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In a room full of art, I’d still stare at you.

Anonymous (via syntacked)

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Women who are beyond done with all of this shit.

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I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and i’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.

Frida Kahlo (via em--ocean)

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#Colonization, #slavery,  #ghettoization, #racism...Scars & wounds that we have been carrying for too long.I don't care if it's there and not here, when THEY inflict that to them, it's all of us that are bleeding.Let's not look away, THIS, is the world we have been live in.

"Southern trees bear a strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." - Billie Holiday

#mypeople strangefruit billieholiday blackpeople blacklives africa slavery colonization color afro blacklivesmatter racism blackskin altonste

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It's plastic free July and even if this envelop is no platic but carboard, this post makes sence. I am an @amazon fan and a premium member. It's easy, convenient and fast. But mannnn the wrapping is getting out of control. Do you really have to put my product in plastic then add some paper to finish in a big box ? I don't think so. My solution: trying to create ( when possible) with it. So here is a cute envelop made of an Amazon wrapping that I received when ordering a book. Fabrics, pearls, hot glue gun and coris. There you have it !! Super nice, when if you want to go out with or to arrange files. Ce mois-ci c'est le mois du "sans plastique". Alors, non cette enveloppe n'est pas faite avec du plastique, mais ça n'est pas la matière qui compte mais la démarche. Il s'agit de consommer différent et d'éviter le plus possible les déchets inutiles comme les emballages. Donc quand je reçois mes produits Amazon, emballés dans 50 couches de plastiques et de papiers j'essaye de voir ce que je peux faire avec. Ce coup ci, j'ai créé une petite pochette avec des chutes de tissu, des coris et des perles. Parfaite pour accessoiriser une tenue pour sortir "léger", ou encore un bon moyen de se créer des pochettes de rangement. #zerowaste #plasticfree #amazon #wrapping #planet #ecolo #diy #creation #goingzerowaste #wastefree #goinggreen #art #craft #fashion #homemade #plasticfreejuly #maker

#goingzerowaste #zerowaste #fashion #art #wastefree #creation #wrapping #ecolo #maker #planet #amazon #craft #diy #homemade #plasticfree #plasticfreejuly #goinggreen

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Dani Olivier’s work on nudity and patterns !

I am so in love with it

#nudity #women #beauty #art #nakedness #patterns #french #artist #photography

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A new installation at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia displays what happens in your brain—while you’re looking at it. The project comes from Greg Dunn and Brian Edwards, a neuroscientist and a physicist by training. 

The idea behind the team’s new work, Self Reflected, is to foster an appreciation for the incredible complexity of the human brain. “You can read in a magazine or a textbook that the brain has 86 billion neurons in it, but it’s just totally meaningless,” says Dunn. He and Edwards confronted that scale head-on, hand-designing and painting five to ten versions of each kind of neuron that appeared in a single representative brain slice—150 cell types in all.

MORE. A Gold-Leaf Brain Lights Up With the Awesome Complexity of Neurons

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Models.com Africa Rising Shoot

Featured Designers include: Almasika, Bridget Awosika, Brother Vellies, Grey, Kenneth Ize, Loza Maleombho, Meena, Needle & Thræd, Nkwo, Nomad Vintage NYC, Omer Asim, Omondi, Orange Culture, Osei Duro, Post-Imperial, Ré (Bahia), Richard Braqo, Third Crow, Tree Fairfax, Tsemaye Binitie, Sophie Zinga Washington Roberts

Photographer:Ed Singleton for Models.com

Stylist: Solange Franklin Editor: Irene Ojo-Felix Hair: Sirsa Ponciano Make Up: Laura Stiassni Nails: Yukie Miyakawa Set Design: Lizzie Lang Photography Assistants: Max Bernetz & William Takahashi Stylist Assistant: Kyle Hayes & Kristina Taylor Digital Tech: Matthew Thompson Models: Ajak Deng & Maria Borges @ IMG (New York) Retouching – Silhouette Studio / Pier 59 Studios New York

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Baltimore MD Models: @damkage & Tanya Ellis Body artist: #NorshaRoland #ThatLadyEve #RebirthOfEve More photos ➡ @damkage ✌❤✨

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“Peace, peace. Thank you, Debra, thank you, BET. Thank you Nate Parker, Harry (Belafonte), and Debbie Allen for participating in that. Before we get into it, I just wanna say…you know, I brought my parents out tonight. I just wanna thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career. That uh, they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also to thank my amazing wife for changing my life.

Now, this award…this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country, the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. Alright?

It’s kind of basic mathematics. The more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. Now this is also in particular for the black women, in particular, who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.

Now, what we have been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow managed to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s gonna happen is we are gonna have equal rights and justice in our own country, or we will restructure their function and ours.

Now…I got more, y’all. Yesterday would’ve been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday. So I don’t want to hear anymore about how ‘far we’ve come’ when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on a 12 year old playing alone in a park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich.

Tell Rekia Boyd how much better it is to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt.

Now the thing is though, all of us in here getting money, that alone isn’t gonna stop this, alright? Now dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body, when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies. And now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies?

There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done, there’s no tax they haven’t levied against us and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. “But see, she would’ve been alive if she hadn’t acted so…free.“

Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter. You know what though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. And let’s get it straight, a little sidenote:

The freedom of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job. Alright? Stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interests in equal rights for black people, do not make suggestions for those that do. Sit down.

We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo. And we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind, while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment, like oil, black gold. Ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them. Gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit.

The thing is though, just because we’re magic doesn’t meant we’re not real. Thank you.”

All rights reserved to BET and Viacom. Video originally taken from here

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Moor Moirai by Afrovelvet 

www.afrovelvet.com/moor-moirai/

Models: @velvetvoodoo, @nategreyski, @ranubi 

Make-Up: @unfazedbeauty 

Photography: @eddmead 

Styling/Creative Direction: @afrovelvet

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