An Anthology

"Okay, guy, so why do you feel like you want/need/deserve to settle down with a “pure” woman? I’m..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 21:00:27 -0400

“Okay, guy, so why do you feel like you want/need/deserve to settle down with a “pure” woman? I’m genuinely listening. “Oh, it’s because sluts are gross.” Too vague. Do better. “Well, their vaginas are real stretched out and big.” No. “Ummmmm, they probably have a bunch of diseases?” Easy fix! Setting aside the fact that plenty of women contract STIs from monogamous partners or during “safe sex,” it sounds like your real problem here is with illness, not sex. So I assume you’d be fine dating a promiscuous woman who practiced safe sex and happened to be STI-free? “No, because I want a girl who’s traditional and family-oriented.” Having sex doesn’t mean you don’t want to have a family. It just means that you want to have sex. “Yeah, but a slut is more likely to cheat on me.” Really? Then why do couples in the Bible Belt have such a high divorce rate? “The devil, I guess?” NOPE. “I just can’t stand the thought of her getting fucked by all those other guys.” So you’re about to have sex with a woman you’re attracted to, you really want to have sex with her, but all you can think about is her getting pounded by tons and tons of dicks? That sounds like an entirely different issue. “No! I just mean that I struggle with the same powerlessness and insecurity that all human beings do, so as a coping mechanism I take advantage of our culture’s patriarchal power structure and exorcize my feelings of worthlessness by perpetuating shame-based proprietary attitudes over women’s bodies. Basically I’m obsessed with controlling women’s lives because I can’t control my own.” Oh, honey. I know.”

- Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit (via daniellemertina)

yeeeesssss.

(via negritaaa)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-0mP2hQUw

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:36:07 -0400

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V-0mP2hQUw

Video

Sat, 11 May 2013 20:17:38 -0400

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would...

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:20:23 -0400

If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”

Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.

“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”

The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.

Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.

Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.

From top to bottom:

Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).

Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.

Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.

Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.

The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.

Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).

Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).

Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).

Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).

Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.

[ I was going to post a long rant about some arrogant white yoga girl who insist people are ignorant for using olive oil to cook and should not eat fish or drink milk or eat cheese because of all sorts of problematic food issues, instead I said, let me focus on those who celebrate food. If you still want to see the link of the article she was waving on her Facebook, there you go. Privileged white people…ugh]

Sunday Kind of Love By Etta James

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:41:57 -0400

Sunday Kind of Love By Etta James

Hey Love by Stevie Wonder

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:39:46 -0400

Hey Love by Stevie Wonder

areg: Photo by Thomas Hawk.

Wed, 08 May 2013 13:17:13 -0400

areg:

Photo by Thomas Hawk.

Charles Ramsey Is an Internet Hero for All the Wrong Reasons

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:07:08 -0400

Charles Ramsey Is an Internet Hero for All the Wrong Reasons:

theraceproblem:

No one is saying that Charles Ramsey isn’t worthy of the “hero” mantle. He helped save three women who were held captive — brutally — in his Cleveland neighborhood for over a decade. But the Internet’s instant meme-ification of this man — a lower-income black man talking about a horrible crime, played on repeat at the expense of stereotypes and with the blinders fully up about the truth — it’s all a little gross, no?

Ramsey’s interview with ABC’s Cleveland affiliate is already a thing of Internet legend, not a day after it aired live on television. “You got to have some big testicles to pull this off, bro, because we see this dude every day. I mean every day,” Ramsey told a WEWS reporter at the scene Monday night. “I barbecue with this dude. We eat ribs and what not and listen to salsa music. Know where I’m coming from?” Our Adam Clark Estes predicted it: “This man’s going to be an Internet meme for sure,” he wrote.

And Internet meme he is. A second interview, with the local Fox affiliate, is making the rounds today. The name Charles Ramsey has been trending on Twitter all day. There are Vines of his expressive face being passed around. There are thumbs-up GIFs. And, of course, there are so many awful autotune mixes of the first interview already, because some people still find that funny.

Already Bradley is drawing a lot of comparisons on the Internet, and all over Twitter and Facebook, to Antoine Dodson, the Bed Intruder guy who was auto-tuned the world over, but who also happened to be a guy who was talking about the alleged rape of his sister at an Alabama housing project. Indeed, both Ramsey and Dodson are black American men who gained instant fame by way of local television interviews in which, well, neither really seemed like he’d be on television before. Those are their only similarities, but those also may, unfortunately, be the only reasons why these two men have entered the consciousness of so many white American people with a Twitter account or a couple hundred Facebook friends. That they were both connected with horror goes eerily unmentioned. “Perhaps it’s time for the world’s meme artists to stop assuming that any black dude getting interviewed on local news about a crime he helped to foil can be reduced to some catch phrase or in-joke” Miles Klee writes over at Blackbook. “It’s just baffling that we’re trying to find a way to laugh about what is, in itself, a harrowing turn of events,” Klee adds.

The Internet seems to lose sight of two very important distinctions sometimes. Charles Ramsey is a hero because he called the police and helped them save three women from reportedly being raped and impregnated in a basement for a decade. But he’s a meme because he’s black and on TV, and because so many choose to ignore the horrible realities of the crime. And, sure, pretty entertaining for a couple minutes, but we’d like to add our support to Klee’s proposal: “Just this once let’s celebrate the man himself—without using .gifs or Photoshop,” he writes. Even though we know that isn’t happening.

theurbanmoor: caramelblackness: Kai Davis speaks the...

Fri, 03 May 2013 20:57:52 -0400

theurbanmoor:

caramelblackness:

Kai Davis speaks the truth.

Wow

"Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 15:00:39 -0400

“Be wise. Treat yourself, your mind, sympathetically, with loving kindness. If you are gentle with yourself, you will become gentle with others.”

- Lama Thubten Yeshe (via yogachocolatelove)

myjetpack: Gosh comics’ bookplate edition of ”You’re all Just...

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:00:46 -0400

myjetpack:

Gosh comics’ bookplate edition of ”You’re all Just Jealous of My Jetpack” is available to preorder now, details are here.

Update: This is sold out now.

aristidoux: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - Acknowledgement

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:01:01 -0400

aristidoux:

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme - Acknowledgement

"It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:18:06 -0400

“It is okay to be at a place of struggle. Struggle is just another word for growth. Even the most evolved beings find themselves in a place of struggle now and then. In fact, struggle is a sure sign to them that they are expanding; it is their indication of real and important progress. The only one who doesn’t struggle is the one who doesn’t grow. So if you are struggling right now, see it as a terrific sign — celebrate your struggle.”

- Neale Donald Walsch (via heyfranhey)

queennubian: brokenboundariesart: Guerrilla Girls This work...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:23:39 -0400

queennubian:

brokenboundariesart:

Guerrilla Girls

This work shows the boundaries women had to face before they had more rights. It was rare for art work by women or non-white artists to be shown and the Guerrilla Girls posters brought to light the issues that these artists faced. The posters were a quick and easy way to spread their message while the statistics were created by the Guerilla Girls themselves or reinterpreted from art magazines or other sources. Again their art represents social boundaries.

Necessary chin checks are necessary

"I align myself with people who support my growth. If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:00:27 -0400

““I align myself with people who support my growth. If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.””

- Dr. Wayne Dyer (via musingsofkrav)

streetetiquette: Denitiaandsene - Again.

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:10:12 -0400

streetetiquette:

Denitiaandsene - Again.

keekeers: weian-fu: thedarkchocolatedandy: malanga-coco: choc...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:17:32 -0400

keekeers:

weian-fu:

thedarkchocolatedandy:

malanga-coco:

chocolate-socrates:

wokeupinausedtoyota:

mocha199:

I sholl do!

but he right tho

lmfao ! all under my sink for future lunches or bathroom trash bags .

There is so much truth here lol

Our is right by the door in an old umbrella stand.

YUP, & I use them regularly. We BEEN on that recycling shit.

LOOOL! I have a whole cabinet full in my kitchen, next to my sink…probably close to 500!

Super Jam 2012 D’Angelo, Questlove and more

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:19:00 -0400

Super Jam 2012

D’Angelo, Questlove and more

D’Angelo & ?uestlove “Tell Me If You Still Care” $86.75...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 22:28:00 -0400

D’Angelo & ?uestlove “Tell Me If You Still Care”

$86.75 for D’Angelo Tickets…I want to go but damn

Photo

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:00:36 -0400