Crotched Statements That Keep It Real

Stay real with these hilarious, framed, crotched statements. Let me tell you, I fought my mom once in my life. Wasted out of my mind. Drinking directly after class, not a single meal and continued to do so at a model agency’s holiday party. A mess. Otherwise it wouldn’t have happened. Never having experienced being drunk, my mom didn’t understand the level of inebriation I was on, and pushed me without meaning to. I went flying backwards into the tub. Affronted I wanted to know why she attacked me. Fun fact: I was at the stage of zero coordination, flying across rooms.

My friends and I were so smashed we got off the wrong train and got back on it, thinking we made our way to the uptown side. In reality we ran up one set of stairs, then down the stairs across from them, on the same side of the platform. We literally boarded a different car on the train we just exited. The next morning I woke up surrounded by a plethora of beef jerky in bed, which I don’t even eat. Being that’s it’s ultra processed. Stolen from 7/11. My friend woke up with tubes of purloined lipgloss. At least their theft made sense.

Naively I thought there would be food, like EVERY holiday party ever known to man has. The only thing available at Lavo were martini olives. Which I devoured before being cut off by the bartender. Who made me feel like a pig and got tired of refilling the jar. When they say please do not feed the models, they mean it. Which frame is your favorite? Via: Vintage Shindig

Updated: 1/7/2026 1:08am

White Men In This Country

“It’s worse when they know what they want and they’re hungry for it, white men in this country, they come to take everything, even themselves, they have taken so much they have lost themselves in the taking, and what will be left of such a nation once they are?

-Wandering Stars

Artist: Thomas Blackshear II

The Love Of Beauty

“There is nothing wrong with the love Beauty. But beauty- unless she is wed to something more meaningful- is always superficial. It is not that your Julian chooses solely to concentrate on certain, exalted things; it is that he chooses to ignore others equally as important.”
-The Secret History

Artist: Ellie Kayu NgChimera

Time Travel: A Person Past & Present

This is what time travel is. It’s looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.”
-Tomorrow, And Tomorrow And Tomorrow

Via: Brooklyn Museum

Monday Mood: Disable The Opps

Keep your foot on their necks this week, by putting people in their place. Disable the opps, instead of enabling them. Which is your favorite?

Artist: VintageShinDig

Embrace Destruction, Build Something Better

To build a better, safer world, the old version needs to be demolished. What you’re witnessing is the old guard falling as we ascend into 5D. All the nouns tied to it being shed, masks and veils being lifted. The only constant is change and you can’t change the world until you understand how it really works. Embrace the destruction. What do you want to rise from the ashes of old? Artist: Tyler_Spangler

“Grace Jones Doing Kemetic Yoga & Me As A Voyeur”

“What you feed your mind, will lead your life.”
-Kemi Sogunle

Artist: John Mandu

Black Americans “Virginian Luxuries” 1825

“You’re mixed, Ta-Nehisi,’ Khanata replied, laughing. ‘Look, I understand what Black is in America. I get that you’re Black there, but here you are mixed. That’s how we see most Black Americans.’

Maybe I was seeing my own gospel- the social construction of race- so dispassionately preached back at me. Maybe it was thinking back to Black American friends and all our jokes about DNA tests and who is 100 percent African (none of us) and who is not. And then the humor faded.

Khanata pointed out that in Senegal this ‘mixed’ look is treasured. Black Americans are seen as cool, glamorous, and even beautiful because we are mixed. And many Senegalese women take steps- from straightening hair to lightening skin- to get that ‘Black American/mixed’ look.

And as I sat there with my lost siblings, listening to Khanata, it occurred to me that the ‘mixed’ look they treasure here is itself a marker of the ordeal, an inheritance of the mass rape that shadows those DNA jokes I make with my friends.

-The Message

Artist: Unknown/ EncyclopediaVirginia