Here, have a photo of Santigold in a completely yellow outfit.

Also on that note: holy shit.

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Hanging out with my grandmother.

[Image is a photo of a black woman sitting in front of a fence in a rural environment. The caption underneath reads, “pastoral interlude” and “… it’s as if the Black experience is only lived within and urban environment. I thought I liked the Lake District; where I wandered lonely as a Black face in a sea of white. A visit to the countryside is always accompanied by a feeling of unease; dread…”.]

gaze-interrupted:

Ingrid Pollard (British, b.1953, Guyana). From the series Pastoral Interlude. 1987. Gelatin silver print coloured by hand. © Ingrid Pollard.

[Image is a photo of a pale-skinned person in black pants and no shirt with an extra set of arms gaffer-taped to their shoulders.]

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"

In reinventing the world of intense, unreproducible, local knowledge, seemingly by a denial or evasion of current reality, fantasists are perhaps trying to assert and explore a larger reality than we now allow ourselves. They are trying to restore the sense - to regain the knowledge - that there is somewhere else, anywhere else, where other people may live another kind of life.

The literature of imagination, even when tragic, is reassuring, not necessarily in the sense of offering nostalgic comfort, but because it offers a world large enough to contain alternatives and therefore offers hope.

"

Ursula LeGuin, Cheek By Jowl (via cedars)

This is exactly why I love fantasy and sci-fi so much. Another world is possible, dudes.

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[Image is an ink painting of a person. Their internal organs are visible and surrounded by kind of leafy structures. It is very washed out.]

iheartmyart:

Megan Diddie, Untitled, 2010

ladyatheist:

If my mother still experiences racism at 60, you can still be called out for racism at 60.

If my aunt still experiences racism at 70, you can still be called out for racism at 70.

If my 100 year old family friend still has to deal with racism every damn day, you better believe your ass can be called out for racism at 100.

Age does not excuse racism. That goes for kids, teenagers, adults, and old folks.

robot boy: Deaf PSA!

najalater:

I know I make a lot of these, but here’s something to ponder on before you reblob the cute baby:

Deaf people don’t wear hearing aids or get implants to benefit themselves. They do it to benefit you.

I can’t speak for all deaf/Deaf people, and I know a lot of HOH folk feel that they owe it to…

[Image is a black and white photo of lots of stars in space. It says, “The WONDEROUS SCIENCE of the STARS”.]

maaaargg:

bettybroadbent

To add to the list of stupid/scary things that have happened just before going to sleep:

SPIDERS IN MY HAIR.

[Image:  Fluorescein angiogram of Fig. 6 (Top left) showing two cilioretinal arteries emerging from the temporal rim of the optic nerve head (arrows) and faint autofluorescence of optic disk drusen 9.3 seconds after fluorescein injection. Top right: 10.5 seconds after fluorescein injection: fluorescein spreads into the retinal arteries. Arrows indicate ciliary arteries. Bottom left: early venous phase, 12.6 seconds after fluorescein injection: large veins still black, filling of the macroaneurysm. Threadlike passage of fluorescein of the upper occluded segment. The temporal part of the papilla is dark owing to venovenous collateral veins. Bottom right: midvenous phase, 20.6 seconds after fluorescein injection: venovenous collateral veins (arrows), arterial connection between central and superior temporal artery still filled because of low flow, and pooling of fluorescein in the occluded central trunk (arrowhead).]

Blah, blah, went to the eye specialist today because my left eye (the one with the drusen) has been kind of blurry lately. The drusen are still there, they’re for life, but my eye is okay, just a tiny bit short sighted!

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cinoh:

art-documents:

Dieter Roth / Rabbit - shit - rabbit 1972 multiples

"Conventional wisdom tells us that obesity itself is a major cause of clogged arteries—the rationale being that more fat on the body equals more fat in the blood stream equals more fat build-up in the arteries. However, most of the studies that have looked at the relationship between body weight (or body fat) and atherosclerosis—via coronary angiography or by direct examination of artery disease at autopsy—find that fat people are no more likely to have clogged arteries than thin people (4, 11, 27). In some instances results entirely opposite to conventional wisdom are observed. For example, when researchers at the University of Tennessee (4) evaluated coronary angiograms of more than 4,500 men and women, they found that the risk of having a clogged artery actually decreased as body weight increased. In other words, it was the fat men and women who had the cleanest arteries. Although this finding is exceptional, the preponderance of angiography studies of this nature do undermine the notion that obesity inevitably results in clogged arteries."

Obesity, Health and Metabolic Fitness by Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D.

Definitely read the whole article, it’s wonderful.

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tinybeats:

This Isn’t Our Parade - Santigold

ps. cupcakes are a force of gentrification.

missvoltairine:

You know a neighborhood is gentrified/being gentrified when someone opens up a gourmet cupcake shop in it.

BOOM.