Two is Better than One

My name is Kali and I'm just trying to figure everything out. This blog is promoting feminist ideals, thus will often display partial or, at times, full nudity. As such, this blog is NSFW. Words

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Naked : Ft Kalki Koechlin and Ritabhari

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My 2017 aesthetic is movies about black people getting stellar reviews and crushing it at the box office

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Happy Black History Month!

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Jesus.

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Look at this, and remember it next time someone says that the gay community survived the AIDS epidemic.

We didn’t survive, we started over. We lost all but an entire generation.

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This is what “we survived Reagan, you’ll survive Trump” looks like. No, we didn’t.

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^^^ I hate that line. Because a great many people didn’t survive Reagan, and a good many more won’t survive Trump. People who say that clearly haven’t gotten a goddamned clue. 

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Meet Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the black woman who invented that rock and roll sound 

You know what’s sad, before I even read this article I was ready to refute this because I grew up believing Chuck Berry created Rock and roll. It’s said how so many knew of this great woman yet none spoke on her greatness.

I also discovered Big Mama Thornton, who’s another hugely influential early inventor of rock and roll — I’m pretty sure Hound Dog was originally popularized by her, before Elvis stole it.

Love Sister Rosetta Tharpe! #BlackGirlMagic

A few of her performances:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bX5mzdihs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M

Also I heard she was bisexual…

Happy Black History Month! 

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She was a BEAST

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Black BISEXUAL women, have always been a creative force in our community

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As a white feminist who is trying every day not to be a White Feminist™, I want to do everything I can to be an ally to WOC without ever speaking over them.

So if I mistakenly reblog something that is not for me, please tell me (anon or not – whatever makes you comfortable), and I will take it down immediately.

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shout out to all the trans women who don’t feel included in the protests as of late. you are still a women even if you don’t have a vagina and you deserve just as many rights as cis women

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Latest @nytmag cover. Photo Illustration by Sagmeister & Walsh. Art direction: @jessicavwalsh Design: @feliperocha Photo: @aron_filkey Producer: @schmollyy / Fabrication by @AlexSilva.nyc. Design Director: @GailBichler / Director of Photography: @KathyRyan1 / Art Director: @mrwilley / Deputy Art Director: Jason Sfetko / Designers: Ben Grandgenett, Frank Augugliaro / Associate Photo Editors: Jessica Dimson, @StaceylBaker , Amy Kellner, Christine Walsh, Natasha Lunn / Photo Assistant: Karen Hanley

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Stories about black women whose employers asked them to cut their dreadlocks or to trim their big afros have surfaced with more frequency in the last few years. Now a new study confirms that many people —including black ones— have a bias against the types and styles of natural hair worn by black people.

The “Good Hair Study” was conducted by Perception Institute, which describes itself as “a consortium of researchers, advocates and strategists” that uses emotional and psychological research to identify and reduce bias in areas such as law enforcement, education, civil justice and the workplace. The study resulted from a partnership with Shea Moisture, a black-owned hair and body products company, and aimed to better understand the connection between implicit bias and textured hair.

New Evidence Shows There’s Still Bias Against Black Natural Hair

Photo: portishead1/Getty Images/iStockphoto

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26 Ways to Be in the Struggle Beyond the Streets

This list is designed to celebrate all the ways that our communities can engage in liberation. For a range of reasons, there are and always have been folks who cannot attend rallies and protests but who continue to contribute to ending police and state violence against black people. People seek justice and support liberation in an array of ways, yet their bodies, their spirits, and their lives may not allow them to be in the streets. We believe that we will win. And we need the presence of everyone in the movement to do so. We affirm that all contributions are political, militant, and valued. By and for those in our communities who can’t be in the streets, we offer a list of concrete ways that we are in the movement, and that we are supporting liberation every day. We see you. We are you. See you in the struggle.

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Portraits of the women of Botswana's heavy metal subculture

South African photographer Paul Shiakallis produced a series of photos, “Leathered Skins, Unchained Hearts,” of the “queens” of Botswana’s heavy metal “Marok” scene, mostly in their homes.

The portraits were shot in the Gaborone, the capital city, and display the tension between traditional Botswanan patriarchy and transgressive self-expression. The Maroks cross over with Botswana’s biker scene, which, in turn, borrows elements from the country’s farmers, like leather vests.

http://boingboing.net/2015/12/24/portraits-of-the-women-of-bots.html

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Shirley Chisholm. As the first black woman to run for president for a major political party, she was years ahead of her time. So why don’t more people know about her?

She championed a bill to ensure domestic workers received benefits, was an advocate for improved access to education, and fought for the rights of immigrants.

“She had guts, and she made people believe that they too can be someone, that we are equal, that gender doesn’t mean you can’t achieve the highest office of government,” her goddaughter Marya Boseley says.

That desire to break boundaries was what drove Shirley Chisholm to make a run for president in 1972, seeking the Democratic nomination a mere three years after she became a congresswoman.

Ms Chisholm, whose slogan was “Unbought and Unbossed,” said she never expected to win but hoped her candidacy would “change the face and future of American politics”.

“I stand before you today, to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates, simply because he is not white or because she is not a male,” she told supporters as she launched her campaign.

I never heard her name in school. Other than hearing Method Man say “I voted for Shirley Chisholm” on Blackout, I knew nothing about her til I read about her on the internet as an adult.

The Democratic Party really fucked Shirley Chisolm over because they wanted a “safe” candidate in George Mcgovern. Then they lost to Nixon.

#BlackHistory #BlackGirlMagic #BlackPride 

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WOW. Wish *I* could have voted for her!

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my favorite photo in 2017 at ‪Women’s March ‬⁩🚺

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Let’s give credit where credit is due: Women’s March organizers Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour 

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i find the lack of notes disturbing.

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don’t ever let the fact that women of color had a huge hand in organizing the biggest worldwide protest in global history be erased

[thefeministwire]

“Streicher stresses that cervical cancer is a preventable disease. ‘There should be no deaths from cervical cancer,’ she says. ‘This is a travesty that this is happening.‘”

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