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Nearly two decades after futurist author David Brin declared privacy dead, we’ve never been more obsessed with secrets and confessions. It was a viral collaborative art project that (arguably) inspired a secret-telling app funded to the tune of $36 million. And with the two largest secret...

disasterology

Is it even possible to not love watercolor tattoos?

vivacious-effervescent-deactiva

Do they hurt worse than a normal tattoo?

kristilynnmcd

I’m becoming more enamored with this style each time I see it.

genaozols

I can’t stop looking at these. Sweet jebus they are so beautiful. jelenawoehr have you seen how frickin gorgeous these are?

jelenawoehr

Yes genaozols waaaay ahead of ya. We are so both getting our phoenixes in this style

projectcitizen

When everything in the mailbox is noise, one tiny piece of signal becomes an art object to treasure. As postal mail grows less and less useful for day-to-day communication, it becomes ever more valuable as an artistic medium and a jumping off point for community-building.

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disasterology

Is it even possible to not love watercolor tattoos?

vivacious-effervescent-deactiva

Do they hurt worse than a normal tattoo?

kristilynnmcd

I’m becoming more enamored with this style each time I see it.

jelenawoehr

This is definitely how I'm getting my phoenix one day

projectcitizen

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

Walter Mosley, Blue Light (via projectcitizen)

projectcitizen

The Art of Voting: Then & Now

Five images from history, and five CTZN favorites from govote.

Happy Election Day!

projectcitizen

Musical Monday:

#5 by Jean Grae The legendary femcee is now producing, recording writing, and mixing. On her new five-track EP (which features one selection from the previous Jeannie. album) she’s done everything—there are no producer credits. Anywhere.

projectcitizen

Changemaker Fuel: Video Pick

From Dignity and Power Now, this dance video honoring Angela Davis is everything.

blackgirlsreverything

Bhella Bell- Copywrite: 21Memoirs Media, Production and Publishing

Taken in Corsica, FR.

therealbhellabell

reblog me, busters. :P #bhellabell

jelenawoehr

Ok love <3

erarg

longcat is probably dead :(

kremlin

WRONG

notcuddles

Awww, long cat’s owner got married.

jelenawoehr

This cat has more blue eyes while original longcat has more gold eyes. I ma suspicious that this is a different, also long, cat.

sonofbaldwin

Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against the Detroit police officer accused in the 2010 fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones, reports the Detroit Free Press.

As previously reported by NewsOne, Officer Joseph Weekley failed to follow his training when he stormed a house looking for a murder suspect with his finger on the trigger and shot Aiyana who was asleep on the couch, according to prosecutors.

All sides acknowledge that Aiyana Stanley-Jones’ death was not intentional. But prosecutors say Officer Joseph Weekley’s actions were a crime because he handled his submachine gun in a reckless manner.

“You have to use ordinary care in the exercise of your duties,” prosecutor Rob Moran said. “He didn’t follow ordinary care. … If he didn’t pull the trigger, Aiyana would be alive.”

Here’s the opportunity to prove that black girls lives matter as much as black boys lives. Where is the national movement against this judge who dropped the charges against the cop who killed seven-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones as she lay on a couch in her home? Where is the demand from the people that the cop be locked up? A cop who was frontin’ for the cameras of the reality series that was being filmed at the time, who was all gassed up on that “Look at me! I’m a cop on TV” shit and wound up killing our baby girl. They charged him with some bullshit-ass, slap-on-the-wrist “involuntary manslaughter” and not even that shit could stick. Baby girl is dead. And there’s not a whisper or a tear. I don’t believe it when people say they love black girls. I have zero evidence of that assertion. (H/T Kristen M. Muldrow)

la-rinascente

next time someone tells you Muslim countries oppress women, let them know Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal have all had female Presidents or Prime Ministers and 1/3rd of Egypt’s parliament is female but the US has yet to even have a female vice president and can’t say “vagina” when discussing female reproductive rights

jelenawoehr

i so juuuuuuust had this conversation regarding an American man of Arab heritage who was putting down female endurance athletes with remarks like "my seven-year-old son will beat you" and "the place for women in this sport is if I find a beautiful woman naked in the wilderness."

I'm pretty sure if there's a cultural issue here it's that dude is a bodybuilder from Texas, not that dude has an Arabic last name.