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By Ijeoma Umebinyuo

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Radical softness is the idea that unapologetically sharing your emotions is a political move and a way to combat the societal idea that feelings are a sign of weakness.

Lora Mathis, interviewed by Hooligan Magazine (via synestheticwanderings)

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Who else is busy confronting hard truths

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PARADISE: LOVE - TRAILER

On the beaches of Kenya, they’re known as “Sugar Mamas:” European women who seek out African boys, selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise. She goes from one Beach Boy to the next, from one disappointment to the next, and finally she must recognize: on the beaches of Kenya, love is a business. 

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Blizzard Christophe Jacrot

It is the dream-like aspect of climate that interests me, as well as its romantic-fictional dimension and its unpredictability—that which emanates, after all, from the implacable whims of the skies and offers us an infinite range of atmospheric moods: a typhoon in Hong Kong, torrential rain in Tokyo, a snow storm in New York, icy rain in Greenland, a cloudburst in Paris, the monsoon in India, snowscapes in Iceland, a blizzard in Normandy, in Bucharest, or Chicago…

I loved wandering through mega-cities as they grappled with weather phenomena, and capturing the harsh beauty of these “meteors” from the point of view of an observer of the fragile equilibrium of the world we live in.

Images and text via Christophe Jacrot

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5 years ago Prince said King was the future of R&B. Their new album is proving him right.

Five years ago, R&B believed it had found its future in three songs. They came from King, a Los Angeles-based trio of two sisters Amber and Paris Strother and Anita Bias. Those songs made up an EP titled The Story, brimming with lush, dream-laden R&B. Prince was among their top endorsers.

However, as suddenly as the music flooded the space, it stopped. King went underground to record their new album. Years passed. Stars rose and fell. Friday, King finally emerged from their studio with a record. The album’s title makes a simple statement: We Are King. 

Within seconds of pressing play, listeners will understand what that means.

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New thesis material.

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I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people being happy - but the idea that everything we do is part of the pursuit of happiness seems to me a really dangerous idea and has led to a contemporary disease in Western society, which is fear of sadness. It’s a really odd thing that we’re now seeing people saying “write down 3 things that made you happy today before you go to sleep”, and “cheer up” and “happiness is our birthright” and so on. We’re kind of teaching our kids that happiness is the default position - it’s rubbish. Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say “Quick! Move on! Cheer up!” I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word “happiness” and to replace it with the word “wholeness”. Ask yourself “is this contributing to my wholeness?” and if you’re having a bad day, it is.

Hugh Mackay  (via cenobiteme)

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Morning NY (at Tivoli, New York)

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Missing this pup already 🐶😢 (at Heathrow Terminal 3)

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Diamond girl takin me back State-side (at Heathrow Airport)

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Like father like son. (at Chiswick House and Gardens)

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A pillar has fallen but in its place more will rise. Bowie's such an epic fave I had to Repost this from @rebeccajoyoga

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Peepin @ ya. Live from HKIA. 👋 bye HK ✌️ (at Hong Kong International Airport)

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Don't post food often anymore but damn that was some delicious fish. 🐠🐟🐬🐳 (at Sushi Mori)

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When I was little I used to have names for the buildings in HK. The one on the right was the spaceship building. Fittingly driving past after finding out my favourite spaceman has passed. RIP David Bowie ✨ (at Hong Kong)