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Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:21:51 -0500

purrversatility: Please read/share if you are a Bay Area sex worker/love a Bay Area sex worker!:

Trigger Warning

So local sex workers have apparently been getting this mass, anonymous email/death threat.:

“to undisclosed recipients

I have seen you before and I look forward to seeing you again. I am

going to see you some time in March, and I want you to provide BBFS.

I will not tell you…

kateoplis: Mum’s Chocolate Meringues

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:30:36 -0500

kateoplis:

Mum’s Chocolate Meringues

kateoplis: You are looking at gut bacteria. [by Martin...

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:18:14 -0500

kateoplis:

You are looking at gut bacteria. [by Martin Oeggerli]

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Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:30:49 -0500

cabinporn: From our library: The Poetics of Space by Gaston...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:40:05 -0500

cabinporn:

From our library:

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

Etymologically, the word poetry derives from the ancient Greek poïesis (meaning to create or bring forth) and so we might think of a poetics as the creative force or evocative content of an object or an activity.

In this vein, Bachelard (a mailman turned chemist turned chair of the Philosophy of Science at the Sorbonne) walks us through an examination of how the places we inhabit shape us, from the symbolic power of the hermit’s hut (with its values of solitude, humility and warmth) to the interplay of attics, childhood, and recollection.

This is not an easy book, at times collapsing under the weight of dense jargon (skip the introduction) but it remains one of my most favorite and influential reads. Your effort will be richly rewarded.

sexartandpolitics: This trifecta was in the downstairs...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 22:39:50 -0500

sexartandpolitics:

This trifecta was in the downstairs photography area right near the classic entrance of the AIC. I can’t find where I documented the artist, however.

Help?

picture via

cruiseorbecruised replied to your photo: This trifecta was in the downstairs photography…

Lutz Bacher

Thanks!

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Wed, 07 Nov 2012 16:01:02 -0500

invisiblestories: Lynn Davis, Ice 1988-2007

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:00:35 -0500

invisiblestories:

Lynn Davis, Ice 1988-2007

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Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:53:14 -0500

jhameia: Loretta Ross on the origin of the term “Woman of...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:49:13 -0400

jhameia:

Loretta Ross on the origin of the term “Woman of Color”

Loretta Ross: Y’all know where the term “women of color” came from? Who can say that? See, we’re bad at transmitting history.

In 1977, a group of Black women from Washington, DC, went to the National Women’s Conference, that [former President] Jimmy Carter gave $5million to have as part of the World Decade for Women. There was a conference in Houston, TX.

This group of Black women carried into that conference something called “The Black Women’s Agenda” because the organizers of the conference—Bella Abzug, Ellie Smeal, and what have you—had put together a three-page “Minority Women’s Plank” in a 200-page document that these Black women thought was somewhat inadequate.

So they actually formed a group called Black Women’s Agenda to come [sic] to Houston with a Black women’s plan of action that they wanted the delegates to vote to substitute for the “Minority Women’s Plank that was in the proposed plan of action.

Well, a funny thing happened in Houston: when they took the Black Women’s Agenda to Houston, then all the rest of the “minority” women of color wanted to be included in the “Black Women’s Agenda.” Okay?

Well, [the Black women] agreed…but you could no longer call it the “Black Women’s Agenda.” And it was in those negotiations in Houston [that] the term “women of color” was created. Okay?

And they didn’t see it as a biological designation—you’re born Asian, you’re born Black, you’re born African American, whatever—but it is a solidarity definition, a commitment to work in collaboration with other oppressed women of color who have been “minoritized.”

Now, what’s happened in the 30 years since then is that people see it as biology now.

You know? Like, “Okay…” And peopleare saying they don’t want to be defined as a woman of color: “I am Black, “I am Asian American”…and that’s fine. But why are you reducing a political designation to a biological destiny?

That’s what white supremacy wants you to do. And I think it’s a setback when we disintegrate as people of color around primitive ethnic claiming. Yes, we are Asian American, Native American, whatever, but the point is, when you choose to work with other people who are minoritized by oppression, you’ve lifted yourself out of that basic identity into another political being and another political space. And, unfortunately, so many times, people of color hear the term “people of color” from other white people that [PoCs} think white people created it instead of understanding that we self-named ourselves. This is term that has a lot of power for us.

But we’ve done a poor-ass job of communicating that history so that people understand that power.

Transcript filched from Racialicious.

ellarouge: showslow: London-based artist Zadok Ben...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:36:45 -0400

ellarouge:

showslow:

London-based artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation using 12,000 cut steel botanical specimens modeled from old textbook illustrations, each embedded in a thin layer of sand. On first encountering the sprawling array of plants they appear completely black, thus the installation’s title: Blackfield. However when viewed from the opposite side, a field of black turns into a wall of color.

(Via Thisiscolossal.com)

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Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:52:18 -0400

nightwindsent: Serbian women and children ca. 1904, A....

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:42:18 -0400

nightwindsent:

Serbian women and children ca. 1904, A. Schuler

thelingerieaddict: Cats That Look Like Pinup Girls

Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:35:48 -0400

thelingerieaddict:

Cats That Look Like Pinup Girls

"Asked on the Bill Lumaye radio show what it’s like “to hear the President of the United States call..."

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:09:00 -0400

“Asked on the Bill Lumaye radio show what it’s like “to hear the President of the United States call your dad a liar,” Tagg Romney joked about his fantasy response. “Jump out of your seat and you want to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him,” he said.”

- Romney son jokes he wants to ‘take a swing’ at Obama – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

I… see.

(via sexartandpolitics)

Like this?? :

(images via)

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Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:13:46 -0400

Friday, Friday

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 20:33:10 -0400

sexartandpolitics:

Friend: ugh
the world is so awful
it just spirals
every time you think about it
Me: Yeah don’t do that

thelingerieaddict: One of my most favorite models of all...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:46:20 -0400

thelingerieaddict:

One of my most favorite models of all time.

honey-rider:

Carmen Dell’Orefice photographed in the Bahamas by Norman Parkinson for Vogue 1959.

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Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:03:15 -0400

"’T was the hour when rites unholy Called each Paynim voice to prayer, And the star that faded..."

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:24:08 -0400

“

’T was the hour when rites unholy

Called each Paynim voice to prayer,

And the star that faded slowly

Left to dews the freshened air.

Day her sultry fires had wasted,

Calm and sweet the moonlight rose;

Even a captive’s spirit tasted

Half oblivion of his woes.

Then ’t was from an Emir’s palace

Came an Eastern lady bright;

She, in spite of tyrants jealous,

Saw and loved an English knight.

“Tell me, captive, why in anguish

Foes have dragged thee here to dwell,

Where poor Christians as they languish

Hear no sound of Sabbath bell?”

“’T was on Transylvania’s Bannat

When the crescent shone afar,

Like a pale disastrous planet

O’er the purple tide of war.

“In that day of desolation,

Lady, I was captive made:

Bleeding for my Christian nation

By the walls of high Belgrade.”

“Captive! could the brightest jewel

From my turban set thee free?”

“Lady, no! the gift were cruel,

Ransomed, yet if reft of thee.

“Say, fair princess! would it grieve thee

Christian climes should we behold?”

“Nay, bold knight! I would not leave thee
Were thy ransom paid in gold!”

Now in heaven’s blue expansion

Rose the midnight star to view,

When to quit her father’s mansion,

Thrice she wept and bade adieu!

“Fly we then, while none discover;

Tyrant barks, in vain we ride!”

Soon at Rhodes the British lover

Clasped his blooming Eastern bride.

”

- Thomas Campbell, “The Turkish Lady”

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kateoplis: Mum’s Chocolate Meringues

kateoplis: You are looking at gut bacteria. [by Martin...

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cabinporn: From our library: The Poetics of Space by Gaston...

sexartandpolitics: This trifecta was in the downstairs...

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invisiblestories: Lynn Davis, Ice 1988-2007

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jhameia: Loretta Ross on the origin of the term “Woman of...

ellarouge: showslow: London-based artist Zadok Ben...

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nightwindsent: Serbian women and children ca. 1904, A....

thelingerieaddict: Cats That Look Like Pinup Girls

"Asked on the Bill Lumaye radio show what it’s like “to hear the President of the United States call..."

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Friday, Friday

thelingerieaddict: One of my most favorite models of all...

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"’T was the hour when rites unholy Called each Paynim voice to prayer, And the star that faded..."

purrversatility: Please read/share if you are a Bay Area sex worker/love a Bay Area sex worker!