Joe: You stay with me or I’ll kill you!
Carmen: Okay! Kill me now or let me go!Seeing this makes me angry that Dorothy didn’t win that damn Oscar. Judy Garland too. They both SLAYED in their 1954 roles. One of them should have won.
The best part of gym class.
Until you accidentally leaned the wrong way and rolled over your hands Dx
the secret was sitting diagonally, you wouldn’t tip or run over hands
OR WHEN YOU RAN OVER YOUR GODN DAMN LONG HAIR FUCKING SHIT NO
How abut when you cut the sides of your arms or wrists with these things.
These were the best thing about gym class.
Omg, I literally always thought that my school was the only one that had these!
Priceless
The only thing you can do today without a license is go up the elevator and jump out the window.
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| — | The Price (via fuckyeahgreatplays) |
I found myself relating more to the humor in shows like The Office, 30 Rock and Arrested Development, but the relatable characters of color in these shows were far and few. With Awkward Black Girl, I set out to change that. I wanted to create a character who was racially specific, but who goes through universally uncomfortable social situations, so you’re forced to relate to her, no matter what color you are.
But, as was demonstrated by some of the Shorty Award tweets, some people can’t get past the “black” in the title. The bewilderment that our show not only exists, but that it could actually be good is indicative of how mainstream media thinks. I’m pretty sure none of the people tweeting that I’d only get three-fifths of my award had even seen an episode of our show, but they were 100 percent positive that it couldn’t be as good as whatever it is someone who didn’t look like me produced.
This mindset is exactly why creative shows of color don’t get to exist on television anymore. There’s an overbearing sense of entitlement that refuses to allow shows of color to thrive. How dare we even try?
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| — | Issa Rae on the racist assholes upset over the Awkward Black Girl Shorty Award win. (via theopensea) |
