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#was playing fela kuti all day at work today having a great time 👍🏻 we start planting tomorrow!!! #Spotify

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Post Malone's verse in "Fortnight" ("I've been calling ya but you won't pick up / 'Nother fortnight lost in America / Move to Florida, buy the car you want / But it won't start up 'til you touch, touch, touch me") + the weird storytelling on "Florida!!!" = I am rotating in my mind the tiny glimpse of Springsteen-esque storytelling we could have gotten from her on this album if she had leaned into the folklore/evermore "I write fiction now" and also if she were at all in an introspective and mature place in her life and not interested in doing... Whatever tf TTPD is

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girl HELP 😭

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Just arrived in the mail... a 1988 comic compilation sold to benefit people living with AIDS

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Josef Albers, instructing a class at Black Mountain College, North Carolina 

North Carolina Digital Collections

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Besides that it is completely unnecessary why did we stop grilling musicians like this. mfer look like he got subpoenaed

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Following you is so helpful bc I know if hannibal is trending again within like 2 minutes of getting online, thanks for your hard work o7

LOL as someone who was obsessed with Hannibal back in the day I loved receiving this ask ngl. Shoutout to whatever blog you meant to send this to for doing God's work

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Domenico Gnoli (Italian, 1933-1970) Bathtub c. 1967

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Nell Brinkley

#Comics #Nell Brinkley

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Nell Brinkley, from Flapper Queens, Woman Cartoonists Of The Jazz Age by Trina Robbins

Fantagraphics, 2020

#Comics #Nell Brinkley

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“Torchy” by Jackie Ormes, first African American woman mainstream cartoonist

#Comics #Jackie ormes

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published critics agreeing with your thoughts is basically a virgo’s academy award like oh wow this feels good

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#lol CALLED IT!

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Jackie Ormes, the first Black American woman cartoonist

When the 14-year-old Black American boy Emmett Till was lynched in 1955, one cartoonist responded in a single-panel comic. It showed one Black girl telling another: “I don’t want to seem touchy on the subject… but that new little white tea-kettle just whistled at me!”

It may not seem radical today, but penning such a political cartoon was a bold and brave statement for its time — especially for the artist who was behind it. This cartoon was drawn by Jackie Ormes, the first syndicated Black American woman cartoonist to be published in a newspaper. Ormes, who grew up in Pittsburgh, got her first break as cartoonist as a teenager. She started working for the Pittsburgh Courier as a sports reporter, then editor, then cartoonist who penned her first comic, Torchy Brown in Dixie to Harlem, in 1937. It followed a Mississippi teen who becomes a famous singer at the famed Harlem jazz club, The Cotton Club.

In 1942, Ormes moved to Chicago, where she drew her most popular cartoon, Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger, which followed two sisters who made sharp political commentary on Black American life. 

In 1947, Ormes created the Patty-Jo doll, the first Black doll that wasn’t a mammy doll or a Topsy-Turvy doll. In production for a decade, it was a role model for young black girls. "The doll was a fashionable, beautiful character,“ says Daniel Schulman, who curated one of the dolls into a recent Chicago exhibition. "It had an extraordinary presence and power — they’re collected today and have important place in American doll-making in the U.S.”

In 1950, Ormes drew her final strip, Torchy in Heartbeats, which followed an independent, stylish black woman on the quest for love — who commented on racism in the South. “Torchy was adventurous, we never saw that with an Black American female figure,” says Beauchamp-Byrd. “And remember, this is the 1950s." Ormes was the first to portray black women as intellectual and socially-aware in a time when they were depicted in a derogatory way.

One common mistake that erased Ormes from history is mis-crediting Barbara Brandon-Croft as the first nationally syndicated Black American female cartoonist. "I’m just the first mainstream cartoonist, I’m not the first at all,” says Brandon-Croft, who published her cartoons in the Detroit Free Press in the 1990s. “So much of Black history has been ignored, it’s a reminder that Black history shouldn’t just be celebrated in February.”

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#Comics #Jackie ormes

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*Note: this poll is NOT about the overall quality of the shows, it is specifically about how the shows address queer characters and stories

#AKFHSOSHS AGAIN??? #also I'm sorry how can you say it's not about overall quality of the show like part of having meaningful queer storylines means having them #be in an overall well-written show... 'representation' is an almost meaningless word at this point and talking about it like it exists in a #void illustrates why imo