The Gender Purple

neil-gaiman: jupiterstarr: Abandoned Amusement Park in New...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:09:00 -0400

jupiterstarr:

Abandoned Amusement Park in New Orleans

they say New orleans is haunted… this has proved the theory 100%

I was sending photos like this to everyone when I started writing Nightmare in Silver. There is something uniquely disturbing about abandoned Amusement Parks.

Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can mobilize an entire society in violent hate against me.

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:42:04 -0400

sheresists:

Language is never neutral.

The dog just snuck into my room and started licking Foucault’s ‘The Birth Of The...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:40:59 -0400

The dog just snuck into my room and started licking Foucault’s ‘The Birth Of The Clinic’. Dog’s got problems.

runenweib: Post-mastectomy tattoos by Tina Bafaro. Photos by...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:22:12 -0400

runenweib:

Post-mastectomy tattoos by Tina Bafaro. Photos by Bafaro.

But then again, am I Tumblr crushed?

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:16:39 -0400

But then again, am I Tumblr crushed?

Tumble crushes. All the time.

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:06:22 -0400

Tumble crushes. All the time.

Zuhair Murad Spring 2013 Couture

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:59:35 -0400

Zuhair Murad Spring 2013 Couture

Dear Yahoo!,

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:55:11 -0400

dankickedphilsstickz:

We know you bought Tumblr, we know there is nothing we can do about it now, but we only request one thing.

Please, PLEASE do NOT ALLOW FUCKING CHILDREN ON THIS WEBSITE DO NOT MAKE IT FAMILY FRIENDLY, OKAY? THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE WE CAN SHIP AND READ ALL THE GAY SMUT WITHOUT FEELING BAD OR GUILTY AND NOT TO MENTION, THE ONLY PLACE WE DO NOT GET JUDGED BY IT. PLEASE DON’T MAKE IT FAMILY FRIENDLY.

Thank you, that is all we ask for

queerthelibrary: princess-tabitha: educate yourselves. The...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:53:28 -0400

queerthelibrary:

princess-tabitha:

educate yourselves.

The pronunciations of these is helpful !

spivak pronouns are my favorite. if I were to ever use gender neutral, I’d use those.

hannimalcollective: you don’t ever ask a trans* person their birth name you don’t ever ask a trans*...

Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:18 -0400

hannimalcollective:

you don’t ever ask a trans* person their birth name

you don’t ever ask a trans* person their birth name

you don’t ever ask a trans* person their birth name

PANIC

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:30:35 -0400

GUYS YAHOO IS GOING TO KILL TUMBLR

WHAT THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO DO NOW

theabbycooper: apocalypse-meow-92: THIS WAS MY WORST...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:26:14 -0400

theabbycooper:

apocalypse-meow-92:

THIS WAS MY WORST FEAR

NOOOOOOOOOOO

friendly reminder that: you are not weak if you want meds for your disorder you are not weak if you...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:25:33 -0400

friendly reminder that:

you are not weak if you want meds for your disorder

you are not weak if you relapse once

you are not weak if you relapse a thousand times

you are not weak if some kinds of therapy don’t work for you

you are not weak if some kinds of meds don’t work for you

you are not weak if you have a mental disorder.

Please don't call yourself a feminist if you approve of BDSM.

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:25:04 -0400

exittheory:

raised-rory-from-perdition:

piefacemcgee:

ihaveabsolutelynoidea:

cynically-colorblind:

It’s one of the most misogynist things out there.

dictating how a woman chooses to express herself sexually is misogynistic

it’s also misogynistic to assume that all women undertake a sub position

it’s also heterosexist to assume that all bdsm is heterosexual

please place a sterile bandage on that BURN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_burn_centers_in_the_United_States

5centsapound: Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi As a photographer,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:24:25 -0400

5centsapound:

Maïmouna Patrizia Guerresi

As a photographer, sculptor, and installation artist, ‘Maïmouna’ Patrizia Guerresi reveals unique and authentic sensibilities in her narration of the beauty and subtleties of racial diversity and multiculturalism. Over an established career, she has developed her own symbolism, which combines cosmological and ancestral traditions belonging to various European, African, and Asian cultures. Her personal commitment to Baifall Sufism has led her to produce an aesthetic that is able to bridge time, space and civilisations, as well as figuration and abstraction.

The human body is seen as the nucleus and temple of the soul, a place that houses a delicate, higher awareness; the very conduit for encompassing natural and cosmic forces. More about mysticism than any singular religion, her work is visionary in that it restores those elusive qualities of sacredness and unity in our frequently dehumanising and fragmented contemporary visual world. Her classic iconographic style explores the universality of human experience and reclaims the often hidden nurturing powers of feminine energy. Presented as a kind of free flowing epic, the viewer is left to read the significance of her imagery and quietly meditate on its potential to personally engage with its audience. As if her figures were speaking directly to each one of us.

From her earliest experiments with the physicality and archetypal imprinting of the psyche, through to her latest, evermore metaphoric ‘inner constellations’, Maïmouna insists on a cross-cultural discourse and an expansion of the boundaries that normally dictate our individual attitudes. She invites us to see further and to look deeper – past skin colour, preconceptions, and ethnic landscapes – into the wider paradigm of inclusion. She leads us through apparently simple notions of dimensionality into the exquisite, mystical and fragile complexities of life from within. - Rosa Maria Falvo,

bisexual-community: words that are biphobic and why

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:22:24 -0400

bisexual-community:

words that are biphobic and why

eqiunox: Silver Fox by =Skia

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:20:20 -0400

eqiunox:

Silver Fox by =Skia

"Feminism is anti-sexism. A male who has divested of male privilege, who has embraced feminist..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:15:00 -0400

“Feminism is anti-sexism. A male who has divested of male privilege, who has embraced feminist politics, is a worthy comrade in struggle, in no way a threat to feminism, whereas a female who remains wedded to sexist thinking and behavior infiltrating feminist movement is a dangerous threat. Significantly, the most powerful intervention made by consciousness-raising groups was the demand that all females confront their internalized sexism, their allegiance to patriarchal thinking and action, and their commitment to feminist conversion. That intervention is still needed. It remains the necessary step for anyone choosing feminist politics. The enemy within must be transformed before we can confront the enemy outside. The threat, the enemy, is sexist thought and behavior. As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately the movement will be undermined.”

- -bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody

just going to emphasize that last sentence again: As long as females take up the banner of feminist politics without addressing and transforming their own sexism, ultimately the movement will be undermined.

(via browndenim)

crusherling: The Rouchomovsky Skeleton’: A Russian Gold...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:14:12 -0400

crusherling:

The Rouchomovsky Skeleton’: A Russian Gold Articulated Skeleton In Silver-Gilt SarcophagusEstimate: 150,000 - 250,000 USD

The fully articulated human skeleton in a velvet-lined coffin chased around on each side with three panels showing the course of life, one end with attributes of the arts, the other with attributes of war, the removable cover with the journey in the footsteps of the Angel of Death, surrounded by the faces of infants alternately laughing and crying.
Skeleton signed in Cyrillic, on the right splint-bone: Mozyr [18]92 Odessa [18]96 and on the left splint-bone Rouchomovsky.

Sarcophagus signed on lid: Israel Rouchomovsky and in Cyrillic on base Israel Rouchomovsky Odessa 1901.
length of skeleton 3 1/2 in., length of coffin 4 3/8 in.
9 cm; 11.2 cm
the skeleton 1892-1896, the sarcophagus 1896-1906
Israel Rouchomovsky, Mozyr and Odessa’

thesickestjokes: When a girl says she has experimented with girls, that does not necessarily mean...

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:12:09 -0400

thesickestjokes:

When a girl says she has experimented with girls, that does not necessarily mean she’s bi.

She may just be an evil scientist.