“Black transgender people live in extreme poverty with 34% reporting a household income of $10,000 or less, over eight times the general population rate – National Black Justice Coalition” via Deviant Phoenix
Reblogging this again because this needs to change
The marginalization of LGBT people, especially ones of color, is a large attribute to sex work because they cannot get “real jobs” and don’t want to starve. Remember both of these things.
And the Grammy goes to……. Lo-Fi Hip Hop Anime Chil Beats To Study and Relax To
this is well worth reading all the way through, but here are some highlights:
Indeed, Spotify’s obsession with mood and activity-based playlists has contributed to all music becoming more like Muzak, a brand that created, programmed, and licensed songs for retail stores throughout the twentieth century. In the 1930s, the company prioritized workplace soundtracks that were meant to heighten productivity, using research to evaluate what listeners responded to most. In many ways, this is not unlike the playlist category called “Focus” that we see now on Spotify. In March 2011, Muzak was purchased by Mood Media, a company that provides in-store music, signs, scents, and video content. The similarity between the objectives of companies like Muzak and Mood Media, and the proliferation of mood-based playlists on Spotify, is more than just a linguistic coincidence; Spotify playlists work to attract brands and advertisers of all types to the platform.
Brand playlists are advertisements, even if Spotify strives to imbue them with so-called editorial integrity. Such uncompensated advertorial playlists are harmful in that they offer artists no option to opt-out, but also because they undercut what can sometimes be a valuable source of revenue for artists. If brands can align themselves with artists without having to pay specifically for individual tracks or artist appearances, what do we think they’ll do? Can we at least give people the option to sell out if they want?
Music writing serves a number of purposes: storytelling, criticism, discovery. Spotify has already established itself as a competitive force of “discovery,” and it soon plans to produce more of its own (surely branded) “storytelling” and original content. With this in mind, and when I worry over the publications, labels, and artists who have (reluctantly or otherwise) embraced Spotify, I can’t help but think of that airport restaurant server who teaches you how to use the iPad, thereby contributing to her own obsolescence. Why is the music press generating value for a platform that in every way plans to eliminate it? And what will become of music criticism in a world without records? Will publications review discovery feeds and write profiles of playlists? What good will criticism be when all of music has coalesced into algorithmically preordained Muzak?
OH MY GODDDDD😮😮😍😍🙌🏾🙌🏾
Bruh!😍😍
This over a strip club tbh
– Your catchphrase is “what?”
– You ask someone to repeat their question then finish processing and respond halfway through they’re finished repeating it.
– You somewhat processed what someone said but your brain won’t take it.
– You mishear what people say wildly wrong. Like, wildly wrong. Then you process it and it makes wayyyy more sense than whatever you thought someone originally said.
– “Wait, what?”
– Default face is a perplexed, confused look.
– You have to deal with rude people who refuse to repeat themselves and act exasperated at the suggestion, than proceed to get angry when you won’t respond to them and/or remember what they just said.
– You can hear a car door open down the street but you can’t hear someone talking to you in the same room.
– Talking is weird.
– You’re constantly seen as a bad listener (which, maybe isn’t that far from the truth- but they assume you’re not trying), unfocused (which I tend to be, but it’s unrelated), and so on. Nobody stops to consider that maybe you have processing issues.
– You were tested for hearing issues as a kid because you didn’t respond to people or talk much, but every test came back negative and your parents were told you have perfect hearing.
– The idea of talking to two people at once is terrifying beyond imagining.
– Responding to something someone said ages ago, even with a different conversation still going, the topic has moved on, and everyone forgot about it.
– “Huh?!”
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