the roll & the boom

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Saul Steinberg

 "Kiss", 1959

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1.5 Million Slavery Era Documents Will Be Digitized, Helping African Americans to Learn About Their Lost Ancestors

The Freedmen’s Bureau Project will make available online 1.5 million historical documents, finally allowing ancestors of former African-American slaves to learn more about their family roots.

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Female Film Directors Put Together a List of Must-See Movies Made By Women | Bitch Media

/Director Sarah Polley at work on her documentary /The Stories We Tell [1]/. / Last month, I put together a podcast about systemic sexism in the film in industry [2]. [1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2366450/ [2] http://bitchmagazine.org/post/popaganda-episode-hollywoods-missing-directors ...

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My past is littered with the bones of men who were foolish enough to think I was someone they could sleep on.

Michele Roberts

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Guys Hold A Fake Funeral For Friend Who Is Always With His Girlfriend (Photos)

He was dead to them.

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saturday morning coffee shop

barista: sorry, i've been thinking about someone else. i'm in love.

old man: oh! well, that's all you had to say.

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I know that there is a strong possibility that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2016 and don’t get me wrong, I am r...

“What if, really, Bill Clinton was just scared to sleep with his wife because of something about her vagina? Namely: What if she has a gun up there?”

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The Idea That Online Life Isn’t Real Is Trite—And Harmful

The idea that on-screen life is less authentic has meant that my experiences of online harassment—and those of countless other women—aren't taken seriously.

“We can never hope to make the Internet a better, safer place until we accept it as the legitimate part of life it already is. The technological revolution stands only to become more embedded in our lives, and if we want to fully embrace all the beauty it enables (and there is so much of that), we have to acknowledge — and fight to limit — the pain it can cause. That means that as our inventions open doors to new frontiers of human interaction, we need to move forward with enough openness and humility to understand that the places we’re going are real.”

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at home anywhere: living on a bus

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I would find you in any lifetime.

Kanye West

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We talk about open questions, but there are closed questions, too, questions to which there is only one right answer, at least as far as the interrogator is concerned. These are questions that push you into the herd or nip at you for diverging from it, questions that contain their own answers and whose aim is enforcement and punishment. One of my goals in life is to become truly rabbinical, to be able to answer closed questions with open questions, to have the internal authority to be a good gatekeeper when intruders approach, and to at least remember to ask, “Why are you asking that?” This, I’ve found, is always a good answer to an unfriendly question, and closed questions tend to be unfriendly

Rebecca Solnit, “The Mother of All Questions” for Harper’s Magazine

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Yellowbluepink, Ann Veronica Janssens

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“TEXAS FEAR FESTIVAL”

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I don’t know when the first time was I learned that I was ugly. Or the part where I was taught to despise my dark skin, or the part where my mother’s friends or old aunts yelled at us to stay out of the sun and not get so dark. I hear this from dark girls all the time. I don’t know how we were taught to see a flattened blackness, to fear our own shades of dark. I do know how we accepted the narratives of white society to say that dark skin must be pitied, feared, or overcome. There are overwhelming images of dark-skinned peoples in Western imagination that show us looking desperate, whipped, animalistic. Our skin blown out in contrast from film technologies that overemphasize white skin and denigrate black skin. Our teeth and our eyes shimmer through the image, which in its turn become appropriated to imply this is how black people are, mimicked to fit some racialized nightmare that erases our humanity.

Syreeta McFadden

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Model: 75 Chinook

Location: Cascade Locks, OR

Photo: http://sixtysecondrun.tumblr.com

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Sarah Charlesworth