The Love Song of R. Anica Dewdrop

I will marry the person who put this together. You get me.

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:58:00 -0800

I will marry the person who put this together. You get me.

mswyrr: mizjenkins: Eve ArnoldSchool for black civil rights...

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:58:22 -0800

mizjenkins:

Eve Arnold
School for black civil rights activists; young girl being trained to not react to smoke blown in her face
Virginia, 1960

Wow. Puts all my knee-jerk reactions to ignorant assholes on the Internet in perspective.

One of the important things about non-violent civil rights work that people did was months of work-shops where people discussed their feelings on what they were doing, made collective decisions about how their efforts would be organized and toward what goals, and then did practices like this where people practiced walking out non-violent resistance. According to Rev. James Lawson (he was interviewed for the Freedom Riders documentary), who was brought to teach because of his experience in India studying the work of Ghandi, prior to the the efforts to desegregate the downtown area of Nashville—particularly lunch counters—people did workshops for six months.

People talk admiringly about military campaigns, but instances like that had all the precision, commitment, and excellence of a military effort only toward the end of representing everyone rather than upholding strict hierarchy *and* using non-violent tools of warfare.

I don’t hold that non-violence should be considered the only option for oppressed people. But I do believe that it’s extraordinary work that deserves wider recognition. I feel like, as with Rosa Parks, there’s this tendency for the narratives of the classical period of civil rights to portray what people chose to do as spontaneous. I feel like that denial of the prolonged, patient, careful, organized groundwork really sucks.

My Dad Takes My Side On These Things

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:02:07 -0800

Rocio: You know, actually, is there, like, some planetary alignment for all of this year? It's a...

Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert She was pale all...

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:57:14 -0800

Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert

She was pale all over, white as a sheet; the skin of her nose was drawn at the nostrils, her eyes looked at you vaguely. After discovering three grey hairs on her temples, she talked much of her old age…Her eyelids seemed chiseled expressly for her long amorous looks in which the pupil disappeared, while a strong inspiration expanded her delicate nostrils and raised the fleshy corner of her lips, shaded in the light by a little black down.

UNCAGED FORCES AVON TO RETRACT FRAUDULENT CRUELTY-FREE CLAIMS

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:55:00 -0800

UNCAGED FORCES AVON TO RETRACT FRAUDULENT CRUELTY-FREE CLAIMS: powerecoads: Another Uncaged...

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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:04:34 -0800

Already way ahead’a ya!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:23:24 -0800

Already way ahead’a ya!

sesamestreet: Happy birthday to Philip Glass, born today in...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:18:00 -0800

sesamestreet: Happy birthday to Philip Glass, born today in 1937, and the man behind the music in this classic Sesame Street clip.

fuckyeahjewelry: Catalina Brenes. Sometimes you see something...

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:44:44 -0800

fuckyeahjewelry:

Catalina Brenes.

Sometimes you see something and that thing makes you say, “Ohmahguh,” and then, “Ohhhmagow”, and “Hoh!mygarsh.” I’m years away from being able to make something like this, but I’m going to make damned sure I’m as inspired, always.

Bovarina, on a chair. By Principessa Jazz. Olvera Street, Los...

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:57:15 -0800

Bovarina, on a chair. By Principessa Jazz. Olvera Street, Los Angeles, CA. January 14, 2012.

Just To Explode. By 1234länder. Lake Cuyamaca, CA. December 27,...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:13:38 -0800

Just To Explode. By 1234länder. Lake Cuyamaca, CA. December 27, 2011.

usclibraries: Between 1893 and 1920, a 4,600-foot long wharf...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:57:20 -0800

usclibraries:

Between 1893 and 1920, a 4,600-foot long wharf extended into Santa Monica Bay at Port Los Angeles. Read L.A. as Subject’s latest KCET contribution, “How Santa Monica Almost Became a Commercial Harbor,” to learn more.

jawdust: Why you should be in passionate horny love with...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:46:45 -0800

jawdust:

Why you should be in passionate horny love with Elizabeth ‘Nellie Bly’ Cochrane

Born in 1864/65, Elizabeth, one of 15 children, was always ‘the rebellious one’. Fierce as fuck from an early age, she testified against her abusive stepfather in her mother’s divorce trial.

In 1880 she enrolled in a teacher-training college but had to leave after her first semester due to lack of funding - then moved to Pittsburgh to help run a goddamn boarding school.

This is where we get to the good shit. Age 18, she wrote a letter-to-the-editor of the Pittsburgh Dispatch bitchslapping the everloving fuck out of a sexist ballsack of an article entitled ‘What Girls Are Good For’.

The editor was so goddamn wooed by her razor-sharp tongue that he RAN AN AD asking her to identify herself. Elizabeth owned up, and was hired instantaneously, her badassery radiating from her pores and intoxicating all within a twenty mile radius.

Working under the pen-name Nellie Bly, Elizabeth kicked the butts of morons everywhere, writing articles aimed at social justice, particularly labour laws to protect working ‘girls’ and reform of Pennsylvania’s divorce law, which greatly favoured men.

Not content with changing the world from behind her desk, Elizabeth became a founding mother of investigative journalism. She was expelled from Mexico for exposing political corruption, and henceforth wrapped in cotton wool by her editors. Infuriated by their mollycoddling, Lizzie left them a note essentially telling them to fuck themselves and hot footed it to NYC. She was still only 23.

Within six months she was hired by Joseph fucking Pulitzer himself, and continued her batshit crazy investigations uninhibited. Her very first assingment had her feigning mental illness to expose repulsive conditions in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum. Her cutting report was so fucking horrifying, compelling and persuasive that it triggered public and political action, leading to reform of the institution.

In the next couple of years she had herself thrown in jail and hired by a sweatshop, all for shits and giggles. Oh, and to uncover incomprehensible injustice, cruelty, poverty, and the concealed, heinous treatment of the vulnerable and voiceless.

But was pioneering journalism, social revolution and batshit badassery enough for our Liz? Like fuck it was. On a whim Nellie did what any self-respecting 25 year old woman in the 1800s would do - she emulated Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, and did it in 72.

Millions followed her journey, and its appeal to a semi-literate populace resulted in greatly increased newspaper readership. So while travelling the entire globe (IN THE 1800s, AS A WOMAN) by ship, train, burro and balloon, she helped the world to read.

Having essentially conquered the entire goddamn universe before hitting 30, Nellie retired, and wed 72 year old industrialist Robert Seaman. Their marriage was a happy one, and after his death she took over Iron Clad Manufacturing Co.

But Lizzie was a writer, what would she know about the metal industry? Well, she INVENTED the steel barrel that became the model for the widely used 55-gallon drum and turned her inherited businesses into multimillion-dollar companies, so apparently a fuck ton.

Furthermore, she set a precedent for working conditions, ensuring her workers had good pay, gymnasiums, staffed libraries, and health care, all completely unheard of at the time, while still writing to further the plight of the Suffragette movement.

Nellie may have died age 58 of pneumonia, but HBICs live on forever.

banquethall: Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety. Amidst the...

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:37:01 -0800

banquethall:

Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety. Amidst the Ukraine’s high rates of sex trafficking and gender oppression, a new movement of empowered women takes form—Asgarda—a tribe of Ukrainian women, mostly students, who live together in the Carpathian Mountains seeking complete autonomy from men. Approximately 150 women live together under the leadership of 30-something Katerina Tarnousk. Reviving the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology, the Asgarda train in martial arts, taught by former Soviet karate master, Volodymyr Stepanovytch, and learn life skills and sciences in order to become ideal women. French photographer Guillaume Herbaut met the Asgarda and documented their daily life and studies.

Via Teenage

Yelping with Cormac: Red Lobster

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:15:59 -0800

Yelping with Cormac: Red Lobster: Blogs are the new poetry. Shut up. yelpingwithcormac: Wichita,...

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Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:11:00 -0800

ohgrrrl: esmeweatherwax: tiocfaidharlulz: akagoldfish: seanma...

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:27:00 -0800

ohgrrrl:

esmeweatherwax:

tiocfaidharlulz:

akagoldfish:

seanmacdiarmada:

craigsk8man:

something my wife will hate and it also piss me off too

1 you never put a uk flag and ireland together

2 the whole native thing

oh jesus

lads

there’s more of them

lads

It’s like they’re trying to be offensive to as many people as possible.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

jesus fucking christ could you have fucking failed harder fucking HELL

take that tricolour off your shitty racist arm

and deer god those tags….

”tribal, photography, fashion, editorial, Northern Ireland, troubles, catholic, protestant, tribalism, controversial, sectarianism, irish, LJ Millar, civil war, labels, identity”

I think they

actually were trying to be as offensive as possible

WUWAGHDGFJHGJKLJJJJJJJJJ

poop on everyone

Holy hell. Holyhellholyhellholyhell.

15 Interesting Things About Vaginas and the 'surrounding landscape'

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:56:52 -0800

15 Interesting Things About Vaginas and the 'surrounding landscape': I hate talking about sex (I...

I know I’m late in saying “Bye, 2011!” but I...

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:05:51 -0800

I know I’m late in saying “Bye, 2011!” but I have to say something about it, because it was the most important year of my life. So, ok. Good bye! Thanks for everything! No, really, I mean it! No, no, it’s ok that you were super messy and you made me cry a lot and you tested my every last nerve! I still love you, because now I know some things about myself, about burning, wisdom, yearning and triumph.

And, hello, 2012! Please, come in. Would you like to sit down? I need to have a chat with you. There is a particular strain of awesomeness headed your way for which you need to prepare…

We Were Better When We Worshiped the Sun. By 1234länder. Lake...

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:06:30 -0800

We Were Better When We Worshiped the Sun. By 1234länder. Lake Cuyamaca, CA. December 27, 2011.