Women of Color—Let’s take back our tags!

lauralovegood:

airellia:

tierracita:

Let’s pick a day (arbitrarily going to say Wednesday, February 22nd) and take back our tags! Meaning post yourself being yourself, without any exotifying pretense. 

I got really upset/annoyed/raging when I opened the Latina tag for the 10th time only to find exotified images of naked Latinas posted by white men.

Now nudity is great, so is sexuality, but when nudity and sexuality as appear as the main representation in these tags and in life and this is not in the control of those represented, then it’s all fuckery. This is an issue of racism, colonialism, sexism, patriarchy, class, stereotypes, and generally fuckheadery!  

Janinadenta pointed out the same is for Filipinas.

mujer-encabronada  pointed out that the chicana tag is bad too. 

I’m sure most if not all ethnic groups/cultures, that we as women of color represent, are inundated with images that do not reflect who we really are, or at least play into stereotypes, myths, sexist, and colonial imagery. 

We saw effective tag take overs with the Native American and Indian tags in the past few months. 

So reblog this with your thoughts and if you’re in!

At the very least there is never enough visibility of WOC and maybe for a day this will be different.  

I’m down. 

So I searched the “Latina” tag and it’s like 90% porn. I thought maybe there’s just a lot of porn on tumblr (which is pretty true, tbh), but I searched the “white” “Caucasian” and even “blonde” tags and while, there are porn posts, it’s nowhere near the sheer amounts found if you search “latina” or “brunette”. I only looked at the first few pages, so my mini-experiment may be skewed, but it’s still irritating.

Btw, under the blonde tag the many of the nude/porn posts either 1.Didn’t even have blondes and/or 2. were also under the tag “Latina”. So…

Seriously. I did that too after I read this and I was really surprised(/also not surprised at all). 

Source: tierracita

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    sounds like a plan!
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    As a Filipina, I will do my best take back the tag but will also work to remove or correct other tags!
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    Let’s add gypsy to this list too please? At least, I’d like that if others could!
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    Even though I’m Anglo-Saxon as can be, I support this! Ethnicities are not porn categories!!
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    Eeeeeeewww D: I’ll...tagging my pictures starting NOW
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