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Fri, 03 May 2013 17:10:17 -0400

Phantom Loops by Amanda Justice and Amber Vistein

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:34:33 -0400

Phantom Loops by Amanda Justice and Amber Vistein:

Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Graduate Thesis Exhibition I

April 23 - May 4, 2013

Reception: Thursday, April 25, 5:00 - 8:00 pm Gallery Talks: Saturday,&

PAUL BARIBEAU: Drag Race

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:03:10 -0400

PAUL BARIBEAU: Drag Race:

paulbaribeau:

My friend Cathy wrote this. It is like Cathy was writing what I was thinking:

“I just wanna say that I was bummed to see Alyssa Edwards get eliminated from RuPaul’s Drag Race this week. She was possibly the most accidentally entertaining of all the queens. Corey and I would laugh forever almost…

Yes! Alyssa was the most unintentionally hilarious. I will especially miss the faces and sounds she made.

britishfilminstitute: ‎”Success is a great deodorant. It takes...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:07:05 -0400

britishfilminstitute:

‎”Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.” – Elizabeth Taylor, born 81 years ago today http://bit.ly/XGxr73

cityofbostonarchives: Woman selling lemonade in the North End,...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:00:17 -0400

cityofbostonarchives:

Woman selling lemonade in the North End, 1995, May. Peter H. Dreyer slide collection, Collection #9800.007, City of Boston Archives.

This work is free of known copyright restrictions. Please attribute to City of Boston Archives and credit Peter Dreyer.. For more images from this collection, click here

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Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:33:31 -0400

ourpresidents: The National Cherry Blossom Queen Festival Each...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 11:20:06 -0400

ourpresidents:

The National Cherry Blossom Queen Festival

Each year since 1948, 50 representatives from the U.S. states and territories come together to participate in the Cherry Blossom Queen Festival.

Presidents and the First Families have participated in the celebration over the years, and it was not unusual for the Vice President or a Cabinet member to spin the “Wheel of Fortune” to randomly select the crown winner.

Photos: Tricia Nixon and 50 Cherry Blossom Queen Festival representatives at the White House. 4/9/70.

Lynda Bird Johnson in a motorcade of Cherry Blossom Festival Princesses in Washington, D.C. 4/7/62.

Mamie Eisenhower crowns the Cherry Blossom Queen, Janet K. Bailey at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. 4/11/53.

natgeofound: Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel kissing within a...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:31:03 -0400

natgeofound:

Alexander Graham Bell and Mabel kissing within a tetrahedral kite, October 1903.
Photograph courtesy Library of Congress

natgeofound: Peasant takes up collection for new church donning...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:30:30 -0400

natgeofound:

Peasant takes up collection for new church donning keg and cow horn in Austria, November 1932.
Photograph by Hans Hildenbrand, National Geographic

ourpresidents: lbjlibrary: February 16, 1967. Lady Bird...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:17:24 -0400

ourpresidents:

lbjlibrary:

February 16, 1967. Lady Bird Johnson and Mary Lasker accept on behalf of their beautification program a surprise donation of flower seeds to be used in Washington, DC school grounds, in a presentation at the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden of the White House.

LBJ Presidential Library photo #C4560-20a, public domain.

That’s one classy wheelbarrow!

remembering jason through music and words

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:16:47 -0400

magnoliaelectricco:

for a short time we’ll be streaming nearly everything jason released on cd or vinyl over the past twenty years on our bandcamp site.

please join us in the forum, where folks have been reminiscing and collecting thoughts from musicians around the web. if you’ve never registered before, there are instructions in this post.

oldchum: The Life & Times of William Callahan | Friday...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 09:49:11 -0400

oldchum:

The Life & Times of William Callahan | Friday Night at Old Faithful Shop

life: Japanese youth in revolt, 1964

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:02:04 -0400

life:

Japanese youth in revolt, 1964

After the snowstorm, waves bouncing off the wall and crashing...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:20:56 -0400

After the snowstorm, waves bouncing off the wall and crashing into other waves.

emmyc: gingerhaze: rookiemag: fat-grrrl-activism: “In 1921,...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:31:16 -0500

emmyc:

gingerhaze:

rookiemag:

fat-grrrl-activism:

“In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men…it was a custom at the time”

(via Cult of Aphrodite Vintaga)

PIZZA AND BATHING SUITS

-naomi

who wants to have a pizza/bathing suit party?

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tranqualizer: Mabel Hampton, lesbian activist and...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 06:58:08 -0500

tranqualizer:

Mabel Hampton, lesbian activist and archivist

Known fondly as Miss Mabel during her later years, Mabel Hampton (1902-1989) was truly “in the life.” A major contributor of her time and personal materials to The Lesbian Herstory Archives, she witnessed and helped document gay and black life during the 20th century, from the Harlem Renaissance to her own 25-year relationship with her partner Lillian Foster.

Hailing from Winston-Salem, NC, Hampton moved to New York in the 1920s to become a dancer and singer, and found a home in the Harlem Renaissance scene alongside queer black icon Langston Hughes and bisexual blues singer Bessie Smith. She was sent to a women’s reformatory for 13 months for prostitution in the early 1920s, but spoke openly about the kindess she received from other women there:

“[Another prisoner] says, ‘I like you,’ ‘I like you too,’ [I reply]… we went to bed and she took me in her bed and held me in her arms and I went to sleep. She put her arms around me like Ellen used to do, you know, and I went to sleep.”

In 1932, she met Foster (right) and the two remained a couple until Foster’s death in 1978.

Throughout the years, Hampton squirreled away hundreds of letters, photos and other items that chronicled African-American and gay life and history, including her own. She became a prolific philanthropist, volunteer and a piece of living history, appearing in the 1980s documentaries, Silent Pioneers and Before Stonewall. In one of the many oral histories she recorded before her death in 1989, Hampton mused:

“I’m glad I became [a lesbian]. I have nothing to regret. Not a thing. All these people run around going, ‘I’m not this, I’m not that.’ [Being gay] doesn’t bother me. If I had to do it over again, I’d do the same thing. I’d be a lesbian. Oh boy, I would really be one, then! I’d really be one! Oh boy!”

unhistorical: Victorian era women and flappers Flappers - The...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:32:27 -0500

unhistorical:

Victorian era women and flappers

Flappers - The Roaring Twenties

tangledupinlace: Ya misspelled “orgasm” fun...

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:15:13 -0500

tangledupinlace:

Ya misspelled “orgasm”

fun fact:

“shortly after arriving there [Wilhelm Reich] coined the term “orgone” – derived from “orgasm” and “organism” – for acosmic energy he said he had discovered, which he said others referred to as God”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich

Morning dog walk (at Lynn, MA)

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 07:51:08 -0500

Morning dog walk (at Lynn, MA)

ourpresidents: The Yalta Conference Cloak The photos of the Big...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:56:16 -0500

The Big Three - Winston Churchill, FDR, and Joseph Stalin- outside of the Livadia Palace at the Yalta Conference. 2/9/45

Franklin D. Roosevelt's U.S. Navy boatcloak that he wore to the Yalta Conference. Made at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in NY, August 1942.

ourpresidents:

The Yalta Conference Cloak

The photos of the Big Three at the Yalta Conference are well-known, but have you ever looked closely at what FDR was wearing?

In contrast to the double-breasted coats worn by Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt wore a distinctive wool and velvet cloak during his trip to the Crimea, Ukraine, in February 1945.

The garment is a U.S. Navy regulation officer’s boatcloak. President Roosevelt’s was made at the Naval Clothing Depot at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City in August 1942. It is a standard officer’s boatcloak, ordered and unaltered for FDR’s use.

The cloak is designed to be worn during movement by a boat to protect the wearer from the cold and his clothing from the effects of spray. It opens at the front and is fitted with two frogs (knotted lengths of braided cord), which engage to secure the cloak closed. The relative ease with which such a cloak could be put on and taken off made wearing it an attractive alternative to a more conventional garment—especially for someone whose ease of movement was hampered by the effects of polio.

Roosevelt wore similar boatcloaks during other trips he made during his Presidency. The image of FDR in these cloaks is one of the most enduring of the war years.

Photo Gallery -FDR meets with the Big Three, the Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia during his Yalta Conference Trip

-from the FDR Library

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