Coppermine River

It's cold where I live; send mittens

[invaderliz]

Canadian musical group alters the Canadian anthem to include “all lives matter” at the MLB all star game. @allthecanadianpolitics

[bear-pictures]

Family resting on a log, Alaska

[tlatollotl]

Stone musk ox

Artist: Mark Tungilik

Date: 1962

Geography: Canada, Nunavut, Hudson Bay

Culture: Inuit 

[iaminuit]

“I have been doing this all my life, I started as a little boy. I work with baleen. I do baleen etchings. I get the baleen from the [bowhead whale] hunters, the captains. I got this one from this year’s whale, I am going to cut it up (referring to the bone photographed on the upper left hand corner of this photo) and make some ulus (traditional Inuit knives). My grandmother got me into this, she told me not to sit around, and this is what I have been doing ever since.” — Isaac Attungana is Inupiaq and lives in Point Hope, Alaska. The bowhead whale not only provides food to the community, baleen and bone from the whale is used by Inuit artists. Photographed here are some of Issac’s artwork.

Isaac Attungana - Part 2 of 2

[flashenondeux]

[bone-lust]

Scott Baculum 🐋🍆

I found this on flickr back in 2010, created by Caleb Sexton. I still think about is sometimes and giggle. Someone needs to make a meme.

[stormysea]

Some whales!

[starlightnymph]

niagara falls

[nemfrog]

A summer walk in Northern Canada. 1960. Archives Canada.

[robyn-la]

Little embroidery project today! It’s based on a gravestone in St. John’s from the early 1800s, by a local carver. The hand pointing up is a reminder of where the soul is going, or the heavenly reward…there are several interpretations. #deathpositive #burialground #graveyard #gravestone #embroidery #blackwork #lineart #crafting #myart #pretty #pointing #roses #threads

[ortolana-deactivated20160716]

Comedians love to market themselves as “edgy” and “raw” for telling casually racist jokes, jokes about rape victims, jokes that skewer the oversensitive and “humorless.” But the reality is that none of that shit is “edgy.” You know who loves racism, hates women, and rails against political correctness 24/7? Rush Limbaugh. Ann Coulter. Your drunkest, shittiest grandpa. Comedy that targets marginalized groups isn’t daring, brave, or groundbreaking—it is conservative.

Lindy West (in the linked piece about the talented W. Kamau Bell)

[artbabygrace-deactivated2020121]

“I think that what our society teaches young girls, and I think it’s also something that’s quite difficult for even older women and self-professed feminists to shrug off, is that idea that likability is an essential part of you, of the space you occupy in the world, that you’re supposed to twist yourself into shapes to make yourself likable, that you’re supposed to hold back sometimes, pull back, don’t quite say, don’t be too pushy, because you have to be likable.

And I say that’s bullshit.

So what I want to say to young girls is forget about likability. If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly, because you are going to be so concerned with not offending, and that’s going to ruin your story, so forget about likability. And also the world is such a wonderful, diverse, and multifaceted place that there’s somebody who’s going to like you; you don’t need to twist yourself into shapes.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[beatonna]

We’ll get back to Mary Anning later. 

Is Kelis’ milkshake song a gift to humanity, or what?

[thoodleoo]

when uve been chillin underground for 1500 years and then some archaeologist digs u up

[iaminuit]

“The first time I started beading was in grade school, probably the 4th grade. It was after my mother passed away, my grandmother started to show me how to do basic stitching. My first sewing project was a malagaiyaq (fur hat) during the Cultural Week at the school. From then until now, I was sewing something. My craftsmanship started when I was young, my creativity. I am mostly Yup’ik and one-eighth Russian. I was born in Lower Kalskag [Alaska] in my grandmother’s house.” — Wassillie Isaac is Yup’ik and lives in Bethel, Alaska. He is photographed wearing a malagaiyaq he made out of wolf fur.

[coppermine-river]

this is wonderful!

[sideraclara]

do u ever feel like ur pulling an academic icarus flying too close to your deadlines on wings of deeply flawed time management

[omgcica-deactivated20170406]

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