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Naoko Takeuchi is an avid fan of fashion, the following are a few inspirations fukufashion has discovered.
Setsuna - Chanel 1992
Hotaru - Thierry Mugler Fashion Week 1992
Calaveras - Christian LaCroix Fashion Week 1992 and 1993
Koan - Christian LaCroix Fashion Week 1992
Black Lady - Yves Saint Laurent Opium perfume
Serenity - Christian Dior 1992
I just wanted these in one place.
god beyonce as new captain of the enterprise please
rocket ship, digital
pedantic comic sparked by a conversation about cowardice
i have such an incredibly hard time finishing any personal work. started this one months ago and realized i’d only complete it if i just stayed up into the wee hours of the night.
RadicalArchive FAQ: Some quick facts about your favorite radical history blog!
What exactly is this blog all about? This blog features digital photos of printed materials produced by different Leftist and liberation movements from around the world. Mostly that means newspapers, pamphlets, flyers, broadsides, posters, buttons, records, and paper ephemera. This blog is now 2 years old and has about 4,500+ followers. What do you mean by Leftist? The definition of “Leftist” is somewhat broad, but principally refers to socialist and communist movements, national liberation and anti-colonial movements, movements for women’s liberation and queer liberation, radical environmentalism, anarchism, and other social movements that are decidedly anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and in one way or another put forward a radical critique of our society and organize for radical or revolutionary change. Do you post full scanned text of these items? Not yet. As you can see, there are thousands and thousands of items in the collection. Eventually I’d love to see them all fully scanned and able to be read online, but realistically that’s a ways off. When I see that the text of a piece is already online, I usually try to include a link with the blog post. Some folks have added their own links to my posts when reblogging, which I fully encourage. I get a lot of mail saying “please please scan the text!!” and even “Why haven’t you posted the text?! Are you trying to tease us with cool literature that we aren’t allowed to read? You bastard!” Suffice it to say I’m aware of the frustration. I’d like more of it to be available too. It’s something I’m working towards for sure. Why is this blog called ‘The R.F. Kampfer Revolutionary Literature Archive’? “R.F. Kampfer” was the pen name of my friend and comrade Neil Chacker. Neil was an autoworker and also wrote a bimonthly humor column for the socialist magazine Against The Current. He was a really unique guy, a real mensch. His pen name was short for “Red Front Fighter” in German. He was one of many young people who were radicalized during the 1960s who went on to organize in factories. He also loved history, so it seemed fitting to name my collection of leftist historical items after him as a little tribute. Who are you? I’m Brad Duncan and all of this stuff is from my personal collection. I started collecting this kind of material when I was in my late teens in the 1990s. I was becoming very politicized and radicalized at the time and had always been interested in history, so researching the history of radical Left movements was a natural outgrowth of becoming a Leftist and an activist. Twenty years later and I’m still a socialist, still a history nut, and still a voracious book collector. I grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan and later lived in the city of Detroit for a decade. I now live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and work with rare books at the University of Pennsylvania. How do you get all of this stuff? Ultimately from a few different sources. The main source of this stuff is friends and comrades of mine who were active during the 1960s and 70s and kept all of their old flyers and pamphlets and other movement-related printed materials. I have a lot of friends from the Left who are in their 60s; in fact many of my best friends are veteran radicals from the New Left era. They were often pack rats, keeping boxes of old radical newspapers in their attics for years. But at the same time these folks are political activists who ultimately care more about the present struggles and fighting for a better future than they do about the past, so they often aren’t too nostalgic to part with these old things. So when they come to realize how seriously I take researching primary sources, how seriously I take preserving and organizing this material, they often decide that they should clean out that attic and give the boxes of left-wing pamphlets to their enthusiastic young comrade Brad. So much of it is given to me for free. Which, needless to say, is a real honor because it speaks to their trust in me. I also have spent years of my life combing through used book stores, garage sales, and anywhere else where old books can be found. Granted, 99.9% of the time you don’t find anything related to radical Left social movements! But if you spend enough time digging eventually you will. You just need to cultivate a “good eye” and have the dedication it takes to spend the time. And in recent years folks who I don’t know have sought me out because they have old materials that they want to donate. My reputation has spread enough so that sometimes perfect strangers email me things like “Hi, I have a bunch of old commie stuff from the 70s and I hear you know what do with it. You want it? Because I sure don’t”, to which my answer is always “Of course I want it, and I’ll gladly pay for shipping”. You’d be surprised how much of this stuff just kind of finds me. Can people purchase materials like the ones you post? Only to a certain extent. Lots of it is of course very scarce and out of print, and most “rare book” specialty shops don’t cater to left-wing collectors. But there are actually a handful of places that do sell this sort of stuff! There is a place in San Francisco called Bolerium Books that specializes in radical history, Black history, queer history, and social movements in general. If you like this blog you’ll love their website. Sure, some of their items are very expensive. But here’s the crazy thing: when compared to other rare book stores, Bolerium’s prices are actually considered fair and not too over-priced. Strange but true. They’re also really nice folks and have a weird sense of humor too. So I’d recommend that you all check out the Bolerium Books website and visit them when you’re in San Francisco. Tell them Brad sent you! There’s also a place in Oakland, California called Bibliomania which also has tons of rare radical books and pamphlets. Basically there are only two retail shops that specialize in old, scarce radical books…and they’re both in the Bay Area! There’s also Southpaw Books in Conway, Massachusetts. Southpaw doesn’t have retail space, but regularly puts out catalogs and sells online. Southpaw has a great selection of radical social movement materials too. There’s also a rare book dealer in Virginia called Lorne Bair Rare Books, which also has radical Left materials but their offerings are considerably more expensive than spots like Bolerium, Bibliomania, and Southpaw. So try not to have a heart attack when browsing their website. The only way to really build up a collection is to mostly get books for free or very cheaply. I only go to “rare book” retail outlets on occasion to pick up individual items to fill in gaps in the collection. It’s hard to build an amazing collection on a proletarian budget! I only make it look easy. Are you an actual archivist? Well I work with rare books for the University of Pennsylvania, but apparently you can only call yourself an archivist if you have some specific educational credentials or else actual archivists will yell at you. So, for the record, I’m not a “real” archivist, according to archivists. I also don’t have a Library Sciences degree either, oddly. I’m just a really dedicated collector with a very specific area of focus and and passion for preserving and organizing rare printed materials. So I’m basically an auto-didactic archivist-for-the-revolution. I’ve worked on many different rare book projects for Penn Libraries, and my current project actually might be interesting to followers of this blog. I’m currently unpacking and organizing the entire contents of the Gotham Book Mart (1920-2005). Gotham Book Mart was a leading 20th century literary bookstore in New York City, specializing in avant-garde poetry and independent publishing. I’ve put up a Tumblr featuring some of the cool items I have discovered while combing through the hundreds and hundreds of boxes, check it out. Is your collection connected to the University of Pennsylvania? No, it’s my personal collection and therefore not formally related to Penn’s rare book collection. That being said, when researchers come to the Penn Rare Book and Manuscript Library looking for 20th century radical materials they are often sent my way because I’m the specialist on that topic and I will gladly bring materials in for researchers and students to use. I also use the materials to give presentations to classes that are studying topics as diverse as printmaking, design, political science and history, etc. So my materials are open to people doing research, and folks are regularly put in touch with me via Penn, but it’s not formal connection. Ultimately, people researching social movement come see materials and use materials even if they’re not put in touch with me via my day job at Penn Libraries. In fact folks even get in touch through this blog. So if you’re doing research and want to see materials in person and are in Philadelphia, by all means get in touch. Serious inquires only though. So it’s all in your house?! Yes, the collection is mostly in my house in West Philly. If you’re serious about viewing or using materials, you can visit or you can make arrangements to view the items in the Rare Book Reading Room on the 6th floor of Van Pelt Library on Penn’s campus. What are your politics? Well wouldn’t all you leftist trainspotters like to know! Afterall, this blog features items representing radical ideologies from Trotskyism to Maoism to Anarchism to Black Nationalism—which on the radical Left is considered a wide spectrum! I couldn’t possibly agree with all of the stuff I post, right!?! So where do my specific politics fit in? What’s my take on all of the various ideological questions and debates that constantly arise in these publications? I’m not telling. Let’s just say that sometimes I post items by movements that I think were right on the money, taking solid positions and making major historical contributions to the struggle for human liberation…and sometimes I post items by organizations that I think were essentially insane sectarian nutjobs who contributed nothing. But I ain’t saying which is which! I’ll just let my overly ecumenical approuch to radical Left history add to the mystery. Let’s just say I’m a red–not a liberal–and leave it at that. So what is ultimately the point of this blog? I want people who are interested in radical social movements and liberation struggles to learn more about the history of those movements. And hopefully by highlighting the graphics, design, and front page headlines of various radical periodicals and publications this blog and further pique the readers curiosity. Ideally people will come to this blog and be inspired to learn more about the history of the international Left. Maybe they’re activists, maybe they’re graphic designers, maybe they’re historians, but hopefully they’ll be pulled in and learn something they didn’t already know. There are also lots of fairly apolitical people who love this blog just for the artwork, which is cool too. Although I’d like to hope that my casual, arty fans eventually get politicized as well! One more thing! I don’t always get a chance to respond to questions and fan mail as often as I would like. In fact part of the reason I put up this FAQ was to speak to that. Over the next week or two I will be investing more time in answering mail to this blog. So if you sent me a question and didn’t get an answer, be patient I will absolutely get to it. Also, since I’ll be spending more time responding to inquires, if any of you have questions or such, now would be a great time to send them! So my inbox is open to you all. Thank you all so, so much for following this blog! Never throw away old movement flyers or literature! And never give up the struggle for a better world!
Red regards,
Brad Duncan
Photo by Liz Barr, 2015. Check out Liz’s amazing artist book on gender identity and body hair called Gender Stubble here!
I’m reblogging this after having deleted it. I deleted it because it seemed too long and I figured I would go back and write up a more succinct version. But folks have asked me ‘where did that FAQ go?!’, and I don’t have the time to write up a better one right now, so this one will have to do. Sorry it’s so verbose! Hopefully it’s informative too. I promise my next text posting won’t require so much scrolling. – Brad
If you haven’t perused through Brad’s tumblr archive of radical left literature yet, you’re really missing out!
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14 bizarre animals that could totally pass as Pokémon The popular video game and anime is known for taking inspiration from animals in real life, but with these quirky creatures, you have to wonder if it was the other way around.
kirk and her crew — an AU where all of the main character Enterprise crew members are women
Hoooooooooooooolyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fuck.
Click the link and scroll down to the text post. New favorite artist.
post the lengthy list of old men you want to be like when you grow old
It's actually not that lengthy.
The list of old women I want to be like when I grow old is a million times longer and significantly more bad ass. Interested?
I’m late to Game of Thrones - but I caught up. And I couldn’t help photoshopping this picture of Khal Drogo as a Klingon. Anyone sad enough to be familiar with both GOT and Star Trek knows exactly what I’m talking about.
The Klingons are the Dothraki of Star Trek - the scary,...
Photos of Patrick Stewart doing things.
(All photos: @SirPatStew)
Inspired by Anita Sarkeesian’s Video Game Tropes vs Women, I wanted to pitch a Zelda game where Zelda herself was the hero, rescuing a Prince Link.
Clockwork Empire is set 2,000 years after Twilight Princess, and is not a reboot, but simply another iteration in the Zelda franchise. It just so happens that in this case, Zelda is the protagonist. I’m a very big Zelda fan, and worked hard to draw from key elements in the continuity and mythos.
This concept work is meant to show that Zelda as a game protagonist can be both compelling and true to the franchise, while bringing new and dynamic game elements that go farther than being a simple gender swap.
Hope you like it!
Tumbling over the past year and a half has made me see the problems of gender roles that exist in media, but sometimes it gets to the point where I over analyze every single piece of television or film that I come across. (However this in no way means that I think feminist media criticism is wrong, or should be avoided!) Mostly I just over think everything.
I’ve thought about this a lot and I think the answer is MORE, and MORE DIVERSE female characters.
We’re used to having one or two female characters in a cast of mostly men, and hold them to a higher standard because of that. So all of feminism is resting on the shoulders of one female character - and that DOESN’T WORK. Because there isn’t one right way to be a woman.
If casts had more diversity of gender, we could have warrior women and non-warrior women, sexual women and non-sexual women, feminine and non-feminine, and mixtures of all of the above…all are completely legitimate ways to be a woman.
We’re used to seeing a lot of hypersexualized, scantily clad, one-dimensional stereotypes of women without stories or motives of their own. We respond by asking for characters that AREN’T THAT, but we may end up pushing too far in the opposite direction, and demonize traits like sexuality, conventional attractiveness, and traditional femininity as “sexist.” That’s why the most popular female characters are the ones that are most similar to male heroes - the Arya Starks - emotionally distant, unattached, solve their problems with violence, not remotely sexual. That’s fine too of course. I love Arya. It’s just not…the only way to be.
Omg, this series of stock photos.
Guy gives flowers to two girls
Girl gives another girl flowers on Valentine’s Day
Girl gives another girl flowers on Valentine’s Day
Haha, whenever I see some dumb plot in which two women are fighting over some dude, I always hope it ends like this.
Or even worse, when the man is cheating on both of them yet somehow the women get mad at each other despite the fact that the fault and douchebaggery lies squarely on the man.
Just another example of how our misogynist culture encourages women to hate [and be in constant competition with] other women.
Uhura never had another name during the series. One of the fan writers wrote “Upenda” - which means “peace” in Swahili, I understand — not officially, but in some of their fan writings. And it sort of took hold. But when they were going to do the official history of Star Trek in a published book, the writer called Gene and asked him was “Uhura” her first name or her last name? Gene said, “Well, Nichelle and I never decided.” We always leaned towards it being her last name because it’s taken from the Swahili “uhuru” which means freedom. So it would sort of be like the same as “Freeman.” So he said, “You can make it her last name.” The writer said, “What about her first name? I’ve come up with one in Swahili. It’s Nyota.” Gene said, “I can’t give you that permission because Nichelle and I named her together, and she has rights to that, so you’ll have to call her and get her permission.” So he gave him my number, and he called me and I laughed and was delighted. He said, “I have a name and it’s Nyota.” I said, “That’s quite beautiful. What does it mean?” He said, “It means ‘star’.” I said, “You can have my permission!” So I have since said that her name is Nyota Upenda Uhura, which would mean a free-floating star: “star of freedom and peace”. I like that.—NICHELLE NICHOLS
Queen. Of. Everything.
Stephen Colbert salutes UVA’s Class of 2013 Followed by this.
Wrong. In every way, just wrong.
