hiii
i know iāve been gone for months but if any of yāall still wanna keep up with me, follow my new tumblr @55faces or my twitter @diakazekĀ or my instagram @55facesĀ
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from alma (heyalma.com, @hey_alma on insta)
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they said what they said
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There's something particularly funny about the fact that Queen Elizabeth allegedly favours the Ninth Doctor tho
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women just get it. and men donāt. wonāt elaborate
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Oscarās First Black Winner Accepted Her Honor in a Segregated āNo Blacksā Hotel in L.A.
āOn a February afternoon in 1940, Hattie McDaniel ā then one of the biggest African-American movie stars in the world ā marched into the Culver City offices of producer David O. Selznick and placed a stack of Gone With the Wind reviews on his desk. The Civil War epic, released two months earlier, had become an instant cultural sensation, and McDanielās portrayal of Mammy ā the head slave at Tara, the filmās fictional Southern plantation ā was being singled out by both white and African-American critics as extraordinary. The Los Angeles Times even praised her work as āworthy of Academy supporting awards.ā Selznick took the hint and submitted the 44-year-old for a nomination in the best supporting actress category, along with her co-star, Olivia de Havilland, contributing to the filmās record-setting 13 noms.ā Ā
āMcDaniel then was escorted, not to the Gone With the Wind table - where Selznick sat with de Havilland and his two Oscar-nominated leads, Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable - but to a small table set against a far wall, where she took a seat with her escort, F.P. Yober, and her white agent, William Meiklejohn. With the hotelās strict no-blacks policy, Selznick had to call in a special favor just to have McDaniel allowed into the building (it was officially integrated by 1959, when the Unruh Civil Rights Act outlawed racial discrimination in California).ā
Hollywoodās highest honor couldnāt stave off the indignities that greeted McDaniel at every turn. White Hollywood pigeonholed her as the sassy Mammy archetype, with 74 confirmable domestic roles out of the IMDb list of 94 (āIād rather play a maid than be a maid,ā was her go-to response). The NAACP disowned her for perpetuating negative stereotypes. Even after death, her Oscar, which she left to Howard University, was deemed valueless by appraisers and later went missing from the school ā and has remained so for more than 40 years. Her final wish - to be buried in Hollywood Cemetery - was denied because of the color of her skin.
Even after World War II, she continued to play underwritten maid parts in such films as 1946ās Song of the South, Walt Disneyās adaptation of the Uncle Remus stories, now considered a rare racist blot on the studioās legacy. In her final years, McDaniel found success on the radio, taking over in 1947 from Bob Corley ā a white voice actor who mimicked an African-American woman ā as the title character in Beulah, a hit comedy series about a live-in maid. It was the first time an African-American woman starred in a radio show, earning McDaniel $1,000 a week. She was cast in the TV version of Beulah in 1951 but shot only six episodes before falling ill.ā
Read the full piece here
A reminder that racial segregation was legal in California until 1959.
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āYoung activists have always driven protests. @repjohnlewis was only 20 when he led his first sit-in in Nashville. Civil rights movement was ātouched by the spirit of historyā he saidā
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ā53 years ago today there were solidarity marches across the country after Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. Young people led the protests, then and nowā
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gay history according to tumblr is like:
long time ago men had sex with men in rome
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stonewall
today
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clown cat circa 1890s
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i saw this post earlier about therapists and it reminded me of my old therapist paul, who in my opinion is one of the greatest men alive and who did not put up with my bullshit for even one second
anyway i go in to see paul one week in the summer of 2016, and iām doing my usual bullshit which consists of me talking shit about myself, and paul is staring at me, and then he cuts me off and says that heās got a new tool for helping people recognize when theyāre using negative language, and gets up and goes over to his desk
and iām like alright hit me with that sweet sweet self-help article my man, because iām a linguistic learner and whenever paulās like here i have a tool for you to use itās pretty much always an article or a book or something
paul opens a drawer, takes something out, and turns back around.Ā i stare.
i say, paul.
is that a nerf gun.
yeah, says paul.
i say, are you gonna shoot me with a nerf gun in this professional setting.
he happily informs me that thatās really up to me, isnāt it. and sits back down. and gestures, like, go ahead, what were you saying?
and i squint suspiciously and start back up about how iām having too much anxiety to leave the house to run errands, like it was a miracle to even get here, like iāve forgone getting groceries for the past week and thatās so stupid, what a stupid issue, iām an idiot, how could iā
a foam dart hits me in the leg.
i go, hey! because my therapist just shot me in the leg. paul blinks at me placidly and raises an eyebrow. i squint again.
i say, slowly, itāsā not a stupid issue, iām not stupid, but itās frustrating me and i donāt want it to be a problem iām having.
no dart this time. okay. sweet.
so the rest of the hour passes with me intermittently getting nailed with tiny foam darts and then swearing and then fixing my language and, wouldnāt you know it, i start liking myself a little more by the end of the session, which is mildly infuriating because paul can tell and heās very smug about itĀ
anyway i leave his office and the lady having the next appointment walks in and i hear whatās all over the floor? and paul very seriously says cognitive behavioral therapy tools.
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make it clear that you will help keep Jews safe.Ā jews are feeling helpless because non-jews are making them feel unsafe.Ā make it clear that you will listen to your jewish siblings to learn how to make them feel safe
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are you gonna choke me for valentineās day or like whatās going on
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