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I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between the child in Virgin and Child Enthroned by Master Of Bigallo and Quentin Tarantino

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COLORLINES: Feminist Selfies Took Over Twitter And It Was Awesome

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BRILLIANT.

i told a guy i like that i dont take hormones and that i won't have sex with anyone who i would live in fear about having an unplanned pregnancy with. the boundaries kind of fell out of my mouth without my thinking about them, because all i was concerned with was being absolutely honest.

to my surprise, expressing my personality without inhibition has led us to talk about our individual views and preferences on the long-term future implications around pregnancy, parenthood, marriage, life dreams, and co-habitation. who knows if we'll ever actually decide to have sex. but we'll be damn sure we have a strong understanding of what we're getting ourselves into, if we do.

woohoo!

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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1888.

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Creep by hiroshi awai FW13

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Awake, my dear. Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light and let it breathe.

Hafez (via nargessi)

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Girl at a Rolling Stones concert in 1969.

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Not consent. 

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and i think to myself

what a wonderful world

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HOW TO LAND A WARRIOR MAN –

RELATIONSHIP ADVICE FROM UKRAINE’S AMAZON QUEEN

Katerina Tarnovska is a Ukrainian preschool teacher, a kickboxing world champion and a self-proclaimed descendent of the legendary warrior women of the Amazon. In 2002 she founded Asgarda, a martial art exclusively for women that is inspired by the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons. In the past decade, more than 1,000 ladies have been entrusted with the teachings of the Asgarda, which Katerina says is the only fighting style specifically tailored to the female form.

Katerina’s influence extends well beyond teaching women how to turn their bodies into deadly weapons. She has written instructional Asgarda books, composed countless Amazon-themed folk songs, and produced aerobics videos in which the 34-year-old looks like a cross between Jane Fonda and Tank Girl, boxercising to what sounds like a Ukrainian version of Rammstein.

I recently joined one of the Asgarda’s training sessions in the Carpathian Mountains, which was a bit like an all-girl summer camp but instead of arts and crafts classes the ladies learned how to hack attackers with sabers, axes and scythes. Before meeting Katerina I imagined that we would mostly be discussing things like what it’s like to be a woman in Ukraine’s patriarchal society—the country’s parliament is more than 90 percent male, and domestic violence is a major problem. But she was more inclined to talk about how to win a warrior man’s heart in order to realize her eerie nationalistic plan to breed a new generation of Ukrainian warriors.

VICE: How did the Asgarda first begin? Katerina Tarnovska: When I learned that Amazon women once existed on our territory, I came to the conclusion that their spirit has been genetically passed on to the Ukrainian women. It was the spirit I was born with. Ukraine’s warrior caste was destroyed, very little of it is left. The rebirth of this caste depends on women’s capability of raising boys to become warrior men. That’s what brought about the whole idea of forming the Asgarda. As a person who is professionally involved in martial arts, this is my warrior path.

But didn’t Amazons hate men and want to kill them? No. Men who were afraid, specifically ancient Greeks, wrote those myths about cruel women because Amazons often fought them, and there are even myths of the Greeks losing. If you research the historical sources, you’ll find that the Amazons loved men and got married and had children with the Scythians. I can, with confidence, say that I am an Amazon woman and that doesn’t interfere with me falling in love and having children.

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Seven current and former UConn students have filed a Title IX complaint against the university, alleging that the administration failed to protect them from sexual assault on campus and responded inadequately to sexual assaults that did occur. Their accounts are, in a word, horrifying.

It sickens and angers me (and sadly, it doesn’t surprise me) that sexual violence is normalized at my alma mater. Blind allegiance to sports players? Tons of bros and frat parties? Ugh, I’m so glad I’m not there anymore. The best part of college was study abroad.

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