Charissa Cotrill's Blog, page 69
June 2, 2013
intimatehistory:
Well, Paul Bettany as ANYTHING is good with...
Well, Paul Bettany as ANYTHING is good with me, but this is epic.
Lord of the Rings : Gender Swapped
Holy shit, can this please happen? Fucking perfect casting
OH MY FUCKIN I’M HAVING A SITUATION ALKJSLAJGLAJG;AJG;
SHUT UP AND LET ME GIVE YOU MY MONEY.
June 1, 2013
pavlovs-schrodinger:
people want the 12th doctor to be an actor of color
people want the 12th...
people want the 12th doctor to be an actor of color
people want the 12th...
In The Garden: What Privilege Is
May 31st, 2013 01:00 pm
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What...
May 31, 2013
"Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences...."
mehreenkasana:
equimby:
“Veiling is legitimized by the...
“Veiling is legitimized by the element of choice, and it is the presence or lack of choice that creates the context of whether the hejab frees a woman or objectifies her. Yet history, in all its intersections between the Old and New World, shows that patriarchy repeatedly finds a way to sneak in and impose itself on women’s dress, all in the name of “liberation.”
Leila Ahmed, an eminent scholar on gender and feminism in Islam, has argued that the linking between women and the veil as oppression “was created by Western discourse.” A seemingly progressive male-driven resistance developed, which urged women to abandon the veil as a means of emancipation was therefore a mirror image of the colonial narrative; it “contested the colonial thesis by inverting it – thereby also, ironically, grounding itself in the premises of the colonial thesis.” Back home in Europe and America, these same “liberating” men fought against female suffrage for the right to vote. Feminism, in many ways, became a passive aggressive tool by which to continue to control women within a patriarchal framework.
Veiling, conversely, became a symbol for resistance against invading colonialism, only truly becoming an issue for women when they felt their cultures come under attack. Far from reconciling themselves as symbols of female submission, women, throughout the history of Western intervention in the Middle East, have persistently covered themselves to make their presence known, to be seen in opposition to whatever powers would rather paint them anonymous and invisible.”
- Revolution 2.12: The Revolution Will Not Be Veiled | Safa Samiezade’-Yazd
Read this.
halliebadger:
survivor-trek:
obscuruslupa:
Star Trek “Tik...
Star Trek “Tik Tok”
I will never be tired of this.
my new goal in life is to make fan videos that are this good
this will always be the best video
This is perfect and I will love it forever.
friendly-giant-mushroom:
castielyousonofabitch:
postmodernismru...
“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”
Interesting.
also michelangelo painted a baby angel flipping off the pope
the blond one, you see his right hand? that’s called the fig and it’s an old world european gesture for ‘fuck you” because apparently Pope Juluis II was a total raging asshole and everyone hated him
but nobody ever noticed this little fucker because the ceiling was so high
and then thirty years later they called michelangelo back to paint the wall behind the altar and he wasted no time in painting the gates of hell behind the pope’s chair
what a badass
It amuses me to this day how much Michelangelo hated his job
He was like the Renaissance Robert Pattinson
fawnthefeminist:
In all seriousness I made this because it’s...
In all seriousness I made this because it’s one of my pet peeves for guys to assume I’m dressing up/wearing makeup for THEM, but then after I made this, I’m like holy shit I made that hair dryer fuck that shoe. So then I had two reasons to put it on tumblr.
