#MentionABeautifulHaitianGirl started trending on twitter and the top tweet is some pokemon fan account making a joke involving Jynx. People are also acting like Haitians can’t be beautiful, wondering how the trend even began, and saying things along the lines of “Haitians can’t possibly have twitter.”
no on in haiti uses twitter, that’s why there are papers like this one analyzing the use of twitter in crowdsourced disaster relief in haiti
Ethical consumers should be aware poor Bolivians can no longer afford their staple grain, due to western demand raising prices.
In fact, the quinoa trade is yet another troubling example of a damaging north-south exchange, with well-intentioned health and ethics-led consumers here unwittingly driving poverty there. It’s beginning to look like a cautionary tale of how a focus on exporting premium foods can damage the producer country’s food security. Feeding our apparently insatiable 365-day-a-year hunger for this luxury vegetable, Peru has also cornered the world market in asparagus. Result? In the arid Ica region where Peruvian asparagus production is concentrated, this thirsty export vegetable has depleted the water resources on which local people depend. NGOs report that asparagus labourers toil in sub-standard conditions and cannot afford to feed their children while fat cat exporters and foreign supermarkets cream off the profits. That’s the pedigree of all those bunches of pricy spears on supermarket shelves.
**please do not remove artist’s comments or repost this comic!!!**
okay so i finally finished this comic for my design class! i might eventually print it in small booklets or make multiple episodes/issues if enough interest is expressed. if you reblog this and you would be interested in purchasing/reading issues of this or comics like this, please say so so that i can gauge whether or not this is something i should pursue! <3
the final image is what the back cover will look like if i print it!
EDIT: the phrase “sorry my friendship is a crappy consolation prize” is adapted from a post by tumblr user pampampam! sorry, i meant to credit it and i was so relieved to have finished that i forgot to add this when i first posted.
I enjoy this.
This is relevant to my interests!
A dude that will remain unnamed that I thought was becoming a friend asked me out on a date and I said that sorry, I was taken. I didn’t hear from him for like two months after that. Then he called me up and asked to hang out sometime. Like wow your friends must all be busy if you’re resorting to calling me.
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‘Why does this show have nobody representing minorities’
‘Ugh, why is this white person writing for minorities. They don’t know the struggle we go through’
Bloody help, make up your fucking mind!?
Why are people of color expected/given/repeatedly told they only have two options (and that they should be grateful for them)?
Why are these two options essentially: “Be represented poorly or don’t be represented at all! (And stop complaining you are never pleased!!!)
Maybe people of color aren’t pleased because the vast majority of the time, people who are white are both represented frequently and represented well.
Why stop at white writers writing characters of color? Why can’t people also want writers of color to write characters of color (and also white characters)?
(Granted this is coming from someone who calls PoC who are upset about lack of media representation: “bloody help.”Help. )
……………hmm
hurray for weekend
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