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em. 20. agender. mildly articulate. eccentric interests and aesthetics. cunt pride. I live for you, mama.

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today is trans day of fuck

shit fuck damn

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“On Josie Webb’s thirteenth birthday, her aunt gave her a book that changed her life. It was a volume of Maya Angelou poems. After Josie read “And Still I Rise”, she knew she didn’t want to be a…a ballet dancer, or a nurse; she wanted to be a poet. So, it was a proud day when she graduated from Hillman with a degree in English Literature in high honors. That was the spring of 1992. But the following spring, Josie Webb has died of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: the disease we all know as AIDS. 

I didn’t get AIDS from a blood transfusion, or by doing drugs. I got it by having unprotected sex with my boyfriend junior year in high school. I knew Frank was smart, fine, team star quarterback. Neither of us knew he was HIV positive. Lying in the grass on a humid night, looking up at the stars, you just know you’re going to live forever. Lying in the grass, it’s impossible to imagine that 5 years later you’ll be lying in a hospital bed with pneumocystis pneumonia and a few years to live. Nothing like an AIDS ward to teach you that youth is not immortality. More than anything, youth is the power to make choices. Now that I’m gone, I ask one thing of you. Remember always to choose life.”  -Tisha Campbell guest-starring as a student living with AIDS. 

In an interview on Oprah’s “Where Are They Now?,” director Debbie Allen revealed that the episode was almost pulled from the air (due to several advertisers dropping out). However, years after the episode’s original air date, the series was praised for being one of the first to publicly tackle the subject and foster an open dialogue about the epidemic. (x)

Powerful. 

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Reblogging for World AIDS Day

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A Thousand and One Nights (1945)

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*person falls, in a loud destructive manner*

voice off camera: Hey, Ron.

fallen person: Hey, Billy!

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Watch: Nicki Minaj reciting Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” is the most empowering video you’ll see today 

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I can’t even with this racist bullshit

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Slept on the roof with my best friend. Watched a sky full of stars at night and woke up to the sun rising over the ocean. Such an amazing weekend.

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Despite being the wrong height, Kate did get a catwalk gig in Paris when she was 15. This was for John Galliano, who cast her as “Lolita”. Kate bunked off school and flew to Paris, staying with one of Galliano’s seamstresses. The evening before the show she was so scared she couldn’t eat. She recalled, “I had to come down the catwalk by myself. It looked huge, like an airport runway — I was so nervous.” She also described watching the video of the show later that evening: “Someone had run off with the champagne, so me and this other person drank a bottle of Scotch between us. I passed out at the table and went missing for two days. I was supposed to be back at school but no one knew where I was. I was supposed to be back at school on Monday morning and I was still in Paris on Wednesday!”

Sixteen years later, in 2005, when Kate was presented by David Bowie with a special award for Style at the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Galliano was unable to attend on account of a “shower accident.” But he sent Kate a Humbert Humbert note, “You will always be my Lolita.”

— excerpt from the book Kate Moss: Addicted to Love. Kate Moss @ John Galliano S/S 1992.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Roland Hagenberg in his Crosby Street studio. 1983