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Sometimes you don’t see that the best thing that ever happened to you is right under your nose.

Love Rosie (2014), Dir. Christian Ditter (via wnq-movies)

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You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards…you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth.

Jane Fonda (via wnq-movies)

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Así ando

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Si te da besos hasta en la nariz, eso es amor

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Stop insisting on clearing your head — clear your fucking heart instead.

Charles Bulowski (via christophertrees)

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I will admit, I never delved into graphic novels until I found Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.  If you know anything about me, I love middle eastern literature.  And Persepolis is a story about a Persian girl before and after the 1979 revolution.  It’s brilliant you must read it.

I then read Maus (well all of them - three in total).  This graphic novel is just as powerful as Persepolis.  It is about a Polish Jew who is a holocaust survivor.  Over the graphic novels the story of before the war, the war, and after the war is so touching and important.

After those graphic novels, I was sold on them.

Others that I have enjoyed in the past couple of years are

Blankets by Craig Thompson - it’s beautifully drawn, beautifully written and a love story.  Highly recommended.

Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir by Nicole Georges - memoir about a woman trying to find her identity.

Embroideries by Marjane Satrapi - author of Persepolis because it’s a really good book on woman, marriage, and the expectations we can suffer.

Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol - a girl and her dead friend, need I say more

If you think graphic novels are not serious, or just for kids, I really recommend you start with Persepolis or Maus. Then enjoy them both for the writing and the drawings!

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Life si good

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BESSIE SMITH 1894–1937

One of the greatest American singers of the 20s and 30s, known for her powerful delivery and often called “The Empress of the Blues.” Her parents had both died by the time she was a teenager, and to earn money, Smith began performing on the streets of Chattanooga with her brother. In 1912, she joined a traveling troupe that boasted the successful blues singer Ma Rainey—Rainey would become her good friend and mentor. Though she started as a chorus dancer, Smith soon developed her own act, and in 1923 she signed a record deal with Columbia, releasing the first album on their new “race records” series. With the popularity of her song “Downhearted Blues,” she became the most successful blues singer of the time, earning enough to live lavishly and travel town to town in her own private train. She married her husband Jack Gee around the time her first album was released, but it was a rocky relationship, with affairs on both sides. Most of Smith’s infidelities were with other women in her troupe, which sparked frequent fights, and when Smith discovered her husband had been sleeping with another singer, they separated. During the Great Depression, the recording industry took a hit, as did Smith’s career. She started to make a comeback by transitioning into swing music, but it was cut short when she was killed in a car accident. For years her grave was left unmarked, until Janis Joplin bought her a tombstone in 1970.

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Women’s History Month isn’t just a celebration of women’s history. It’s a celebration of how women have shaped and molded every aspect of culture and society, whether given recognition or not—whether given permission or not.

Bessie Smith helped build the blues, and the past is full of women who have changed the course of music history. She’s one of many. Here’s a few more. 

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Gracias

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