we don't stop here.

Young queer woman in California. Increasingly bewildered.

[kaitforyourentertainment-blog]

[sweetlife5]

[girlsluvbeyonce]

[edvomit]

[gotagirlcrush]

Got a Girl Crush On: Elana Adler’s catcall samplers

This series of thirty-two (plus) samplers is intended to be provocative and evoke emotion. It is a contemporary feminist interpretation of women’s work and an objectification of my personal experience. Each captures a moment, giving these words a visual presence, a power, and a state of concreteness. These words were hurled casually and heard quickly but required hours of time-consuming, careful stitching.

The physically delicate, traditionally feminine, form of the piece engages the viewer and confronts him/ her with a sweetness that may mask its crassness and vulgarity.

You read one sampler. Perhaps you are amused, but as you continue reading and consider the body as an entire collection, the response changes. The inherent filth emerges. It is a beautification of an assault. Perhaps in the moment these statements are meant to compliment, but most don’t find vulgar, highly sexualized statements whispered or screamed at them by random strangers complimentary. Rather, they are an invasion of personal space.

The body of samplers is a contemporary and unexpected response to unsolicited and unwanted attention. They reduce the complex emotional experience of being heckled by catcalls to a simple piece of women’s work.

More at www.elanaadler.com/index.php?/other-work/you-are-my-dutchess

[last-picture-show]

[workman]

Edward Hopper, Night on the El-Train, 1918

[sizvideos]

Video

[geekymerch]

(via Storm Trooper SUIT UP Pencil Skirt by GeekyU1)

[tictactabernac-deactivated20151]

WOW I NEED THIS

[sojuandhenny]

[the-star-wars-universe]

[howitzerliterarysociety-deactiv]

Foucault Vs. Chomsky 

[in-love-with-movies]

My Best Friend’s Wedding (USA, 1997)

[baddroid]

[veryspecialporn]

Oh, Aubrey.

[asktaylors-deactivated20121008]

[ecstaticandinsatiate-blog]

A Koala reflecting on his sins, his triumphs, and the inevitability of death.

[gwest650]

Let me be clear: Unarmed college hopefuls don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids heading to work or trade school don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids floundering aimlessly through life don’t deserve to be shot. Unarmed kids who have been in trouble—even those who have been nothing but trouble—don’t deserve to be shot. The act of pinning the tragedy of a dead black teen to his potential future success, to his respectability, to his “good”-ness, is done with all the best intentions. But if you read between the lines, aren’t we really saying that had he not been on his way to college, there’d be less to mourn? That’s dead wrong.

Black Kids Don’t Have to Be College-Bound for Their Deaths to Be Tragic by Jasmine Banks (via gwest650)

EXACTLY.

(via gibsunrising)

[clientsfromhell]

For the ad, use a stock photo of a woman or a person.

(via clientsfromhell)

[mashable]

#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Confronts How Minority Deaths Are Portrayed In Media

Following the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen on Saturday, and the ensuing media portrayal of his death, Twitter expressed outrage in the form of a hashtag: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown

[allhailtatianamaslany]