I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold

youuidiotkid: you’d think by now autocorrect would know i’m saying fucking and not ducking

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:54:37 -0400

youuidiotkid:

you’d think by now autocorrect would know i’m saying fucking and not ducking

Christian Lacroix Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2005

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:28:55 -0400

Christian Lacroix Haute Couture Autumn/Winter 2005

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Sun, 19 May 2013 20:28:00 -0400

"Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 13:15:11 -0400

“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large or massive; they must take up as little space as possible. The very contours of a woman’s body takes on as she matures - the fuller breasts and rounded hips - have become distateful. The body by which a woman feels herself judged and which by rigorous discipline she must try to assume is the body of early adolescence, slight and unformed, a body lacking flesh or substance, a body in whose very contours the image of immaturity has been inscribed. The requirement that a woman maintain a smooth and hairless skin carries further the theme of inexperience, for an infantilized face must accompany her infantilized body, a face that never ages or furrows its brow in thought. The face of the ideally feminine woman must never display the marks of character, wisdom, and experience that we so admire in men.”

- Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via sociophilia)

pertlattimers: just a friendly reminder

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:30:08 -0400

pertlattimers: just a friendly reminder:

mswyrr:

that when the vast majority of mass media narratives fail to represent marginalized people, they’re sending a clear message that this society is a place where, in our fantasies and dreams of better, more beautiful and interesting worlds, these people should not exist

they only exist in reality as a flaw that needs to be erased to make better, more beautiful, more interesting worlds

and misrepresentation sends the clear message that, in better, more beautiful more interesting worlds, these people are kept in their place (as our playthings, our jokes, the sacrifices that help us grow as people, the representations of our inner evil, etc)

media matters

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Sun, 19 May 2013 09:45:09 -0400

secretlymisha: as far as i can tell from my dash there’s some sort of gay musical olympics going on...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:54:10 -0400

secretlymisha:

as far as i can tell from my dash there’s some sort of gay musical olympics going on that only europe was invited to

djarrhea: youknowyourebritishwhen: Is Ireland really full of well oiled males or is the television...

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:45:20 -0400

djarrhea:

youknowyourebritishwhen:

Is Ireland really full of well oiled males or is the television lying to me?

it was until you invaded

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Sun, 19 May 2013 00:41:53 -0400

chanelgoat: Wynter Gordon - Kids

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:44:05 -0400

chanelgoat:

Wynter Gordon - Kids

veganrantss: White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but...

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:36:54 -0400

veganrantss:

White people get mad when you wear a band t shirt of a band you don’t listen to, but they’re fine with wearing headdresses from cultures they know and care nothing about.

vasengard: Theseus and the Minotaur. by Annie Wu. on Flickr.

Sat, 18 May 2013 16:08:12 -0400

vasengard:

Theseus and the Minotaur. by Annie Wu. on Flickr.

man scrolling through tumblr sees a feminist rant about hating men

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:59:36 -0400

iphisquandary:

plot twist: the man thinks, ah, she is simply expressing her frustration as a member of an oppressed group, whilst hating the construction of masculinity that was designed to keep her down, not necessarily all individual men such as myself…this is absolutely not the same thing as sexism and not a personal attack on me *keeps scrolling*

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Sat, 18 May 2013 13:15:19 -0400

fuckyeahfashioncouture: Krikor Jabotian Haute Couture 2013

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:30:16 -0400

fuckyeahfashioncouture:

Krikor Jabotian Haute Couture 2013

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Sat, 18 May 2013 10:46:59 -0400

mirkwood: Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist white...

Sat, 18 May 2013 09:45:14 -0400

mirkwood:

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist white scientist who decides to give a group of black men a STI and, instead of treating them for it, watch them slowly suffer from it so you can study it FOR SCIENCE.

Now imagine you’re the white supremacist sexist medical establishment that denies women the right to get their tubes tied unless they already have loads of kids and require them to get their husband’s permission while at the same time forcibly sterilising legions of native and black women.

Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist psychologist who decides that slaves wanting to escape is a psychological disorder called “drapetomania” and the “cure” for that is lashings and cutting off toes.

Now imagine that you’re the “objective” and “scientific” medical establishment that deems queerness a disorder and decides that electroshock treatments or lobotomies are the effective solution or feels the need to “intervene” by surgically altering the bodies of intersex infants to fit your perceptions of what genitalia should look like.

Religion has done a lot of fucked up shit. But I’m sick and tired of people acting like SCIENCE hasn’t been involved in wars, death, and genocide either. And it’s the assumptive bullshit notion that ALL religions are somehow stupid and not worth your consideration that perpetuates this colonialist bullshit approach that white people have now upon Native and other individuals when tribes fight for the right to their sacred lands of, “Oh you’re religion is just hooey!”

First they “civilised” us with religion and now it’s science and repatriation. Stealing native lands and native artefacts and native bodies FOR SCIENCE so you can profit off of them.

If you’re going to lay in on the death religion causes, IMO you better realise that there’s a difference between the bastion of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy that is modern Christianity and other religions which have little in the way of social power in comparison. AND you better recognise that science can be just another extention of white supremacist cisheteropartiarchy too and FURTHER the goals of that power structure rather than being as “objective” as they claim and countering it.

Haha. Imagine that.

Also, Ricky Gervais is a jerk.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 14:22:50 -0400

wetheurban: #FASHION: TALIBO BACAR FALL/WINTER 2013 Up and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:07:13 -0400

wetheurban:

#FASHION: TALIBO BACAR FALL/WINTER 2013

Up and coming designers always excite us - especially when they’re as talented as Mozambican designer Talibo Bacar.

For his FW13 Exclusive Collection, Taibo drew inspiration from a recent trip to Rome and created another amazing collection complete with colorful bustier tops, elegant dresses, skirts, along with the usage of a local African fabric “Capulana“, with cotton, silk, mesh and lace.

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kronosinasuit: Kerry Washington being amazing as always.

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:17:12 -0400

kronosinasuit:

Kerry Washington being amazing as always.