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Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:49:30 -0500

jtotheizzoe: staceythinx: Beautifully atmospheric photography...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:48:53 -0500

staceythinx:

Beautifully atmospheric photography by Adnan Bubalo

Great googly moogly … if we ever find another inhabited planet there’s just no chance it will be as pretty as this one.

Ok, that first part’s not precisely true, but you know what I mean.

Look at all that gorgeous Rayleigh scattering and atmospheric refraction!Earth, you damn fine.

dreadgyal: rememberingmanifesting: The beautiful work of...

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:31:13 -0500

Kelis

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Nobility

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dreadgyal:

rememberingmanifesting:

The beautiful work of African digital artist Jepchumba.

love this. i want it on posters.

Photo

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:15:31 -0500

gradientlair: So gorgeous.

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:12:02 -0500

gradientlair:

So gorgeous.

"Patriarchy has always seen love as women’s work, degraded and devalued labor. And it has not cared..."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:08:49 -0500

“Patriarchy has always seen love as women’s work, degraded and devalued labor. And it has not cared when women failed to learn how to love, for patriarchal men have been the most willing to substitute care for love, submission for respect. We did not need a feminist movement to let us know that females are more likely to be concerned with relationships, connection, and community than are males. Patriarchy trains us for this role. We do not need feminist movement to remind us again and again that love cannot exist in a context of domination, that the love we seek cannot be found as long as we are bound and not free.”

- bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love (via femmenoire)

diriyeosman: ‘We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:13:56 -0500

diriyeosman:

‘We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.’

- LAURYN HILL

Diriye Osman photographed by Boris Mitkov. http://tinyurl.com/cse9csm

POC-CREATORS: Blog Hop!

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 09:54:29 -0500

POC-CREATORS: Blog Hop!:

pervertsofcolor:

I was invited by Papi Coxx (awesome queer brown sex-positive kinky writer/performer) to participate in a blog hop. I highly recommend people check Papi Coxx out because they are brilliant and foxy.
polypataoproductions.com

Now the questions!

Q. What is the working title…

blackcontemporaryart: Girl in a Red Dress, Charles Alston,...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:22:18 -0500

blackcontemporaryart:

Girl in a Red Dress, Charles Alston, 1934

ancestryinprogress: myencephalonjourneys: J. Marion Sims is...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:21:08 -0500

ancestryinprogress:

myencephalonjourneys:

J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure.

He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women.

Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.

Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way.

Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.

Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.

Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.

We can only imagine what they endured at the hands of Sims and what horror an enslaved woman must have felt at the news that she was being sent to him for treatment. Surely rumors must have run rampant among enslaved communities about what he did to women there. All over South Carolina, Sims has been honored and memorialized with statues and plaques. Buildings, hospitals, schools and streets bare his name. While it is impossible to negate the historical context of his racial, class and gender biases, shouldn’t we agree to apply some standard of humanity to those we choose to honor?

so-treu: howtobeterrell: QueenS of ConsciousnesS &...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 12:20:22 -0500

so-treu:

howtobeterrell:

QueenS of ConsciousnesS & Sex-RadicalisM in Hip Hop: On ErykaH BadU & The NotoriouS K.I.M. By queer Professor Greg Thomas, Ph.D.

The world of music constantly pits “sexuality” against “consciousness” in its commentary, especially when Black music is the subject at hand; internationally, it divides music with “positive,” “progressive” or “political” content from “sex-driven” music which is, supposedly, “sensational,” “scandalous” and “slack.” This line of thinking goes well beyond contemporary critics and consumers. For over five hundred years, the Western world of ideas has itself opposed sexuality and consciousness, rigidly, laying the foundation for an entire culture to interpret “eroticism” as a threat to “intelligence,” “bodies” as menaces to “minds” and “sensuality” as an enemy to “rationality” or rationalism. The European oppression of most of the world’s peoples, African people most of all, it continues to use this bi-polar world-view to advance a racist empire that is every bit as much sexist, class-elitist and homophobic as it is racist or white-supremacist.

oh hay relevant

artcomesfirst: Nubians: 1960s - Images | KENYA’S NUBIANS: THEN...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:32:43 -0500

artcomesfirst:

Nubians: 1960s - Images | KENYA’S NUBIANS: THEN & NOW

femininedivine: A life lived. Beautiful.

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 15:33:37 -0500

femininedivine:

A life lived. Beautiful.

"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make..."

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:01:24 -0500

““The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.””

- James Baldwin (via blacqueerwomyn)

yesssss… snaps!

(via iocarejorn)

inter-locution: aww queer families are so adorbs <3

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:48:04 -0500

inter-locution:

aww queer families are so adorbs <3

suitemilk: And another on the way… Marsalis Images Photography...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:46:44 -0500

suitemilk:

And another on the way…

Marsalis Images Photography © 2012
October 27, 2012
Candance & Chenoa

:qws:

theeldergay: autumnyte: apsies: Keesha Patterson of Ft....

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:46:18 -0500

theeldergay:

autumnyte:

apsies:

Keesha Patterson of Ft. Washington, Maryland proposed marriage to her girlfriend Rowan Ha during the election night victory rally at Obama headquarters in Chicago, on November 6, 2012. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

SHE SAID YES!

I’m legit crying.

one day

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me..."

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 11:50:12 -0500

““I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.””

- Og Mandino (via emotional-algebra)

"We love hard, and sometimes, we feel as though that is our first mistake. But when you realize, that..."

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 04:11:04 -0500

“We love hard, and sometimes, we feel as though that is our first mistake. But when you realize, that in this day and age, many people have forgotten how to love with their all, you will see that your love is just looking for a love to match its own.”

- Marlon Cadore( (via guyschasegirls)

earlgrae: pristine androgyny

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:48:47 -0500

earlgrae:

pristine androgyny