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if hiphop weren't real its existence would sound like an exceptionally heavy-handed metaphor about racism from a really cringe didactic fantasy novel. yeah the racialized underclass in this society, the one that's constantly derided by the ethnic majority as stupid and anti-intellectual, they have a complex artistic tradition based around improvisational poetry which is sometimes enacted on a competitive basis for dispute resolution. you get judged based on the subtlety of your wordplay and the complexity of your internal rhyme schemes. the dominant group periodically gets mad about how this doesn't count as real art like their own objectively more simplistic music and poetry because sometimes it has swears in it

#we are an impossibility in an impossible universe

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Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)

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According to Getty, the woman wearing the pink cardigan in the first two photos is Mrs. Lulla Pettway, here together with other members of the all-Black cooperative at the Martin Luther King Freedom Quilting Bee headquarters hand sewing quilts, Alberta, Alabama. (Photo by Henry Groskinsky/The LIFE Picture Collection)

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If you want to read more about the Freedom Quilting Bee, Souls Grown Deep has a history of Gee’s Bend, Alabama–now known as Boykin, this is where the Bee’s headquarters were located.

The site also profiles of many of the individual artists, with photographs of some of their work. The Freedom Quilting Bee itself has a very interesting history, and Martin Luther King was certainly influential—he met with the Quilting Bee several times, and they named their building the “Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Sewing Center” in his honor. However, the tradition of improvisational, or “my way” quilts, is unique to the artists of Gee’s Bend—including Mrs. Louella Pettway!

The photographs were featured in Life magazine’s “Craze for Quilts" article, originally published May 5, 1972. It grew out of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 1971 exhibit, Abstract Design in American Quilts.

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Jellyfish Umbrella <-

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Sophia would love this

#light academia

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ANORA (2024) dir. Sean Baker

#Anora #what're words worth

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books i’ve read ❥ will of the many / james islington

❝ there comes a point in every man’s life where he can rail against the unfairness of the world until he loses, or he can do his best in it. remain a victim, or become a survivor. ❞

#the will of the many

lyssq

I think it's very funny how basically everyone who matters knows Vis is a lying liar but they're all just dead wrong in guessing the truth

#the will of the many #rolling my eyes for eternity

sagewraith

Chain your anger in the dark, my mother used to tell me, and it will only thrive.

The Will of the Many, James Islington

#the will of the many #I just finished this book and it was surprisingly solid

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collecting joans of arc like they are my little pokemon team

#knight in shining armor looks

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NYOTA UHURA Star Trek (1966)

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Bloody New Year (Norman J. Warren, 1987)

henk-heijmans

Missing brick creates space for a candle, Moscow ("Nostalghia" by Andrei Tarkovsky) - by Dima Zverev (1972), Russian

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Little zine I drew this past sunday at the Budapest comic festival at a "workshop" , theme was spring!

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Excalibur (1981) dir.: John Boorman

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I was so distracted by that insanely sparkly veil that i saw this gifset like 5x before i noticed her gown appears to be made of assuit!

assuit (also called tulle bi telle) is a unique fabric which originated in Egypt in the late 18th c. that combines a mesh bobbinet base fabric (usually cotton, but sometimes linen) with an 'embroidered' technique where very thin strips of metal are interwoven by hand into the mesh, folded back on themselves and and creased flat.

the metallic designs are, by nature of the technique, very geometric and the fabric (unsurprisingly) had a moment in the 1920s, and for early movie costumes for stories set in ancient Egypt.