#earlene

[ghstmsk]

A bunch of character redesigns! These all badly needed redesigns for various reasons and I'm now so much happier with these!

First image to bottom left to right: Rain May Fall (she/they), Salem Raazel (he/him), Delta (they/them), Alastair (he/him), Earlene (she/her), Bell Taurus (she/her), Elmo (he/him), Belat (he/him), and Esteem (they/them).

#my art #original #oc #artists on tumblr #rain may fall #salem raazel #delta #alastair #earlene #bell taurus #elmo #belat #esteem #i think delta took me the longest for the simple fact that they have 6 arms so i had to like figure out how to design each sleeve #to not look too busy cause their design is based on circus (cause theyre a tightrope walker) and vaporwave #also the umbrella made me put my head in my hands they are so hard to draw #rain may falls redesign is partly inspired by the works of meyoco btw #particularly the palette i think it worked really well for them #belat and esteem also gave me some difficulty but in the end i really like how they came out

[blairwarbler]

Glee TV Show Kendra, Andrea + Burt Unpublished Wardrobe Photos

#glee #jennifer aspen #earlene davis #mike o'malley #104 preggers

[coochiequeens]

Stephen Shames had just turned 20 when he visited the headquarters of the Black Panther party in Oakland, California, and showed some of his recent photographs to Bobby Seale, co-founder and main spokesman for the organisation. Though Shames was still finding his way as a photographer, Seale liked what he saw and decided to use some of the pictures in the Black Panther newspaper. So it was that a young white guy from Cambridge, Massachusetts became the official chronicler of the Black Panthers from 1967 to 1973, documenting their community programmes, protests, rallies, arrests and funerals at close hand.

“The Panthers were never a black nationalist organisation,” says Shames, now 74. “They formed alliances with many black writers and activists and their whole legal team was white. They were not out to get white people, as the American government insisted. They were a revolutionary organisation who worked with anybody they felt was sincerely trying to change the system to benefit poor people and create a more just society.”

Since that time, Shames has published two photobooks about that struggle – The Black Panthers (2006) and Power to the People: the World of the Black Panthers (2016) – as well as several other titles that attest to a life of activism and deep engagement with his subjects. Next month, he will complete his trilogy on that era with a book that, as he puts it, is “long overdue”. Co-authored with former Black Panther Ericka Huggins, who is now a writer and educator, Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party is a dynamic visual and oral testament to the crucial role played by women in a revolutionary group whose figureheads, with a few exceptions, were men.

In her foreword to the book, the activist and author Angela Davis points out that 66% of the membership of the Black Panthers was female. She writes: “Because the media tended to focus on what could be easily sensationalised … There has been a tendency to forget that the organising work that truly made the Black Panther Party relevant to a new era of struggle for liberation was largely carried out by women.”

The book is a powerful record of an intense period of grassroots activism and political engagement, a counter-narrative to the one propagated by J Edgar Hoover, the head of the FBI, who called the Panthers “the greatest threat to the internal security of the country”. Like the Black Panther men, the women members tended to look both stylish and dramatic, often sporting afros and at times wearing the black leather jackets and berets that were the Panther uniform. “Most young people are photogenic,” says Shames, “but the Panthers were charismatic. It was something to do with the pride they instilled in their people. Rather than treating them as a problem, as the government did, they gave them a sense of faith and pride and I really think that shines through in the photographs.”

Shames’s extraordinary access allowed him to capture fly-on-the-wall shots of young women at protest rallies, but also carrying out on-the-ground organising of various Black Panther community initiatives, including the Free Breakfast for Children Program, the People’s Free Ambulance Service and the People’s Free Medical Clinics, which offered medical care, including sickle-cell anaemia testing. Though the series is punctuated by images of well-known female members – Kathleen Cleaver (law professor and former communications secretary for the party), Elaine Brown (prison activist, writer and former chair of the party), and the late Afeni Shakur (political activist and mother of rapper Tupac Shakur) – most of the testimonies come from ordinary black women whose youthful engagement with the Black Panthers remains the most empowering moment of their lives.

Carol Henry, who joined the Oakland chapter of the Panthers, recalls: “I joined the BPP when I was 20 years old. I lived in a part of town where the Free Breakfast for School Children Program ran. We got up at 3am; it was a real mission, but it was beautiful. We gave those children a full breakfast every day. Cooking that breakfast was the most memorable part, because everybody got up so early and everybody worked together.” Another woman, Barbara Easley-Cox, who was in the Philadelphia chapter, remembers: “Love is what tied me to the party; it exemplified how I understood love. And that is: you have to love people, to serve them. I was so loved. So blessed on this earth because of my sisters, all of us, who came into the party. It’s lacking today, when I look out on this landscape in America.”

As co-author, Ericka Huggins wrote the introductory essay and tracked down, as she puts it, “the women who were there and whose individual testimonies we could use to evoke how extraordinary that time was for many of us”. Huggins’s own moment of political awakening was seismic. Aged 18, and a student at Lincoln University in Philadelphia, she picked up a copy of the radical leftist magazine Ramparts and saw a photograph of a young black man strapped to a hospital gurney with a bullet wound in his stomach. Next to him, a policeman stood grinning at the camera. On reading the accompanying report, she found out that the young man was Huey P Newton, a co-founder of the party, who had authored the party’s 10-point manifesto with Seale in 1966. “I studied the picture for some time,” she recalled years later, “I didn’t have tears for it, I was so appalled.”

The following day, she left a note for her friend and fellow student John Huggins that read: “I am going to California if I have to walk. I am going to find Huey Newton and work in his defence. Are you coming?”

The pair subsequently drove across the country to Los Angeles, where they joined the local Black Panther chapter, which then comprised around 20 members. They were married soon afterwards and initially worked at whatever task was necessary: answering phones, selling newspapers, writing letters to politicians and talking to potential financial donors. Not long after their arrival in California, they attended the funeral of 17-year-old Bobby Hutton, who had been killed in disputed circumstances during a shoot-out between the Panthers and the Oakland police. “The person waiting in line next to me to pay his respects was Marlon Brando,” says Huggins. “He looked as heartbroken as I felt.”

The killing was an augury. In January 1969, her husband, who had become a leader of the Los Angeles Black Panthers, was assassinated on the campus of UCLA by alleged members of a black nationalist group, the US Organization. The killing was thought by many in the black community to be linked to the Cointelpro programme that was being conducted clandestinely and illegally by the FBI against the Black Panthers. In December that year, Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed in an FBI-orchestrated raid on Hampton’s apartment.

Widowed with a three-week old daughter, Huggins moved to her husband’s home town of New Haven, Connecticut and, alongside Kathleen Cleaver and Elaine Brown, organised a branch of the Black Panther party there. In 1969, she was arrested alongside Bobby Seale, and charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy but, after a lengthy trial, the charges were dismissed in May 1971.

“The word ‘conspiracy’ was used a lot at the time,” she says now, calmly. “We spent time in jail for a murder we did not commit or have anything to do with. The system, then as now, was punitive. We were punished before we even entered the courtroom and their aim was to keep us in prison for ever…”

Did her time in prison dent the sense of optimism and empowerment she had experienced when she joined the Black Panthers? “My optimism was dented by my husband being killed,” she replies, “and by not being able to see my daughter except for a single hour every Saturday. But I chose not to let it break my spirit. When I was in solitary and grieving, I taught myself to meditate in a way that brought me into a deeper focus, so that when I went to court I could be really present. It’s a practice I have kept to this day.”

Huggins insists that her experience was not exceptional and that it “helped me help the women I contacted to tell their stories, because it’s hard sometimes to go back”. Alongside Shames’s powerful images of a moment of black activism that echoes through the decades to this day, those stories evoke a time in which young black women experiencedlifechanging personal empowerment and collective possibility.

“These are not war stories,” says Huggins, who spent 14 years as a Black Panther, making her the longest serving woman in their history. “They are stories of service to humanity. The reason they are so striking, touching and inspiring is because you can sense how beautiful and alive the women were in that moment. Every function of the government that could do harm to us did so, but we kept stepping out and stepping up, because we were giving our communities what had never been given. I think all the women in the book realise that, because they can remember how great they felt back then, what they learned, and what was indelibly imprinted on their minds and in their hearts. The book is our legacy.”

Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party by Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins will be published by ACC Art Books on 9 October. There will also be a book signing and talk on 9 October at Marcus Books in Oakland with the co-authors and special guest Angela Davis, 2-4pm

#Black Panther Party #Stephen Shames #Women in revolutionary organizations #Earlene Coleman #Giving school children a free breakfast started with the black panthers #Ericka Huggins #Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party #Kathleen Cleaver #Elaine Brown #afeni shakur #sickle-cell anaemia awareness #May 1971

[carmelasoprano]

Portraits by E. K. Walker from Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Arts & Politics (Fall 1977)

E. K. Waller is an artist living in Los Angeles. “My present work is about feminist community and deals primarily with the fantasies of feminist women. I am a member of a group of feminist artists, which is my support group, and with whom I recently exhibited at the Woman's Building in L.A.”

#e. k. walker #1977 #1970s #photography #lily tomlin #bia lowe #earlene mills #terry platt #diane salah #diane devine #kathleen burg

[mimi-0007]

#earlene brown #track and field #shot put #olympic gold medal #3x #black history #black tumblr #black literature #black excellence #black girl magic #black community #black is beautiful #beautiful black women

[ethernitty]

antagonist with silly plans and sidekicks are the best kind

#this is bout earlene floyd

[celluloidrainbow]

BRUNO & EARLENE GO TO VEGAS (2013) dir. Simon Savory Earlene arrives at Venice Beach after running away from an estranged lover, only to become fast friends with Bruno, an intersex Australian skater who is also lost. Together, they set out into the Nevada desert to find themselves. Living high whilst keeping low, the pair are in it for themselves, but not quite each other, as their respective pasts begin to reveal dark truths. (link in title)

#lgbt cinema #intersex cinema #bruno and earlene go to vegas #indie cinema #lgbt #intersex #usa #uk #france #lgbt movie #intersex movies #indie movie #lgbt film #intersex film #indie film #lgbt media #intersex media #queer cinema #ashleigh sumner #miles szanto #2013 #2010s #2010s movies #2010s films #2010s cinema

[earlens]

Empowering Lives with Enhanced Hearing: Embrace the Beauty of Sound!

#HearClearly #HearingAidAdvocates #SocialInclusion #SoundExperience #LifeInFullVolume #EarLens

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Earlene Dennis Brown

Earlene Dennis Brown, a three-time Olympian, was the first African American woman to win a medal in the shot put. Throughout her life Brown excelled in a variety of sports, gaining attention, recognition, and honors. She is the only shot-putter to compete in three consecutive Olympics (1956, 1960, 1964). Brown won Olympic bronze for Women’s shot put in 1960; was Amateur Athletic Union Champion in shot put (1956-62, 1964); won Amateur Athletic Union Championship, discus (1958-59, 1961); won gold medal in shot put, silver medal in discus, USA-USSR dual meet (1958); was shot put and discus champion, Pan-American Games (1959); and placed 12th in shot put, Tokyo Olympics (1964).

Earlene Dennis, born July 11, 1935, in Latexo, Texas to Espenola Tillis Dennis, a domestic servant, and Willie Dennis, a semipro baseball player with the Negro League in Texas. When her parents separated in 1938, Dennis remained with her mother and they moved to Los Angeles in 1945. Dennis’s mother married Julius Walker in 1946. Dennis attended Jordan High School in South Central Los Angeles, where she excelled in track and field. Her athletic ability was noticed by many, including Adeline Valdez, Dennis’s high school gym teacher, Josephine Spearman, and Coach Clarence Mackey, who tried to get her to compete in the Helsinki Olympics (in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland). Valdez is credited with putting the first discus in Dennis’ hands while her history teacher taught her to shot put. Before competing in shot put and discus, Dennis anchored the relay team.

In 1956, Brown finished in the top ten in the shot put and the discus. In 1958 Brown received the #1 world ranking and became the first American to break the 50-foot barrier. Brown won gold medals in the shot put as well as discus events at the Pan American Games in 1959. At the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 Brown placed 12th in the shot put.

Brown retired from the shot put competition in 1965. The same year she took up another sport, roller derby. Brown’s career in skating began as a blocker for the New York Bombers.

In 1975, Brown retired from all athletic ventures and worked as a beautician to provide for herself and family. On May 1, 1983, Earlene Dennis Brown passed away in Compton, California at the age of 47. On December 1, 2005, Earlene Brown was posthumously inducted in the National Track and Field Hall of Fame by the USA Track and Field (USATF) Association during the Jesse Owens Awards and the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Jacksonville, Florida.

#athlete #historical #black history month

[ghstmsk]

Old vs new

#all of these characters needed redesigns but for various reasons #mostly being that its old art and my design senses and skill has changed since #rain may fall was picked because compared to the other characters in her story they just felt very plain #i also planned on only giving them a brown skintone and i wasnt gonna change their hair or anything #but than while i was microwaving food i randomly thought of them with darker skin and curly pink hair and i thought it was really cute #so i did it lol #salem is a design i was never happy with even when i originally drew him i was not happy with his design #particularly cause he looked very christmas-y #so i changed his palette making the green more yellowish and the red more orangeish and i think that worked out better #delta needed a redesign for the obvious reason of being art from 2019 also i felt they didnt seem vaporwave enough #and the way the umbrella cuts off in the art i did of them looksbadman #alastair and earlene also from 2019 but also i chose them specifically because i... i needed seperate images of them #its awkward to crop that old art for their character pages #bell taurus also just old art from 2019 doesnt even have arms cause i used to not always put arms on stickman drawings #elmo primarily cause i wanted to change his colors and make him look older as well as get rid of his horns and give him a skintone #his story (and salems) had some lore development since i drew him in 2019 so this better fits the lore #belat is another design i was never happy i spent a long time on his old design fiddling with it back and forth and hated it #i decided to make him a catboy and now he looks better #and esteem. my god esteem. i got lazy with their old design and i hated it. they needed the redesign the most #anyways done rambling

[complete-clownery]

lol I almost cried coloring that rabbit

I just love making random Sonic ocs with no porpous to them whatsoever

Still kinda wanna talk about them

Checker: Actually hungarians will know who she got that inspitation from (kockás fülű nyúl my beloved) idk man shes a travelling kid psichologist or something,,, she can also fly with her ears (yeah ik cream can do that but this is bc of her inspitation kockás fülű nyúl can also fly with her ears so thats that)

Elwood: I dont even know what to say,,, hes 12 and skates and thinks shadow the hedgehog is cool, but he loves his Mom and respects her, they actually have a pretty nice apartman. He has 2 friends and hates everyone else

Mina (her AI generated name was actually Jennifer the mink, but I drew her and shes not giving Jennifer vibes so shes Mina): probably and influencer, tiktok streams every friday dont miss it,, she actually has a lot of followers and a big audiance. She either wants a gay best friend or just sraight up a lesbian,,, I havent decided on that yet so I let you decide it for yourself

Earlene: theyre an angel. Also Botanist (plant biologist) As you can see from their getup they like to work on the field. They have hundreds of notebooks filled with notes of their journeys and the plants they found along the way. Can be shy around mobians, but if you ask them about their work, theyll open up to you in no time :)

#clown does art #sonic the hedgehog #sonic oc #sonic idw #idw sonic comics #sonic #fanart #ocs

[milkyway-gaily]

[3 pages of short comic. Please read panels from right to left like in manga, thank you!]

This was for my dear recipient Huggiebird for The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Gift Exchange 2023. Lots of amazing works there! Please check out the whole collection!

I love drawing anything food-related so naturally I went with this prompt lol

The title comes from the quote: “No matter where you are in the world, you are at home when tea is served.” – Earlene Grey (poet)

Illya and Napoleon are somewhere between friends and lovers and they're currently stuck in the temporary shared housing in London(but they're not complaining at all). Gaby on the other hand has the privilege of enjoying a nice flat all by herself. (If you find Illya's room and bed way too big that's because I was stupid🤣)

#the man from uncle 2015 #tmfu #napollya #napoleon solo #illya kuryakin #alexander waverly #the man from uncle #the man from uncle gift exchange 2023 #secret santa 2023 #my art

[piosplayhouse]

"never forget" well how could anyone ever forget the fateful event that brought Thranduil the Elvenking to his destined American human mate Earlene

[thebobbyarts]

Jezebelle, Earlene & Filbert

#digital #art #artists on tumblr #character design

[doyouknowthisdragartist]

#do you know this drag artist #drag #april fools #full disclosure I've never actually seen any of her movies before but I've had my share of jokesters requesting madea #here you go. you're welcome

[tragedicna]

Earlene [ Earl ] Kim ( 24 ) -> the support system . . . a hunter who seems to often make it seem like everything is a joke , there's something much deeper to her playful and mischievous attitude . while she seems like she doesn't take anything seriously , she pulls through when she's needed and is always there to support her team .

Adela Song ( 22 ) -> the leader . . . she's to take over the family business once she has more experience and the former head retires , but this placed an immense pressure on her as there were a LOT of expectations on her . stern and strict , adela is very critical of herself and often seems like she doesn't know how to loosen up .

Orion Song ( 23 ) -> the bait . . . adopted into the song family as a child , he's the throwaway child . . . his life is meant to protect adela from harm , so he's often sent into the fray and lure out any sort of creatures that could be lurking in the darkness . . . reckless with his own life , orion doesn't hesitate to leap into the fire head on and it often frustrates adela .

Camilla Ahn ( 23 ) -> the scout . . . an adventurous girl at heart , she enjoys her job , exploring abandoned spaces or wandering the woods . . . she's so fearless that some people think that she just lacks self-preservation . . . camilla is a gentle and friendly soul that finds the POSITIVE in many things , and her curious nature sometimes makes people think she's kinda ditzy and dumb ; but she's a whole lot more resourceful and intelligent than she puts out to be .

#new muse :)