hedonism on a budget

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Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) — First Woman (rupestrian sculpture, 1981)

look at these beauties [x] [x]

Demeter, Kore and Hekate, by Eduardo Chicharro Aguera

William Steig Illustration for Wilhelm Reich’s Listen, Little Man!, 1945

Anonymous self-portrait salvaged from a London home - Augenblick Press

Ghost Files - "The Harrowing Ascent Up Key West's Haunted Lighthouse"

A very common misconception within the south asian community. So glad she addressed that. (x)

She’s the writer for Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, an upcoming Indian coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama with a lesbian couple.  She was also the dialogue writer for Lipstick Under My Burkha, which depicts the secret world, including the sex lives, of four small-town Indian women. She contributed to the screenplay for Wazir and Qarib Qarib Single. 

The Kansas Industrialist, Manhattan, July 18, 1917

of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.

and of course there's 3. which is that modifying and wearing a cultural artifact of dubious provenance taken from a country the us is actively bombing (and in doing so presumably destroying plenty of historic buildings/artifacts) asserts a certain lack of respect for and/or sense of ownership over that country's people and culture. and obviously this is what makes it seem like such a specifically heinous move.

Oil on linen , 9 ¾ x 7 ¾ in. 25 x 20 cm.

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