“Amina”, a Tunisian member of FEMEN.
Text reads “My body belongs to me, and is not the source of anyone’s honour”.
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here’s ondria hardin in blackfacebody in an editorial in numéro called “african queen” because why hire a black model when you could just paint a white one!
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O Pioneer!: Work
That Gawker Media gets a bad rap is no surprise to me. I worked there for some four years, and bigger than that, I cut my teeth there — Nick Denton is the man to whom I owe my career; he taught me to write fearlessly, though oftentimes the writing I did is stuff that I’m ashamed of to this day. I…
“Sworn virgins” are Albanian women who decide to ignore their female identity and live as men in the Balkans. Photographer Jill Peters captures them HERE: http://slate.me/TcXJ0D
I wrote about “sworn virgins”, men by choice in the Balkans.
2012 Highlights from the Underground New York Public Library
Here are ten highlights from almost one thousand photographs that have become part of the UNYPL in 2012. Each photo posted in the library is beloved. The Reading-Riders have thoroughly inspired me, in their presence and in their act of transcendence. Photographing and interacting with them in the past year has impacted me as a photographer and as a person.To them, Thank you!
Sharing the UNYPL has been so rewarding. It became part of everyday to hear from those who were inspired in one way or another by the people in the photographs. I love the idea that we inspire each other, that we experience others and we become greater for it. Thank you to everyone who has liked, shared, responded and written over the past year. You helped me build this library and I’m looking forward to taking it into 2013.
New posts will begin after Jan. 1st. A Happy and fulfilling New Year to everyone!
- “Ask the Dust,” by John Fante
- “Tough Sh*t: Life Advice from a Fat, Lazy Slob Who Did Good”, by Kevin Smith
- “The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World Is Still the Least Valued,” by Ann Crittenden
- “Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature’s 50 Greatest Hits,” by Jack Murnighan
- “Othello” by William Shakespeare
- “To the Finland Station ,” by Edmund Wilson
- “Bared to You,” by Sylvia Day
- “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” by Harriet Jacobs
- “Don’t Be Sad,” by Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni
- “The Savage Detectives,” by Roberto Bolaño
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I wrote about Wilma Hurskainen and her family recreating their childhood photos.
Ever wondered what it was like to return to the past? Artist Wilma Hurskainen painstakingly re-enacts all of her childhood pictures with her sisters — right down to the facial expressions. More photos HERE: http://slate.me/UBZ9z7
