[Image: Four shoulders up portraits of actress Naomie Harris, a beautiful slender Black woman.]
Seriously, though. The fact that one of the Tomorrow People actors/actresses is getting to be in a Bond movie just blows my mind.
I totally liked her when she was just a teleporting teenager trying to stop evil corn moguls and mosquito lovin’ mad scientists .
(Source: agent355)
Transcript:
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“So I was reading through my comments the other day when I came across one that really disturbed me.
“How the [bleep sound] does this stupid piece of [bleep sound] have seven million views.”
Thanks for watching!
“[Bleep sound] Go back to Africa!”
“I’d love to visit Africa some day. That would be awesome.”
“This girl is really pretty. No homo.”
[Sound of record scratching to a sudden stop.]
Huh? I know what you’re thinking. It’s two thousand and twelve. Who still says that? I thought the same thing, too. But for those of you who don’t know, “no homo” is a qualifier that’s used to assure your present company that you are not, in fact, a homosexual. Because this phrase makes my skin crawl I decided to come up with a few qualifiers of my own and with your help, I hope that I can make these really popular in two thousand and twelve.
“Can I borrow this? Thanks. No klepto.”
“Thanks for letting me crash on your couch. No hobo.”
(assuming a baby talk voice) “Who’s the cutest puppy in the whole wide world? You’re the cutest puppy. No beasto! I mean, just ‘cause you’re cute doesn’t mean I wanna have sex with you, you crazy little dog.
(while sniffling and crying) “Oh, grandpa. I just miss you so much. No necro.”
“She’s beautiful.”
Character holding baby: “Oh, thank you.”
“Oh, no pedo.”
Character holding baby: “What?”
Have any qualifiers of your own that you’d like to make up? Or maybe there’s a phrase that really just skeeves you out. Let me know in the comments below and I’ll talk to you guys later. Bye!
(voiceover): You can get caught up with my most recent comedy and hair style video by clicking on one of the thumbnails on the left. I’m also on twitter, Facebook, and have my own website. And no need to ask, you are always welcome to share my videos wherever you choose. Thanks.]
[Image: A photo of a marketplace with a large sign that reads: Men Only. Entry for Women is Strictly Forbidden.]
Bet Shemesh Flashmob
You’ve probably heard by now about the tensions in Israel between ultra-conservative Jews and … pretty much everyone else. There was an incident in December where one of the ultra-conservatives expressed his ire at a girl who was dressed (by his standards) immodestly. From Ami Kaufman’s blog at 972:
Naama Margolis, an 8-year-old from Bet Shemesh, is the most famous girl in Israel today. In fact, nobody can stop talking about her.
And why is that? Well, on Friday evening, Naama told her story on the most watched news show in the country. Interviewed by Channel 2’s Shai Gal, Naama told how she was afraid to go to school, just a few hundred meters from her house in Bet Shemesh, because Haredim cursed and spit on her for being dressed “immodestly.”
In response to this and other incidents, women in the Bet Shemesh neighborhood staged a flash mob: a dance for women’s equality and pluralism.
On Friday, Jan 6th, 2012, a group of 250 women from Bet Shemesh decided to raise their voices against the exclusion of women from the public domain by holding a mass public dance in the city square. The women, residents of the city from all ages and sectors, religious, traditional and secular, gathered together in a flashmob dance, in the city square and started dancing towards a change.
Well played, ladies of Bet Shemesh. Well played indeed. I tip my hat to you and admire the intense amounts of win and awesome that you display here.
(Source: patheos.com, via wheresmywaterbuffalo)
![[Image: A hand drawn illustration of a light skinned person posing in a kneeling position, wearing a red and white striped strapless bathing suit with hands behind their head. They have a wonderful beehive type hairdo with a long beard and lots of armpit, pubic hair and leg hair. The text reads: fuck yr [your] fascist beauty ideals.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luha6z7A0Y1qekf2fo1_500.jpg)
[Image: A hand drawn illustration of a light skinned person posing in a kneeling position, wearing a red and white striped strapless bathing suit with hands behind their head. They have a wonderful beehive type hairdo with a long beard and lots of armpit, pubic hair and leg hair. The text reads: fuck yr [your] fascist beauty ideals.]
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![annaham:
[Description: Photo of a young Asian woman wearing elaborate makeup. She wears flakes of gold leaf on her eyebrows and lips, along with red eyeshadow, false lashes on her bottom lids, and red-orange lipstick.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq9gs0s7Au1r1atg0o1_500.jpg)
[Description: Photo of a young Asian woman wearing elaborate makeup. She wears flakes of gold leaf on her eyebrows and lips, along with red eyeshadow, false lashes on her bottom lids, and red-orange lipstick.]
Lemurs at Drusillas Park in East Sussex enjoy a tea party, drinking green tea from traditional cups and saucers (Picture: Drusillas Park, via Pictures of the day: 24 August 2011 - Telegraph)
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![TRIGGER WARNING FOR IMAGES OF DOLLS RECREATING CRIME SCENES AND SHOWING THE END RESULT OF VIOLENCE OR SELF HARM!
[Image: A black and white photo of Frances Glessner Lee, an elderly white woman seated at a table with small dollhouse furniture, looking intently down as she assembles something.]
chicagoartnerd:
fuckyeahthebizarre:
At a time when women didn’t have any place among the police or law enforcement, and forensic science barely existed a elderly Chicago socialite named Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee became famous for her crime solving analytical skills, and taught an entire generation of cops how to search for clues…. using doll houses.
The creator of 18 perfectly proportioned dioramas based on real-life crime scenes, these painstakingly crafted dioramas include functioning locks and lights and details such as overturned cups, bullet-holes, and boxes of chocolates as well as miniature corpses in a variety of macabre positions.
They were used by Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee in week-long seminars where the young detectives would scour the scenes for 90 minutes with only the aid of a flashlight and a magnifying glass, trying to deduce the details of the murders through the details of the dioramas. If they had a keen eye, they might spot the tiny bullet lodged into the tiny rafters of the scene, and begin to unravel the clues.
After Lee’s death in 1962, the models were acquired by the Maryland Medical Examiner’s office and underwent $50,000 in restorations in the 1990s. They are still used as training tools.
[Image: A photo of a small doll in a dollhouse barn hanging from a rope standing on top of a wooden crate.]
[Image: A dollhouse kitchen with a small doll representing a woman who has fallen by her stove, laying on the ground as part of a miniature crime scene.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltp7u0OZgw1r2xld8o1_500.jpg)
TRIGGER WARNING FOR IMAGES OF DOLLS RECREATING CRIME SCENES AND SHOWING THE END RESULT OF VIOLENCE OR SELF HARM!
[Image: A black and white photo of Frances Glessner Lee, an elderly white woman seated at a table with small dollhouse furniture, looking intently down as she assembles something.]
At a time when women didn’t have any place among the police or law enforcement, and forensic science barely existed a elderly Chicago socialite named Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee became famous for her crime solving analytical skills, and taught an entire generation of cops how to search for clues…. using doll houses.
The creator of 18 perfectly proportioned dioramas based on real-life crime scenes, these painstakingly crafted dioramas include functioning locks and lights and details such as overturned cups, bullet-holes, and boxes of chocolates as well as miniature corpses in a variety of macabre positions.
They were used by Mrs. Frances Glessner Lee in week-long seminars where the young detectives would scour the scenes for 90 minutes with only the aid of a flashlight and a magnifying glass, trying to deduce the details of the murders through the details of the dioramas. If they had a keen eye, they might spot the tiny bullet lodged into the tiny rafters of the scene, and begin to unravel the clues.
After Lee’s death in 1962, the models were acquired by the Maryland Medical Examiner’s office and underwent $50,000 in restorations in the 1990s. They are still used as training tools.
[Image: A photo of a small doll in a dollhouse barn hanging from a rope standing on top of a wooden crate.]
[Image: A dollhouse kitchen with a small doll representing a woman who has fallen by her stove, laying on the ground as part of a miniature crime scene.]
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What do you mean who is a “woman”? I have no time for such questions! A woman is anyone who walks through that door asking for help, help that is within our reach to provide and says “I am a woman, help me”. Now stop interrupting ever so often with these questions and actually get to working with us.— My supervisor this morning, as we were drafting our new manifesto for the women’s health collective. Sometimes, we do get things right. (via jaded16india)
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![[Image: a vintage 1960’s picture of a light skinned woman in a kitchen, holding a glass of something orange. The caption says: “How about a tall glass of I don’t give a fuck.”]
peecharrific:
girl-non-grata:
GPOY.
all day.
EVERY DAY.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lse9yfy7KF1qcrtcuo1_500.jpg)
[Image: a vintage 1960’s picture of a light skinned woman in a kitchen, holding a glass of something orange. The caption says: “How about a tall glass of I don’t give a fuck.”]
GPOY.
all day.
EVERY DAY.
[Images: Three promotional images for a sadly not real TV show called “Jazz Kings”. The first image shows a vintage, black and white sky line of New York with the show’s title and a thin Black woman wearing a flapper hat and dress laughing as she spins and dances, her long necklaces flying into the air. Beneath it is an image of actress Zoe Saldana in vintage 1920’s dress, looking through the veil of her hat at the camera. The third is of actress Ziyi Zhang in period dress as well in a green 1920’s style cheongsam(?), looking over her shoulder to the side.]
JAZZ KINGS a drama set in 1920’s Harlem New York during the influx of the Harlem Renaissance, the upswing of gangsters, prohibition, and suffrage, following Evelyn “Evie” Holmes [Zoe Saldana], as she navigates her new life in the city, where she quickly becomes beguiled by the new Jazz scene and the world of the men who run it…
I’ve got this whole concept where Evie is from Louisiana, but wants to try her luck as a real New Yorker cosmopolitan kinda gal, and so she legs it to Harlem and gets herself a job and a crappy tiny apartment with a few other girls, and meets some really glam dolls who lend her things so she can go dancing (because she’s so obsessed with work and they just wanna show her a good time) and she learns to loosen up and becomes a bit of a rebellious flapper since she’s away from her parents and she makes friends with Zhang Ziyi’s character who was working as maybe a waitress or something and they just get it and how people are bringing them down and they bemoan working and Evie meets the Jazz scene boys, with different groups and their followers vying to be the Jazz King, and there is sneaky alcohol consumption and mafia, and ~trendy~ white people who try to move in on the scene but mostly cause problems and the white ladies are always chatting about suffrage but they really only care about themselves for the most part and their new ability to vote. People have intense literary discussions and talk about Langston Hughes or Zora Neale Hurston or Dorothy Parker if you’re gettin’ outta Harlem and Warren G Harding scandalizes everyone then DIES, Calvin Coolidge gets elected, people listen to the radio for news. Also people are dropping dead of wood grain alcohols smuggled in as drinking liquors and sometimes people get bumped off if you know what I mean~ and there would be a lot of sex because progressivism.
IT’S THE BEE’S KNEES.
…In my fake TV show, I’m having Zhang Ziyi. Fight me.
HOLY CRAP THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN I AM BEYOND EXCITED. I WISH THIS WAS REAL SO, SO, SO, SO BAD. Gahhhhhh! Be real and on my TV, show! Be real!
This should really, really be a thing. Especially since right now I’m watching the Ken Burns series on Prohibition (it is seriously lacking in any real discussion/portrayal of PoC and non-white immigrants and what Prohibition was for them and their roles in it. Which is inexcusable, I find, as a historian). All I can think of is the total awesomeness of this show, and also of the hilarious scenes of some of the white suffragettes being unbearable, what with the Women’s Christian Temperance Union mostly just being the White Christian Temperance Movement. But mostly OH MY GOD ZIYI ZHANG AND ZOE SALDANA. ALL Z’S, ALL AWESOME, ALL THE TIME.
Seriously, though, documentary. If you’re going to use lots and lots of jazz tunes from the era to symbolize the booziness and what not, at least TALK SOME ABOUT THE ACTUAL JAZZ ARTISTS AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
This totally needs to be a thing that’s real.
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