9 kouta-sasai: Antonio López Garcia b.1936 My Aunt Concha 1954...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:13:40 +0300

Antonio López Garcia b.1936
My Aunt Concha 1954
Pencil and ink on paper 12¾”x8¾”
Private collection

Thank you, David!

"An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:42:46 +0300

“An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness, it means they have fundamentally misunderstood privilege. Privilege does not mean you live in a world where people are nice to you and never insult you. It means you live in a world in which you, and people like you, are given systematic advantages over other people. Being marginalised does not mean people are always nasty to you, it means you live in a world in which many aspects of the cultural, social and economic systems are stacked against people like you. Some very privileged people have had awful experiences in life, but it does not erase their privilege.”

- The Revolution Will Not Be Polite (via afrafemme)

♥George Shearing performs When Darkness Falls

Wed, 15 May 2013 03:14:41 +0300

♥
George Shearing performs When Darkness Falls

burnedshoes: Probably by Martin Hesse, ca. 1935, Rare photos of...

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:21:17 +0300

"am Feuer"

"Tomaten"

burnedshoes:

Probably by Martin Hesse, ca. 1935, Rare photos of Hermann Hesse

These photos, apparently taken by Hermann Hesse’s son Martin, were included in an auction catalogue (Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer München, 1987).

The catalogue contains 462 lots on 44 pages, including a few B&W illustrations and photos - if you’re interested in buying this catalogue: I have found it on eBay.

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"“Empowered” and “sexy” are not universally synonymous. That a woman is not a sex kitten does not..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:48:05 +0300

“

“Empowered” and “sexy” are not universally synonymous. That a woman is not a sex kitten does not mean that she’s any less comfortable or empowered or any of that stuff. See above, re: not a homogenous demographic. Stop making sexiness a universal demand. Let some characters be unsexy. And for f*ck’s sake, please, please stop drawing women who are injured, or dead, or being tortured, or punching bad guys, in sex-kitten pin-up poses. That is bad visual storytelling, and it is INCREDIBLY creepy. Let women be heroes for the sake of heroism. Women don’t have to be damaged or traumatized to be strong, or to want to make a difference. Corollary: Dropping rape into a backstory is not a panacea for making a female character complex and gritty.

Imagine you have a daughter. Imagine the kind of women you’d like her to want to grow up to be. Write them. Write women you’d want to be friends — really good friends — with. Write women you’d get in arguments with. Write women you’d be legitimately scared of. Write women like your mom, like your aunts, like your wife, like your friends, like your nieces and nephews and daughters and bosses and friends. We are not aliens… This, too, goes back to “doing things.” A lot of the time, male characters act, and female characters are acted upon. Let female characters make difficult choices — and sometimes choose wrong — and have struggles and the same real victories. Because without those things, they’re not characters; they’re just window dressing.

”

- Rachel Edidin talks about portraying female superhero characters at Comic Alliance (via georgethecat)

Keaton Henson performs You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are ♥

Thu, 09 May 2013 01:43:47 +0300

Keaton Henson performs You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are

♥

"Women are not punished in this world for acting ‘like men’. We are punished for acting like human..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 16:30:41 +0300

“

Women are not punished in this world for acting ‘like men’. We are punished for acting like human beings. In our world, only men are human. They take that label for themselves, they accord themselves social and economic and legal privileges because of it, and they declare women other and different and make damn sure that we wear our inferiority in whatever way they tell us to. Through our clothing and our hairstyles and our submissive and ingratiating behaviours.

Any time a woman gives herself the right to be fully clothed, to have access to forums and spaces in which to express her ideas and opinions, to work in fields which men declare unsuitable, to be comfortable and free of bodily restriction, she is (knowingly or not) refusing to accept her inferior sex-caste status. We are declaring our right to be human. Not our right to be men, our right to be human. Got it?

The association of man with human is so pervasive, yet invisible, that women refusing to accept inferior status is equated with wanting to be men, rather than with wanting to be human, which is surely more accurate. And it is difficult to get away from…

”

- weirdward, Behaving Like A Man at Dusk is Falling (via seebster)

Arms and Sleepers perform Untitled

Sun, 05 May 2013 01:04:54 +0300

Arms and Sleepers perform Untitled

"There is only one system that has made a difference, and that is consumerism. It has managed to..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:25:08 +0300

““There is only one system that has made a difference, and that is consumerism. It has managed to change the psychology of the ruling class. It is the only system that has touched bottom: conferring a new aggressive stance, because aggression is necessary for the individual in a consumers’ society: the heroism of submissive gestures, like an old peasant who accepts his fate stoically, is pretty useless today. What kind of a consumer would he be, if he accepted his regressive, archaic, inferior status? He has to fight in order to raise his social standing! All of a sudden, we are all becoming little Hitlers, little power seekers.”
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pasolini on de Sade”

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drawingdetail: Lloyd Rees, The Lane Cove River, 1978....

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:17:30 +0300

drawingdetail:

Lloyd Rees, The Lane Cove River, 1978. Soft-ground etching, printed in blue. 24.8 x 30.2 cm.

liquidnight: Hammock “Chorus of Trees” From Raising Your...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:13:24 +0300

liquidnight:

Hammock

“Chorus of Trees”

From Raising Your Voice…Trying to Stop an Echo

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:55:01 +0300

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

- Buckminster Fuller (via headandstomachached)

grooviejazz: ‘Coracao’ by Egberto Gismonti [Sol Do Meio Dia,...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:58:15 +0300

grooviejazz:

‘Coracao’ by Egberto Gismonti [Sol Do Meio Dia, 1977 ECM]

raveneuse: Marlene Dumas

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:34:00 +0300

raveneuse:

Marlene Dumas

Party Trash - Alone

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:26:05 +0300

Party Trash - Alone

Omar Faruk Tekbilek performs Ara’ya

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:16:02 +0300

Omar Faruk Tekbilek performs Ara’ya

knittedlampshade: unlearning problematic behavior is a long ass process you will fuck up handle it...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:46:56 +0300

knittedlampshade:

unlearning problematic behavior is a long ass process

you will fuck up

handle it gracefully.

mxme: Mar

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:30:08 +0300

mxme:

Mar

"On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her..."

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 23:25:28 +0300

“

On a trip to Paris, I recently had the same shocked realization that Andrea Stuart describes in her astounding new book, “Sugar in the Blood.” Slaves built this, I thought as I wandered from one grand 18th-century monument to the next. How rarely we acknowledge that Europe’s great cities were built on profits from the labor and blood of slaves cutting sugarcane half a world away.

Stuart, a London-based author of Barbadian ancestry, writes of contemporary England: “Sugar surrounds me here.” The majestic Harewood House in Leeds was built with money from Caribbean sugar plantations, she points out, as was the Codrington Library of All Souls College in Oxford and Bristol’s mansions. The slaves of the West Indies built this wealth while unaware of its existence, or of their own connection to it. Without them, the vast empire that gave the world Victoria and Dickens might never have existed.

”

- Masters and Slaves: ‘Sugar in the Blood,’ by Andrea Stuart (via thefemaletyrant)

John Surman performs Twas but piety

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:56:14 +0300

John Surman performs Twas but piety