Lenin's Ladder

28 - bolshevik lesbian feminist - lacanian - philosophe - saloniere - failed intellectual - commissar of defeatism - partisan of the republic of labour and virtue

[freakedoutdyke]

"List" Posters (1991) by Artist Group Fierce Pussy. Posted by Curve Magazine

[knucklecurve]

filthy, filthy read

[achillesinhighheels]

The Grotto of the Nymphs, from Pierre Louÿs’ The Songs of Bilitis by Willy Pogany (1926).

[leloupdebout]

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Me, at the local coffee shop: Hey, can I get an objective experience of reality? Blue-haired feminist barista, pronounedly: Oh, you mean a construction of the intellect according to its a priori principles? Me, rolling my eyes: No. I said an objective experience of reality. Barista, too addled by college to understand: So... a phenomenological reality whose grounding in a world of noumena is bracketed? Me: No, an objective experience of reality. Barista: A representation, made of relations to yourself as a subject? Me: No! I want a frickin' objective experience of reality!

Barista: *stares blankly* Person behind me in line: Hey, could you hurry up and order? Some of us are trying to experience a series of mental events which we interpret as going places!

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 16 June 1982, the Bradford 12, all members of the United Black Youth League on trial for preparing to defend their community from fascists, were acquitted of all charges in a landmark case. They had been arrested for preparing a cache of petrol bombs to protect themselves from fascists who had been active in the area, carrying out racist attacks. One of the defendants, Tariq Mehmood, defended himself in court, and along with the other defence lawyers they laid bare mass police negligence with regards to defending Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities from racist attacks. The not guilty verdicts effectively established the rights of Black and Asian communities to self-defence. The trial also saw a nationwide campaign for the activists' release with their comrades declaring "The politicians and police have failed us. Our youth are our only protection. [...] Now they have been taken away from us. We must not fail them. We must fight to bring them back. They have defended our community. We must now defend them." At that time in Britain, racists considered all people of colour as "Black", so Afro-Caribbean, Asian and other activists of colour formed the idea of "political Blackness" to try to build unity against racism. Learn more from Tariq Mehmood in our podcast episodes 33-34: https://workingclasshistory.com/2019/09/18/e28-29-asian-youth-movements-in-bradford/

[dungeon-bitch]

[distantvoices]

Inside KUTT, the cult lesbian 00s magazine via Dazed Digital

[souragdoll]

[fiyeli]

Girls in swamp

insta: _fiyeli

[digitalfossils]

[fafifefotoagain]

KyeZzzz

[verumex]

[thesovietbroadcast]

1972 ★☭ – A Middle School in Tangshan; the class is studying a poem written by Mao Zedong in 1936 named “Snow”.

[kitsunetsuki-deactivated2026051]

Justin de Villeneuve - Twiggy (Vogue Italia 1969)

[thechanelmuse]

Remnants of the British Black Panther’s Lost Legacy

[clatterbane]

Britain’s black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: “There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I’ve been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: ‘There was no black struggle in Britain. You’re thinking of South Africa or America.’“

The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain.”…

Bunce said it was not just politicians, but wider British society that would rather not dwell on the less palatable.

[sweatermuppet]

illustrations for the legalization of marijuana in the state of california published in a 1974 issue of The Tide magazine, formerly The Lesbian Tide