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Budapest, June 2016

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Eartha Kitt and James Dean in NYC, photographed by Dennis Stock in 1955

… still remembering all the things Jamie Dean had told me on the phone. ‘’I dont know what the feeling of love is really like. I dont know if I have ever been in love, but if I have, it must have been with you because I never felt that feeling before you and I have never felt that feeling after you.’’ 

- Excerpt of Eartha Kitt’s autobiography I’m Still Here (1989)

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How can I make it clear to other people riding public transportation that I’m the main character

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aya jones photographed by nick hudson

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kenzo teams up with director partel oliva to reimagine the japanese folktale of momotarō in ‘sun to sun’ for its pre-fall 2016 collection with a female momoko and an all-girl posse of bikers.

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lmao

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Rich people are out here buying 5 yachts, 17 islands, 15 cars and 7 summer homes, but as soon as a poor person saves up to buy a flat screen TV or the newest iPhone, suddenly it’s the end of the world and poor people are all lazy moochers just looking for handouts who need to sell all of their possessions and eat rocks in order to redeem themselves, like come on. The issue obviously isn’t pointless purchases, it’s trusting rich people with their money more than trusting poor people with theirs, and allowing rich people autonomy over their decisions that isn’t granted to poor folks.

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Muhammad Ali was a loud, boastful, eloquent, unapologetically pro Black, anti-imperalist, anti-zionist, anti white supremacy, anti-racist giant he was not for everyone. He is a Black legend. People hated him in his time, white people wanted his ass strung up on a platter, he was monitored by the government and almost imprisoned for his beliefs, he lost his livelihood for 4 years behind his beliefs. He was truly fearless to the end. This is not a feel good character, this is a man who just recently called out those that would mischacarterize Islam as inherently hateful. He didn’t transcend his race because even as a global icon he was still gloriously Black and proud of that. So if you want to write about him be honest about who he was and don’t shape him into a feel good character because he wasn’t. He was one of the freest, fiercest, and baddest Black men to ever do it.

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…often women aren’t allowed to be characters in history, they have to be stereotypes. Cleopatra was a poet and a philosopher, she was incredibly good at maths; she wasn’t that much of a looker. But when we think of her, we think: big breasted seductress bathing in milk. Often, even when women have made their mark and they are remembered by history, we are offered a fantasy version of their lives.

Dr. Bettany Hughes on women’s absence from history, and the ways historians need to actively put women back into the narrative.  (via thepoliticalnotebook)

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blurry candids of your best friends laughing 

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“The April 1968 Esquire cover of Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr St. Sebastian was one of the most iconic images of the decade ……”

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tout est possible (at A Bit Of Heaven)

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Alécia Morais Marie Zucker (Photographer)

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