I was at the library the other day, and my daughter was playing at the Art Table with two other girls. One of the little girls’ mother was near by and said “Aren’t you girls good little artists!”
And the third girl perked up and said “My dad’s an artist!”
The woman smiled indulgently and says “Oh really, what kind?”
The little girl proudly told her “He’s a tattoo artist.”
And the woman. Oh man. Her face just twists, crumples into something nothing short of disdain, and she opens her mouth and says “That’s not…”
“An easy job,” I cut in, looking the woman in the face because really? You’re going to tell a child her dad’s not a real artist. “In fact it’s very very hard, because that art is alive forever on a person, not like on paper. And that’s scary! You have to be really good, to be a tattoo artist. Your dad must be really, really good.”
what kind of person could just try and crush a little kid like that? goddamn.
Do people not realize that tattoo artists have to know how to draw really well and produce straight precise lines on a moving canvas, and make the right color selection and know how to blend those colors and do proper shading, and a million other art things and no single client/canvas is the same and they have to adjust based on the pigment of the skin and where the person wants the tattoo?! What the hell
These women must not get away with it. Here’s the link to the article.
Spread it like wildfire!
I think they thought this was a how to article.
[a series of tweets from user Ruby Hamad @rubyhamad
“Just to cap off a great
weekend, I have just been informed a WoC got fired for sharing my white tears
article. So there you go.
I’ll give more details on
this soon…
Okay. About this. This
will be a short thread. Lisa has given my permission to tell all the details.
Lisa Benson Cooper is a
broadcast journalist in Kansas City Missouri. Going by Lisa Benson on air, she
has more than 20 years experience. She has won an Emmy-award for her
journalism. She is a 42 year old married African-American woman with 2
children, a 5 yr old and a 2 yr old.
She has worked for the
last 14 years at 14+ years at KSHB-TV, which is an NBC affiliate owned by EW
Scripps. Scripps own 33 television stations and 33 radio stations across the
USA.
On May 9th, Lisa shared
this piece I wrote for The Guardian, about a common but only recently voiced
phenomenon where WoC who raise issues about race and their mistreatment esp. at
work are punished by white women who claim the WoC is “attacking” them.
Lisa shared this piece on
her PERSONAL Facebook page which is set to private. Two white female colleagues
saw her post, which she tells me she shared int he hopes of “starting a
conversation” & “hopefully enlighten people” about her own other WoC’s
experiences. They contacted HR.
On May 11th Lisa was
suspended from her job at KSHB-TV, for making “made broad, unfair characterizations
of white women as a group based on their race and gender.” She and my article
did no such thing. This is a lie and must be flatout rejected.
And, since there is
always more to the story: Lisa has previously filed a discrimination complaint
and she suspects this was a convenient excuse to get rid of someone who and
already objected to being treated poorly at work on account of her race.
Lisa has a lawyer who is
working to prove that:
A) The article & her sharing of it was not discriminatory or offensive.
B) The argument employed in the article is a point of discussion in many other
mainstream & academic platforms.
C) Lisa was unfairly dismissed.
Please share this thread
and tag anyone you think can help bring attention to this. Lisa says she wants
people to “know this truth about a company they’re entrusting to represent them
and their community.” #Justice4Lisa
My article went viral with
most page views and shares occurring in the US. We can also make Lisa’s story
go viral to ensure she is adequately compensated for this blatant targeting
& discrimination. All she did was share my article to her personal page.
WoC: we are strong together.”]
self-confidence, i’m realizing, is a lot deeper than just thinking i’m beautiful and being free in who i am. it also includes being confident in my decisions and trusting myself to be committed to the things i want to do. to step outside of my comfort zone and assure myself that i will be okay in doing so. this kind of self-confidence will help me see the success i want to see.
Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.
So when you wonder why people don’t come forward with their assults, this is why.
Where are all the bitch men who ask about male sexual assault when the focus is on women but are dead silent when men are actually at the focus.
It’s almost as if Men’s Rights Activists don’t really care about men’s rights. Hmmm….
🤔
Yep….
This misses the really powerful piece of the story: Terry Crews was the one who chose not to do the movie. One of the producers told him, essentially, that he could either do the movie and be drop the sexual assault charges, or continue with the trial and have “troubles”. Terry dropped out because he felt standing against abusers was more important than his film career.
It’s bullshit that he was threatened in the first place, of course, but his response was ballsy. I admire him for it.
Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.
So when you wonder why people don’t come forward with their assults, this is why.
Where are all the bitch men who ask about male sexual assault when the focus is on women but are dead silent when men are actually at the focus.
It’s almost as if Men’s Rights Activists don’t really care about men’s rights. Hmmm….
🤔
Yep….
This misses the really powerful piece of the story: Terry Crews was the one who chose not to do the movie. One of the producers told him, essentially, that he could either do the movie and be drop the sexual assault charges, or continue with the trial and have “troubles”. Terry dropped out because he felt standing against abusers was more important than his film career.
It’s bullshit that he was threatened in the first place, of course, but his response was ballsy. I admire him for it.