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Sorry I haven't written. I'm apologizing to myself, mostly.

The super obnoxious thing about depression is that most of the time it looks like nothing more than laziness. Just laying about being useless. But while that’s happening connections to friends are being severed, maintenance of good habits withers and disappear, and responsibilities start to be ignored. And because the depressed person is internally thrashing around trying to find something that…

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addicted-black

qwantzfeed

nice state you’ve got there; it’d be a shame if anyone… SMASHED IT

oenophiliatales

Smash the state? Smash the state!

biscuitsarenice

Caribbean War Heroes

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Someone link me

fluffgawd

I need this link.

kny111

seconding that link, what’s this from?

nerd4music

Here’s the link. It’s from a documentary called Fighting for King and Empire.

hustleinatrap

This is phenomenal! These young and beautiful women from Mexico are proud of their African roots. The dance is a peculiar expression of their love and respect for the culture they relate to. These women identified themselves as Black and even made the government include them as Afro-Mexicans in the national census in 2015!

This is what Black Pride means. Very inspiring!

oenophiliatales

This is awesome! Black roots in Mexico have long been erased. Such good news that Afro-Mexicans were counted in the census!

oenophiliatales

Here’s something a lot of people don’t know.

jackthebard

Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.

sourcedumal

shuttersmiley

Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.

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Isaac Asimov.

sim0nbaz-deactivated20170205

yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point

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If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels

Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms) was written by a woman (Lady Muraskai’s the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide “Isaac Asimov” reblogs and stick it

even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?

PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didn’t even do a frickin google search For Shame

cryptovalid

And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.

gunthatshootsennui

Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:

Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.

deathcomes4u

Even Isaac Asimov ain’t having none of your shit, not even posthumously.

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You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.

geekinlibrariansclothing

Got that?

bettieleetwo

Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it

la-knight

I have literally been telling people this for over a year.

athenadark

the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman

thepsychicclam

The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).

ladynorbert

The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.

fostertheory

Reblogging for the Peggy Carter head roll.

superdames

Had a bit of a Twitter rant this morning.

oenophiliatales

The best WW stories put her lasso front and center.

spookyloop

Pictures from the goth scene in Angola (Source)

spookyloop

Let’s give this a reblog since we’re on topic.

gothicandamazing

Model: Lady Cleopathra Photo: Anna Sychowicz :: fotografia Outfit: Phazeclothing.com

Welcome to Gothic and Amazing | www.gothicandamazing.com

oenophiliatales

Covet this dress

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When the Black Panther Party was founded in 1966, it was in reaction to unjust conditions: police violence, substandard education, and joblessness. Last night, Stanley Nelson’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution aired on PBS — and during the broadcast, it became a global trending topic on Twitter.

Today, we’re revisiting a piece we published back in April of last year, when Nelson used Kickstarter to rally 954 backers in support of the film’s theatrical release. Nelson shared an annotated series of archival photos from the Black Panther movement, plus his thoughts on how we can learn from our past and how today’s filmmakers can best use storytelling for positive social impact. Read on here.

laabmagazine

They shoulda crowdfunded enough money for them to include Assata Shakur, Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael and Socialism in the documentary. Great images in this film though.