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“… you can’t grow without acknowledging that we are all made up from the weirdness that we try to hide from the rest of the world.”

— Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

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Museum Patrons Accidentally Matching Artworks Photographed by Stefan Draschan

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Kit Harrington getting in touch with his inner Targaryen

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Game of Thrones season 7 + text posts

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New York, 1992

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This is so beautiful <3

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Rainbow Sprite and her Hula Hoops:  Rainbow Sprite is a good friend of Mandi the Clown, otherwise known as Amanda Syryda of Hip Flick Hoops. She’s letting her inner rainbow shine with multiple hula hoops. This was captured during a very colorful photoshoot with Barefoot Photos. Love it! They’re based in Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada. Amanda currently lives in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada.

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Roller derby has hit the streets of Lebanon. In Huck’s Defiance Issue, we speak to members of Roller Derby Beirut, a pioneering female student collective bringing the sport to the Middle East. Here are some of the local and international bands that could soundtrack them.

“We thought, ‘Maybe if we look furious, we will play furiously.’ And it worked. You look in the mirror and you want to go kick some ass,” says Karima, Egyptian art major by day, roller derby queen by night. For Issue 54 – The Defiance Issue, Huck‘s Jessica Holland spoke to members of Roller Derby Beirut, a pioneering collective of female college students bringing the worldwide phenomenon of roller derby to the Middle East.

Another student, 22-year-old Hadeel Hassan Al-Hubaishi, wears a white headscarf underneath a helmet covered in stickers, while her small frame and gemstone-embedded tooth has earned her the nickname ‘Tiny Shiny.’ Introducing a radical new sport to the masses was at first a tough prospect, particularly in light of Lebanon’s political dysfunction and the lack of support for women’s sport in the country. “We didn’t know what people’s reactions would be,” she confesses.

But the crowds watching them play at an east Beirut basketball court were immediate converts. “They saw that whoever’s wearing a scarf [covering her hair] is doing it, whoever is just with their hair [uncovered] is doing it. We’re from different backgrounds, and they loved the diversity. It was an incredible moment. We felt that this is something totally new, and we started it. It felt like, yeah, we need to create this. We need to make it bigger.”

For Hadeel and many of the students at the American University of Beirut, where the roller derby collective is based, their sport parallels their own determination to succeed in a climate rocked by social and political uncertainty. “I link what happens to me in roller derby a lot to my life,” Hadeel says. “If you made a mistake, just do it right next time, or at least try. No matter how bad the fall is, just get up and keep going. You’ll laugh about the next one.”

Providing an easy soundtrack to roller derby culture is the music of female-fronted punk bands and riot grrrl icons, the hardcore feminist movement of the 1990s that helped resurrect roller derby in Austin, Texas in 2001. Over fifteen years later, the radical, high-energy sport has spread to every continent in the world except Antarctica.

Click through for the playlist!

source: http://www.huckmagazine.com/playlist-archive/punk-riot-grrrl-sounds-beiruts-roller-derby-pioneers/

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Ozora Festival - Day and Night

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ozora fest!!

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Join Jon Stewart for one final dance, tonight at 11/10c.

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To my surprise, there was a spider on the wall which said ‘Hello.’ It had a voice like Bertrand Russell…and it asked me a rather technical question as to whether Russell had exploded Frege’s Paradox.

Don’t do drugs, kids. You never know what’s gonna happen. (via wnycradiolab)

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