21 2 / 2012
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It reminds me of the “bike to work” movement. That is also portrayed as white, but in my city more than half of the people on bike are not white. I was once talking to a white activist who was photographing “bike commuters” and had only pictures of white people with the occasional “black professional” I asked her why she didn’t photograph the delivery people, construction workers etc. … ie. the black and Hispanic and Asian people… and she mumbled something about trying to “improve the image of biking” then admitted that she didn’t really see them as part of the “green movement” since they “probably have no choice” –
I was so mad I wanted to quit working on the project she and I were collaborating on.
So, in the same way when people in a poor neighborhood grow food in their yards … it’s just being poor– but when white people do it they are saving the earth or something.
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18 11 / 2011
This is what all weddings should look like. The flamingos are the ‘gride & broom’. The mermaids (what you didn’t realise what our lycra outfits signified!? silly you) are Swimmy and Shelly (aka Nell and me). We dressed as mermaids to be in theme with the venue for our garriage ceremony - a quiz about the happy couple - at the dolphin fountain in Fitzroy Gardens. best fun I have had for ages.
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16 10 / 2011
“welcome to colour television.”
clip from (hilarious, biting) sketch comedy “Basically Black”, australia’s first indigenous tv show, 1973
via gary foley.
note that this contains images of indigenous people who have died.
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04 9 / 2011
THAT IS AMAZING!
After failing several times at painting this design on my nails, I finally gave in and bought some feathers. It’s easier than expected to put them on your nails and it looks soooo pretty.
These are actually real feathers from a pheasant. I found these on ebay. But I guess synthetic feathers for crafting would work also.
My base colour is 95E from the Manhattan&Buffalo line. I’m not sure if a base coat is necessary but I thought it might look prettier with a nude colour as base.
A few tips in case you want to try this too:
- I figured small feathers work really well. Also less waste!
- Always use a sharp pair of scissors to cut off the edges.
- Put on more than one layer of clear top coat. I did 4 coats.
omg how
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07 8 / 2011
Yo: amydentata: Cissexual Prince Harry’s bid for Nasa training cisnews:...
bwahahahaha.
Cissexual Prince Harry’s bid for Nasa training
CISSEXUAL Prince Harry plans to be the first Royal to boldly go into space - and even wants to enter Nasa training.
Army pilot Harry, 26, is a closet Star Trek fan and “obsessed with space”, according to friends,…
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31 7 / 2011
goddamn the word “ghetto” is terrible/ a word that people straight-up DO NOT BELIEVE is terrible/ a word i hear all the time/ a word i said growing up all the time
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31 5 / 2011
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A few years ago, someone from the Feminist Majority Foundation called the Muslim Women’s League to ask if she could “borrow a burka” for a photo shoot the organization was doing to draw attention to the plight of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. When we told her that we didn’t have one, and that none of our Afghan friends did either, she expressed surprise, as if she’d assumed that all Muslim women keep burkas in their closets in case a militant Islamist comes to dinner. She didn’t seem to understand that her assumption was the equivalent of assuming that every Latino has a Mexican sombrero in their closet.
We don’t mean to make light of the suffering of our sisters in Afghanistan, but the burka was—and is—not their major focus of concern. Their priorities are more basic, like feeding their children, becoming literate and living free from violence. Nevertheless, recent articles in the Western media suggest the burka means everything to Muslim women, because they routinely express bewilderment at the fact that all Afghan women didn’t cast off their burkas when the Taliban was defeated. The Western press’ obsession with the dress of Muslim women is not surprising, however, since the press tends to view Muslims, in general, simplistically. Headlines in the mainstream media have reduced Muslim female identity to an article of clothing—“the veil.” One is hard-pressed to find an article, book or film about women in Islam that doesn’t have “veil” in the title: “Behind the Veil,” “Beyond the Veil,” “At the Drop of a Veil” and more. The use of the term borders on the absurd: Perhaps next will come “What Color is Your Veil?” or “Rebel Without a Veil” or “Whose Veil is it, Anyway?
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