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So effing excited!!!!

Starfleet doesn’t fire first.

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Dorothy Tree, Geraldine Dvorak and Cornelia Thaw in Dracula (1931)

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Beautiful

ART. FABIOLA JEAN-LOUIS REWRITES HISTORY. BY SUPERSELECTED · ART, FABIOLA JEAN-LOUIS, HARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, MIXED MEDIA, PHOTOGRAPHY

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Whenever I go to white people’s houses and I have to leave my shoes on I feel so itchy.

“you were the only one who took your shoes off when you walked in”

“i was?”

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Are you my twin? by Jens Stahl

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I still reflexively wince every time I see mention of the Girl Scouts. I attended one meeting when I was about ten or eleven, and the racism of these little white girls was so intense that I still remember it as one of the most blatantly discriminatory events in my life. (I grew up in a majority-minority community, so this little pocket of white supremacy in retrospect was even weirder.)

Why on earth are these organizations even still gender differentiated? Why haven’t they been made utterly obsolete by a genuinely welcoming organization?

how cool would it be if Girl Scouts got the same level of respect and recognition as the Boy Scouts do how wild a thought

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Harvard has a pigment library that stores old pigment sources, like the ground shells of now-extinct insects, poisonous metals, and wrappings from Egyptian mummies, to preserve the origins of the world’s rarest colors.

A few centuries ago, finding a specific color might have meant trekking across the globe to a mineral deposit in the middle of Afghanistan. “Every pigment has its own story,” Narayan Khandekar, the caretaker of the pigment collection, told Fastcodesign. He also shared the stories of some of the most interesting pigments in the collection.

Mummy Brown

“People would harvest mummies from Egypt and then extract the brown resin material that was on the wrappings around the bodies and turn that into a pigment. It’s a very bizarre kind of pigment, I’ve got to say, but it was very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.”

Cadmium Yellow

“Cadmium yellow was introduced in the mid 19th century. It’s a bright yellow that many impressionists used. Cadmium is a heavy metal, very toxic. In the early 20th century, cadmium red was introduced. You find these pigments used in industrial processes. Up until the 1970s, Lego bricks had cadmium pigment in them.”

Annatto “The lipstick plant—a small tree, Bixa orellana, native to Central and South America—produces annatto, a natural orange dye. Seeds from the plant are contained in a pod surrounded with a bright red pulp. Currently, annatto is used to color butter, cheese, and cosmetics.”

Lapis Lazuli “People would mine it in Afghanistan, ship it across Europe, and it was more expensive than gold so it would have its own budget line on a commission.”

Dragon’s Blood “It has a great name, but it’s not from dragons. [The bright red pigment] is from the rattan palm.”

Cochineal “This red dye comes from squashed beetles, and it’s used in cosmetics and food.”

Emerald Green “This is made from copper acetoarsenite. We had a Van Gogh with a bright green background that was identified as emerald green. Pigments used for artists’ purposes can find their way into use in other areas as well. Emerald green was used as an insecticide, and you often see it on older wood that would be put into the ground, like railroad ties.”

Source

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Really really honored to have done the Google Doodle today for one of my animation heroes Lotte Reiniger! She made the oldest surviving feature length animation, and created the predecessor to the multiplane camera, predating disney. Her films still hold up as extremely beautiful and witty fairy tales.

I’m really thankful to my team, who trusted me when I said I was going to build my own rig and puppets and film a 90 second short in a few months. 

Check it out [here] if you have a minute! 

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Happy hedgehog reminder! :D

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Nap time =)

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General Kawashima Yoshiko 川島 芳子 AKA Aisin Gioro Xianyu 愛新覺羅·顯玗 (1907-1948) - Chinese/Japanese, Mandchu Princess, Japanese Kwantung Army spy, singer - 1930s

2/ at recording studio - Japan - 1933

Source Asahi Shinbun 朝日新聞

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South Korea’s Abuses Uncovered

Thousands of people – mainly children and the disabled – were enslaved, raped and killed in South Korea almost 30 years ago. But the full horror is only just being revealed.

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Resist Dyed and Embroidered Katabira (Summer Kimono), 18th century

via KCI

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Can I tell you a secret? You don’t have to be in a relationship.    I mean it. I know they force it down your throat until you choke on it. Girls aren’t pretty unless they’re wanted. Boys aren’t men unless they’re having sex with someone. People aren’t lovable until they’re dating someone.    But a relationship won’t always make you happy, and as wonderful as romance is, it isn’t the only love that exists. I have seen friendships that are deeper and more pure than couples who swear it’s forever - and yet the friendship is the one people ignore.    I have heard so often “nobody loves me” out of the mouths of people who are single. And it kills me because if you ask them: where are your parents, your teachers, your classmates, your pets - they say, yes, okay, but it doesn’t count. Of course it counts, love doesn’t diminish just because someone doesn’t want to have sex with you. In fact, doesn’t it sort of make that love more real that they want nothing - not even a date - out of you?   It is pretty to be in love. It’s magical, I’m sure. But it’s also wonderful to stop for ice cream in your prom dress with six other girls. It’s also wonderful to go visit the world with nothing but a bunch of buddies who are really excited about learning.    The problem is: we’ve made everything about “the one”. But maybe “the one” is just you, loving yourself, having fun, and being happy. Maybe instead of looking for our other halves, we should be piecing ourselves together.   Maybe I wasn’t born unfinished. Maybe I am the one who makes myself better.

Single serving size // r.i.d (via inkskinned)

Words to live by! You are already enough.

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