Turning Cold

23 / grad student / animal lover / depressionista

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Bullies couldn’t stop this 8-year-old from growing out his hair for charity 

When Florida 8-year-old Christian McPhilamy became interested in cancer research after watching a commercial for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, he decided to do what he could to help those in need. In the absence of a fat checkbook, McPhilamy did the next best thing: He literally gave the hair off his head to those struggling with cancer and other conditions like alopecia. But the story wasn’t as easy as that.

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mikka 2 ROBERT BURROWES PHOTOGRAPHY

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THE WHOLE MESSAGE OF THIS MOVIE WENT RIGHT OVER EVERYBODY HEAD

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HONESTLY WHEN I WAS YOUNGER UP I THOUGHT THE BLACK AND AFRO LATINAS WERE BEING BITCHES . THEN I GREW UP - I UNDERSTAND

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Student protesters demanding an end to white ignorance and university acknowledgement of black legitimacy demonstrated on The University of Cape Town's upper (main) campus yesterday. Part of the protest involved pouring sewerage over a statue of arch-colonialist, Cecil John Rhodes. The University will be pursuing legal action against the protest organiser because of the illegality of the act, and because "it is an insult to students and staff as well as the wider community." So I go to UCT, and of course I don't like walking near to sewerage (who does?), but I find this to be an incredibly heavy handed reaction, that really shows the institution up as totally insensitive to how insulting it is, especially for non-white South Africans, to have statues of Rhodes on campus and near to it (an entire memorial to Rhodes exists just outside of the main campus). 

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HAHAHA

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"Mainstream feminism"

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Err'bady wants my delicious sandwich

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Episode 81 of 2BG, the Golden Globes Extravaganza~~~ in which we mostly just complain about Hollywood <3

3:45 - Dear Amy Poehler and Tina Fey - Rape Jokes Aren’t Cool

10:46 - The Cringefest that is the Red Carpet

18:51 - George Clooney, Hollywood, and “Je Suis Charlie”

26:00 - Highpoint: Gina Rodriguez Gets the Gold

29:30 - Lowpoint: The Selma Snubs (Boyhood? Really?)

42:00 - Some Final Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo

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Panoply 02 - Hannes Hummel

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weird wolf. weird world.

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Andrew Putter: Native Work (Capetown, South Africa)

Gallery Statement:

This new installation comprises 21 black-and-white photographs of contemporary black Capetonians, in ‘tribal’ or ‘traditional’ costume in the genre of the iconic ethnographic photographer Alfred Martin Duggan-Cronin. These are displayed in a grid alongside the same subjects photographed in colour, where the sitters chose what they wished to wear based on how they see themselves.

'Cognizant of the dangers inherent in Duggan-Cronin's colonial, ethnographic approach to making images, Native Work nevertheless recognises an impulse of tenderness running through his project,’ writes Putter in an article about his project published recently in the journal Kronos: Southern African Histories. ’By trusting this impulse in Duggan-Cronin’s photographs, Native Work attempts to provoke another way of reading these images, and to use them in the making of new work motivated by the desire for social solidarity, a desire which emerges as a particular kind of historical possibility in the aftermath of apartheid.’

By exploring his own complex feelings towards an ideologically tainted but aesthetically compelling visual archive, Putter enters the fraught terrain of ethnographic representation to wrestle with himself about his own complicity, as an artist and a white South African, in this troubled visual legacy. Art critic Alex Dodd writes that this new work ‘constitutes one of those rare instances in which it becomes unmistakably clear to the viewer that the primacy of authorial intention has everything to do with the subtle alchemy that determines the meaning and affective power of images. In this case, the immense respect and tenderness that went into the making of the photographs registers visually as a kind of auratic quality of dignity that shines through each and every portrait.’

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my perma-feels lately. 

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This is what a feminist looks like. I am feminist.

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this just in: feminists are actually a bunch of rich white dudes

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Young women who call themselves feminists receive threats, harrassment, mocking, and violence from men who then turn around and plaster this shit on their shirts like anything they’ve ever said or done has helped further women’s liberation by a centimeter.

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So joss whedon, the dude who fired a woman from his show for daring to get pregnant, is now a feminist? And so is Benedict cumberbatch whose family’s fortune came from slavery?

Might as well call this white men who have literally done nothing to make women’s live better and are now trying to make bank off lip service

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Holy shit I’m about to rant incoherently

I mean I kiiiinda sorta can get why people might maybe appreciate this at first glance, cause men embracing/claiming the label for themselves rather than threatening/actually murdering women who embrace the movement would appear to generally preferable. I do get that. White men are our oppressors so why wouldn’t we want them on “our side” of things? right? them claiming to be a feminist would appear - AT FIRST - to be a great sign!

But you know, like, think critically about this for two fucking seconds and maybe realize that rich white men(+Emma Watson who is rich and white and whose feminism is as unoffensive and man friendly as it comes) claiming the label feminist while actually doing nothing to change their behavior (or actively living anti-feminist lives by not speaking up about super awful things they’ve done or been “forced” to do at their job, like totally inappropriate, unneeded rape scenes, firing women without cause, make movies about porn (JGL) or you know, being rich white men in this society in general … that’s a pretty anti-feminist thing right there, or give space for actual feminist scholars, or who make millions off of movie and jobs that are totally not feminist at all) is not doing anything for actual feminism except making it more man-inclusive, more complacent. Making feminism accessible and non-threatening to men is exactly the opposite of what feminism started out as and what it needs to continue as to have any real impact.

I bet selling t-shirts (who is making the profit off these btw!? Something tells me that CEO is a rich old white man.) with the word feminist on them is going to become a trend now. It’s already “”“”trendy”“”” in the fashion world. Fuckboys will cut off the sleeves and wear their trucker hats and parade around and just like that! something else taken from us! A movement that is supposed to be about women is taken over by men who have no fucking clue what it’s about. Men can’t just say “I’m a feminist!” while continuing to live your unfeminist life and do nothing to change your behavior. But noooo, we darn’t say anything about it because we have to be ~~inclusive~~ of the men!? 

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I am HOLLERING

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Zambia:

Images of Dr. Kenneth Kaunda’s visit to the US in 1960.

Dr. Kenneth Kaunda visited places such as Washington, DC and Atlanta with Dr. Martin Luther King.  Together they made a joint statement against US investment in apartheid South Africa. Kaunda was then the former leader of the United National Independence Party which later led Zambia to independence.

Photos by Alfred Eisenstaedt

Very interesting excerpt on Kaunda’s early 1960s visits to the US and Britain here.