translated from the original ig caption, posted 8/02/17 -
“Read a little about what happened with Precious Adams … When she was finishing her course in Moscow, Preciosa made a serious complaint: inside the school of the Bolshoi in Russia, several times she was a victim of racism and discrimination because she was black. In one episode, a teacher even told her, ‘Try rubbing to tone it out.’ A teacher once suggested that she perform a skin-whitening treatment.
Precious, whose name means exactly Preciosa, was excluded from several Bolshoi performances because of the color of her skin, including the school’s 240-year anniversary spectacle. Which is unfair, because she is as good as the other dancers.
“Teachers have tried to defend me, but if the most powerful voice says it’s not right, it does not seem right, so it does not matter,” says Precious.
Last week Preciosa was promoted to the first English National Ballet artist, Marvelous.
In the video she is at the Prix de Lausanne in Switzerland. What opinion do you have?”
“Why are we looking at why didn’t the girls speak up? Why not look at what about the culture? What did USA Gymnastics do, and Larry Nassar do, to manipulate these girls so much that they are so afraid to speak out? I am angry. I’m really upset, because it’s been – I care a lot, you know, when I see these young girls that come up to me, and they ask for pictures or autographs, whatever it is – every time I look at them, every time I see them smiling, I just think: I just want to create change, so that they never, ever have to go through this.”
“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’
‘Does it hurt?’ asked the Rabbit.
‘Sometimes,’ said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. ‘When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.’
‘Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,’ he asked, ‘or bit by bit?’
‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” ― Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
ugly sobbing
Truly one of the best children’s books ever written.
Didn’t even know people are not allowed to give blood if they are gay
That’s been the thing for years. The HIV scare of the ‘80s prohibited us from donating blood. And they still hold that against us despite the fact that that claim has been debunked over and over again.
the wording on the paperwork is “Are you a man who has had sexual intercourse with a man after 1980” or “Are you a woman who has had sexual intercourse with a man who has had sexual intercourse with another man since 1980” (this was a blood drive at my college where majority of the students werent Alive in 1980.) I donated all the time back when I was a virgin, because o- , but now I’m not allowed to. So a better question for this article is “Why won’t baby boomers let queer people donate blood, even though all the blood gets screened for HIV and aids anyway?” though, theres a lot of room for loopholes in the wording of it
