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Was Jean Rhys the OG BaddieWinkle?

BaddieWinkle is an inspirational ageing figure - literally sticking two fingers up to propriety whilst dancing to Miley Cyrus and listening to Kanye. But the original has to be Jean Rhys - the perpetually bitter, fantastically talented author of novels such as Good Morning, Midnight (1939) and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). Lilian Pizzichini describes in her biography of the writer, Jean Rhys’ final years, spent at Ronnie Scott's night-club, “sporting an ornate pink wig like some punk prototype” [source].

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Read My Lips: Body, Aesthetics, & Liberation in AIDS Activism

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In response to the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and early ’90s, a range of activist groups, including ACT-UP and Gran Fury, created this group of 230 photomontage posters, stickers, pamphlets, and laser prints.

Original Image courtesy of The International Center for Photography