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bitcheslovehorror: I have all the characteristics of a human...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:12:11 -0500

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don’t know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

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vaprosa: “Many men and women consider very muscular women to...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:37:24 -0500

vaprosa:

“Many men and women consider very muscular women to be ‘gross’ or ‘unappealing’… That stigma is why it’s so shocking to see Abbou in a cosmetics ad: she’s styled and photographed in a way that glamourizes her and highlights her beauty and her femininity, but the ad also does not camouflage or attempt to minimize her incredible body.”

This is my literal favorite thing ever.

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Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:39:31 -0400

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Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:24:10 -0400

"A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a..."

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:26:59 -0400

“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes that when she asked a male friend why men feel threatened by women, he answered, “They are afraid women will laugh at them.” When she asked a group of women why they feel threatened by men, they said, “We’re afraid of being killed.””

- (via uglymandias)

discoverynews: Jars Hint at Amelia Earhart as Castaway On the...

Wed, 30 May 2012 20:52:01 -0400

discoverynews:

Jars Hint at Amelia Earhart as Castaway

On the southeast end of Nikumaroro Island in the Pacific Ocean, archaeologists are finding artifacts that suggest Amelia Earhart may have survived for a time there as a castaway.

A partial skeleton of a castaway was discovered at the so-called Seven Site in 1940 and this is where several shards of glass have been recovered.

Some of the items contained products used only by women.

more here

theossuary: Toothpick (possibly from England), ca. 1620, in the...

Wed, 02 May 2012 14:12:05 -0400

theossuary:

Toothpick (possibly from England), ca. 1620, in the V&A Museum, London:

This toothpick is in the form of an enamelled gold arm that holds a curved sickle for picking teeth. At the other end it has a death’s-head finial (the decorative knob). Elaborately decorated toothpicks had a long tradition. In the Middle Ages they were often made from the claws of birds, especially the bittern, a long-legged water bird.

The toothpick shows an ingenious use of the popular contemporary imagery of death: the arm is surmounted by a skull and holds the sickle of Father Time. Once again the message is ‘Remember you must die’.

nicksushkevich: Instant. Oksana Kim @ Avant Models

Wed, 02 May 2012 14:11:45 -0400

nicksushkevich:

Instant. Oksana Kim @ Avant Models

npr: Since 2009, photographer Chris Jordan has been documenting...

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:42:37 -0400

npr:

Since 2009, photographer Chris Jordan has been documenting birds on Midway Atoll way out in the Pacific Ocean — near what’s known as the “Pacific Garbage Patch” or, essentially, a swirling heap of plastic the size of Texas.

What Jordan found on those islands were carcasses of baby birds that have died an unnerving death: According to the BBC, “about one-third of all albatross chicks die on Midway, many as the result of being mistakenly fed plastic by their parents.”

(via How Soda Caps Are Killing Birds : The Picture Show)

Photo: Chris Jordan

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Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:40:40 -0400

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"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a..."

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:19:43 -0400

““When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’ It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?””

- Sandi Toksvig (via iamilliterate)

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Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:59:36 -0400

camomileandhoney: Albrecht Dürer, “A Young Hare”, 1502....

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:40:25 -0400

camomileandhoney:

Albrecht Dürer, “A Young Hare”, 1502. Watercolour and gouache on paper. Currently located in the Albertina, Vienna.

unsolvedwoman: (via Julien Strangler)

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:39:43 -0400

unsolvedwoman:

(via Julien Strangler)