The Last One Was Actually A Conversation My Friends And I Had With A Homophobic Person.

“I didn’t like that intersex person/trans masc and what they were saying, so I aggressively called them a cis woman over and over until they left in tears” that’s called misgendering and bigotry actually and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself . what the fuck is wrong with you

I dread the idea of any of my friends getting partners because I swear every time they do they never do anything with me or if they do all they talk about is their partner

Ngl this sounds too much of my ocs...

broke: enemies to lovers

woke: two nemeses who use romance as a weapon of choice against each other bc they are both romance hating aros

🏵️Eva Ayllón🏵️𖤓☽｡⋆

yo yo yo welcome back to this blog❤️

Today's artist is Peruvian legend Eva Ayllón. She's one of the most recognizable singers of peruvian creole music (música criolla), a very interesting genre that encapsulates the rich and varied culture of the country, mixing influences from Andean music (música andina), African music and European dances (like waltz and mazurka).

Eva Ayllón's musical career starts as a solist in the 1970s; she later joined the group "Los Kipus" and reached national recognition. (P.S. some of her best recordings are listed in Los Kipus' profile if you're using Spotify!)

Here's my favourite song from one of their best album:

Also called "la Reina del Landó", Eva is regarded as the best representative of afro-peruvian music. Landó is a dance originated from Angola, in Africa, where it was used to accompany marriage cerimonies. It was brought to Perú by the Spanish slave trade in the 16th century. There's also samba landó, which is very similar, from what I gather, though some people consider it to be the same as landó.

You can also find several other afroperuvian dances in her discography, like "Inga" for example.

Here's my favourite recording of "Taita Guaranguito", a landó song:

▪️yes pls:

About me

I'm an artist/author whose mind give me stories from the most absurd origins you could've think of!

I am aroace so my stories will often have aro, ace and aroace characters. I do showcase more aromanticism within my stories as my aromanticism affects me more than my aceness and I do want to see aros be more represented and recognised within media.

I have a personal website, a strawpage, a bluesky and an a03 account for my artistic projects. New accounts to platform my stories will be further updated.

That's all their is to know about me, enjoy!

I would love to learn more about the development of languages and dialects, last year I read a short story collection written in phonetic Afro-Peruvian dialect (it's called Monólogo desde las tinieblas by Arturo Gálvez Ronceros) and was intrigued with how similar it was to Caribbean Spanish dialects, with the dropped vowels and changing "r" sounds to "l". Or rather, I would like to learn not the theory but the particulars of certain cases, like in this one I imagine it would be the shared African influence given the distance between one another. I remember I also liked to find out that certain words in New World dialects were considered antiquated in the peninsula--it had to do with the time period that the language was brought, and decreasing contacts over time.

One thing I would like to do--and I think it will be hard, especially in English--is to stop calling castellano "Spanish." It always feels wrong, especially in its own language--when I learned to speak I called it castellano and when I grew older it continued to make no sense because, as I found out, there are many languages spoken in Spain, that originated in the territories of what is now Spain. It's not only inaccurate but disrespectful. Even more, when someone speaks castellano and says "español," it sounds to me like a calque of the word "Spanish" as it is used in the English language, much like saying americano when you mean estadounidense. It could be that some dialects natively use the term that way--I've heard Spaniards do it for example, and people from some Latin American countries--but to me it does not sound right. Is this too political? In reality I don't think anyone notices, but I will remember. Is this one of those antiquated words? Reading a 400-year book will have you saying, "See, they were calling it castellano," though for other words you have to break open the dictionary because usage has changed or the term is associated with topics that have nothing to do with your modern life, like artisanal fabrics and horse-rearing and outdated military practices.

“don’t trace my art” cool “don’t steal my art” makes sense “don’t take inspo from my art” ????what the fuck are you talking about

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BLACK ERASURE IN ARGENTINA

Argentina is Blacker than it likes to admit. “Mexicans descend from the Aztecs, Peruvians from the Incas, but Argentinians descend from ships from Europe,” so goes an old saying that encapsulates Argentina’s perception of itself as a nation of White Europeans that never had Blacks. Afro-Argentines formed almost half of the population of Argentina in 1778, but an evidently systematically implemented anti-Blackness policy reduced them to 30% of the population by the time the country gained independence from Spain in 1816.

Several decades of racial politics and alleged extermination campaigns followed where they were slowly yet steadily wiped out and their rich Black culture erased from the nation’s collective consciousness. Today, statistics show Afro-Argentines form a paltry 0.4% of Argentina’s total population, making it the Whitest country not just in Latin America but the Whitest country outside of Europe.

Evidently, there were no racially-oriented laws in Argentina, such as South Africa’s apartheid or the Jim Crow laws in the United States, but the country created a lot of obstacles that prevented Black people from accessing lands, the labour market and education. Over the centuries, Black and indigenous people chose to strategically increasingly mix with and pass off as White to escape marginalisation. Some of the country’s biggest stars can trace their lineage back to Black slaves. However, compared to other South American teams, the all-White, always-White roster of the soccer team must have piqued your curiosity.

This Whitening process was attempted throughout much of the Americas, in places such as Brazil, Uruguay as well as the United States, when the American Colonization Society set up Liberia as a home for freed slaves. What makes Argentina’s story unique in this context, however, is that it successfully pushed to build its image as a White country. Ex-president Domingo Faustino Sarmiento once said towards the end of the 19th century that it would be impossible to see Blacks in Argentina unless one travelled to Brazil. African Stream’s Brenda Mwai lays out the case.