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Still Time to Enroll in Gender Through Comics Course

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:44:28 -0400

dcwomenkickingass: Ball State’s Gender Through Comics course starts April 2 and you still have time...

Tehmina Durrani | The Woman Behind The Revolution [x] Tehmina...

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 12:42:40 -0400

Tehmina Durrani | The Woman Behind The Revolution [x]

Tehmina Durrani is a Pakistani author and activist. For 13 years, she was married to Ghulam Mustafa Khar, the former Governor of Punjab and one of the most powerful men in the country during the 70s and 80s. She chronicled her marriage in the 1991 book, My Feudal Lord, where she describes the abuse, torture, rape and humiliation she suffered at the hands of Khar.

She faced criticism not only for speaking out against Khar, but also for staying in the marriage for 13 years and having children with him. Reviews of the book to this day disparage her for not leaving sooner or seeking help or doing more to protect her children, despite Khar commanding tremendous power and influence. On page 156, she writes: “What could the police do? They would admonish Mustafa, but sooner or later I would be alone with him, in a worse predicament than before. My silence was not to protect Mustafa; it was to protect myself.”

In 1997, Ghulam Mustafa Khar’s son, Bilal, married a woman named Fakhra Yunus. She too suffered physical abuse at the hands of her husband and escaped after three years to return to her mother’s home. However, in April 2000, Bilal Khar tracked her down and threw acid in her face while she slept. After being released from the hospital, she returned to Bilal and reached out to Tehmina Durrani for help. Tehmina intervened and took Fakhra into her own house despite facing death threats from the Khar family.

Tehmina Durrani is now the author of several books and an activist for Pakistani women and rights of the poor. Her efforts to help Fakhra were detailed in a 2001 Time Magazine article entitled “The Evil That Men Do” which also contained this iconic graphic photograph of the two of them. Fakhra Younus committed suicide on March 17, 2012 at the age of 33. Bilal Khar was acquitted of all charges.

the-daily-robot: Robot Masters of MM1 Framed Print Set...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:13:10 -0500

the-daily-robot:

Robot Masters of MM1 Framed Print Set available at Etsy.

Would go great with a similar set featuring the Masters of MM2

pixivartrec: Artist: WawawaPixivOriginal: oriental motifs

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:12:55 -0500

pixivartrec:

Artist: Wawawa
Pixiv
Original: oriental motifs

ronstormer: effinglioness: ninjabrianhasanstd: mortallyfoolish...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:10:19 -0500

ronstormer:

effinglioness:

ninjabrianhasanstd:

mortallyfoolish:

Elle Woods was hollering back before the movement. This is why i love this movie. It’s so progressive. Elle is a femme feminist who comes by it the hard way. She doesn’t change for the bookish people, the elitists, or for the feminists. She just does what she needs to do, and what she wants, even when at first it was chasing a boy. Then the movie drops the romance. IT DROPS THE ROMANCE. chick flicks don’t do that. Emmett asking her out is a footnote at the very end. And this whole time, she is classy, and lady like, and has pride in herself and her work. She’ll go to a costume party as a playboy bunny, but like hell will she sleep with her professor for an internship. Elle is my feminist role model

Same.

Elle Woods 4ever

I remember listening to my DAD defend Legally Blonde. An uncle was saying “Oh look, it’s that stupid movie again.” as he flipped through the channels. My dad responded with “Oh yeah, that movie where the blonde girl with great grades works really hard to get into pre-law, studies hard and proves herself to her peers and bosses while maintaining her integrity and not sleeping with her boss? What a terrible message to send girls.”

Also, I love this movie because Reese Witherspoon.

yourboyscoob1: bestnatesmithever: So, we used to waste hours...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:10:12 -0500

yourboyscoob1:

bestnatesmithever:

So, we used to waste hours throwing paper balls at trash cans trying to make it. Now we will spend hours throwing paper balls trying to miss.

Has science gone too far?

3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:10:02 -0500

3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production:...

bougiesattva: Marina Abramovic meets Ulay “Marina Abramovic and...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:06:28 -0500

bougiesattva:

Marina Abramovic meets Ulay

“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”

moromi: Finally found it! :D It’s a video for an “Any-Size”...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:06:14 -0500

moromi:

Finally found it! :D

It’s a video for an “Any-Size” Book cover. Which is kinda cool, isn’t it?

I remember seeing this in my tumblr dash and I kinda recall liking it, but as with everything tumblr, I lose things in tons of posts that I forget these things!

So this’ll be one of my summer projects. And I’m actually excited to do some test runs and if I have time, I’d probably craft for friends.

It’s a kind of brilliant idea really. Or maybe I’m just one of those book people that get annoyed when my comics get botched in my bag. At the rate that I travel, they get botched… A LOT.

I’m wondering how I can also make my own nexus case. I have some cutie ideas… but I’ve yet to see. I’m spending my first month and a few weeks on craft projects because I don’t think I’ll have a sewing machine (nor do I think I even have time to sew) when I’m in Aussie.

Actually, I’m also more excite about getting really pretty fabrics!

leslieseuffert: Natsumi Hayashi ”A sweet-looking Japanese girl...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:06:00 -0500

leslieseuffert:

Natsumi Hayashi

”A sweet-looking Japanese girl who, one day, decided to take self-portraits..of herself levitating. She can be spotted in and around Tokyo, equipped with her SLR and her self-timer. When she feels the moment strike, she presses the shutter button down and then, quite literally, “jumps” into place. What I love most about her shots is that they don’t feel forced. Natsumi has a way of making us feel as though she naturally levitates throughout life. When I asked her how others react to her jumping around Tokyo, here is a funny story that she shared. “One day, when I was jumping at a famous sightseeing spot in western Tokyo, workers at a souvenir shop were frightened by how I was jumping. They were whispering things like ‘Is the girl mentally ill’ and ‘Do we need to call the police?’ “So I stopped jumping and apologized to them by saying, ‘I am taking jumping photos for my wedding party’s slide show.’ Their faces turned bright red, and they said things like ‘Oh dear!’ and ‘Congratulations!’ and even ‘Keep jumping!’

escapekit: The Exploded Alphabet Matt Stevens explodes the...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:20:21 -0500

escapekit:

The Exploded Alphabet

Matt Stevens explodes the alphabet in his latest set of typography prints.

homodachin: bakachon: American teacher in Japan under fire for...

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:19:27 -0500

homodachin:

bakachon:

American teacher in Japan under fire for lessons on Japan’s history of discrimination:

Miki Dezaki, who first arrived in Japan on a teacher exchange program in 2007, wanted to learn about the nation that his parents had once called home. He taught English, explored the country and affectionately chronicled his cross-cultural adventures on social media, most recently on YouTube, where he gained a small following for videos like “Hitchhiking Okinawa” and the truly cringe-worthy “What Americans think of Japan.” One of them, on the experience of being gay in Japan, attracted 75,000 views and dozens of thoughtful comments.

Dezaki didn’t think the reaction to his latest video was going to be any different, but he was wrong. “If I should have anticipated something, I should have anticipated the netouyu,” he told me, referring to the informal army of young, hyper-nationalist Japanese Web users who tend to descend on any article — or person — they perceive as critical of Japan.

But before the netouyu put Dezaki in their crosshairs, sending him death threats and hounding his employers, previous employers and even the local politicians who oversee his employers, there was just a teacher and his students.

Dezaki began his final lesson with a 1970 TV documentary, Eye of the Storm, often taught in American schools for its bracingly honest exploration of how good-hearted people — in this case, young children participating in an experiment — can turn to racism. After the video ended, he asked his students to raise their hands if they thought racism existed in Japan. Almost none did. They all thought of it as a uniquely American problem.

Gently, Dezaki showed his students that, yes, there is also racism in Japan. He carefully avoided the most extreme and controversial cases — for example, Japan’s wartime enslavement of Korean and other Asian women for sex, which the country today doesn’t fully acknowledge — pointing instead to such slang terms as “bakachon camera.” The phrase, which translates as “idiot Korean camera,” is meant to refer to disposable cameras so easy to use that even an idiot or a Korean could do it.

He really got his students’ attention when he talked about discrimination between Japanese groups. People from Okinawa, where Dezaki happened to be teaching, are sometimes looked down upon by other Japanese, he pointed out, and in the past have been treated as second-class citizens. Isn’t that discrimination?

“The reaction was so positive,” he recalled. For many of them, the class was a sort of an a-ha moment. “These kids have heard the stories of their parents being discriminated against by the mainland Japanese. They know this stuff. But the funny thing is that they weren’t making the connection that that was discrimination.” From there, it was easier for the students to accept that other popular Japanese attitudes about race or class might be discriminatory.

The vice principal of the school said he wished more Japanese students could hear the lesson. Dezaki didn’t get a single complaint. No one accused him of being an enemy of Japan.

That changed a week ago…

read more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/02/22/american-teacher-in-japan-under-fire-for-lessons-on-japans-history-of-discrimination/

Oh man, this really upsets me. I saw this video when he first uploaded it, before the netouyu got to it, and I really hate that they’ve done this :/ I can’t believe no sensible Japanese are stepping in and stopping this and saying, hey maybe you need to re-evaluate.

beautifultype: Cattle BaronCattle Baron’s Ball 2012 Catalog...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:11:20 -0500

beautifultype:

Cattle BaronCattle Baron’s Ball 2012 Catalog project from Cory Say. See more here.

infinite list of favorite movies - Legally Blonde “Exercise...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:06:00 -0500

infinite list of favorite movies - Legally Blonde

“Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands. They just don’t.”

nomellamesfriki: Nunca un espacio tan pequeño te solucionaría...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:04:55 -0500

nomellamesfriki:

Nunca un espacio tan pequeño te solucionaría tanto

6dearly6demented6: lolsofunny: this picture should have more...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:04:49 -0500

6dearly6demented6:

lolsofunny:

this picture should have more then the amounts of notes it has, this shows us that not ever thing is “picture perfect” and that behind that smile and those eyes there is fear . So i beg you to please reblog this instead of a pair of shoes, someone smoking a blunt, and clothes … because this picture is literally worth 1,000 words

I will ALWAYS reblog this.

humansofnewyork: I am a street photographer in New York City....

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:54:55 -0500

humansofnewyork:

I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”

Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.

I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.

Photo

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:43:27 -0500

enginmete:

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:53:14 -0500

enginmete:

Photo

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:52:40 -0500