We are all prostitutes and junkies.

but now a days you gotta own a lot of money to see the world....

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but now a days you gotta own a lot of money to see the world. Stop being so classist tumblr!

iluvsouthernafrica: Zimbabwe: 1980s Miners from Zimbabwe and...

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Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

Photo by Milton Rogivin. iluvsouthernafrica.tumblr.com

iluvsouthernafrica:

Zimbabwe: 1980s

Miners from Zimbabwe and their families. From “Family of Miners” series by Milton Rogivin

This series portrays miners in ten nations.

In 1962, Milton and Anne Rogovin traveled to Appalachia for the first of nine visits. Photographs were taken of mountains devastated by mining operations as well as of miners at their work places and in the neighborhoods where they worked. Milton captured the effects of Black Lung disease and unemployment.

In the “Family of Miners” series, workers were photographed with hard hats and lanterns and coal blackened faces, at rest, in below-ground changing rooms, or on elevators descending into the mines. When not at work, they were photographed at festivals, at local pubs, or at home with their families or with their pets.

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"Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against..."

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“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

- Albert Camus (via hellanne)

-fuckthepeople: Series of female mugshots from the 1960s....

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-fuckthepeople:

Series of female mugshots from the 1960s. (via)

hahahahha awesome

I want this as a blow up picture.

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"This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one..."

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“This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one here?”

- Comment on Jezebel article “Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit” (via lorbeere)

you-do-not-do: Trayvon Martin is murdered in cold blood and his past (which consists of…what?...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:08:18 -0400

you-do-not-do:

Trayvon Martin is murdered in cold blood and his past (which consists of…what? Pictures of guns? Smoking weed?) is brought up to muddy his name.

“But we live in a post-racial society! Barack Obama! The blacks are doing so well!”

A woman is raped and her sexual history is dragged all around so that people know she was asking for it.

“But women got the vote in 1920! Madonna’s worth a billion dollars! We don’t need feminism! Men’s rights!”

animemarshmellow: careful-sweetheart: Gun-toting granny Ava...

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animemarshmellow:

careful-sweetheart:

Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down… And shot off their testicles.

“The old lady spent a week hunting those men down and, when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way,” said police investigator Evan Delp.

Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant’s desk and told him as calm as could be: “Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.”

Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cell mate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up.

The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas’ testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. “The one guy, Thomas, didn’t lose his manhood, but the doctor I talked to said he won’t be using it the way he used to,” Detective Delp told reporters. “Both men are still in pretty bad shape, but I think they’re just happy to be alive after what they’ve been through.”

The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row. “When I saw the look on my Debbie’s face that night in the hospital, I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself ‘cause I figured the Law would go easy on them,”’ recalled the retired library worker. ” And I wasn’t scared of them, either - because I’ve got me a gun and I’ve been shooting’ all my life. And I wasn’t dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one.”

So, using a police artist’s sketch of the suspects and Debbie’s description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighbourhood where the crime took place till she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel.

“I knew it was them the minute I saw ‘em, but I shot a picture of ‘em anyway and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them,” the oldster recalled…

“So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door, and the minute the big one opened the door, I shot ‘em right square between the legs, right where it would really hurt ‘em most, you know. Then I went in and shot the other one as he backed up pleading to me to spare him. Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.”

Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny.. “What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison,” Det. Delp said, “especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor.”

“especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor.”

Bless

praise this lady

forgetpolitics: Two young men tied the knot in a rare South...

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:02:11 -0400

forgetpolitics:

Two young men tied the knot in a rare South African gay wedding in KwaDukuza (Stanger) on Saturday.

In what was described as the town’s first gay marriage, Tshepo Modisane and Thoba Sithole, both 27, walked down the aisle in front of 200 guests at the Stanger Siva Sungam community hall.

The wedding was a jubilant, exciting affair, attracting even uninvited members of the local community.

Thoba, a Joburg-based IT specialist, is from Shakaville, KwaDukuza and Tshepo an audit manager at PwC. They have known each other for years and dated on and off, before stabilising their relationship.

Now that they are wedded, they will take on the double-barrelled surname of Sithole-Modisane. The couple appeared to enjoy the support from the community, family and friends.

“Thoba is a really nice guy, very fun and outgoing,” said Loyiso Xaba, a family friend.

Another wedding guest, Bongani Sibisi, said: “They are an inspiration and step in the right direction.”

“This is my first wedding of this kind,” said Pastor Tankiso Mokwena, who married the couple.

In an interview on gay lifestyle website mambaonline.com, Thoba said about the relationship: “Since we are both men we have decided that neither of us will pay lobolo. The most we will do is to buy gifts for our parents as a sign of appreciation for raising us.”

The couple are reportedly planning to have children through a surrogate.

“Family is important to us and that is the number one reason why we want to have children,” said Thoba.

“We also want our children to grow up in an environment where they are loved greatly by both parents who appreciate them.”

Tshepo said one of the reasons they chose to be so open was that they “hope to inspire people out there who are still struggling to come to terms with their sexuality”.

“We see no reason to hide in darkness as if there is something to be ashamed about.

“Our marriage is largely symbolic and a sign that black gay men can commit and build a family through a happy and loving marriage,” he said.

Pair tie bold knot

Reblogging the original story also because this is just too sweet and awesome to pass up

ethertune: By crorlz

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:57:25 -0400

ethertune:

By crorlz

introtofeminism: i didnt mean to become an angry feminist it just sort of happened because i looked...

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:55:28 -0400

introtofeminism:

i didnt mean to become an angry feminist it just sort of happened because i looked out my window and woke the fuck up y’know

bitterly-ambivalent: Very long working progress. Sigh. Still no...

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:58:55 -0400

bitterly-ambivalent:

Very long working progress. Sigh.
Still no where near finished and due in just over a week!

Fresno County Wildflowers 2-05-2006 by Sierra Sunrise

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Fresno County Wildflowers 2-05-2006 by Sierra Sunrise

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travelingcolors: Yosemite | California (by Felix Machleid)

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travelingcolors:

Yosemite | California (by Felix Machleid)

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