#senegalese men

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[amazingbrainrot]

Yay, and such… 🦋🥶🩵

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LAST POLL OF ROUND 5

Propaganda

Sophia Loren (Marriage Italian Style, Houseboat)—Major Italian star, first actress to win an Oscar for a performance not in English (for Two Women (1960)) and later when Roberto Benigni won an Oscar in 1999 he jumped over the chairs towards the stage going "Sophia Sophia!!" because he was running towards Sophia Loren and said he cared more about her than the Oscar, that's the effect she had on people. She was big in the 60s already even though she gained a lot more notoriety after that. And I mean. Can we take a moment and just.

Mbissine Thérèse Diop (Black Girl)—She’s a Senegalese actress known for starring in Black Girl, one of the first African films to receive international attention/acclaim. So much of the movie relies on her ability to convey her character’s sense of isolation/loneliness, she’s so amazing, I really wish she had acted more. However, she just recently appeared in the film Cuties!

This is round 5 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Sophia Loren:

She has maxed out all her stats: beauty, elegance, sensuality, she's got it all. her mesmerizing eyes, her sensual mouth, her sharp face shape, her everything is so striking and unlike any other beauty in films. she was also voted the world most beautiful woman when she was freaking 65

im submitting her in honor of my dad bc she was the first celebrity crush of his he ever admitted to me and my sister :) and he was right. shes so pretty

OSCAR WINNER. Worked with some of the hottest leading men in Hollywood but remained faithful to her husband whom she had a loving marriage with till he died (even though Cary Grant almost tempted her once, it's complicated)

One of the most well-known sex symbols of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and unlike some unfortunate others, she seems to have been pretty well at peace with occupying that status. She made assertiveness and a tempestuous temper seem glamorous, and although she's famous for side-eying Jayne Manisfield's cleavage, honestly? She's one to talk.

Absolutely, drop-dead sexy, also a hard working, extraordinarily talented actress who didn't shy away from the less glamorous roles to gift us some gritty, memorable performances

Submitting this on behalf of my dad, who knows nothing of tumblr or this blog, but I remember being a kid watching Houseboat while my mom thirsted after Cary Grant, dad thirsted after Sophia Loren, and I was excited that they lived on a boat. Anyway, she's extremely beautiful and was an international star, doing a ton of movies in Italy before being recognized in the US.

JUST LOOK AT HER Y'ALL

Very smart and beautiful, the characters that she played (I mean those in the movies that I put in the previous question) are as strong and determined as her which I think adds to her hotness.

Global superstar and my late grandfather's long time movie star crush and for a man as quiet as he was, and as hopelessly devoted to his wife as he was, the fact that I know that means she was EXCEPTIONAL.

Big in the chest, snatched in the waist, pretty in the face 😳

Sexy, beautiful, deep. A real star.

Her performance in "Man of La Mancha" is just so very captivating. Dubbed as "the Italian Marilyn Monroe", she looks beautiful in any movie and at any age.

Forget the exotic sexpot of her Hollywood films and go back to her Italian career: sparking with Marcello Mastroianni as the woman who drives him mad and outwits all his fumbling attempts at macho posturing in their early films, and showing a tender side in their 1970s films. Sophia isn’t self-conscious about who she is or her beautiful body: she enjoys being herself and she wants us all to enjoy ourselves too.

She starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time. She is a great cook and her filmography is immense.

On the misattributed quote that Sophia owed everything to spaghetti: 'Did you actually say the quote frequently attributed to you, "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti"?' "Non è vero! It's not true! It's such a silly thing. I owe it to spaghetti, no, no. Completely made up."

Mbissine Thérèse Diop:

[riding-with-the-wild-hunt]

"Their task was to circumvent Sauron: to bring help to the few tribes of Men that had rebelled from Melkor-worship, to stir up rebellion. . .and after his first fall to search out his hiding (in which they failed) and to cause [?dissension and disarray] among the dark East. . .They must have had very great influence on the history of the Second Age and Third Age in weakening and disarraying the forces of East. . .who would both in the Second Age and Third Age otherwise have. . .outnumbered the West." - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Peoples of Middle-earth, "Last Writings"

@ainurweek day 5 ⇢ THE BLUE WIZARDS

[ID: an edit comprised of four posters in teal, grey-blue, and shades of brown. All have a beige background.

1: A small rectangular image of Joel Adama Gueye, a middle-eaged italian-senegalese model with light brown skin and dark, tightly curled hair pulled back and decorated with small metal pieces. He is looking up and to the left with a serious expression, and wears a large silver necklace. A blue piece of cloth unfolds behind him. The upper right corner of the image is framed with a layered teal and blue decoration, and text in the bottom left corner reads "alatar," with the first letter larger and in a teal gothic font with a brown shadow, while the rest is just teal and in a cursive script / 2: A rectangular image extending from the top right corner of the poster almost to the left. It shows blueish mountains wreathed in clouds and extending down to water. Teal text in a frame of the same color, partially layered over the image, reads "alatar" in the same format as Image 1, and below it, "also called Rómestámo, or east-helper, and Haimenar, meaning one who fares far, was a Maia of Oromë before undertaking the journey to Middle Earth as one of the five Istari. He strove valiantly to bring succor to the peoples of the East and frustrate the encroaching power of Mordor." The same decoration as in Image 1 is on the lower right corner of the frame / 3: Same format as Image 2, but reversed. This time, the image shows a street of blue buildings in a traditional north african style, and the large text reads "Pallando," and below it, "also called Morinehtar, or darkness-slayer, and Palacendo, meaning far-sighted one, was sworn to the service of Nessa. They traveled to Middle Earth at the behest of their friend and companion Alatar, and alongside the armies of the East proved themself a great warrior." / 4: Same format as Image 1, but the central picture shows Dua Saleh, a young sudanese person with dark skin and braided black hair. They are looking down and to the right, and wearing a white collared shirt and a silver piece of jewelry that extends across their face, as well as silver caps on their ears. Text reads "pallando" //End ID]

[swedishsnowbunny]

I wish we had more West Africans in Sweden. Somali and Eritrean men aren't nearly as hot as Gambian or Senegalese men are.

However I love Ethiopian men 🇪🇹❤️

[fatehbaz]

Thinking about the Holocaust in Africa.

Here, European notions of anti-Blackness and antisemitism became intertwined.

There was a fusion between the dispossession and racism of European imperialism and colonization projects of the late nineteenth century, and the prison regimes imposed by European fascism in the early twentieth century.

Scholars Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum have recently written much about the importance of recognizing the trauma of labor and internment camps in North Africa during the second world war.

And I want to express my gratitude for their work. I want to share some of what they’ve written in a couple of recent articles.

In their words: “Nazism in Europe was underlaid by an intricate matrix of racist, eugenicist and nationalist ideas. But the war – and the Holocaust – appears even more complex if historians take into account the racist and violent color wheel that spun in North Africa.” [1]

France's prison camps in North Africa were filled with Algerians, local Jews, deported European Jews, Eastern European refugees, domestic political dissidents from France, people fleeing fascist Spain, Moroccan residents, Senegalese subjects of French rule, other West Africans displaced by French occupation, and more.

The anti-Blackness and antisemitism that had fueled Europe's colonial expansion was finding new expression in fascist Europe.

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Seems France is a central antagonist in the story of evolving approaches to empire, racism, and resource extraction.

After their 1940 alliance with the Nazis, the Vichy French government maintained technical control of French colonies across Africa. Beginning in 1940, the French government “alone built nearly 70 such camps in the Sahara.” [1] This was in addition to another six labor camps which the French government built in West Africa (in Senegal, Guinea, and Mali).

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By the beginning of the twentieth century, French-influenced or -controlled territory in North Africa was home to around 500,000 Jews, many of whom had been living in the region for centuries or millennia, speaking many languages, “reflecting their many different cultures and ethnicities: Arabic, French, Tamazight – a Berber language – and Haketia, a form of Judeo-Spanish spoken in northern Morocco.” [1] The Vichy French government officially stripped North African Jews of formal citizenship and seized their assets.

Then, deporting residents of Europe and political dissidents in “early 1941, the Vichy authorities transferred hundreds of Jewish and non-Jewish refugees, including women and children, to the Saharan labor camps.” [2] Under French rule “in Algeria [...], it was estimated that 2,000-3,000 Jews were interned in camps [...] resulting in a total prisoner population of 15,000-20,000.” [2]  France pursued an “unrealized dream of the nineteenth century” [2]: the completion of the Mediterranean-Niger railroad line in the Sahara, a transportation route across the vast desert to connect the prosperous West African port of Dakar with the Mediterranean coast of Algeria.

Meanwhile the “Vichy regime [...] continued racist policies begun by France’s Third Republic, which pushed young Black men from the empire into forced military service,” including forced recruitment from “Senegal, French Guinea, Ivory Coast, Niger and Mauritania; [...] Benin, Gambia and Burkina Faso; and Muslim men from Morocco and Algeria. In these ways, the French carried on a wartime campaign of anti-Blackness and Islamophobia, pairing these forms of racialized hatred from the colonial era with antisemitism. Antisemitism had deep roots in French and colonial history, but it found new force in the era of fascism.” [1]

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In late 1942, during the Nazi occupation of Tunisia, the SS “imprisoned some 5,000 Jewish men in roughly 40 forced labor and detention camps on the front lines and in cities like Tunis.” [2] The fascist Italian government had been experimenting with racist and anti-Black policy in their colonization of East Africa; these policies were expanded in Libya. Here, “Mussolini ordered the Jews of Cyrenaica moved” as “most of the 2,600 Jews deported [...] were sent to the camp of Giado” while “other Libyan Jews were deported to the camps of Buqbuq and Sidi Azaz.” [2]

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Stein and Boum describe the diversity of prisoner experience: “In these camps, [...] the complex racist logic of Nazism and fascism took vivid form. Muslims arrested for anti-colonial activities were pressed into back-breaking labor” and “broke bread with other forced workers” including ‘Ukrainians, Americans, Germans, Russian Jews and others [...] arrested, deported and imprisoned by the Vichy regime after fleeing Franco’s Spain. There were political enemies of the Vichy and Nazi regime too, including socialists, communists, union members [...] overseen by [...] forcibly recruited [...] Moroccan and Black Senegalese men, who were often little more than prisoners themselves.” [1]

As Stein and Boum describe it: “Vichy North Africa became a unique site [...] where colonialism and fascism co-existed and overlapped.” [2]

They write: “Together, we have spent a decade gathering the voices of the diverse peoples who endured World War II in North Africa, across lines of race, class, language and region. Their letters, diaries, memoirs, poetry and oral histories are both defiant and broken. They express both faith and despair. All in all, they understood themselves to be trapped in a monstrous machine of fascism, occupation, violence and racism.” [1]

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[1]: Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum. “80 years ago, Nazi Germany occupied Tunisia - but North Africans’ experiences of World War II often go unheard.” The Conversation. 15 November 2022.

[2]: Sarah Arbevaya Stein and Aomar Boum. “Labor and Internment Camps in North Africa.” Holocaust Encyclopedia online. Last edited 13 May 2019.

[muse-m]

*FOURTH WING x CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE/reality/cute*

We finished wrapping up filming for 'Children of Blood and Bone', and now months later we are ready to attend our first fan meeting and promotion event for the season.

I was so excited wearing this beautiful silhouette made by a Malian tailor. The quality cotton dress is black with small blue printed flowers. The above-the-knee length dress was long-sleeved and fitted in the top. The tailor created unique wrapping styles with the fabric that made my upper body look great! From my waist down the dress pleated and was flowy. Paired with a simple black heel with straps wrapping around my ankle and a few African gold accessories, I looked like an African princess like my character Amari. My hair is in exquisite cornrows made by a talented Senegalese braider. The cornrows were braided into a high ponytail, with the length of the hair hitting midway of my back. The ponytail is accessorized by a piece of my dress. Simple makeup to finish the look and I'm ready to face my fans.

All four of us main characters in the film were ready to go on stage for Q&A and meeting the fans. As we begin to step on the stage, I try to give a model facial expression and slowly strut the stage, until I randomly break into a cute little African dance that makes the audiences scream and laugh. I turn fully to face the audience and give them a big genuine smile. It truly was a gift to have fans that like all that you do even if it's random.

We get through our fun Q&A session and head backstage. One our reps come up to us tells us that the cast for Fourth Wing are in another room, as their session is start in an hour and that one of the cast would love to meet us. We all look at each other and nod, agreeing that we should. Personally. I wanted to meet them too and get to see the cast who are portraying characters of one of my favorite books. I was especially curious to see the man who plays Xaden Riorson, who, if you have read the book, knows that he is described to be simply put "hot"!

We approach the door and I'm in the front so I knock first then slowly open it, sneaking my head in first before revealing my whole self. I smile widely as all the cast members look up me in shock. I shortly laugh and open the door fully, and said, "Hii!". The rest of my cast file in. And what I assume the girl who is playing Imogen jumps up and gives me hug. She says, "I'm. A. Fan.!" And squeals. I thank her and formally introduce myself. I don't like to assume that everyone knows me as one of the youngest black women to be 2x Oscar winner with few other rewards under my belt. If anything, the title is humbling.

We all make our hellos and hugs. The casting did amazing, I can instantly tell who plays who, like they are spot on. Like the girl playing Violet, is just absolutely gorgeous.

But, my heart makes a leap when I finally make eye contact with the man who plays Xaden Riorson. Yup, the casting directors did their job well. Damn, I thought, he was finnee. His eyes were a natural golden brown, an awing contrast with his tawny brown skin. I realize I haven't said a word or moved. "Hi, I'm s/o", I say as I reach out to him for a hug. I'm at a lost for words, I start to feel embarrassed. In my industry, I am surrounded by beautiful men of all calibers all the time, but why does he make me feel a little nervous and quiet. "I know, it's nice to meet you", he says with his deep, velvety voice. I softly smile back and respond, "me too". All being said without breaking eye contact. I unwillingly break away from him, I didn't even realize I was still holding onto to his one arm. I give him one last look, then greet the person next to him, who I can tell plays Liam.

The man playing Liam is cute, I give him a slight sad smile knowing what his character in the book, and now this film will befall to. It seems like he knows that look all too well and begins to laugh. I laugh as well and tell him, "I should know better as actress to feel bad for an actor playing a fantasy character who has a horrible outcome. But it's hard to separate the two. "Yeah, well, knowing the lovely character I play, everyone who has read the book, gives me the same look. Haha. Your sympathies have been accepted, cause I'll be out of a job after this!", he replies. Omg. I laughed out loud.

We all chat for a bit, admiring and complimenting each other and wishing each other luck for our movie success. We knew their time to get ready for their own Q&A was approaching. As I was walking away, the man playing Xaden slightly touched my arm and said, "By the way, you look beautiful. Truly. Like an African Princess. " I blink once, then smile shyly, feeling a blush rising on my caramel brown cheeks, and reply, "Thank you, and you are...". "And that's all. There's no need to compliment me back, I just wanted to let you know. " I smiled back and nodded in understanding. Just take the compliment and go, I tell myself. I also hoped this wasn't the last time I'll see him again. Just from our short moment, I felt that instant chemistry and the stomach churning feeling that alerts me that I like him already. Am I somewhat transferring my feels for a character to a real person. Ugh. Obviously, he isn't Xaden Riorson and doesn't have the same personality. Just the looks. Ugh, I hate falling in love with book charaters, like as an actress like me who has played many roles, should definitely know better than to do that. Before we actually leave, we decided to take a group photo. I somehow end up standing right next to the man playing Xaden Riorson.

***WOW. She was stunning. I thought as I watched the girl who plays Amari in Children of Blood and Bone walk across the stage with her other cast mates for their Q&A session. She obviously had a cute personality and wasn't afraid to do a little dance, that only made the audience scream even louder. I kept my facial expressions neutral, but I was impressed by her presence, even though I wasn't in the same room as her. I notice my other Fourth Wing cast mates watching the screen as well. My castmate who plays Violet says, "wow. How is that whole cast just beautiful!". Other hummed in agreement.

It was inspiring to see that cast of seasoned actors as I finally just landed a lead role to play Xaden Riorson for the Fourth Wing film. I'm yet to find out if it was my potentially resembling look to the description of the character, my acting skills, or both that landed me this once in a lifetime role. I hope it's the latter.

Moments later, I heard a knock on the door, and there was that beautiful girl with that cheeky smile peaking through the room. Everyone reacts, except me, I stay quiet because I was speechless, especially the moment she fully walked into the room. She exudes a calm confidence that I just found it to be sexy. And her look was just perfect, her dress was made for her. I took a mental note of how kind she was to everyone as she greeted with a hug and humbly introduced herself, even though we all know who she is.

She now approaches me and we lock eyes. I smile and I give her a half-armed hug. Again, she is even more beautiful up-close with her chocolate brown eyes, not losing contact with mine and her smile that makes me smile back. She also smelled great. "Hi, I'm s/o", she says in a soft, slightly deep, toned voice. "I know, it's nice to meet you", I reply. Is that really all I can say? We still hold each other's arms for a moment. Is she feeling what I'm feeling? A connection that I'm suddenly feeling. She then replies, "me too", and unfortunately breaks away and turns to my cast mate who plays Liam. I hear her laugh and see that they are having a short conversation. She laughs again but louder to whatever he said, and I instantly felt jealous. Why couldn't I have done that? I look away from them.

Looks like it's time for to get ready for our session. As she's about to walk past me to leave, I tap her elbow and said, "By the way, you look beautiful. Truly. Like an African Princess". She blinks once and I'm relieved when she shyly smiles back and thanks me. I knew she was about to give me a compliment back, but I interrupted her to not. In that moment, I just wanted to tell her genuinely how beautiful she was. I hope it wasn't the last time I was going to see her.

[sissa-arrows]

Let’s talk about an other crime France committed.

In 1944 a group of Senegalese Tirailleurs (despite their names they were West Africans in general) is made prisoner by the Nazis. They eventually get liberated and France put them all in a military camp in Thiaroye in Senegal while wanting for them to be sent back to their respective countries. France has already been liberated so they started the whitewashing process of their troops by sending the Black and Brown soldiers back to Africa to replace them with white soldiers for the victory celebrations.

The men in Thiaroye refuse to leave the camp until they have been paid because previously France didn’t respect its promises so this time they want their money before leaving. France refuses. On November 28 a group of black soldiers decide to just sit there and refuse to move from the camp until they get paid. The military send the colonel Dagnan in the following days. The man still refuses to pay them and is unable to answer to their concerns regarding never getting paid if they do accept to leave. Dagnan leave and he decides that the solution is to “show strength”. On December 1st 1944 Dagnan send soldiers and cops. The black soldiers are awaken by the cops soldiers and the tank they got with them…. they are completely unarmed. No weapon. No violence on their part. They get slaughtered by the French. The lowest estimation says 50 men were killed.

Dagnan then makes a report in which he lies and accuses the Black soldiers of mutiny, trying to held him hostage and threatening his life. The 30 Black soldiers who survived are therefore arrested and condemned to up to 10 years in military jail and lose all rights to the money France owes them. The widows and children of the ones who were killed are not entitled to any compensation not even the money France owed to these men.

In 1947 the French president pardon them but he refuses to admit it’s because Dagnan lied so while they do get out of jail they are still not entitled to any money because of Dagnan’s lie.

To these days the official version in France is Dagnan’s version that the Black soldiers were violent and that they started shooting first that’s why they were killed. So while they didn’t deserve to be killed the wrongs are shared… to these days people think this massacre is up to debate.

[motziedapul]

The discourse around the movie Cuties or Mignonnes is so rancid, all because people feel the need to regurgitate the takes of White American men who felt weird feelings about seeing young girls dance onscreen in a Senegalese French immigrant woman's biopic.

It was about her, as a young girl, being torn between the hyper sexualization fed to young girls of the 2000s from American media and her own deeply conservative religious family life which made her own mother suffer. It's about young girls finally being able to be kids instead of being pressured to grow up too early or try to act a certain way because of overwhelming pressure.

The actual film is mostly meant to incite discomfort and sadness. It's remarkable to me how much the voices of angry uncomfortable White American men who felt weird feelings about dancing kids have been amplified over that of the mostly BIPOC women the film resonated with and was made for.

Excuse the rant. I'm tired of people shitting on a movie they never watched on the word of some YouTuber who hated it because it made him feel uncomfortable to see the effects of American media and culture on young women. Because they don't want to acknowledge or look at a reality so many of us lived and still live.

This film reflected my own childhood in many ways. This was a film that I assumed would be taken in good faith instead of being demonized by people who thought agreeing with Ted Cruz was a totally normal thing to do.

In the very least, if you've never watched this film and aren't planning to, don't take the word of White American YouTubers on how you should feel about it. Try to see how BIPOC women -- especially non American ones -- felt about it, how people actually talked about it before it became the centre of a culture war where centrists and right wing lunatics decided to agree on demonizing it.

[nwarchives]

[ww1-uniforms-tournament]

Senegal on the left, Japan on the right.

The Senegalese riflemen were the main component of the 'Black Army', as opposed to the 'Orient Army' or 'African Army' stationed in the colonies but mainly composed of white soldiers. About 200,000 of them fought in the First World War. Not all of them were from Senegal, but they were rather recruited from the entirety of sub-saharan Africa. Many villages in Africa were forced to send out a certain number of men, though the village chief often chose which ones would leave for service. The promise of a good pay, good food and French citizenship was one of the motivators for enlistment.

When the war broke out in 1914, Japan saw an excellent occasion to invade the German territories in the Pacific and defy their Navy. It contributed greatly to the war effort, by sending out medical battalions to the Western Front, helping the British army with suppressing the German forces, and even with shutting down Indian revolts. Eventually, it fulfilled a great deal of military orders for its allies which helped prosperity in the nation.

[readyforevolution]

African men from across France’s colonial empire on the continent were forcibly conscripted and mandated to fight in France’s wars throughout the 20th century. While these men came from numerous parts of the continent (Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Guinea, Cameroon, Gabon and elsewhere for example), they became collectively known as “tirailleurs sénégalais “ or Senegalese soldiers.

On this day in 1944 many of these men were in the process of returning home to their respective hometowns by way of Thiaroye, Senegal, the first stop for the soldiers on the African continent. Upon demanding that they receive their pensions and better treatment, they were massacred by French colonial forces.

Despite coming from various parts of West and Central Africa, these men found themselves in the same position and met with the same violence under the French colonial system. They struggled together collectively for better treatment and ultimately they were killed together.

Death to the French Empire !

Forward to the African revolution!

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Mbissine Thérèse Diop (Black Girl)—She’s a Senegalese actress known for starring in Black Girl, one of the first African films to receive international attention/acclaim. So much of the movie relies on her ability to convey her character’s sense of isolation/loneliness, she’s so amazing, I really wish she had acted more. However, she just recently appeared in the film Cuties!

Myrna Loy (The Thin Man, Manhattan Melodrama, Mr Blandings Builds his Dream House)—Started out a slinky silent screen vamp. Became a screwball lead who had a blast drinking, being married to William Powell, solving mysteries, and taking her dog everywhere in the Thin Man Movies. Broke our hearts in The Best Years of Our Lives and played a string of dream wives. Remained hot the entire time. Decades of hotness.

This is round 3 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Mbissine Thérèse Diop:

Myrna Loy:

Myrna Loy excelled at playing coy women, so common in screwball comedies in the 40s. She batted her lashes, and shrugged with grace, and made her costars look like foolish heels next to her. She charmed with sneaky elegance, well-placed pouting, and repartee. Besides, she was sultry AF.

While Myrna certainly looked hot in some her earlier vampy exotic bad girl roles, I think shes hottest when her comedic chops got to be displayed. Her dry wit, comedic timing, and subtle facial expressions make her the queen of deadpan snark.

She's just very Mother

So beautiful and popular she was crowned Queen of the Movies in 1936, Myrna Loy was also an amazing actress. She's best remembered for The Thin Man and sequels, where she gets to show off her comedy skills, adding irresistible impish charm to her classic beauty and dancer's figure.

THE SASS

One of the few actresses who managed to successfully transition from silent to talkies, never won an Oscar but was at one time the highest paid woman in Hollywood. Advocated for better roles and pay for Black actors in the 1930s, so passionately anti-Nazi in the 40s she made Hitler's blacklist, spoke out against Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare, and advocated for fair housing in the 1950s and 1960s, all while being hot as fuck opposite William Powell, Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy and a whole galaxy of the Hot Vintage Men Poll all-stars.

Cute as a button with so much RIZZ! She and whatsisname in The Thin Man are relationship goals.

She was literally called the Queen of Hollywood! She is so sassy and funny in the whole Thin Man series. Absolutely hot in those, and who doesn’t love a woman who can laugh? She had the sultriest gaze and that style! Also before she was a star she sat as the model for an iconic statue for a school (representing “Fountain of Education”).

the glamour!! the banter!! the comedy!!

She's got this cute kinda scrunched up face AND shes funny AND shes got a bangin body.

[le-fils-de-lhomme]

The tirailleurs from Senegal and other French African colonies were the ones who liberated France during WWII and they were massacred by the French government for demanding adequate pay and freedom of movement. We don't know these men's names and you cannot get near the spot where the massacre happened. The French disappeared and murdered human beings like Pinochet in Chile. They did the same thing in Algeria in the 50s-60s. Till now, the French have never been made to account for who they murdered or disappeared. They are rightly hated in the African and Arab world.

[postcard-from-the-past]

Senegalese men

French vintage postcard, photographed by Fortier

[lgbtqiamuslimpedia]

LGBTQI+ rights in Senegal 🇸🇳

Senegalese LGBTQ+ citizens has to exprience legal & social challenges, not exprienced by non-LGBTQ+ citizens. In Senegal, homosexuality & sex outside the traditional marriage is a punishable crime.

Legality of Homosexuality

Same-sex sexual conducts between men & between women are illegal in Senegal since 1966.There's no equal age of consent.

Article 319 in the Senegalese Penal Code states,

Without prejudice to the more serious penalties provided for in the preceding paragraphs or by articles 320 and 321 of this Code, whoever will have committed an improper or unnatural act with a person of the same sex will be punished by imprisonment of between one and five years and by a fine of 100,000 to 1,500,000 francs. If the act was committed with a person below the age of 21, the maximum penalty will always be applied.

Same-sex unions

Same-sex unions,marriages are not recognized by the state. Senegalese society sees same-sex relationships & unions as a deviation of west.

In 2008, Icone magazine reported about an alleged gay marriage that had taken place in Senegal. The wedding's photographs created an outrage among public.

Adoption

According to 2011 United States Department of State's report, “a (heterosexual) married couple for a minimum of 5 years or an unmarried person who is at least 35 years of age is eligible to adopt a Senegalese child if there is at least 15 years between the age of the child and the age of the adopting parent.”

There is a probability that a single homosexual/bisexual person may adopt a child, because the state do not specifically ban adoption by a homo/bisexual person. We don't know about transgender & intersex persons.

Public Opinion

According to the 2013 Pew Global Attitudes Project, 97% of Senegalese people believed that homosexuality should not be accepted by the society.

Discrimination

LGBTQI+ people in Senegal face widespread discrimination, violence & social stigma. According to local human rights groups, LGBTQI+ people usually face harassment by police and ill-treatment in prison.

In February 2008, five men were arrested for an alleged gay wedding; but later they were released without charge.This incident stirred a mass public outrage. On 19 December 2008, nine men were arrested on charges of homosexuality in a private flat in Dakar. One of the arrestees was Diadji Diouf, the owner of the flat and president of the association AIDES Senegal. The detainees were repeatedly tortured while in the police custody. On 6 January 2009, they were convicted of "indecent conduct and unnatural acts" and for "being members of a criminal group". The senegalese judge said that, AIDES Senegal was a "cover to recruit or organize meetings for homosexuals, under the pretext of providing HIV/AIDS prevention programmes". The Court of Appeals overturned the convictions in April 2009 and ordered the immediate release of the detainees. While incarcerated, the nine were held in special quarters because of threats from other inmates. Shortly thereafter, conservative religious leaders & member of parliament Mbaye Niang organized a march against homosexuality. In the mid-2009, Senegalese islamists and homophobes created the Front islamique pour la defense des valeurs éthiques (English: The Islamic Front for the Defense of Ethical Values), advocated for the death penalty of queers.

There were multiple reports around the same time, in which bigot people digging up the bodies of deceased "goor-gigen" (a Senegalese term for transgender, gender non-confirming) in cemeteries. Local and international press reported in May 2009 that the corpse of a goor-gigen man reputed to have been homosexual was twice disinterred from a muslim cemetery in Thies. The first time, the body was left near the grave. After his family reburied him, the body was disinterred a second time and dumped outside his family's home.

In March 2010, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Senegal's National Police had detained persons who were alleged to have committed "unnatural sexual acts". The group recommended that Senegal, "Pay particular attention to detentions on the grounds of offending decency or public morality, with a view to avoiding any possible discrimination against persons of a different sexual orientation" In December 2012, a gay couple was viciously beaten near Dakar by one of the men's parents.

In 2016, Senegalese President Macky Sall denied to decriminalize anti-gay law. He said: "Never, under my authority, will homosexuality be legalized in the Senegalese lands."

Gender Identity

Senegal do not allow trans people to legally change their gender. There's no non-binary or third gender option for gender variants.

Gūrdigan (means man-woman in wolof) is a gender variance folk in Senegal,Mauritania, Gambia. Many of them converted to Islam, when Islam came to Africa. Most gūrdigans are born as male, few are born as intersex. Gūrdigan present themselves in very feminine way & play the feminine gender role in their communities.Historically, they played a role of entertainer in marriage ceremony, other cultural occasions, & matchmakers between men and women. But nowadays they face widespread stigma & hostility in Senegalese society.

Summary:

Same-sex sexual activity - ❌

Equal age of consent - ❌

Recognition of same-sex unions,marriages - ❌

Anti-discrimination laws in hate speech and violence - ❌

Anti-discrimination laws in the provision of goods and services - ❌

Anti-discrimination laws in employment - ❌

Adoption by LGBTQI+ person - ✔️/❌ [ambiguous]

Right to change legal gender - ❌

LGBTQ+ persons allowed to serve openly in the military - ❌

MSMs allowed to donate blood - ❌