#rainbow history

[emotranscripple]

new books also my first ever manga ❤️‍🔥📚

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We are often asked if multiple ink colors can be used on a single impression. In this video, Jared letterpress prints a phrase about museums showing that 6 ink colors is possible. The phrase “Museums are not neutral” was printed with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple ink using our Washington hand press. The wood type used is 15 line pica in size and the typeface is French Clarendon.

Our museum, like all museums, is not neutral. People often argue that museums should be neutral or that museums can’t be “political.” However, museums actually are cultural institutions that originate from colonial acquisition and they are about power. History is often written by the victors. It is important for museums to focus on multiple sources and perspectives, especially historically underrepresented groups. Promoting diversity is important to understanding a more holistic history of events.

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever seen the magnificent rainbow scarab (Phanaeus vindex)? This colorful dung beetle can be found in parts of the eastern and central United States. While most dung beetles are dull shades of brown or gray, this species is one of a handful adorned in striking iridescent colors. Males also sport large horns on their heads! Like other dung beetles, this insect rolls dung into balls to incubate its young. It also digs dung-filled tunnels nearby to ensure that the newborn beetles will have enough to eat. 

Photo: Thomas Shahan, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Gilbert Baker!

Born on 2 June 1951, in Chanute, Kansas, Gilbert Baker was instrumental in the creation of the rainbow flag, now an internationally recognised symbol of the queer community.

In 1978, openly-gay politician Harvey Milk asked Gilbert to design a symbol for that year's pride celebrations in San Francisco. Gilbert chose the rainbow as a symbol that was beautiful, diverse, and natural.

Gilbert, along with other artists and volunteers, created the first rainbow flags by hand, dyeing the fabric in huge rubbish bins, and then rinsing it out late at night at a local laundromat.

The rainbow flag was first flown as a symbol of the queer community at San Francisco Pride on 25 June 1978.

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[justdavina]

SO HOT! 🏳️‍🌈

[yourbelgianthings]

lesbian herstory archive button collection

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[katarinanavane]

Two mini rainbow curio collection shadowboxes.

[wh0-is-lily]

Raquel Welch wearing a rainbow design by Marijke Koger, 1971

[bixels]

I'm obsessed with your rarijack post. I would love to hear your thoughts on flutterdash. That one was always my favorite but rainbow was often a victim of the new writers not understanding her and writing her weirdly

SHE SOLD HER INTO SLAVERY!

[decolonize-the-everything]

What do I do? Leftists never say ANYTHING! What are you gonna do huh??? Go out an-

Yes.

Yeah.

Yep.

How exactly do you fight fascism without fighting fascism? Electing a fascist isn't fighting fascism, no not even if they're a "lesser" fascist, it's electing to have a (lesser) fascist government. The opposite of fighting if you ask me.

From The Occupy Handbook: This is the difference between protest and direct action: Protest, however militant, is an appeal to the authorities to behave differently; direct action, whether it's a matter of a community building a well or making salt in defiance of the law (Gandhi's example again), trying to shut down a meeting or occupy a factory, is a matter of acting as if the existing structure of power does not even exist. Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

"You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill a revolution"

-Fred Hampton

"But the states attorney and the state's attorney office has reason to see Fred Hampton in jail. We've got a new state's attorney, you see.

And he said already what he thought already about people that had different political beliefs than he had. His speeches sound somewhat like those of Hitler and we know why he wants to see Fred Hampton put in jail.

Why do I have a lot of arrests? Because of harassment. Why is there harassment? Because the people that harass me have sped up a problem that made me disagree with them violently and they set up this problem in order to exploit me and other people like me.

And why do they wanna get rid of me? Because I'm saying something that might wake up some other exploited people and some other oppressed people and if all these people ever get together then these pigs that are exploiting us will be run into the lead. That's why they wanna get rid of us."

[angelstitss]

i have nothing else to say about this. i am absolutely batshit.

confused? let me show you because after my months of analyzing this song i did not see this a SINGLE TIME until it was pointed out to me.

i’m going batshit insane. this is the reason why i need to be locked in a padded room.

right after alastor said that vox asked him to join his “team” and alastor said no.

there is no other explanation for this.

LALALALA IM GONNA DIE ‼️‼️‼️

WHAT WAS THE FUCKING REASON.

[lionofchaeronea]

The Rainbow: Osterspai and Filsen, J.M.W. Turner, 1817

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

We have shown what printing large wood type in multiple ink colors looks like recently but we have received a lot of inquiries about what it would look like using one of our old letterpress cuts.

The order from left to right in the galley tray at the beginning is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Some of the inks are oil base and some are rubber base. In this video, Jared letterpress printed a large halftone of the most prominent part of our state flag, the California Grizzly bear.

This halftone is a reproduction of Charles Nahl’s drawing, “Grizzly Bear,” which he designed in 1854. We also thought this print was great for this time, since June 14th is the anniversary of the Bear Flag Revolt and when the first Bear Flag was created.

[amnhnyc]

Behold the dazzling colors of an iridescent ammonite (Placenticeras intercalare)! A relative of today’s squids, this ammonite lived some 80 million years ago near what is now Alberta, Canada. This fossil’s spectacular coloration is the result of millions of years of high temperatures and pressures. As these forces acted on nacre in this ammonite’s shell, it was transformed into a gemstone known as an ammolite. Along with amber and pearl, ammolite is one of only a handful of gems made by living organisms. You can spot this rare specimen in the Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Collections Core in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation!

Photo: © AMNH

[queerasfact]

“We stood there and watched and saw the flags, and their faces lit up. It needed no explanation. People knew immediately that it was our flag.”

- US Activist Cleve Jones

It’s 45 years today since the rainbow flag was first flown - on 25 June 1978 at San Francisco Pride - as a symbol of gay pride and the queer community!

[Image: two rainbow flags flying on flagpoles above a group of people out on the street at San Francisco pride. The flags have eight coloured stripes, and one has a blue-and-white star pattern in the top left corner.]

[spirk-trek]

Fallen Star Fanzine | Mary Lowe, 1985