News Break: GA Senate Passes Anti-Abortion Legislation
SB 438 would prohibit any state employee insurance plans from covering abortions. There is no exemption for the health of the mother’s life. So, if a woman nearly dies giving childbirth and a life-saving abortion has to be performed, the women will be stuck with the bill. The Senate is now debating the bill.
Republicans engrossed this bill so that no amendments could be offered.
Sen. Jason Carter points out that the bill’s language is flawed and that legislative council agrees.
The senator presenting the bill said that Georgian’s should not have to use their taxpayer dollars with things that “may be against their morals.”
I find giving $30 million to Delta in tax subsidies while we cut the HOPE Scholarship morally offensive. I find targeting the poor with random drug tests morally offensive. I find rounding up illegal immigrants like cattle and placing them in jail morally offensive. Where is my bill? I demand you stop using my taxpayer dollars to do these reprehensible things.
Gag: the dave karofsky story giving television relevance
go off #glee
again this show carries but this kind of programming is undeniable.
This on non cable television today in world where so many hate crimes and suicides INCLUDING the ones that don't end up on the news are still happening - is so HAM
If you can't love yourself
I dig Sharon Needels but is it wrong for me to still be bothered by her Ku Kux Klan drag that all of a sudden dissapeared off her Facebook? Like my boss making a racial joke about the new freelancer being Asian and the other designer n I awkwardly laughing then changing the topic. Why is it that some white queens will be the first to think its "fetch" and "cute" to pull the race card at the drop of a dime? I mean ... REALLY Jeffrey?!
Sad thing is its all most always a projection of how they fell about themselves.
Ru Paul said it best: If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gon love somebody else? Can I get an Amen?!
Sad thing is its all most always a projection of how they fell about themselves.
Ru Paul said it best: If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gon love somebody else? Can I get an Amen?!
Gag: Andrej Pejic & Shaun Ross for ADEEN Look Book
Andrej Pejic & Shaun Ross for ADEEN Look Book | Photography by David Urbanke Styling by Hoza Makeup by Valerie Vonprisk Hair by Kam Sudlow (adeenmagazine.com)
Design Report: Baldovino Barani
Model: Vivien Ong |Calcarrie's|
Hair & Makeup: Karen Yiu
Stylist: Cheryl Leung
Photographer: Baldovino Barani |Darling Creative|
READ
Huxtable:
"YOU A STUPID HOE
JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO PACKAGE AND SELL YOUR BODY TO THE NEXT WHITE MAN WILLING TO COMMODIFY YOUR BEAUTY AS ORNAMENTS TO THE OVER-STRETCHED AND OVER-USED HOLES YOU IDENTIFY AS YOUR MOUTH AND ANUS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THIS IS A UNIVERSAL GOAL. WHEN YOU SEE ME IN THE COMPANY OF WHITE MEN, IT SADDENS ME THAT THE FIRST THING THAT JUMPS TO YOUR MIND IS THAT I AM INTENT ON BEING THEIR CUM RECEPTACLE AND OR TEMPORARY OBJECT OF DESIRE/RAGE. I HAVE WHITE FRIENDS AND AT TIMES, HAVE HAD WHITE LOVERS, NONE OF WHICH HAVE EVER BEEN THE SOLE FOCUS OF MY DESIRE, LET ALONE MY GOALS FOR A NIGHT OUT.
WHEN YOU TAKE IT UP ON YOURSELF TO CONSTRUCT FANTASTICAL COMPETITIONS BETWEEN YOU AND ANY OTHER BLACK QUEEN IN THE BUILDING FOR THE ATTENTION OF WHITE MEN, IT NOT ONLY CREATES A DYNAMIC WHEREBY WHITE MEN ARE CATERED TO AND HELD UP ON A PEDASTOOL AT THE COST OF OUR DIGNITY AND SELF-REPRESENTATION, BUT IT ENGENDERS A SITUATION IN WHICH THE FILTH THAT IS YOUR SEXUALITY IS ASCRIBED ONTO EVERYTHING THAT I DO AND SAY.
I WOULD NEVER CARRY ON THE LEVEL THAT YOU DO, WALKING UP TO WHITE MEN AND ASKING THEM HOW BIG THEIR DICK IS OR DESPERATELY FELLATIATING THEM AND ASKING FOR ‘CAB MONEY’ AFTERWARDS. YOU ARE A DAMPER TO MY SENSE OF RACIAL PRIDE AND A REMINDER THAT WE HAVE A MIGHTY LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE WE ARE FREED FROM THE HEAVY AND MESSY YOLKS OF SLAVE CULTURE.
YOU MIGHT THINK YOU’RE LIVING THE CBS VERSION OF THE SALLY HEMMINGS STORY (AND YES, I WILL CONTINUE TO INSIST ON BLACK FEMALE METAPHORS BECAUSE YOUR DETERMINISTIC FEAR OF FEMALE REFERENCES IS APALLING AND SPEAKS TO A PAST OF ABUSE THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEEK THERAPY FOR), BUT THE REAL STORY WAS A LOT DARKER THAN THAT PORTRAYAL CHOSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE.
YEA IM SADIDDY
YEA I’M A CUNT
YEA IM A ‘GURL’
BOOP."
Ref
"YOU A STUPID HOE
JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO PACKAGE AND SELL YOUR BODY TO THE NEXT WHITE MAN WILLING TO COMMODIFY YOUR BEAUTY AS ORNAMENTS TO THE OVER-STRETCHED AND OVER-USED HOLES YOU IDENTIFY AS YOUR MOUTH AND ANUS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THIS IS A UNIVERSAL GOAL. WHEN YOU SEE ME IN THE COMPANY OF WHITE MEN, IT SADDENS ME THAT THE FIRST THING THAT JUMPS TO YOUR MIND IS THAT I AM INTENT ON BEING THEIR CUM RECEPTACLE AND OR TEMPORARY OBJECT OF DESIRE/RAGE. I HAVE WHITE FRIENDS AND AT TIMES, HAVE HAD WHITE LOVERS, NONE OF WHICH HAVE EVER BEEN THE SOLE FOCUS OF MY DESIRE, LET ALONE MY GOALS FOR A NIGHT OUT.
WHEN YOU TAKE IT UP ON YOURSELF TO CONSTRUCT FANTASTICAL COMPETITIONS BETWEEN YOU AND ANY OTHER BLACK QUEEN IN THE BUILDING FOR THE ATTENTION OF WHITE MEN, IT NOT ONLY CREATES A DYNAMIC WHEREBY WHITE MEN ARE CATERED TO AND HELD UP ON A PEDASTOOL AT THE COST OF OUR DIGNITY AND SELF-REPRESENTATION, BUT IT ENGENDERS A SITUATION IN WHICH THE FILTH THAT IS YOUR SEXUALITY IS ASCRIBED ONTO EVERYTHING THAT I DO AND SAY.
I WOULD NEVER CARRY ON THE LEVEL THAT YOU DO, WALKING UP TO WHITE MEN AND ASKING THEM HOW BIG THEIR DICK IS OR DESPERATELY FELLATIATING THEM AND ASKING FOR ‘CAB MONEY’ AFTERWARDS. YOU ARE A DAMPER TO MY SENSE OF RACIAL PRIDE AND A REMINDER THAT WE HAVE A MIGHTY LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE WE ARE FREED FROM THE HEAVY AND MESSY YOLKS OF SLAVE CULTURE.
YOU MIGHT THINK YOU’RE LIVING THE CBS VERSION OF THE SALLY HEMMINGS STORY (AND YES, I WILL CONTINUE TO INSIST ON BLACK FEMALE METAPHORS BECAUSE YOUR DETERMINISTIC FEAR OF FEMALE REFERENCES IS APALLING AND SPEAKS TO A PAST OF ABUSE THAT YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEEK THERAPY FOR), BUT THE REAL STORY WAS A LOT DARKER THAN THAT PORTRAYAL CHOSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE.
YEA IM SADIDDY
YEA I’M A CUNT
YEA IM A ‘GURL’
BOOP."
Ref
Design Report: Strict Institution
Strict Institution
Model: Karolina Kurkova & Crystal Renn
Photographer: Steven Klein
Stylist: Ludivine Poiblanc
Magazine: Interview March 2012
In case you aint know.. A Zebra just shat on the world
On Vogue.com-- http://www.vogue.com/collections/fall-2012-rtw/rick-owens/review/
by Mark Holgate
For such a graceful, refined performance that considerably advanced the idea that fashion should be of a power and strength that doesn’t ever resort to cliché, there was an incendiary quality to Rick Owens’s show. It wasn’t just the flaming backdrop that ignited seconds before it started. Or the way models’ heads were encased in balaclava-like hats that had been slashed to reveal their darkened eyes and deeply glamorous scarlet lips. A lot of that throbbing, insistent discomfort came, instead, from the sound track, which solely consisted of Zebra Katz’s “Ima Read,” a rap with a hard, brutal invective that makes copious use of the phrase “Ima read that bitch,” and didn’t exactly sound like it came from a very happy place.
Such was the reaction from the audience filing out afterwards, and so counter did the lyrics run to the way that Owens cherishes women that an e-mail was duly sent to Owens to find out why he chose “Ima Read.” He wrote back: “‘I’m gonna read that bitch’ is a gay vogueing-culture term for ‘tell her what’s what.’ It’s ridiculously exaggerated in this song and expressed mostly through the female voice. I liked how it expressed savage impulses in a chilly, controlled way. And I was speaking to the savage impulses we all recognize in ourselves and suppress in elaborate and formal ways.”
Rare is the designer these days who makes us connect in some visceral way with his or her show, who pushes us to a place that isn’t necessarily welcome or comfortable. (Maybe it’s because there are so many shows that it is possible to get inured to what’s going on; after all, the preponderance of the X-rated Azealia Banks track “212” this season, a paean to oral sex, has barely raised eyebrows.) Owens, an intelligent and thoughtful designer, isn’t one to flinch from going on that journey, even if it leaves him exposed to anger, criticism, or misinterpretation. He might even prefer it that way. After all, he acknowledges that his headpieces “might be read violently as well. It was my brutalist version of Marlene Dietrich’s veil in Shanghai Express. I can realistically see them with the veiling pulled up on any girl in the Métro.”
What is far less open to interpretation is that Owens is someone who doesn’t like to reside in a comfortable place; he is always looking for the provocation in his particular brand of elegance. For fall, he opened with somber, floor-length coats and flowing dresses or draped tunics and long skirts in tufted and textured mushroom and gray wools, the looked dramatically illuminated against the flames, that rap track blasting out. The whole effect was like Joan of Arc at an underground club—very “Rouen is burning.” Gradually, that gave way to exquisitely cut soft/severe leather coats that morphed into cropped sculpted leather or shearling jackets, rounded volume blown through the sleeves and worn with skirts cut with circular, spiraling seams that fell to the ankles. Then came a series of gorgeous collarless raglan-sleeved jackets and slim coats graphically blocked in mink and leather. Presented in this context, Owens’s message was clear: Appreciate the luxury and the beauty, but don’t let it get disconnected from the world around us—and it stayed burning long after those flames had gone out.
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