INKTOBER Day 14!

blvck and gold

I go to the butterfly garden and twirl, you fuck!

Bard to fighter, after buying a pretty dress (via outofcontextdnd)

Yeah fuck you fighter

Naziyah Mahmood is a woman of contradictions. She was a scientist for the European Space Agency, an artist and soon to be published writer/poet. Also, she is a deadly martial artist and weapons collector while being a peace loving woman of faith. Naziyah has overcome a tough upbringing and disability to become an academic of excellence……who can also kick your butt. (x)

WHAT A BADASS <3 <3

“I do get a lot of odd looks when walking around Glasgow, especially when I’m training. There is still that stereotype here that women dressed like me should just be in the kitchen. An old instructor of mine used to call me his ‘little ninja girl.’ I didn’t mind because it gave me an advantage. I was taken lightly and I routinely got underestimated, especially when sparring. I remember one male student who was well over 6ft reassured me by saying,

‘Don’t worry. I will go easy on you.’

He soon found himself on the floor.”

Women scientists made up 25% of the Pluto fly-by New Horizon team. Make sure you share this, because erasing women’s achievements in science and history is a tradition. Happens every day.

. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150712

Si je devais avoir du mépris

Si je devais avoir du mépris, ce ne serait pas pour l’ignorant, le fanatique, le passionné ridicule, pour les gens superficiels ou imbus d’eux-mêmes.

Si je devais avoir du mépris, ce ne serait pas pour le cracher à la tête de ceux qui ont une opinion différente de la mienne.

Si je devais avoir du mépris, ce ne serait pas pour ceux qui se comportent comme des cons aujourd’hui.

Non, si je devais avoir du mépris, ce serait pour ceux qui se comporteront comme des cons demain.

Ce serait pour ceux qui se pavanent plein de certitudes, certains de leurs connaissances inébranlables, de leurs sources irréfutables, de leur parole incontestable. Inamovibles colosses dont les théories sont étayées à grand renforts de données biaisées, d’extrapolations fumeuses, de faits mal analysés et de vérités partielles.

Pour ceux qui se font fort d’esquiver les questions gênantes avec la mauvaise grâce que caractérise une foi encore plus mauvaise.

Ceux qui refusent le dialogue en bâillonnant ceux qui les entourent. Ceux qui se créent des œillères pour ne contempler que ce qui leurs plait. Ceux qui s’assourdissent avec leurs propres discours, tels des disques rayés, ânonnant les mêmes paroles jours après jours.

Ce serait non pas pour celui qui n’est pas intelligent, mais pour celui qui refuse de l’être.

Car si l’intelligence est dans la nature de l’Homme, alors je ne vois pas de comportement plus aberrant que celui qui consiste à en refuser l’expression et le développement.

Oui, si je devais avoir du mépris, ce serait pour lui, pour elle. Pour toi aussi qui me lis. Pour moi, surtout.

Car l’idée même que l’immobilisme intellectuel est une plaie est une idée fixe. Sans doute s’appuie-t-elle sur les biais mentionnés plus haut.

Mais c’est la seule qui semble conserver la notion d’autocritique et de rigueur intellectuelle, et c’est sans doute celle qui confère à notre esprit le plus de vertu.

#flâner episode 1 from #strollingseries  gaëlle & christelle talked about black french culture, “bande de filles”, afrofuturism, fatou, sisterhood & more

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dystopian novel premise:

A high flying Silicon Valley startup has invented Good Dollars, debit cards which can be restricted so that the money can only be spent “ethically” - that is, on products that have been whitelisted by the person who set up the card. Employers start paying their employees in Good Dollars instead of regular dollars so they can control how their workers spend their paychecks. 

Most employers blacklist alcohol and cigarettes, because they don’t feel it’s appropriate for you to spend your paycheck on those. Some employers, being especially socially conscious, blacklist movie theatres and swimming pools, while others make it impossible to spend your money on potato chips or soda. The CEO of Walmart really hates lobsters so Walmart paychecks are restricted so you can’t buy lobster. The CEO of Amazon has a beef with steak, so if you work for Amazon your Good Dollars won’t let you buy any.

Plot twist: like all great dystopian novels, this one is just “what if we treated everyone the way we treat poor people”. Kansas lawmakers have banned welfare recipients from spending their money on movies and swimming pools. Missouri tried to ban food stamps recipients from spending the food stamps on steak, seafood, and cookies. Wisconsin is debating a ban on buying “unhealthy” food with food stamps.

So if you’re in the mood to be a brave teenage protagonist, boy have I got a system for you to take on.

Sousveillance needs to spread

Eliza Bennett

A Woman’s Work is Never Done

A series of photographic works titled ‘A Woman’s Work is Never Done’ Using my own hand as a base material, I considered it a canvas upon which I stitched into the top layer of skin using thread to create the appearance of an incredibly work worn hand.  By using the technique of embroidery, which is traditionally employed to represent femininity and applying it to the expression of its opposite, I hope to challenge the pre-conceived notion that ‘women’s work’ is light and easy.  Aiming to represent the effects of hard work arising from employment in low paid ‘ancillary’ jobs, such as cleaning, caring and catering, all traditionally considered to be ‘women’s work’. 

The technique, I recall first applying to my hand under a table during a home economics class in school. I was totally amazed to find that I could pass a needle under the top layers of skin without any pain, only a mild discomfort.  As with many childhood whims it passed and I hadn’t thought any more about it until quite recently when I decided to apply the process to my hand to make it appear calloused and work worn like that of a manual labourer. Some viewers consider the piece to be a feminist protest, for me it’s about human value. After all, there are many men employed in caring, catering, cleaning etc… all jobs traditionally considered to be ‘women’s work’. Such work is invisible in the larger society, with ‘A woman’s work’ I aim to represent it.  (artist statement)

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