ALEXANDER OF CALEDON

If you live in or around Glasgow, please reblog this (don’t just Like it!) so we can send the message out to LGBTQ-folk in the area!

I Am Art is a free art project run for LGBTQ-identified folk (as well as friends, families, and allies with a vested interest in LGBTQ issues), specifically for those aged 16-25 years old and living in or around Glasgow, Scotland. The project focuses on exploring themes of identity, history and community through visual art, such as drawing and illustration, painting, clay modelling, sculpture, photography, and more! 

I Am Art workshops usually involve things like:

• discussing issues of identity, community and history, how they impact on people’s lives, how they might relate to gender and sexual identity

• a talk with a local artist about their own work in a given medium and how you can apply it to your own art

• a workshop exploring a particular theme in a given artistic medium

• messing about to your heart’s content with watercolour paints, acrylics, modelling clay or plasticine, sketching and drawing, photography, etc.

Note that you only need an interest in art to take part - you don’t need to be a professional artist, you don’t need to be “good” at art, and you don’t need to show your art to other people if you don’t want to! I Am Art is all about providing a place and a structure for young queer folk to explore their own art within certain themes.

I Am Art is free, and takes place every Thursday from 6:30pm til 9:00pm, at the Virginia Galleries, 45 Virginia Street, Glasgow, G1 1TS. (Turn left once you’re in the main door, go through the door in front of you [not the one to your right], and go down the staircase.) Each session is mostly self-contained, so you can attend as and when you like, but attending regularly means you’ll get a whole lot more out of it!

If you’d like to attend a session to see what I Am Art’s like, or for more information about the project, you can shoot an email over to Garry McLaughlin and Kat Middleton at info@cosmicdesigns.co.uk or phone 07534 685054​!

I Am Art is run by CosmicDesigns, a registered Community Arts charity in Glasgow.

Links to more info:

• https://www.facebook.com/CosmicDesigns

• http://www.cosmicdesigns.co.uk/

kissmycloaca:

Amazed that this phenomenon where ppl treat tags like wee neighbourhoods or something.

So many people shit their pants if someone posts something they dont like in a tag they like. They go WAHH STOP POSTING IN XYZ TAG. ITS NOT FOR YOU.

Like, are you serious? Tags are a way of organising shit, not a way of creating insular little communities that dictate what gets put in what tag.

Also why did he tag that post gpoy????

aaaaagaghgh YES. I’ve noticed that most of the people who say shit like this are the folk who talk endlessly about ~*pretty layouts*~ for their blog of colour-filtered foggy images of Tom Hiddleston and Benedict Cumberbatch with naff song lyrics on top who also tag their posts with full sentences because creating a text post in their blog would look “cluttered” even though you wouldn’t be able to see it anyway because everything’s in 4pt Verdana or someshit.

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oncarelesswings:

alexander-of-caledon:

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olliescribbles:

misterjmasters:

A cleaned up version of the doodle graphic Tumblr user lovewallace created because it deserved to be a full grown graphic.

Original post is here.

If it’s hard to read:

Embiggen Page 1

Embiggen Page 2

Ooh, perfect.

This is so dumb. I’m sorry, but black people saying that white people are worthless is just an opinion? Black people who generalize all white people together in such a demeaning manner as that is still racism. Racism doesn’t just apply to white people demeaning other races, it applies to other races demeaning other races as well. And it may be a direct result of slavery, but it still doesn’t make it right to say white people are worthless and just call it an opinion. Also, as for the second picture, not all women hate men. And not all men hate women. Not all men rape women. Yes, it does happen, but guess what? Women rape men too. So next time you try to go and make a post like this, view it through someone elses eyes too, not just your own. You say other people are being bigots? Look at your own bigotry now.

Black people generalising all white people together in such a demeaning manner didn’t lead to vast swathes of white people being taken from their families and homes, considered property of their masters, and then ferried around the new world to be put to work against their will. Black people generalising against white people also didn’t lead to:

• racial profiling against white people as a rule
• the vast majority of convicted offenders being white people
• scores of white people experiencing crippling poverty because of their skin colour
• white people being considered second-class citizens and being required to use different facilities than their racial superiors
• white people being specifically targeted for secret medical testing for diseases they weren’t told they had

These two instances of racial prejudice are both negative prejudice, but they are not equal in magnitude. A white person saying shit about a black person is backed up by CENTURIES of systematic oppression which has leaked into the justice system, academia, media & entertainment, religion and everything else under the sun. A black person saying shit about a white person is backed up by nothing more than that black person’s personal experience. It’s not part of some system where your almost every college you attend, the books you read, the TV you watch, the friends - and enemies - you have, the history you find out about, the jobs you apply for, the church you go to, all have systems in place that fail you when you need help, exclude you when you need included, and fuck you over when you’re just trying to be yourself, all because you’re white.

When you’re talking shit about folk from an oppressed group, you’re just one more person in a crowd punching shit out of them. Hey, you might have only contributed one punch - and who knows, maybe they swung back at you, you’re right, that’s one-for-one - but you’re still part of a vast fucking legion who are all taking turns to punch shit out of them, accidentally kicking them when you walking by, or just fucking moving on and making an excuse about why you shouldn’t need to help them.

Just so you know, I come from an oppressed group, thank you. I’m a lesbian. So don’t just sit here and assume that I’m not from an oppressed group at all. I’m not just some white person. But also, the reason why this bothered me is because it’s trying to say that prejudice is ok, when it’s not. It’s because I’m a lesbian, and the fact the I love ALL people, regardless of race or orientation or religion, that this post, which condones a certain amount of prejudice, pisses me off. Also, here’s some food for thought:

If people start thinking it’s right to oppress white people because they’ve fucked up in the past, then everything’s going to happen again, but instead of having black slaves, we’ll have white slaves. That’s why I disagree completely with this post.

I never said you weren’t a member of an oppressed group - and just because you’re a member of an oppressed group doesn’t mean you’re automatically correct, or free from criticism. You can be homosexual but still be racist, after all. You might have some experience of being oppressed yourself, but NOT in the same way that black people are - and even if you’re not intending it, you can still be part of an oppressive power structure. 

That’s not food for thought, it’s not a radical new idea or an interesting thought experiment. It’s a misinformed opinion that completely ignores what “oppression” means, and makes it sound like the only thing stopping black people from enslaving white people is folk like you speaking out whenever someone says “cracker”. White people aren’t oppressed for being white. Yeah, you can have “cracker” flung at you, and it IS pretty shitty, it IS racial prejudice, but it’s NOT oppression - because it doesn’t come with centuries worth of baggage, it doesn’t reinforce some stereotype that means white people are treated like second class citizens, it doesn’t call back to a time where black people were considered the property of whites… it just makes a white person upset.

And you know, that’s kind of understandable considering the shit hand that’s dealt to People of Colour because of white folk - in the past, but also today - who keep stomping over them. And one of the ways white folk stomp all over PoC is by thinking that, because they’re part of an oppressed group too, they know what’s best for PoC, and that PoC should listen to their insights otherwise they might start thinking it’s okay to enslave white people or something!