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[blejz]

Tampopo

Jūzō Itami 1985

via Criterion

[cavaan]

how did you get started working on magazines/publications? do you normally reach out to them, or wait for them to reach out to you? i'd like to try my hand at it and get into but i dont really know where to start.

magazines/publications have rarely (if ever) given me a job because i reached out. work almost always is when they want you (ugh, i know). i think something good to get your name out there would be to submit your work to communities or websites that feature emerging talent. they usually have large followings so a feature could go a long way. otherwise support another established photographer who is shooting the work you want to do one day. you’ll learn a lot and join a good network.

[cavaan]

who do you usually travel with?

nobody

[rnahal]

karo, indonesia - y t haryono

[drakensberg-blog]

The reading comprehension and overall common sense on this website is piss poor.

[poupon]

how dare you say we piss on the poor

[bakwaaas]

[oessa]

40.8949115,12.9626909

[sharknadowizard]

not tryna be ungrateful but i wish we had another moon or two

[passivites]

The annual migration attracts tourists to Varanasi, and for a fee, boatmen take tourists onto the river for an up-close look at the flocks. Ph. Razz Razalli

[blythebaird]

Female poets are judged with an entirely different set of criteria than male poets. Men are routinely rewarded for expressing vulnerability and are free to be angry in a way that women are not. Men get extra points solely for having the emotional capacity to write a poem at all. (Go to your local bookstore. It’s hard to find journals that aren’t embossed with butterflies or flowers.) So, women are expected to write poetry, men are rewarded for it. This is not a male poet’s fault – it is, simply, a side effect of our culture’s perception of a male and female’s roles in this here patriarchal American society. Studies have produced neurobiological evidence that women have a better brain capacity than men when it comes to censoring their aggression and anger. I believe female judges often look down on a female poet’s inability to “control” her rage (whether it be through the actual text of the poem or onstage voice control) and men view it as overly hostile. Men and women do NOT get rewarded for the same things in slam. A male poet can co-opt a woman’s experience by having a female proxy (i.e “my sister was raped”) and is considered magnanimous and enlightened, whereas a woman’s personal account of first-hand rape or abuse is often considered cliché.

Rachel McKibbens, from The Male Slam Experience vs. The Female Slam Experience published by Radius Lit, aka one of my all-time favorite essays.  (via mythaelogy)

[harleyweir]

[pxlestine]

VIDEO: Living Under Israel’s Missiles

Four boys of the Bakr family were killed by a missile strike during last year’s incursion. Their surviving family members are still scarred from the attack.

More than anyone, children bear the brunt of regular Israeli military assaults on the Gaza Strip. During the 51-day war in the summer of 2014, 551 children were killed and 3,436 were injured. But these gruesome figures say little about the psychological state of the nearly 800,000 children who have survived the periodic bombing campaigns. After the final cease-fire that ended Israel’s Operation Protective Edge on August 26 of last year, UNICEF estimated that at least 425,000 Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip require “immediate psychosocial and child protection support.”

[ The physical wounds of Gaza children might have healed, but they live with enduring psychological trauma ]

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[challenger2753]

mulan is the original non-binary icon

[vvibr8]

[aarrt1212-deactivated20240709]

Faris, a Syrian roses seller boy who was killed by an air strike. So people decided to draw a picture of him upon a building wall in Germany to keep his memory alive.