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by  sty830

(inspiration)

Plan of the ruins of the Imperial Palace on the Palatine Hill, Rome

Mia Mingus (via arabellesicardi)

And that attitude is the same attitude that you have, is the same Joey Carter has. You think you are in america, you are not in america, You are in a colony that is in Polynesia that was forcibly taken, just as, I might add, all of Eastern Europe was forcibly taken by the Soviet Union - Which americans think is a “very very bad” place. “the bad bad Soviet Union”. Well the “bad bad” united states of america took Puerto Rico, it took Alaska, it stole Indian land, it took Hawaii, it took Guam, it took Micronesia, Palau, and you better learn that history because you are the recipient of an imperialist tradition.”

The shadows in my room make me so happy

Lee Crutchley

KangHee Kim

Taktuk Hopson, photographed wearing a parka made by her mother, Rainey Hopson. Rainey Hopson: “I made it [parka] last fall. Underneath, the quilted lining part, was from Ben’s cousin, her daughter out grew it. I took the cover off and replaced it with a cover I ordered off of Etsy [laughs]. The ruff (fur sewn around the hood of the parka) is from Ben’s mother, who passed away when they were younger and I kept it. It’s a farmed fox fur [ruff], perfect for little girls. My mom passed away when I was really young, when I was 11, so I didn’t get to learn from her. She sewed. I went to college in Northern California, my grandmother on my step dad’s side lives there, she’s a quilter. She bought me this super old sewing machine. It weighted like 150 pounds. I started sewing there. When I moved back to Alaska, a women from Barrow [Alaska] got me into sewing parkas. She would rip it apart and make you do it over and over again. You have to have a perfect stitching, if its too wide you will get air gaps and if its too small the stitch will rip through the skin. It’s a lost art.” —Taktuk Hopson and Rainey Hopson are both Inupiaq and live in Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.