hello, i swear i am

not a bug

[eyesaremosaics]

Rene Lalique 1900 ‘kiss’ pendant. Ivory, enamel, gold and diamonds.

[thegetty]

The back side of this print indicates it is No. 502 from the series Brighton Cats. Brighton Cats, a series with “more than one hundred [cats] to choose from.” 1872, what a year.

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[thejusticethatissocial]

The leaders of the Rebellion…

[dreadpiratekhan]

A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

[dreadpiratekhan]

Now with more awesomesauce!

Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

[daddyspsycho]

this is my favorite post in the entire world

[lunaesweird]

💖💖💖

[screenshotsofdespair]

[m-l-rio]

Misfortune was my god. I wallowed in the mud. I withered in criminal air. And I even tricked madness more than once.

Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell (trans. Wyatt Mason)

[throwoveryourman-deactivated201]

you ever hoist a big laundry basket on your hip and feel like the great tragedy of your life is that you weren’t born a hearty peasant girl in medieval england who’d die at 22 from an abscessed tooth

[throwoveryourman-deactivated201]

imo the fact that people apparently relate to this points to some kind of weird cell memory of centuries of female labour that’s activated by extended pressure against the hipbone. im becoming an evolutionary psychologist it was wonderful knowing you all

[destinyrush]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via 55mmbae)

[theweirdwideweb]

[wordsnquotes]

It is nine at night. I have something to say. You are so valuable. You shine out. You are a magic star. You are a body of blood made beautiful.

Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters (via wordsnquotes)

[hetero-plausible]

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fuck the daily show

[littlelarajean]

Luna Moth by golden-quince on deviantart

[horinarumi]

少し飛べるよ夢の中 / In a dream, it can fly for a while.

[lecataste]

[petitjazzboy]

Art by Seth Tobocman

[lifeinpoetry]

I am tired of being human. And angry at feeling so much love. Some days I am angry just to be alive.

Clarice Lispector, from “Excess and Privation,” Selected Cronicas  (via a-witches-brew)