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Your soul is what you make it; that is everywhere you go.

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This skirt and tattoo should be best friends in real life.

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"لا أريد أن أكون محباً أو رقيقاً

فقط أضع يدي على جبينك،

بارد أو فاتر أو محموم،

لا أحبك حباً لا يضاهي

ولا أشقى لغيابك

ولا أموت،

فقط أضع يدي على جبينك

لأعرف ما الذي في ما زال حياً"

بسام حجار

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Forever and always.

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İstanbul 🪬

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1/6 daguerreotype

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A new set of previews for 'A Chamber of Stars'

Sorry for the lack of updates, trying to withhold as many surprises as possible.

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Habfürdö (György Kovásznai, 1980)

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Meeting The Man: James Baldwin in Paris 🖤

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Now you understand,

That love was more like art.

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it really bothers me how many people have this weird abstracted relationship to peacefully marching at protests like it’s a proxy for direct democracy or something…like, do you think you’re gonna hit a certain number of protestors and that will be enough to motivate those in power to change their ways? i remember marching against the Iraq war and that was one of the largest peaceful marches in the history of the country and it still didn’t change anything. The “vote, march, denounce rioters and then go back to work the next day” strategy is largely intended to redirect popular unrest towards something relatively consequential, to neuter it while still allowing individual participants to feel like they did everything they could.

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Forgotten By History

Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).

Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.

Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.

Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.

Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.

Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.

The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.

Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.

One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.

Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.

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Emily Kaul