Coatlicue Fatale: Musings of a Xicana Feminist

A Xicana feminist Doctoral student* (in Gender and Women's Studies) in the Sonoran desert originally from Southern Califas that practices the art of thrifting, vintage finding, and theory in her spare time.

[peerieweirdo]

i love when ur writing an essay and u all of a sudden get a burst of inspiration or find the perfect source to back up ur point and it’s like the clouds have parted and everything’s clear and ur not gonna have to drop out

[peerieweirdo]

never mind everything sucks essay writing is horrible i have no clue what im doing im gonna drop out and become a street performer

[peerieweirdo]

NEVER MIND IM THE KING OF ACADEMIA IM GONNA GET 100% IM GONNA FINISH ON TIME AND HAVE A WELL STRUCTURED ARGUMENT AND IT’S GONNA BE AWESOME

[peerieweirdo]

never mind.

[phdstudygirl]

Lol, the writing process in four posts…

[fablefire]

‪Sometimes he uses The Force to steal extra marshmallows.‬

[gahdamnpunk]

I AM DECEASED 😭😭

for the love of god UNMUTE this

[cancerianprincess]

SOME OF YALL DO NOT NEED ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY 💀💀💀

[brucie-deactivated05092020-deac]

dead

[medusabraids]

[pinche-aquarius]

La Chona 

[zenec]

[celebsofcolor]

Serena Williams for InStyle Magazine

[munroesdream]

I found the white bathing suit online and keep forgetting to order it.

[tohkyo]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BdeFgtWnxnl/

[dankmemeuniversity]

[centaurianthropology]

No, but seriously, do you know how amazing Vincent Price is?

Not just as an actor, although he was a blast to watch in everything he did.  He’s one of those actors who’s just clearly having a whale of a time, no matter how bad the film is.  He’s just genuinely happy to be there (it makes his villains a particular delight, and he played a LOT of them).

But did you know that he was also on the PFLAG board after his daughter came out to him?  And that he was one of the earliest celebrities to speak out against the silence surrounding the AIDS epidemic?

Did you know that when his daughter came out to him, he admitted to her that it had been difficult for him during his first two marriages, because his wives had not been pleased to find out that their husband was just as interested in men as they were?

That’s right, kids, Vincent Price was BISEXUAL AS FUCK, and it was one of those open Hollywood secrets.  And his wife Coral Browne?  The one he grew old with and wrote cookbooks with and was basically ridiculously sweet with?

Also bisexual as fuck.  They were the queer power couple of Hollywood in the 70s.  His daughter, Victoria, grew up around Rock Hudson and members of the LGBT community.  When she came out, Vincent Price became a board member of PFLAG and was just about the most accepting and awesome dad.

Did you know that Vincent Price played Oscar Wilde in a one-man play, and when it was denounced by anti-gay activist Anita Bryant, he dismissed her right back, saying that Oscar Wilde had already come up with a term for her: a Woman of No Importance?  Because Vincent Price was deliciously witty and an awesome person.

Let me conclude with a quote from his daughter (from this article, where I got a lot of this information):

‘“In a funny way, and I think I’m going to cry, he understood me at 22 better than I understood myself then,” Price concluded. “Of course, he was in his 70s and lived a hell of a lot longer than I had, and he understood that at the end of the day it’s about who and what and how we love. And I have not been a person who has been very successful at conventional relationships, but loving well and loving deeply has been the most important thing to me.”’

Happy birthday, Vincent Price.  You were a gem of an actor, and an even greater human being.

[foodieapprovedeats]

Sticky’s. The Finger Joint 🐔 

📍New York, NY 

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Find the best foodie spots! #foodieapproved

[m--ood-deactivated20181217]

Otter teaches human how to pet him.

[threesideddream]

me asking for attention and affection

[note-a-bear]

I just lost my entire shit

[hotboyproblems]

When you laugh at a dumb meme and someone who’s not an internet person asks whats so funny, but it’s like a tier 3 meme and you’ve gotta explain about seven years of internet for them to understand the nuances

[scoutfinches]

[clarknokent]

Is it me or

Is there too much updog

[gochellzgo-deactivated20170221]

Way too much updog…

[snizzydoesit]

Man I stumbled upon some updog in my closet the other day

[clarknokent]

It literally is everywhere Bruh!

[badgyalbeebee-deactivated201902]

what’s updog?

[clarknokent]

Nothin much what’s up wit you?

[tastemycocoa]

I hate this so fucking much😭

[clarknokent]

You hate it more than two of?

[tastemycocoa]

😑 More than two of what?

[clarknokent]

Deez nuts!

[geniehathor]

[solelymotivated-deactivated2017]

Two in a row😂

[itzyaboy-dame]

[conchfritters-n-spanishlimes]

*sigh* Ya’ll…😏😂

[wronglynamedbonnie]

@clarknokent I fucking hate you 😂😂😂

[goldenobsessionzzzz]

Give him an oscar lmfaooooo

[i-choose-yusuke]

What a lame 😂

[clarknokent]

Not lamer than you and Dawhite!

[1-ofthecoolkids-deactivated2017]

@clarknokent Who’s Dawhite?

[clarknokent]

Da white around yo lips!

[1-ofthecoolkids-deactivated2017]

@clarknokent no 😭

[enlightenedsilverking]

lol I’m dead

[jaxuhmillion]

I AM SCREAMING @hwgac

[darkskinloverboy]

Just damn 😂

[afrocentricsunflower]

You a fool 😂

[simplythequeerking]

This post had me on the floor😂

[deleted-deleted-byyyyeeee-deact]

smh lol

[soulfullynostalgic]

y'all all made it so easy lmfaaaaooooo

[cuethetrou-deactivated20201023]

Mah dude @clarknokent displaying masterful wordplay! 😂😂😂

[clarknokent]

I couldn’t resist bruh 😂

[lamerialove]

😂😂

[stoopkid17]

@weeble15 @haitiancowboy

[aquarius-heauxx]

💀💀💀💀

[liferuining-soulsnatcher]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[lebritanyamor-deactivated202601]

[teflonchef-deactivated20170825]

I refuse to believe this post is real. This has gotta be something made up by that one girl D'enda

[clarknokent]

D'enda had a hand in this to be very honest

[confusedwhiteperson]

Whose D'enda?? 🤔🤔

[clarknokent]

D'enda dis dick!

[1-ofthecoolkids-deactivated2017]

@clarknokent You have GOT to be fucking stopped 😭😂 Please you have to go 😩😩😩😩😩

[clarknokent]

😂😂😂I’m done, 4 for 4 is more than I could’ve ever hoped to get out of this post.

[plussizedhiiipy]

This Post 😂😂

[mela-rose-deactivated20171222]

Lmfaoooooo😭😭😭

[lebritanyamor-deactivated202601]

AGAIN ?!

[honeyyy-bunn]

This is GOLD😂😂😂

[blvckhermione]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[sweetheart10133-deactivated2023]

😑😑😑

[moomyclam]

Somebody come get him 😂😂😂

[sugarbabybunny-blog]

Marry me son. XD

[flyingpigstitty]

someone stop this man pls im crying😭😭💀💀💀

[lilboreddev-blog]

REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS

[poeticfog]

9 million people fucking love dogs

[tracknumber06]

Here we come 10.

[dark-eyed-harmothoe]

BREAK THE POST

BREAK THE POST

BREAK THE POST

[localstarboy]

This video comes around every year and It kills me every time.

[tiny-librarian]

A Pennsylvania museum has solved the mystery of a Renaissance portrait in an investigation that spans hundreds of years, layers of paint and the murdered daughter of an Italian duke.

Among the works featured in the Carnegie Museum’s exhibit Faked, Forgotten, Found is a portrait of Isabella de'Medici, the spirited favorite daughter of Cosimo de'Medici, the first Grand Duke of Florence, whose face hadn’t seen the light of day in almost 200 years.

Isabella Medici’s strong nose, steely stare and high forehead plucked of hair, as was the fashion in 1570, was hidden beneath layers of paint applied by a Victorian artist to render the work more saleable to a 19th century buyer.

The result was a pretty, bland face with rosy cheeks and gently smiling lips that Louise Lippincott, curator of fine arts at the museum, thought was a possible fake.

Before deciding to deaccession the work, Lippincott brought the painting, which was purportedly of Eleanor of Toledo, a famed beauty and the mother of Isabella de'Medici, to the Pittsburgh museum’s conservator Ellen Baxter to confirm her suspicions.

Baxter was immediately intrigued. The woman’s clothing was spot-on, with its high lace collar and richly patterned bodice, but her face was all wrong, ‘like a Victorian cookie tin box lid,’ Baxter told Carnegie Magazine.

After finding the stamp of Francis Needham on the back of the work, Baxter did some research and found that Needham worked in National Portrait Gallery in London in the mid-1800s transferring paintings from wood panels to canvas mounts.

Paintings on canvas usually have large cracks, but the ones on the Eleanor of Toledo portrait were much smaller than would be expected.

Baxter devised a theory that the work had been transferred from a wood panel onto canvas and then repainted so that the woman’s face was more pleasing to the Victorian art-buyer, some 300 years after it had been painted.

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[drst]

Christ men have been Photoshopping women to make us more “pleasing” since for-fucking-ever.

[explorerrowan]

Also, Isabella de’Medici is nice looking, but also has that look in her eye of all Medicis: “I haven’t yet decided whether I’m going to kick your ass, buy you and everything you own, or have sex with you. Perhaps all three.”

[whatthefoucault]

It’s interesting the way the repaint has photoshop!Isabella affecting a slightly dreamy, docile gaze into the middle distance; she’s dewy-faced and unthreateningly soft.  But in the original, she’s looking you right in the eye.  She takes the male gaze and throws it right back at you.  That’s a face that says go on, tell me I’d be so pretty if only I had a little repaint, I dare you.  I’ll fuck you up.

[iunia-kallistrate]

They also made her hand smaller and I can’t tell if that’s an urn or scepter in her hand but considering it was painted out I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a symbol of power.

[explorerrowan]

Oh, it’s a symbol of power alright. She’s a Medici, daughter of Cosimo I de Medici, First Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Medicis were the most powerful political family in Florence for almost forever. In Florence, the lines between politics, crime, warfare, and the Church were very blurry. They even managed, on four separate occasions, to get one of their own family members elected Pope, usually by very underhanded dealing with the cardinals. They had their fingers in every pie in Italy from 13th through 17th century.

In the case of Isabella, in order to secure an alliance with the Orsini family of Rome, she was married to Paolo Giordano I Orsini when she was 16. Contrary to popular belief, people in Renaissance Europe weren’t all that into child brides, this was just about the politics, so she stayed at her father’s household in Florence until she was of appropriate age. And then she just sort of… never left. Her new husband had zero concept of money, and her dad actually kinda hated him even though he was the one who arranged the marriage in the first place. So Isabella and her 50,000 scudi dowry (at a time when the average Italian earned somewhere between 10 and 40 scudi a year) stayed in Florence. Because she never went to Rome to live with her husband, she enjoyed enormous freedom and power back in Florence. After her mother died, she basically stepped into the role of First Lady of Florence, and was considered one of the keenest political minds in Europe. She ruled what she wanted, bought what she wanted, and fucked who she wanted, with no one really able to tell her no.

She was eventually assassinated by her husband while she was on holiday at one of her family’s country villas, probably because she was fucking her husband’s cousin, Troilo Orsini. Well, she had an “accident” while bathing, and Paolo Orsini said she must have drowned, but the coroner said she was strangled, and several servants swore they saw him do it. He might also have done it on the orders of Isabella’s brother, Francesco Medici, since he was trying to consolidate his power as the next Grand Duke, and by all accounts she was definitely in his way because of her political savvy.

So yeah. She was a boss, and that’s what makes it even more offensive that this Victorian sap tried to make her into this passive, skinny, doe-eyed wimp.

[indi-dork]

[amazinghowyoulove]

'My Life Is Over' Woman Who Called Police on Sleeping Yale Student Seeks Sympathy — But Gets None

Sarah Braasch, the 43-year-old Yale University graduate student who called the cops on a sleeping Black classmate, has crawled back into hiding after receiving little to no sympathy from the public. Braasch became public enemy no. 1 earlier this year when the target of her cop call, fellow graduate student Lolade

“You can’t imagine the #pain of having everything you’ve worked for your entire life ripped from you in a matter of moments when you’ve done absolutely nothing wrong …,” Braasch wrote from her now-private Twitter account @sarahbraasch1. ” All I ever wanted to do with my life is help people and make the world a better place. My life is over.”

[blackberryshawty]

Lmao choke

[takesmetochurch]

this is so sad alexa play IDGAF by dua lipa

[not-malik]

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

These difficult conversations are more important than ever. Here’s how to overcome the roadblocks.

follow @the-movemnt

[foremothersfootsteps]

Yes to all and to add one, tone policing. If they can’t think of any other way to dismiss what you are saying, they will critique the way in which you said it. No matter how you said it, they will say you are angry or aggressive.