everything our parents said was good is bad.

A Miscellany of Art, Feminism, and Everything Else that's Good for You

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ART FEATURE

AFRICAN ARTIST:

Ralph Ziman

Ziman, a South African street artist who now resides in Venice Beach, California, attacks Africa’s dominant gun culture with piercing colors and images that don’t fade from memory. With knitted masks and beaded weapons, Ziman paints Africa’s obsession with guns and the power they provide as so bizarre and overwhelming it’s nearly surreal. Both worshipped and feared, Ziman’s guns appear like dangerous totems from an unknown ritual, somewhat removed from the gun culture we’ve heard so much about. The vendors who star in Ziman’s photos were not at all directed in how to pose with the weapon replicas. Yet the viewer can sense the additional status pulsing through the subjects as they hold their powerful instruments, even if only for the duration of a photograph.

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[everythingourparentssaid-blog]

I love rehab jessa

[weirdvintage]

1959 illustration from L.A.’s The Mirror, illustrating how women’s bodies were judged in the Miss Universe contest: 1) Shoulders too square 2) Shoulders too sloping 3) Hips too wide 4) Shoulder bones too pronounced  5) Shoulders and back hunched 6) Legs irregular, with spaces at calves, knees and thighs 7) The form divine, needs only a beautiful face  (Source)

[fullpraxisnow]

"…Rialto’s randomised controlled study has seized attention because it offers scientific – and encouraging – findings: after cameras were introduced in February 2012, public complaints against officers plunged 88% compared with the previous 12 months. Officers’ use of force fell by 60%.”

— California Police Use of Body Cameras Cuts Violence and Complaints | The Guardian

[impuretale]

This should be a federal law.

[the-treble-deactivated20160823]

DID SOMEONE SAY FEDERAL LAW?!?!

SIGN HERE!

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Yessssssssssss.

Signal Boost.

[bixbiboom]

This post has 26k notes, but there’s less than 8k signatures on the petition and it ends in eight days, y’all. Get signing.

[butchsona-deactivated20190117]

so i was looking at lipstick and there were some interesting colors

yes maybelline

idk why you’d need this color but ok i guess

lol me 2 

is this the color of chilli though

ok what

?????

????????

[gifthetv]

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[nastalieee]

Jesus Fuckin Christ.

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[girldwarf]

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch. But as a human being, I’m concerned that so many people react to Skyler with such venom. Could it be that they can’t stand a woman who won’t suffer silently or “stand by her man”? That they despise her because she won’t back down or give up? Or because she is, in fact, Walter’s equal? But I finally realized that most people’s hatred of Skyler had little to do with me and a lot to do with their own perception of women and wives. Because Skyler didn’t conform to a comfortable ideal of the archetypical female, she had become a kind of Rorschach test for society, a measure of our attitudes toward gender.”

-Anna Gunn, “I Have A Character Issue

[whateverjeanne]

awards! 

[bitch-media]

As we head into Academy Awards weekend, it’s important to consider who actually votes for the awards. 

Chart by Lee and Low Books. 

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[ethiopienne]

what is so wrong about the statement “we are all the human race”

“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.” ― bell hooks, killing rage: Ending Racism

[alxbngala]

The Axe Wife by Jermaine Saunders

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My education book is keepin it real

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do you remember the first time you were called annoying? how your breath stopped short in your chest the way the light drained from your eyes, though you knew your cheeks were ablaze the way your throat tightened as you tried to form an argument that got lost on your tongue. your eyes never left the floor that day. you were 13. you’re 20 now, and i still see the light fade from your eyes when you talk about your interests for “too long,” apologies littering every other sentence, words trailing off a cliff you haven’t jumped from in 7 years. i could listen to you forever, though i know speaking for more than 3 uninterrupted minutes makes you anxious. all i want you to know is that you deserve to be heard for 3 minutes for 10 minutes for 2 hours forever. there will be people who cannot handle your grace, your beauty, your wisdom, your heart; mostly because they can’t handle their own. but you will never be and have never been “too much.”

Tyler Ford   (via erfisperf)

[mr-eldritch]

drinking tea now and then doesnt make you sophisticated it just means you like drinkign wet leaf

enjoy your fucki ng wet leaves