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nprfreshair: Lloyd Schwartz on Claes Oldenburg: In an...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:41:16 -0400

Lloyd Schwartz on Claes Oldenburg:

In an exhibition-catalog entry in 1961, Oldenburg made a famous manifesto: “I am for the art that a kid licks, after peeling away the wrapper. I am for an art that is smoked, like a cigarette, smells, like a pair of shoes. I am for an art that flaps like a flag, or helps blow noses, like a handkerchief. I am for an art that is put on and taken off, like pants, which develops holes, like socks, which is eaten, like a piece of pie … “

nprfreshair: Then meets now. We’re pretty into these classical...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:13:31 -0400

nprfreshair:

Then meets now.

We’re pretty into these classical sculptures dressed up like hipsters.

Via Today I Learned

likeafieldmouse: Barbara Kruger - Business as Usual (1987)

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:06:28 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Barbara Kruger - Business as Usual (1987)

"Racism is not in your intent. Your intent is immaterial in how racist your actions are. This isn’t..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 15:08:32 -0400

“Racism is not in your intent. Your intent is immaterial in how racist your actions are. This isn’t about you BEING a racist. It’s about you DOING A THING that is racist. Your intent doesn’t change it. Your ignorance of its meaning doesn’t change it. It’s got nothing to do with you as a person and everything to do with the meaning of your action in the context of sociocultural history.”

- - moniquill (on red face & cultural appropriation)

I’m just going to reblog this again, since some people apparently need reminding.

(via darkjez)

So on point, I can’t even

(via agirlcalledchris)

insomnialy: if you’re ever in a bad mood, just remember,...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:15:30 -0400

insomnialy:

if you’re ever in a bad mood, just remember, somewhere in a galaxy far far away, there’s a cat bouncing on a PB&J sandwich. that should bring everything back into perspective.

likeafieldmouse: Bence Hajdu - Abandoned Paintings (2012)

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:02:11 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Bence Hajdu - Abandoned Paintings (2012)

npr: fastcompany: Fee the faces? A design studio in Berlin...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:08:45 -0400

npr:

fastcompany:

Fee the faces?

A design studio in Berlin applied face-tracking tech to the Earth’s surface and this is what they found.

The faces of the Earth…

saracasticallyserious: The reason why George RR Martin doesn’t have a twitter is because he killed...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:17:57 -0400

saracasticallyserious:

The reason why George RR Martin doesn’t have a twitter is because he killed all 140 characters

moon-cunt: jarabelunar: ahealthierperspective: rreen: muddype...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:44:36 -0400

moon-cunt:

jarabelunar:

ahealthierperspective:

rreen:

muddypetticoats:

whatwhiteswillneverknow:

How to use your white privilege

If the “passing privilege” person is looking at this blog, this is one thing you can do, if you’re up to it.

Reblogging for excellence.

Too beautiful.

More passing people, and people who recognize white privilege should do this

for the white folk who ask “but what am i supposed to do about all of this”

soooooooosososososo so good.

fatpinkcast: Critics’ Reactions to the Final Season 3 Scene in...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:30:35 -0400

fatpinkcast:

Critics’ Reactions to the Final Season 3 Scene in Game of Thrones

Surfed Google News looking for what reviewers thought about the White Lady Jesus scene.

“It’s kind of weird that the show decides to rely on the slightly racist, definitely cliche stereotype of hordes of adoring brown slaves worshipping their white liberator.” - Kate Walsh, Indiewire

“…the messianic tint to Danaerys’ brief appearance takes on a weirdly racist and pro-colonial overtone (look at those poor, dark savages and how much they love their blond savior!)” - Todd Brown, Twitchfilm

“…her being surrounded by a worshipful mass of people she’s saved who are decidedly, er, browner than her is really frakking weird. I’m not saying there’s malicious, racist intent or anything, and some of the slaves are probably just tanned white people. But as an image, I found it really offputting.” - Rebecca Pahle, The Mary Sue

“I think we’re supposed to feel tense and apprehensive awaiting their response to her setting them free, but I’m just kind of bored. No surprise – they accept her, calling her “mother.” She crowd surfs while her dragons fly above the crowd. Also, she’s very white and all the slaves definitely aren’t and so maybe this is racist? I’d call for discussion but this is the internet so better not.” - Dr. Improbable, The OutHousers

“During Game of Thrones‘ first season, the show faced criticism that it was racially… not super sensitive when it came to portraying the Dothraki, who were largely treated as Klingons noble savages…Now, Dany has become a straight-up conqueror—an outsider who swoops in with her dragons and eunuchs to show other societies how they’re doing things wrong. Which is where things start to feel a little dodgy: The final shots of this season were supposed to be rousing, but they felt weird.

There was Dany, seriously the Whitest Woman Ever, crowd-surfing on a bunch of heretofore unseen and uncharacterized brown people, all of whom had been enslaved and helpless before she showed up? And they’re lovingly calling her “Mother”?” - Erik Henriksen, Wired.com

“Yes, this is problematic. The optics on this scene are really bad, which I can see you have noticed, because you have eyes. Problem one is that there aren’t very many people of color people on this show to begin with, and problem two is that when there are, they tend to be acting out “tribal” stereotypes and/or cast in the role of slaves. And this final scene featured largest crowd of brown faces we’ve ever seen, lifting the world’s blondest woman up as their messiah and praising her for saving them from bondage. It’s like George W. Bush’s secret fantasy of how he thought the invasion of Iraq would go for him (including the blond wig).

“If you’ve never heard of the White Savior phenomenon in media, wherein a fictional white outsider appears to heroically save fictional people of color from problems they can’t solve on their own, there’s more information here. Or you can just take a screenshot at any point in the last minute of the show, since it’s pretty much textbook. And that’s another problem, while we’re counting problems: I feel like I’ve seen this trope so many times before that it feels emotionally flat and boring, especially in comparison to her astonishingly badass siege of Astapor.” - Laura Hudson, Wired.com

“Also, I can’t even express how uncomfortable her last scene (the last scene of the season) made me feel. This show has always had issues with race and unfortunately, by having hundreds of faceless brown people lifting up a young, white blonde woman and calling her “mother,” showrunners are far from correcting them. It was Greyworm (and friends) who liberated the city. Can’t he get some love?”- Madeleine Davies, Jezebel.com

The Khaleesi of previous seasons, and even previous season three episodes, seemed to care little for titles that others were so eager to attach to her. But it’s that blissful smile, that obvious Christ pose while being hoisted above the crowd, her blonde hair and pearly whiteness shining upon a sea of trodden-upon brown people that lead one to wonder if all this savior stuff is finally going to her head. - Gabriel Ruzin, Screen Invasion

“The final image is still that of a white woman being embraced by the poor slaves she set free, and on a show that has been validly criticized for its lack of diversity in its main cast, ending a season with that scene was a questionable choice. We understand why the writers thought it was a good direction to go — viewers needed some real hope after the Red Wedding — but there were probably ways to direct it that would have taken the sting out of the visual.” - Rebecca Martin, Wetpaint

“So, um, did anyone else think it was a little weird to have a bunch of dusky brown people reaching out to the blonde white lady and proclaiming her their savior? Dany’s crusade to free slaves and whatnot is admirable, sure, but that scene seemed to say “Hooray! The nice white lady saved us!” Kinda got a weird vibe. Was anyone else made ever so slightly uncomfortable?” - Joe Streckert, Portland Mercury

It’s an image that many commentators found troubling, given Game of Thrones‘ overwhelming whiteness, and the presentation of many non-white people as barbarians, deceptive slavers, or mindless slaves. - Alyssa Rosenberg, Think Progress

“And not to end on a sour note — because I did think “Mhysa” was a tight, elegant episode — but did anyone else watch the final scene outside Yunkai and think, ‘Hmmm, am I really looking at a pretty white lady being worshiped by thousands upon thousands of adoring brown people?’” - Nina Shen Rastogi, New York Magazine

“The show’s previously been careful to maintain a heterogeneous look for most of the cultures Daenerys encounters in her travels through the eastern continent of Essos, so the uniformly brown skin tone of the freed slaves worshipping the blondest possible savior figure was surprising and disconcerting – doubly so since, in the books, much is made of just how many different kinds of people had been forced into slavery by Yunkai and then freed by Dany when she took the city. This uncomfortable contrast kneecapped what could otherwise have been the most purely uplifting and cathartic moment in the series so far. Plus it gave the episode its title and was, you know, the final shot of the season – a rough one to go out on. “ Sean T. Collins, Rolling Stone

"The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love’. People think that in falling in love they make themselves..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:29:34 -0400

“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love’. People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.”

- Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via likeafieldmouse)

http://www.pecsusa.com/Brochures/2013PicsforPECS-SamplePics.pdf

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:26:15 -0400

http://www.pecsusa.com/Brochures/2013PicsforPECS-SamplePics.pdf:

Challenge: these are your only words. What would you say?

"A lot of the time when you tell someone that you’re bisexual, they ask for your credentials. They..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:46:22 -0400

“A lot of the time when you tell someone that you’re bisexual, they ask for your credentials. They ask how many men have you dated? How many women have you dated? Which one do you prefer? Which one have you had more sex with? These are incredibly personal questions that you wouldn’t ask a straight or gay person, but bisexuality has “less validity” so we get asked all these stupid, intimate questions. And if you don’t want to answer then someone will make assumptions about you but if you do answer, and the fact is out of the three people you fucked two of them are one gender and one of them is the other then people will decide whether you are gay or straight, they’ll make the decision for you.”

- Bisexual Credentials-RitchandFamous (via rainbowbreathingbisexual)

leanin: Happy 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act! (sort of)....

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:39:44 -0400

leanin:

Happy 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act! (sort of). Here are some sobering visuals: For every dollar earned by a white man in America, a white woman earns, on average, 77 cents, a black woman earns 69 cents, and a Latina woman earns 57 cents. (Infographic by the lovely Emily Nemens for LeanIn.Org.)

windatyourfeels: foie: The second one is my signature...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:14:08 -0400

windatyourfeels:

foie:

The second one is my signature move

Caw-CAAAAAAAAAAAAW

"Women make a multitude of decisions that impact the course of their lives. Some of these decisions..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:12:00 -0400

“

Women make a multitude of decisions that impact the course of their lives. Some of these decisions are specific to marriage or partnership, career, education, and children. It seems, however, that out of all of the decisions that a woman makes in her lifetime, there is no choice that comes to define her as more “naturally” feminine than her decision to become a mother. The concept of motherhood is so tightly associated with female identity that we’re unable to conceive of a woman who has children and regrets doing so – or who chooses not to have children at all.

There is something about “choosing” not to become a mother that is tied to this ideology of motherhood as a feminine imperative. It’s as if choosing not to have children is choosing not to be feminine, and a woman choosing not to be feminine is a tough pill for people to swallow. Not surprisingly, a Canadian study has found that approximately half of women in their forties who made the decision to remain childfree declined to share with people that their decision was…a decision. The study found that this was because of the social pressure they believed they would receive if they disclosed that they were childfree by choice. It seems that even those of us who choose to remain childfree often keep this decision to ourselves, because we understand that there is an unwritten social contract that comes along with being a woman – not keeping our end of the bargain is something that people judge us for, so why share it?

Recently, a study conducted by sociologist Julia McQuillan found that distress over not having children is something that women only experience if motherhood is meaningful or important to them. Voluntarily childfree women feel little distress over their decision, regardless of what their family or friends think about their choice. This may seem like an obvious argument – of course women who want to conceive and are unable to do so will experience distress. But if a woman does not get a promotion at work or doesn’t get into the college of her choice, she doesn’t typically receive the same kind of judgment from society and doesn’t typically feel the same type of distress that comes along with not being able to experience motherhood. This is because those achievements and failures are not explicitly tied to gender, and by extension, femininity the way that motherhood is.

”

- Nicole Verdes, “Inconceivable!: Detaching Motherhood From Femininity,” The Feminist Wire 4/21/13 (via racialicious)

likeafieldmouse: Ai Weiwei - Straight (2013) “It was the...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:04:39 -0400

likeafieldmouse:

Ai Weiwei - Straight (2013)

“It was the Sichuan earthquake in May of 2008 that turned Mr. Ai from cultural purveyor to iconoclast. He rightly believed that the tragedy of this event, a thousand miles from Beijing in the heart of rural China, was magnified by the state’s refusal to investigate its particularly tragic circumstances: the death of more than 5,000 children due to shoddy school construction.

In the years that followed, Mr. Ai put this belief into action. He visited the devastation, documenting the sites in photos and videos, and organized what he called a ‘citizens’ investigation’ to identify and memorialize each child killed in this disaster.

Straight is made up of 38 tons of rebar (steel rod) recovered from Sichuan after the earthquake and is a rough and powerful work regardless of what else we know about it.”

sarahb: doseofwords: game of thrones character per season: ↳...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:44:11 -0400

sarahb:

doseofwords:

game of thrones character per season:
↳ Jon Snow (Season 1)

The burden of being the handsomest curly haired British boy on my television lies solely on your shoulders now, Jon Snow. I hope you don’t take this lightly.

Jon Snow always looks like he’s just waked and baked and then had a good cry and can’t believe you expect him to clean his room.

"Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people..."

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:39:03 -0400

““Every year white people add 100 years to how long ago slavery was. I’ve heard educated white people say, ‘slavery was 400 years ago.’ No it very wasn’t. It was 140 years ago…that’s two 70-year-old ladies living and dying back to back. That’s how recently you could buy a guy.””

- Louis C.K. (via 30thcenturyboy)

when i tell people my great grandparents were born into slavery people look at me sideways

(via brooklynwaste)

(via Public Radio Tattoos, Now In Our Store | This American...

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 19:34:09 -0400

(via Public Radio Tattoos, Now In Our Store | This American Life)