#laurajames

🎨#ArtIsAWeapon #Artist: Laura James @laurajamesart #Artwork: Summer Daydream www.laurajamesart.com #LauraJames #BlackArt #BlackArtists #CommisionedArt #BlackGirlArtGeeks #BlackArtLovers https://www.instagram.com/p/ChzYW0ZgMJ-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#TheBeautyDefense: #FemmesFatales on Trial #Livre de #LauraJames Justice is blind, they say, but perhaps not to beauty. In supposedly dispassionate courts of law, #attractiveWomen have long avoided #punishment, based largely on their looks, for #coldBloodedCrimes. The Beauty Defense: Femmes Fatales on Trial gathers the true stories of some of the most infamous femmes fatales in criminal history, collected by attorney and true crime historian Laura James. With cases from 1850 to 1997, these 32 examples span more than a century, across cultures, ethnicities, and socioeconomic status. But all were so beautiful, as James demonstrates, that they got away with murder. When Madeline Smith, a Glasgow socialite, tried to end a relationship with one man to date another, her jilted lover proved difficult to shake. She solved the problem, James writes, with arsenic-laced chocolates. And in Warrenton, Virginia, mild-mannered heiress Susan Cummings gunned down her polo-playing boyfriend, Roberto, following a disagreement. While these two women lived in different centuries and on different continents, both of their lawyers argued that they were #tooBeautiful to be killers. And in both cases, the juries bought it. In telling the stories of #MadelineSmith and #SusanCummings--and 30 others--James proves the existence of the so-called Beauty Defense and shines a spotlight on how #genderBias has actually benefited femmes fatales and affected legal systems across the world. #ViolenceFemme #ViolenceFemmes #Criminelle #Criminelles #Tueuse #Tueuses #ViolenceFéminine #ViolenceFeminine #FemmesQuiTuent #ViolenceContreLesHommes #masculinicide #masculinicide #FemmeFatale #androcide #lectureMasculiniste  #LaCauseDesHommes #LaConditionMasculine #LaConditionDesHommes #Masculinisme #MasculinismeÉgalitaire https://www.instagram.com/p/CAxJgHjAdN0/?igshid=6mi9lhmib4od

When the cutest girl in the world realizes she has competition. #laurajames #granddaughter #mybabygirl https://www.instagram.com/p/BufSwALlTRb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1e1vr22791a3h

Decisions, decisions. #laurajames #granddaughter #mybabygirl💕 https://www.instagram.com/p/BscHW0Hl3oV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=egw3teeg74bg

Some sweet little girl is totally in love with her Uncle Corey. #birthdayparty #coreyforrester #laurajames #goodtimes #wellredcomedytour (at Chickamauga, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq8rv4Vlasu/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1s58i3rg2t1o8

“Oh sure, but have you tried the cookie cake?” #lj #laurajames #poolparty #birthdayparty #kortturnseleven https://www.instagram.com/p/BmmY7vQhe2G/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=est63gcyrm7w

#Repost @its_not_schrodingers_autism (@get_repost) ・・・ Day 26 - Favourite Autism book. My autism assessment report came with a reading list, but that only arrived a few days ago. Fortunately the online autistic community also provide their own reading lists so I was able to make a head start on some titles 🧐. I first suspected I might be autistic nearly three years ago. A media outlet had printed an article translated from French about the lack of recognition of how autism presents in women, leading to widespread underdiagnosis. When I was a child Lorna Wing’s research was gaining prominence but still very new. Leo Kanner’s model of autism was very much what was recognised. I remember feeling like I had read something in that article that I couldn’t afford to ignore. Over the years many more of these pieces followed. Stories closer to home, of women who cried when served tuna sandwiches, who couldn’t recognise their own affective states, who drank to excess in clubs to cope with the sensory overload. Each one an experiential echoing that caused me a deep unease until the burning out of my own sensory processing and consequences of my profound alexithymia caught up with me. Post diagnosis things are different, I now compulsively seek out stories of other autistic women and their experiences, online, in print, anything I can get my hands on. I found Odd Girl Out to be something like an exercise in cathartic edification. There are too many parts that resonate so I’ll just pick my favourite from a few weeks post-diagnosis when I was feeling similarly: “...all my life I have thought I was a dog and have now been given the bombshell news that I am actually a cat...I don’t know which bits of my personality are down to the autism and which bits are inherently me.” After the euphoria of having an answer wore off, this is pretty much how I was left feeling. Thank you @boojames for writing such an important book, your story helped me realise many of the ways in which I am lucky to be cat at a time when it felt very burdensome 🐈 . . #actuallyautistic #autismacceptance #30daysofautismacceptance #oddgirlout #laurajames #neurodiversity #neurodivergent #autisticwoman

So got a couple cool pics with the founder of #PreviewModels & miss #LauraJames winner of #antmcycle19