[publicuniversalpedant]

NOT me accidentally talking my uber driver into leaving his wife …

[publicuniversalpedant]

God’s promise to me that I will always have the power to kill hetero marriages

[ymutate]

Helen Whitaker, England

" Sycamore Seed "

Glass , copper and brass

[exitwound]

interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume?

me: mhm so that’s called a lacuna. it refers to when manuscripts have missing parts, lost to time. for example, the epic of gilgamesh has

[ymutate]

Maria Golub (1990 in Ukraine)

"Wild Flowers Rainbow" n.d.

[macbethwitches]

new DB Cooper theory: he went up

[albertserra]

Frantz Fanon’s A Dying Colonialism: Algeria’s European Minority; appendix by Charles Geromini

[i-am-the-oyster]

[byjove]

The thing about the Karen Read trial is that when I first heard about it I was like “I hope they acquit her because I think women should be allowed to back over their cop boyfriends.” and then I dug into it and realized she genuinely was framed and she was framed by complete dumbasses and if she wasn’t a middle class, college educated, home-owning white woman, they would have gotten away with it and they’ve probably done this to people who could not afford to defend themselves. Then I learned about Sandra Birchmore and the other acts of heinous misconduct and violence committed by the Canton PD and I almost wished it was just a woman killing her fundamentally unlikable cop boyfriend and not open season on girls and women in Canton, Massachusetts. God, what a scary place to live and what a sickening rabbithole to go down.

[innerchildabortionclinic]

too much of law enforcement is men with grudges protecting men they see themselves in from consequences. we only really hear about this phenomenon when it comes to rich people because their cases are more high profile (see: #metoo in hollywood, epstein files) but regular women just kind of have to accept the fact and move on lol because only money can save you in such circumstances

[redrosesinblue]

[roseillest]

AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI // AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU (1992) dir. JEAN-MARIE TENO

[fluffysheeple]

christian bad driver: my guardian angel watches over me, I don't need to look before I merge

atheist bad driver: I will rely on my own skill to see myself safely home after a mere 8 drinks

agnostic bad driver: no one knows where all these dents and scratches came from

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (2003)?

yes

no

I didn't finish it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onJul 23

[personata6980]

[furryprovocateur]

happy thursday

[myfavoritedemons]

found my new favorite reaction image while reading the fan translation of the t. e. lawrence manga

[thyrell]

joe biden should do another stimulus check where the ira sends me a lox bagel. with cream cheese please

[thyrell]

irs.

[efoxgirl]

[gael-garcia]

Salt of the Earth (1954), dir. Herbert J. Biberman

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Damn, son.

[kommunistika]

EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH SALT OF THE EARTH

[em578]

Salt of the Earth actually has a crazy interesting history- OP already said it was made in 1954, but that was in the middle of the Red Scare (communism scary cold war hysteria)

Congress’s anti-communism target fell hard on Hollywood, and those in the industry who were suspected of communism at all were blacklisted from all jobs, because studio’s didn’t want to face backlash from Congress

Salt of the Earth was made nearly 100% with blacklisted crew members from Hollywood, and had such difficulty finding actors that they hired local citizens and miners from the actual strike the plot is based on. There were only 5 trained actors involved, and one of them (Rosaura Revueltas, the woman in the gif) was deported to Mexico before they finished filming on accusations of communism, with no proof and no substance. The filming was plagued with police harassment and threats (according to my professor they were shot at more than once), and the local union hall was burned down.

The movie itself not only covers a real 1950′s labor strike demanding safer and more equal labor conditions for Mexican-American employees, but after the miners were facing arrest, their wives and children took up the strike in their place. The movie’s combination of blacklisted crew, civil rights and feminist message, and pro-union plot (during the red scare) got the movie blacklisted and only 12 theaters in the entire United States would show the movie- it was successful in Europe, but didn’t actually achieve viewership in the US until the 60′s

[gael-garcia]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/mar/10/salt-of-the-earth-labour-workers-blacklisted-filmmakers

[beabaseball]

It is available on YouTube for free