shalla

particularlyparasitic:
watchingthedetective:
wendynerdwrites:
Western popular concepts of Jews that people here take as the extent of our tribe:
The reality:
Boys from the Jewish population of Yemen, which has been around for 2500 hundred years but has been slowly massacred over the past few generations.
The Lemba of South Africa and Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe in particular has a large and VERY long history with their Jewish Community)
The Abayudaya of Uganda, some of the great Jewish musicians
The Beta Israeli of Ethiopia
Igbo Jews of Nigeria
Cochin Jews of India
Baghdadi Jews
Kaifeng Jews of China, who go back to the 7th or 8th century. Unfortunately, during the 20th century much of their culture was almost wiped out and the Kaifeng are currently working to rediscover their Jewish heritage and culture.
Jewish Children in Puerto Rico (Jews have been in Puerto Rico since the 15th century, many fleeing from the Inquisition)
The Beit Shalom Choir in Japan
Kosher comes in all colors, from all over the world, and in a variety cultural groups. We’re a small portion of the human population, but we have EVERYONE. We are all members of this tribe.
Because stereotypes are bullshit.
Boosting because you sure as fuck won’t see this in any Western textbook.
Shoutout to the regularly erased JOC
@nyanphobic

flickerman:

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”

—
Ira Glass
I just wanted to share this because it’s a quote I continually think about, especially in regards to creativity (and to me, specifically, painting), that failure - or perceived failure - and being dissatisfied with my progress is all just part of it. Ira is also totally right, and I can see through my own journey the progress I’ve made from feeling like my skills were never going to align with the work I wanted to make, to now where Im able to get closer to it - even if it’s taken several years, a lot of frustration and oh bugger it moments it’s absolutely been worth pushing through.
You’re never going to be great at something new where your skill set isn’t yer developed, but that’s fine! That’s how it works. It doesn’t ever mean that you’ll always be in that place. So whenever you see say, some artwork and you wonder how the hell someone did it then just remember we all start somewhere and it’s through dedication, hard work and a lot of learning that people crate what they do (and often with a lot of falling flat on your face and getting up again every time behind the scenes).
(via woluf)

shakchunni:

do i deserve back pain at this age

jumex:

anxietyproblem:

Here Are the Jewish People