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Just when I thought I couldn’t fall in love with Basquiat any further: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s illustration for Maya Angelou’s children’s book, Life doesn’t Frighten Me (1993), aka an artnerd’s dream collaboration. I’m absolutely turning Basquiat’s T-rex into a tattoo.
What how was he so cool???!
Ordinary People - John Legend
whuuuuut
Evil Woman - ELO from Ouverture
jammin
Hundreds of people danced the conga through the streets of Havana to the beats of drums and trumpets in a government-sponsored march against homophobia.
The dance on Saturday was led by President Raul Castro’s daughter, Mariela, who is the head of the National Sexual Education Center and a leading campaigner for gay rights in the country.
People danced La Rampa through the crowded city, chanting “Homophobia no! Socialism yes!” as they made their way through Havana for more than an hour.
Cuba has previously persecuted homosexuals, particularly during the 1960s when being gay was outlawed and homosexuals were interned in work camps.
Mariela Castro said she is optimistic that the communist nation will eventually legalise gay marriage.
“What is most complicated is the time it takes to overcome prejudices,” she said.
“We must change consciousness.”
Castro’s National Center of Sexual Education has campaigned to turn around Cuban attitudes about gays over the past seven years.
“I came to dance and to protest against homophobia,” said Farah Mariah, who claims to be the first person in Cuba to undergo a sex change and now calls herself the “Diva of the Transvestites.”
The Little People Working in our Machines
Via Wired:
Mark Crummett thinks modern technology is beautiful. To him the devices we’ve built, such as computers, are not only functional, they’re aesthetically appealing. Especially on the inside.
“I like the idea that [technology] looks the way it does because it has to look that way,” he says. “A hard drive is made out of round and shiny material because of what it has to do and how it has to do it.”
Crummett says he’s tried to highlight that beauty in a series of photographs he calls Ghosts in the Machine. He’s placed model railroad figurines inside the guts of old computers and other contraptions, making the processors and transistors form a kind of otherworldly cityscape. Computer fan vents become postmodern architecture. Motherboards become strange new ecosystems.
For more images, and how Crummett shoots, visit Wired.
Images: Selected photographs from Ghosts in the Machine by Mark Crummett, via Wired. Select to embiggen.
Haruka & Michiru: A Lesson in Innuendos
friendly reminder that you don’t owe your mom kindness and love if she hasn’t shown you any, and that family members don’t automatically deserve all your respect if they treat you badly. don’t let anyone make you feel guilty about how your parents treat you.
really good to see this today
“Strange though it may sound, you do not need a diagnosis to treat people with mental health problems,” said Dr Lucy Johnstone, a consultant clinical psychologist who helped to draw up the DCP’s statement.
“We are not denying that these people are very distressed and in need of help. However, there is no evidence that these experiences are best understood as illnesses with biological causes. On the contrary, there is now overwhelming evidence that people break down as a result of a complex mix of social and psychological circumstances – bereavement and loss, poverty and discrimination, trauma and abuse.”
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Medicine’s big new battleground: does mental illness really exist?
(this article is terrible but this quote rules)
