the most curls. Because of this, the hair piles up on each other so much that it doesn’t lie down flat like straight hair, nor does it make a trapezoid like shape like curly hair, it instead becomes more cloud like.❤️

This is what you need to take into account when it comes to drawing 4C hair.

Think of it as piling up a bunch of cotton balls on each other. The most cotton on top of top to lead to a bigger patch of  cotton. this is 4c hair.

How to not draw 4c hair:

Garnet fanart. Let’s talk about Garnet Fanart. I notice a trend that when artists draw Garnet from Steven universe, her hair texture is usually changed to 3 type curly like texture. This subtle form of White washing has confused me because this is inaccurate. 

Garnet’s hair is in the shape of a cube. Though 3 type hair piles up on each other, it isn’t curly nor thick enough for their hair to stay in the shape of a cube. Curly hair lies down more than 4c hair. So garnet’s hair being in the shape of a cube is a dead giveaway that it is 4C. Why do you think hairstyles like flat tops are usually seen on black men with 4c hair? It’s because, the 4c hair texture is thick and strong enough to stay in whatever shape you put it in.

please, if you’re drawing a character with 4c hair, avoid drawing it like curly 3 type hair, this is very anti-black and texturist.

So, how do you draw 4c hair?

honestly, its the most easy thing in the world

i wanna clarify that blobby looking 4c drawings ( like the one on the top left ) can work depending on how cartoony your art style is.

Another thing that I want to greatly clarify when it comes to drawing 4C hair is, YOU. DONT. NEED. TO. DRAW. EVERY. HAIR. STRAND!…..like, seriously. I’ve gotten many messages about how 4C hair is hard to draw, and it’s always left me confused; but then I find out that the same people that have trouble drawing 4C hair, attempt to draw every single strand of hair. This is unnecessarily time consuming because it’s merely impossible to get every single detail down, especially when you have a simple cartoon style. 4C hair does not require much effort, all you’re doing is drawing lumps. It’s that simple, nothing more nor nothing less.

The reason why I greatly advise all of you to avoid drawing every single hair strand is because in real life, when you look at a 4C textured Afro, your eyes don’t pick up on each individual hair strand like straight or curly hair. 4C hair, appears to be more undefined and cloud like, so attempting to draw each and every individual strand is unnecessary and will most likely end up looking inaccurate.

Anyways! that’s it for now! there will be a part 2 to this tutorial that will come out next week! i hope you guys have learned from this and apply it to your black character in your art!~

If you’re not a black person with 4c hair, stop interacting with this post. You can re-blog but I do not want to read your useless explanation on why you personally don’t see it as problematic to turn a black character with 4C hair to curly hair.

I also would prefer not to hear you cry about how I’m being “harsh” for calling out this form of white washing. I wasn’t here to sugarcoat anything for you 👍🏾 

how anyone could find this amazing post ‘harsh’ is beyond me. GREAT tutorial

it’s harsh because she’s literally calling other black people ‘white washed’ for having a different texture of hair.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a good tutorial, but why OP is putting down other black girls for having looser curls in their hair is kinda crazy.

This is an art tutorial. OP is talking about drawing characters who undeniably have 4c hair with non-4c hair for “the aesthetic” or “realism”. Removing that trait is removing a piece of their Black identity, even though 4c is not the only Black hair texture. “please, if you’re drawing a character with 4c hair, avoid drawing it like curly 3 type hair, this is very anti-black and texturist.” -original post. Acknowledging texturism isn’t an attack on Black people for having traits that are systemically admired or seen as “better/prettier”, it is the acknowledgement that some traits ARE systemically admired. (if I missed the point, I’ll remove this. It’s frustrating to see people in the notes calling OP rude/harsh because of things OP did not say)

also this is such a minor thing but why do people complain about roxy's pq sprite having coily hair "because beta roxy's sprite has straight hair" did you know. that you can change your hairstyle

foreign concept

DJSGJSDJ

getting a lot of tags from straight people who are confused about how to just compliment people's hair so i promise that when you're not trans it's just like this. its fine

NOT A DREAM

Did y'all know that the USA mullet championship was a thing?

I am sorry BUT IF EPIC ORTA DOESN'T WIN... WE RIDE AT DAWN!

This is possibly the coolest kid I have ever seen and him and WD are making me rethink hating the mullet.

If Cash McCoy and Epic Orta don't absolutely shatter their divisions🤌

Not me registering to vote just so I can give Epic my daily vote, it's that serious.

There are four divisions but for some reason the femullet category only had a few contestants last year and significantly less votes.

Not to mention that Mad Dog Durban was absolutely robbed! Only a finalist?

Event: the National Mullet Championship

Not sure what the prize is, but let’s assume it’s something great, maybe even an important quest object.