The Black Art

"If I write RATS and discover that rats reads STAR backwards, and amazingly STAR is wonderful and good because I found it in rats, then is star untrue? Of course I know that words are just a counting game, I know this until the words start to arrange themselves and write something better than I would ever know." - Anne Sexton
“Sounds like an illusion to me. Lives don’t change. We simply become more comfortable with our core misery. Which is a form of happiness.
- Dr David Worth, Bored to Death, s01e03. (via occultette)

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racialicious: This is an image from the sketchbook of the late, acclaimed Disney animator Pres Romanillos.  He began his career with The Little Mermaid, had a major breakthrough with his work on Pocahontas and Mulan, and most recently designed Prince Naveen of The Princess and The Frog.   Seeing these gorgeous sketches made us wish we could interview him, and ask him about the more controversial representations of race in Disney and how it felt from behind the scenes. Sadly, his secrets went with him. 

racialicious:

This is an image from the sketchbook of the late, acclaimed Disney animator Pres Romanillos.  He began his career with The Little Mermaid, had a major breakthrough with his work on Pocahontas and Mulan, and most recently designed Prince Naveen of The Princess and The Frog.   Seeing these gorgeous sketches made us wish we could interview him, and ask him about the more controversial representations of race in Disney and how it felt from behind the scenes. Sadly, his secrets went with him. 

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vogue: BACKSTAGE: Armani Privé Spring 2012 Couture Photographed by Kevin Tachman

vogue:

BACKSTAGE: Armani Privé Spring 2012 Couture

Photographed by Kevin Tachman

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Grand Central Station, NYC, 1941. The light does not stream in like this anymore because the buildings around the station are too tall.

Grand Central Station, NYC, 1941. The light does not stream in like this anymore because the buildings around the station are too tall.

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tracylord: Norma Shearer by Charles Sheldon, 1936

tracylord:

Norma Shearer by Charles Sheldon, 1936

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vogue: BACKSTAGE: Dior Spring 2012 Couture Photographed by Kevin Tachman

vogue:

BACKSTAGE: Dior Spring 2012 Couture

Photographed by Kevin Tachman

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“One popular classroom exercise, for example, employs Scotch Tape to demonstrate how premarital sex can make girls dirty. A teacher holds up a clear strip of tape, meant to represent a girl, in front of the class. The teacher then puts the strip of tape, adhesive side down, on the arm of a boy in the class, to symbolize his sexual relationship with the girl. The teacher rips off the tape (signifying the breakup, apparently) and holds it up again for the class to look at. Students are meant to see that the strip of tape—the girl—has picked up all kinds of dirt and hair from the boy’s arm and is no longer clean. Then, when the teacher tries to stick the same strip to another boy’s arm, he or she notes that it doesn’t stick—they can’t bond! To end things with a bang, the abstinence educator makes a remark about the girl’s being “used” and therefore unable to have strong future relationships.
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Jessica Valenti, The Purity Myth (via wishful-sinful)

This was done in my “sex ed” class about 4 times in my grade school career.

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WHO DOES THAT. Ugh. My faith in humanity is constantly diminishing. 

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Abstinence metaphors are so outrageous. But this one is new to me.

My favorite was a church pamphlet that likened premartial sex to squeezing a banana to mush, which, frankly, sounds pretty painful. 

(via ftmfeminist)

ugh, how disgusting. the one metaphor I got, as a sophomore in college (less shocking when you figure it was a private catholic college) was that sex was like a party dress! and if you wore your party dress too often, it would become less special!

and this was in philosophy 101. a superb use of my parents’ money, really.

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vintagegal: Marilyn Monroe in an outtake from her unfinished film, Something’s Got To Give (1962)

vintagegal:

Marilyn Monroe in an outtake from her unfinished film, Something’s Got To Give (1962)

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fuckyeahfeminists: Two thoughts: 1) Wow, rude, Google. 2) What the fuck do I watch/do to make Google think I’m a middle-aged man? [See what Google thinks of you]

fuckyeahfeminists:

Two thoughts:

1) Wow, rude, Google.

2) What the fuck do I watch/do to make Google think I’m a middle-aged man?

[See what Google thinks of you]

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vogue: BACKSTAGE: Dior Spring 2012 Couture Photographed by Kevin Tachman

vogue:

BACKSTAGE: Dior Spring 2012 Couture

Photographed by Kevin Tachman

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