#mary thomas

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Mary Thomas

Flora Ginkgo double exposure Cyanotype.

Painted with acrylic ink.

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Mary Thomas

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Mary Thomas (b. 1848 - 1905) aka Queen Mary was one of the leaders of the 1878 “Fireburn” labour riot on St. Croix, Danish West Indies (that’s right folks, Denmark 🇩🇰 was once part of the transatlantic slave trade along with most of the Western European girly-pops. The more you know 🌈)

Originally born in Antigua, Mary arrived in St. Croix in 1860s to work on the plantations. Although enslaved Africans in the Danish West Indies were officially free in 1848, a 1849 labour law fixed salaries & labour conditions. As a result, many workers left the island in search of better conditions.

To stop this, the government made it harder for workers to immigrate, demanding health certificates & charging passport fees. When workers demands were denied again in the Fall of 1878, this refusal sparked the Fireburn Riots, the largest labour riot in St. Croix. Thirty plantations were burned during the rebellion.

Known as “Queen Mary” because of her role as leader in the riots during one of the uprisings, she allegedly called for those unwilling to participate to be decapitated 😳 (Not unlike Harriet Tubman who was said to threaten to shoot weak-willed runaway slaves to stop them from going back to the plantation, as they escaped on the Underground Railroad)

In 2018, she was honoured with a 23ft tall statue called “I Am Queen Mary” by artists Jeanette Ehlers & La Vaugh Belle.

Nowadays, most people work through their dissatisfaction/frustration with their jobs/bosses through passive aggressive memes on social media (& I love laughing at them so please keep sharing ), but Mary stood on business, 10 toes down! By rallying her fellow workers, she risked it all to hit her oppressors exactly where it hurt, their pockets 😌

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Jump in (2007)

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WILL 8.5 Kids Asking For A Hot Dog 🌭

SABRINA 9 Kids Asking For A Hot Dog 🌭

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They switched Keke and Laivan on the update photos

Remember when Disney gave you girlies one of the Blackest Disney movies ever? Well...

All the Black Femmes || Jump In

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REWINDING. Knitting yarn that has been already knitted and is crinkled can be straightened out in either of the following ways. 1. Rewind it into a skein by passing it around two chairs. Then hold the skein taut before the spout of a steaming kettle.... 2. Wind the yarn round an aluminium hot-water bottle, and fill it with boiling water and leave it until cool

Frogging, the pulling on the end of a knitted item to undo it, leaves the yarn kinked like a frog legs MMMM which make up the little V’s of knitting stitches. If your garment is a disaster, you frog it, sometimes early in your effort and sometimes at the very end. So what to do?

Now, you can be lazy and just wind it into a ball and hope the kinks disappear. I recently read advice to wind it into a skein and soak it in water. Here we see two other ways from Mary Thomas’s Knitting Book from 1938 and they show you how a British woman would have done it back then. Both use hot water, one in the form of team, with the tea kettle which would have been found in practically every home back then, and the other in something I have never seen: a metal hot-water bottle. While we today often use aluminum for bottles for drinks, we see hot-water bottles made of rubber. But we do different types of tea kettles including electric which would make this pretty easy I am thinking. Or should I continue to be lazy? Hmmmm....

This book, btw, is an extraordinary introduction to the history and techniques of knitting as known in 1938 and is found in reprints at Dover Publications: https://store.doverpublications.com/0486228177.html

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THE CRYSTALS MYSTERY!

Rumour Has It That The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans, And Darlene Love Are In Fact One Group. Here Are The Facts... Record Mirror June 29, 1963

"The CRYSTALS controversy settled at last?"

This Record Mirror article from 1963 tries to cover the 'mystery of the Crystals'. The Crystals were a girl group signed to Phil Spector's label, Philles Records, in 1961. In 1962, Spector had heard a demo for a song written by Gene Pitney called "He's A Rebel" and wanted to record it at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles for the Crystals' next release. Learning that another artist, Vikki Carr, was to record it for Liberty Records, Spector rushed to get his own version out first. Whether the Crystals refused to fly to the studio due to previous frustrations with Spector or because they were on the road for shows is unclear. Regardless, Spector decided to use Los Angeles based girl group, the Blossoms with Darlene Love on lead, with the agreement that the record would still be credited to the Crystals, although without their knowledge. The Crystals heard the song for the first time on radio while on tour. "He's Sure the Boy I Love" was recorded by the Blossoms as well, but Spector credited it to the Crystals once again, much to the dismay of both groups.

Love was also a member of Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans with fellow Blossom, Fanita James, and singer Bobby Sheen. Love lead on Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans' 1963 release "Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts". Love had some solo releases on Philles as well, such as "Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry" and "Wait ‘til My Bobby Gets Home". No Blossoms were ever members of the Crystals and vice versa.