the easy bein' green mix

georgia/21/sydney 30% history and art history student, 30% the mothers' club band, 60% finally working towards good mental health

[newtownwife]

your slavery apologism does not deserve the credibility of a nuanced or sophisticated interpretation of history

[newtownwife]

i literally cried because this civil war era news cartoon is trying to not be hideously racist

[newtownwife]

@killemall1945​

replied to your photo “i literally cried because this civil war era news cartoon is trying to...”

Could be responding to the motto "am I not a man and a brother?"                  

Maybe - i really hope so actually! It makes it so much more moving. I found this quote on The black Atlantic blog from Duke University about the original 1787 image (below):

“The image reveals how pathos-evoking it must have been at the time.  The figure is strong, vital, well-muscled; yet his circumstances have bent him in two, forcing him to beg for the basic rights that should be his due. His wrists are shackled to his ankles; it’s unlikely he’s able to stand up to full height. Even were he not in this unnatural position of supplication, he would not be able to stand as an autonomous agent should be able to do. His facial expression is nearly blank, numbed; but his lips are parted, as if to enunciate the words at the bottom of the image. ... The caption states baldly that what in the distorted current structure of society should be a rhetorical question is a genuine question, because of how warped standards had become.”

So then in the newer cartoon, the man is finally standing to full height, he is rendered as an autonomous subject--who can reach his full human potential. He looks like a man and a brother.

[newtownwife]

i literally cried because this civil war era news cartoon is trying to not be hideously racist

[venusianhag]

my eyes have been streaming blood since i saw this quote last night

[tami-taylors-hair]

Imagine saying this without a hint of irony. Imagine being that dense and evil.

[homo-nerd-grizz]

[newtownwife]

im wet

[popculturediedin2009]

Jessica Simpson at Pure Nightclub, May 2007

[popculturediedin2009]

Heidi Montag studies The Art Of War, July 2007

[popculturediedin2009]

Paris Hilton leaves Taco Bell, July 2007

[phemiec]

Identity is a prison! Let yourself respond authentically to each moment as it arrives, without being bound to the narrative of who you think you are! The self is a construct! The truth of your existence is ever changing and infinite as the universe is ever changing and infinite! Abandon the stories of your past selves and be present and alive in this very moment! IDENTITY IS DEAD! THE SELF IS DEAD! YOU ARE ALIVE!

[phemiec]

update: i just shaved my eyebrows off

[frankarnstein]

Keira Knightley 20 January 2018

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

Does anyone else remember the story about that poor lesbian who came out to her mother and her mother cried and said “it’s all that damn Keira Knightley’s fault, I knew I shouldn’t have let you watch pride and prejudice as a child” because I’m really feeling that now

[profusedinmelancholy]

Yes

[profusedinmelancholy]

Bonus

[profusedinmelancholy]

I’m screaming

[profusedinmelancholy]

More

[queen-haiz]

[newtownwife]

not to be all 2016 but i FELL into a hamilton ABYSS when i decided to "check out the soundtrack" for "research music". this evening (four days later) i am mumbling along to the one bootleg i could find with phillipa soo and renee elise goldsberry

[mcavoy]

ANTONI POROWSKI for Time Out: New York 

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

[vanwizard]

hm. wish i was a rat living in a sewer.

[vanwizard]

[shigraki]

i literally CANNOT and WILL NEVER get over that one Sad Pic with the story of how a girl and a guy were on a motorcycle and he noticed a wall in front of them so he stopped to let her off and then he drove into the wall and died

[shigraki]

IT WAS A CAR NOT A MOTORCYCLE IM. STILL LAUGIHMG YHOUGH

[unclefather]

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[sherman-klump]

Drag me through the dirt