Chapter 3 of The Last Cowboy starts today!
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This comic is an amazing read. This amount of reblogs is a shame. EVERYBODY LOOK AT THIS!!!
Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.
Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.
Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.
When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.
Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.
Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.
Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.
I’d like a movie about her life too, please.
Awesome historical babes, cannot get more relevant to my interests.
Common Myths About Bisexuality from the lovely Webcomic “Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too” by bi blogger & author Maria Burnham (writer/memoirist) and Maggie Siegel-Berele (comic artist).
I usually don’t reblog stuff like this because this is my art blog but this hit close to home and reminded me of so many conversations that made me feel like garbage.
It always makes me see red when I see lesbians (and gay men) treating bisexuals this way. I don’t think I can even type too much more without quickly reaching a point where I just smash my head into the keyboard.
Went on a trip to DC with my pal Keetah and Sluggy. Shit was fun, here the pictures.
(Source: applepiesfromscratch)
Before they came out the caves, we were already the masters of science, mathematics, writing and culture. #wisdom #timbuktu #mali #ghana #africa #blackexcellence #knowthyself
it would be helpful if there were some links to news reports and perhaps pdfs or translations or something but here:I was taught just last term in my Archaeology class that Africans had no written documents.
Fall 2012, folks.
yep.
Mali was actually a hotbed of intellectual and social culture, but it never gets credit for this. I took two courses in African history as an undergraduate to learn more about a part of the world I hadn’t been educated on in school and Mali fascinated me.
Truly sublime. This song is everything.
Janelle why can’t I marry you a thousand times?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RUCK!
Ruck is a Stellarmass god and she will hold your world in her hands unless you send her some fine ladies to hang out with.
Ladies ;D
But Happy Birthday man yayayayaya <3
Ahhhhhhhhhh Thanks Keetah! This looks awesome! Thank you all for the birthday wishes.
Ladies to the Left, Fellas to the Right, where they meet there will be an orgy toniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight!
A clashing of skin-folds and ribs and howling, honking sweaty Daemon booty. Don’t act like that isn’t the most erotic thing ever.
ryxthererack asked: Happy Birthday, Ruck! I did a little something for you over on Deviantart. :D Sadly, Tumblr doesn't want me to put links in the ask box, though. :/ So I sent you a DA note instead! :3
I got it! Thank you for taking the time to make me a little something my birthday was awesome but knowing such a wide variety of people care lifts my spirits even higher.
I also approve of the SEXUAL but USE YOUR IMAGINATION concept haha! Thanks again!
I’ve created these flyers for a school activist project where I bring more attention to the women in history that have been forgotten or ignored. This blog will be an extension of those flyers where I post longer biographies of these women and other bad-ass women like them. Too often women’s achievements have been pushed aside, either by others in their lives, or else by the historians who choose to ignore them. This tumblr is dedicated to celebrating them and bringing their achievements to light!
