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[archiveroll]

shoutout to the >2,000 year-old 120ft-long Nazca Lines cat geoglyph

[souvenirglace]

[iwannabeaswampwitch]

Lots of drama in our household

[magicfriend1000000000000000]

i obviously do not play with toys. i only like formal dinners, and foreign films.

[dogpuppy]

[jarring]

smoke is sooo nasty today. did enjoy the new lee mullican install that went up at work yesterday though :)

[anodetoforever]

[donnabrutta]

The founders of Jane, an underground network in Chicago, US that assisted people in getting abortions. From the left moving right: Martha Scott, Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Abby Parisers, Sheila Smith and Madeline Schwenk.

Martha Scott was 19 in 1965, when her friend's sister became pregnant and Scott helped her find a doctor to perform an abortion. The group connected individuals seeking abortions with doctors, and later, performed abortions themselves. Their clients were informed they were not doctors, but doing abortions themselves allowed them to keep costs low. They made people aware of the services through signs with slogans like "'Pregnant? Don't Want to Be? Call Jane." The group operated for seven years and performed an estimated 11,000 abortions; no deaths were ever reported.

Quote from Scott: "You're messing around inside somebody else's body. It's not necessarily given that you won't do harm. It wasn't perfect, by any means. But we were dealing with women who really didn't have other options."

Quote from Galatzer-Levy: "I hadn't had so much as a speeding ticket [when I joined]. But abortion really was the front line, it was where women were dying."

In 1972, two women reported Jane because their sister was seeking an abortion, and the women believed it was murder. All seven founders were arrested. Six months later, Roe v. Wade was decided and the charges were dropped. Read more here (link).

[pinkmoondoll9shihtzu]

photo my dad took of me next to a sculpture my grandfather made. taken around 1999 or 2000. my grandfather created abstract sculptures as a hobby. his subjects mainly mountains and castles and shrines. this period of time is when i stopped smiling in photos because i didn't feel represented by it. this photo is so important to me in understanding my energy, my history, my influences & my place in the world.

[inthemuckandthemire]

W. turner

[kilo-sci]

My kitchen

[theironhorse]

Harry Fonseca

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[metmuseum]

Coat. 1630–40. Credit line: Gift of Mary Alice Dykman Dean (Mrs. Bashford Dean), 1950 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81556

[matt-bower]

Alex Webb, Atlanta, 1996

[nobrashfestivity]

Attributed to Kaikei (active c. 1183-1236) Left Hand of a Colossal Amida Buddha first quarter 13th century Kamakura period, 1185-1333 Wood with traces of lacquer, polychromy, and gilding L. 66.7 cm (26 1/4 in.)Ex-Tamai Collection, Nara

[mutant-distraction]

"The Helping Hand" sculpture in Palmer Square Park, Chicago, created by artist Carrie Fischer in 2018 to visualize the scale of the emerald ash borer infestation.

Photo: Stacy Guevara