January 2012
a l'allure garconniere: IN DEFENSE OF THE HOT MESS... →
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additional note blacks, latinos and asians would also like room for being a hot mess while being a main character and not be turned into a caricature
kthxbye
findesiecle:
Lately I’ve been really into weird concepts of something like failed, desperate, self-conscious deliberate performative femininity? Part of this is evidenced by the fact that I’ve been doing my hair in big curls with my...
Today, like every day, is a really good day to... →
Of Another Fashion: These two Asian American... →
ofanotherfashion:
These two Asian American dancers are performing at San Francisco’s premiere nightclub in the 1930s called Forbidden City. While the club was Chinese-themed, the performers themselves were not all Chinese American. Some were Japanese American and Filipino American. (Click the “Forbidden City”…
2011 Photographs of the Year: Scarlett Johansson,...
bremser:
“Photographs of the year” photographs mainline emotion, documenting the most awful, dramatic events of the year. Sorting these examples of human conflict and suffering into a list with a SEO’d headline (“top” “best” “most”) doesn’t add any context or understanding. I’m going to take the opposite approach: start with the most insignificant photograph as “photograph of the year” and...
A VOICE THAT WOULD NOT BE DENIED: Film Brings... →
aired again tonight =)
serinityknight:
Film Brings Barbara Smith Conrad’s Inspiring Story to a New Generation
Campaign News
By Jamey Smith
A young Barbara Smith. She added her father’s first name, Conrad, to hers when she began singing professionally in 1959.
It was a significant chapter in the University’s history — and one that many of today’s students and younger alumni aren’t familiar...
