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Gynecology Invented Through The Torture of Black Women

In the 19th century, the father of modern gynecology, J. Marion Sims, conducted his research experiments on enslaved Black women. Sims performed the invasive and torturous procedures without anesthesia. J....

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The Price of Modern Medicine

This wasn't achieved through intelligence and hardwork, as we teach our youth. It was done with barbarism, racism and thorough hatred.

#colonialism #malpractice #white privilege

You're Already Gone

Ever call your bank or login to your email use your coupon card at the grocery store when you’re asked to verify that your are you? That’s because you’re already gone. You do not exist. What exists is data that even an ai can “verify”. You are not you anymore.

Your data is all that matters to society. It’s worth more money than you. Just remember the next time you are asked to verify that you are yourself that to society, you’re already gone, insignificant, an imposter attempting to access lucrative information.

And then ask yourself what are you doing about being erased.

#reality #identity politics #erasure #cyberization #sacq

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Inspired by [x]

Pictured: Chescaleigh, Kid Fury, This Is A Commentary, Hart, Community Channel, ||Superwoman||, MilesJaiProductions, Soundlyawake, sWooZie, Spoken Reasons, Kingsley, LuanLegacy, AndreasChoice, The Skorpion Show, Michelle Phan, Issa Rae

Not Pictured: A lot.

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Characters for my narrative class! I wanted to do the Zodiac signs and to make it even more fun for me, I wanted to put them in an apocalypse setting. (I am definitely not a zodiac expert lol I just did some light research.)

>>Second Batch«

thehawkeyeinitiative

tonomurabix submitted:

I will always, ALWAYS love Michael Turner, but this shot of Sara (Witchblade) will forever make me shake my head… then the Hawkeye Initiative came to be and I knew what had to be done. XD This could be my greatest masterpiece, shitty photoshop job and all.

swelarpers

From Verillas

naturepunk

Uh. Yes.

coelasquid

$850, so expensive, but not unobtainably expensive if you have disposable income you’re willing to save for a while or like a dozen friends who love you enough to spend 70 bucks on you for Christmas.

Good leather clothing never dies.

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Kalyani Magazine is a community focused around a semi-annual literary publication featuring diverse writing styles from women of color. Each issue explores a theme, word, or concept that impacts women in diverse ways.

Call For Cover Art Submissions

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derica

Prepare for the elite, like never before, to use climate change to transform neighbourhoods, cities, even entire nations into heavily fortified islands. Already, around the world, from Afghanistan to Arizona, China to Cairo, and in mushrooming mega-cities much like Lagos, those able are moving to areas where they can live better and often more greenly – with better transport and renewable technologies, green buildings and ecological services. In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the super-rich – ferried above the congested city by a fleet of hundreds of helicopters – have disembedded themselves from urban life, attempting to escape from a common fate. In places like Eko Atlantic the escape, a moral and social secession of the rich from those in their country, will be complete. This essentially utopian drive – to consume rapaciously and endlessly and to reject any semblance of collective impulse and concern – is simply incompatible with human survival. But at the moment when we must confront an economy and ideology pushing the planet’s life-support systems to breaking point, this is what the neoliberal imagination offers us: a grotesque monument to the ultra-rich flight from responsibility.”

“New, privatized African city heralds climate apartheid" | by Martin Lukacs

The piece that really needed to be written about Eko Atlantic

(via derica)

To many Lagosians, the reality of Eko Atlantic is really nothing new. But what can we do?

(via solaceames)

viivus

I made a walkthrough of my process for drawing faceted stones! Judging by the timestamps from the screenshots I took, drawing this one stone took an hour and three minutes, although I know I went and checked tumblr a couple times while I was working, so let’s just call it an hour.

Now MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

This walkthrough assumes you already know how to use layer masks, clone stamp, and lasso tool. There’s also one part where I didn’t label it, but I inverted the selection so I could keep my lines consistent. It’s in the third image.

Unfortunately I can’t really help with colour choice and the actual colouring of the pinwheel shape that makes of the back facets, but you can kind of see that I tended to colour with lines that cut across the facets and and kept the outer parts of the facets darker. It would probably be best to find a reference to work from!

This particular cut of stone is called the ‘brilliant’ cut.

There’s actually a lot of internal reflection business that goes on in a stone, but I elected to ingore all of it since at a distance you can’t really tell anyway.

now GO FORTH AND DAZZLE YOUR FRIENDS WITH YOUR SPARKLE

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sometimes i think about how portal was a game with no male characters, featuring a WOC protagonist and an excellent female antagonist who were both anything but sexualised, and yet somehow still managed to create an interesting and engaging experience for female and male gamers alike, win awards, and get a sequel, and then i look at people who say “games with female protagonists don’t sell” and i laugh. for a very long time.