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Femme-ness expressed in pinks, pastels, pearls and bows. This is a blog about identity.
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The Pastels x Shade Magazine

Meet The Pastels. This young & lively Australia-based girl group is taking over your dashboard. We first noticed these dynamic babes while mindlessly scrolling through tumblr when a photo set full of lights and colors caught our eye. Their youtube channel is full of DIY fashion & makeup videos for simple, everyday looks or a glitzy night out. We’re all about gal pal projects here at Shade. What’s so special and cool about these ladies is how accessible their content is. With an over saturation of makeup youtube channels, in this current day, it is refreshing to see a group of young, women of color working together creating visually appealing, relatable content. They’re redefining the ways in which we highlight beauty and promote inclusivity. Keep up with these innovative ladies & “make sure to join the Pastel Party by hitting the subscribe button!”

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SHADE MAGAZINE, 2015

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“…When I say the greatest athlete in a generation, I mean the greatest in any sport. Sorry, LeBron. Sorry, Tiger. Sorry, Derek. For fifteen years, over two generations of tennis, Williams has been a spectacular and constant yet oddly uncherished national treasure. She is wealthy and famous, but it seems that she should be more famous, the most famous. Anyone who likes sports should love Williams’s dazzling combination of talent, persistence, style, unpredictability, poise, and outsized, heart-on-her-sleeve flaws. 

But not everyone loves her. Part of this is owing to the duelling -isms of American prejudice, sexism, and racism…. 

…But it’s not enough to say that Williams would be more uniformly adored if she were a white woman, or a man. Instead, the failure to fully appreciate her importance is perhaps evidence of our inability to appreciate the stubbornly unfamiliar narrative arc of her career. Williams is underloved because, at times, she has been unlovable and, in the end, mostly unrepentant about it—something that might be admired as iconoclastic in a male athlete, but rarely endears women to a wide audience…. 

[Recently,] after a disappointing showing in the three previous Grand Slam tournaments, Williams said that she adopted a new way of thinking about the game, to put less pressure on herself by appreciating what she had already accomplished. ‘That’s the beauty of my career,’ she said before the Open. ‘I don’t need to do anything at all. Everything I do from this day forward is a bonus. Actually, from yesterday. It doesn’t matter. Everything for me is just extra.’ This is surely wisdom, but it is also a form of sports sacrilege. I don’t have anything to prove; I have been great—so great, in fact, that at this point winning doesn’t even matter.” 

Excerpted from an article by Ian Crouch for New Yorker Magazine

Photograph by Darron Cummings/AP

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