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theforlornhope:

Fosco Maraini

misspaperlilies:

basquavita:

man i wish shorts would sit loose like that on me.

I really would love to wear tiny shorts like these because I think they look cool but I have cellulite on my thighs so I never have *sigh*
I should be all FAT POWER about it but no

ashingtonrave:

Cambodia Fashion Week, Phnom Penh

afvandevorst:

Jeneil Williams shot by Andrea Spotorno for Acne Paper December 2010

artsandcrafts28:

“Bed of Chrysanthemums”
Claude Monet
1897

justbrad:

#Nigeria

realfakescientist:

rustedpantheress:

tranqualizer:

Lauryn Hill Ordered by the Court to Undergo “Counseling” Due to her “Conspiracy Theories”
The name of Lauryn Hill’s breakout album was The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill but it now appears that the powers that be would like her to record a new album called The Re-Education of Lauryn Hill. After appearing in court for tax evasion, Hill was sentenced to three months in jail PLUS she must attend “counseling” due to her “conspiracy theories”.
According to the IBTimes, Hill told the court: “I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me.” Furthermore, Hill also believes that artists are being oppressed by (what the article calls) “a plot involving the military and media”. Because of these statements, Hill was ordered to undergo “counseling”, which is a way of saying that she is mentally ill and that she needs some sort of re-programming session regain “sanity”.
In 2012, Hill published a thoughtful letter describing the corruption, the oppression and the control of the music industry and her desire to escape it. In one part of the letter, Lauryn states
“It was this schism and the hypocrisy, violence and social cannibalism it enabled, that I wanted and needed to be freed from, not from art or music, but the suppression/repression and reduction of that art and music to a bottom line alone, without regard for anything else. Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I Love making art, I Love making music, these are as natural and necessary for me almost as breathing or talking. To be denied the right to pursue it according to my ability, as well as be properly acknowledged and compensated for it, in an attempt to control, is manipulation directed at my most basic rights! These forms of expression, along with others, effectively comprise my free speech! Defending, preserving, and protecting these rights are critically important, especially in a paradigm where veiled racism, sexism, ageism, nepotism, and deliberate economic control are still blatant realities!!!”
(See my article entitled Lauryn Hill’s Tumblr Letter on the Music Business for the full letter).

wow, way to fucking delegitimize and pathologize the experiences of a Black woman by abusing mental health resources and language to avoid the real shit she brings up.

So, apparently reality is a conspiracy theory.

like dave chappelle of all people said, if you say what you think, and especially if it’s the truth, without sugar coating it, you get called crazy and your argument gets thrown out of the window because you’re not “sane.”

De la Perse à l’Iran, photographies de Inge Morath, textes de Edouard Sablier. Editions Delpire.

aliofbabylon:

middleeasternpoetry:

I used to. I often used to hope, as autumn painted forests with gold walnut brown or muted crimson, I so hoped to see Iraq’s face in the morning. To loosen water’s braids over me. To satisfy its mermaids with salty tears. To float over Abu l-Khaseeb’s rivulets [and] to ask the trees, “Do you, trees, know where my father’s grave is?” - Saadi Youssef

*A woman cries out the name of her missing son as U.S. Marines searched for evidence at a mass grave on May 14, 2003 in Hillah, Iraq. At least 2,000 bodies had been dug out at the site making it the largest mass grave discovered in Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime… People had been searching for days for identity cards or other clues among the skeletons to try to find the remains of family members, including children, from the grave that locals say contained the remains of hundreds of Shi’ite Muslims executed by Saddam Hussein’s regime after their uprising following the 1991 Gulf War.

My hometown. A mass grave created by a tyrant.

teenage-hoodlum:

Lenticular clouds over Mount Fuji, Japan. These are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, usually perpendicular to the direction of the wind.