The Soul-Asylum

Soul-Asylum |Melanie, 25| --Imported From Detroit-- Deep inside your consciousness is your Souls Asylum. A place to be free and indulge in your passions and perversions. Straight from my soul to yours. Open your mind. Get lost in it.

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Second Skin😽 Spring vibes for @rue107 ✨#rue107 #spring #shootday

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"I got hot sauce in my bag..swag"✨✨ The new collection from @lost.queens is here! #formation #lostqueens

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OK ladies nah let's get in #formation ladies💅🏾 @lost.queens #blackgirlmagic #lostqueens #new

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The new collection from @lost.queens is here✨ Are you ready? #lostqueens #formation

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The @nakimuliinc vintage collection has arrived! Head over to their site for more🌻 #vintage #fall

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Brooklyn bound earlier for the Essence Street Style Awards🌻🌻🔮 I'm still rocking my blow out and finally I can accessorize with hats for the fall:) Make sure to post your #ootd too! #chevichic #essencefest #essencemag #naturalhair

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Having a 'Carrie' moment in my suede fit💁🏽 from @rue107 ☺️ #NYC #newrue

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Dream In Color✨✨ I'm obsessed with this wrap dress from @rue107 and luckily for all of us, it drops tomorrow! #repost #newrue #fall

[killerkurves]

soul-asylum in rue107’s Erin Turtleneck & Venus Skirt

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New York moments in @rue107🌇 #concretejungle #prefall #suede #newrue

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Not the same anon but I remember when he retweeted pics of you, they were kinda revealing & I can't remember exactly what he said but it was along the lines of "wow, I used to date her" kinda shaming you for showing your body. Unfollowed him after that.

SMMHHH. 

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Did you use to date Ferrari sheppard? He re tweeted a picture of you once saying you were his ex

Wow lol....

Yes we did date. When did this happen?

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It's almost here! The pre-fall collection from @rue107 debuts tomorrow😊☺️ #prefall #newrue

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Lacey Love☺️ #Repost @rue107 ・・・ The lace affair starts tomorrow on www.rue107.com! @fabiliciousxo and @thesoulasylum in the 'Kelis' top and the 'Evelyn' bikini bottom ❤️ #bedifferent #lace #rue107 #newrue

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#bts Shooting with @rue107 today😊 #newrue #naturalhair #beatmug

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“I think we all have this innate, inherent instinct to share who we are, and how we see the world, our opinion, and what matters to each of us. From the first drawings by cavemen, a hand dipped in vegetable dye and pressed onto the cave wall. I too have a desire to see my chocolate body reflected in the world, to contribute to the conversation.  You may not like what you see or care but you will never forget it.”  photographer Nona Faustine

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For Nona Faustine the restitution of her sense of wholeness as an African American woman and artist manifests in the guise of a restoration of the past, emphasis on guise.  Although we see her marching up the steps of City Hall in Manhattan with nothing on but her white Sunday shoes and a pair of shackles in her left hand…she is not really trying to restore anything. It took me a while to realize it.

Her on-going photography and installation project Reconstructions is precisely that – reconstructions that attempt to replace something that was lost in the history of Blacks in America.  This should not be confused with an attempt to relive the past through reenactment. Faustine’s images are more are like markers that indicate a place, an institution, an event or a person so that with her presence on that spot she does not merely remember them for the sake of remembering, she rewrites a new history for them. There on the steps of City Hall’s Renaissance Revival facade that abuts a slave burial ground or standing on her soap box at the intersection of Water and Wall Streets where a market once trafficked in humans, she is the fearless daughter of them all, the new Venus of Willendorf reborn to reconstruct a history, the ultimate act of fecundity.

Faustine easily acknowledges the impossibility of getting at what is essential with this task she has set for herself, because to reconstruct a history is an altogether different action than to restore one. Hers is not an attempt to historicize the present but to re-write the past. She did the research, discovered who bought and sold black slaves in colonial New York, and where, and how they were transported in and out of the city. But there is no Aushwitz or Treblinka for the victims of slavery in America despite the common knowledge that an estimated 10-12 million Africans died in the Middle Passage alone, and countless others succumbed to starvation, physical abuse and disease once on these shores. In a way the images function as memorials that she makes herself, one at a time, with her body, the naked truth of its blackness braced against a cold city, reconstructing a narrative where the enslaved has dignity and is not afraid.

(via HISTORY IS NOT THE PAST | WHAT HAPPENED WAS…)