10:45am April 16, 2013

“I take my selfies because I am that guy who, unless he takes the picture or suggests it, doesn’t get his picture taken. My friend who asked, truthfully had very little right to judge; everyone takes pictures of him, with him, and for him. The same is true of almost all my friends. I live in a world where I didn’t hear someone romantically call me beautiful and desirable till I was 26. I live in a world where either body privilege or race privilege is always against me. So I point my camera at my face, most often when I am alone, and possibly bored, and I click…”

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The Fat Boi Diaries: Why Selfies? (via glitterlion)

yes! this is why i take selfies and DEMAND my photo be taken by doing queer photoshoots and performing

p.s. koreans call selfies “selca” (self-camera) so that’s what i usually call them. :P

(via glittergeek)

Click through to the article as the quote is just a teaser of the awesomeness contained within. Vanity is a radical act for marginalized communities. Don’t ever let a person with privilege tell you otherwise. The revolution will be photographed from arms length with a camera phone and if folks don’t like it, they can kindly recall that no one gives a fuck.

(via red3blog)

I take them because people who look like me (in many different aspects) are “supposed to” be hidden from view and I want everyone to see us, sure. But I also take them because words don’t tell you who I am. Ideally it’d be physical movements, but in the absence of that, pictures are the closest thing I can do on the net. And I don’t have the energy to make videos very often anymore. There’s a lot of expressiveness to my appearance that most people can’t see, but my friends can, and a lot of people who are “like me” in various ways can, and that’s meaningful to me as well. And anyone who thinks it’s wrong to take “selfies” should also think it’s wrong to write or express yourself in any other way because it’s all ways of communicating and it’s all important. And anything that is not words is easier for me, even though I don’t “think in pictures” and vision is my least reliable sense. Hard to explain. But it’s an important form of communication for me and anyone who puts that down can shove it.

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