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~ Tuesday, March 16 ~
~ Monday, March 15 ~
ICELAND: Bank collapse benefits foreign students
“My rent is only half of what it used to be,” full-time language student at the University of Iceland in Reykjavík, Laura Kuvaja from Finland, told the magazine.
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~ Sunday, March 14 ~
Neutelings Riedijk - Media Center for Netherlands Institute For Sound And Vision, Hilversum 2006
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~ Saturday, March 13 ~
Another Awesome Atumblr Ablog
My friend Palli /www.bristolpalin.tumblr.com/ and I have just launched a new tumblr blog. It is called Flickr Curated (flickrcurated, for short), where we try to curate some of the great stuff we find on Flickr every day.
Follow us on tumblr here:
And Twitter here:
Or don’t. It’s your call really.
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~ Friday, March 12 ~
ickynicky asked: is that your kid? He's so cute!
It is! His name is Hrappur and he turns 2 in July.
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![Between the 15th and 17th centuries, the birth of modernity in Europe with its ‘rational’, enlightened thinking positioned the corporeal female body within the realm of nature and therefore the ‘irrational’, while all things male were placed into the realm of culture and the rational. Before the European South Atlantic slave trade, the rise of capitalism, and the period of colonialism that followed it, the bleeding female body was understood as a source of power and strength, and menstruation was celebrated in Europe as elsewhere. For instance, in pre-modern pagan European cultures, and in pre-modern Tamil Nadu (present day South India), the aesthetic of the bleeding female form was revered and celebrated.[5] However, once the gender/ sex binary was born and spread across the globe via the slave trade and colonialism, a fundamental shift from woman-positive, matriarchal cultures to patriarchal and heterosexist cultures is traceable, and the bleeding female body becomes a source of contamination, an unhygienic body that must be relegated to private spaces. Modernity and Westernization took the bleeding female body out of the public arena of collective celebration and ritual, and banished it not only to visual and intellectual obscurity, but also to collective cultural secrecy.
Zanele Muholi is a photographer and activist whose work explores issues of black women’s sexuality in post-apartheid South Africa. Muholi’s images raise issues such as hate crime, HIV/Aids, gender dissidence, performativity and passing.
(via Is’khathi – A Photo-biographical Project | darkmatter Journal)](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz5412j1WM1qzppteo1_r1_500.jpg)
Between the 15th and 17th centuries, the birth of modernity in Europe with its ‘rational’, enlightened thinking positioned the corporeal female body within the realm of nature and therefore the ‘irrational’, while all things male were placed into the realm of culture and the rational. Before the European South Atlantic slave trade, the rise of capitalism, and the period of colonialism that followed it, the bleeding female body was understood as a source of power and strength, and menstruation was celebrated in Europe as elsewhere. For instance, in pre-modern pagan European cultures, and in pre-modern Tamil Nadu (present day South India), the aesthetic of the bleeding female form was revered and celebrated.[5] However, once the gender/ sex binary was born and spread across the globe via the slave trade and colonialism, a fundamental shift from woman-positive, matriarchal cultures to patriarchal and heterosexist cultures is traceable, and the bleeding female body becomes a source of contamination, an unhygienic body that must be relegated to private spaces. Modernity and Westernization took the bleeding female body out of the public arena of collective celebration and ritual, and banished it not only to visual and intellectual obscurity, but also to collective cultural secrecy.
Zanele Muholi is a photographer and activist whose work explores issues of black women’s sexuality in post-apartheid South Africa. Muholi’s images raise issues such as hate crime, HIV/Aids, gender dissidence, performativity and passing.
(via Is’khathi – A Photo-biographical Project | darkmatter Journal)
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