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Seiichi Hayashi

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1. Ari Up from The Slits 2. Poly Styrene from X-ray Spex 3. Siouxsie Sioux from Siouxsie and the Banshees

4. Joan Jett from The Runaways

Photo-Punk Photography by Ian Dickson and Kevin Cummins

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Life is amazing. And then it’s awful. And then it’s amazing again. And in between the amazing and the awful its ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing; hold on through the awful; and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That’s just living heartbreaking, soul healing, amazing, ordinary, awful life. And it’s breathtakingly beautiful.

LR Knost (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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Ian Connor

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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (via unrar)

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Everyone needs to watch this full speech.

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A collection of recent works, 2016

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Day Break , Manhattan   -     Ben Aronson ,  2008

American, b.1958-

Oil on panel, 60 x 44,5 in.

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Can we just talk about Serena Williams for a god damn second?

She’s always being criticized for being too tall, too muscular, too intense, too what the fuck ever for a female athlete. And what the fuck does she do? She lands herself in a Beyoncé visual masterpiece looking fierce and feminine as fuck. She is strutting with hair and heels reaching for the heavens giving you black goddess magic. I can’t handle it. Serena Williams and Beyoncé. Thank you.

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This woman fed every single Civil Rights activist to pass by NOLA in the 60s.

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LEGENDARY 

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Where do you go when you go quiet? You remind me of my father, a magician, able to exist in two places at once. In the tradition of men in my blood, you come home at 3 a.m. and lie to me. What are you hiding? The past and the future merge to meet us here. What luck. What a fucking curse.

Beyoncé, Lemonade. (via transagenda)

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What I really loved from Lemonade were the quotes and scenes before the song Daddy Lessons which emphasizes how a person can be a great father, but a horrible husband. What Beyonce remembers from her childhood are different memories that Tina Knowles holds, which she dealt with behind close doors so her children could have a loving home but her father was a cheater also. Lemonade greatly shows how deeply we’re influenced and are shaped by bad family cycles growing up. For example, a lot of women grow up just wanting to be with anyone because they came from a family of all the women in their family being single or seeing everyone around them in failed marriages so they gain a sense that they have to accept whatever in a relationship so they changed themselves to break the cycle. All of these experiences shape and create a tone when we’re in relationships. Similar to Beyonce, her father was a cheater so when Jay cheated, the memories and the cheating redirected her to a fear which is why at the beginning she thought it was a ‘horrible curse’. But at the end, Beyonce shows that to reform a broken relationship you have to find the things holding on to and making a reformation to find freedom. You don’t stay because that person has money or because of things they bought for you;you stay because there is love still there and you have more room to grow with that person but never think that cheating again will make that person stay, which is why in her song Freedom she said “a winner doesn’t quit on themselves” (somewhat a metaphor of her life, career, and marriage).

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Beyoncé with the mothers of  Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner & Oscar Grant.