Success and failure go hand in hand

glossylalia:

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redkuba:

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daveboogie:

So M.I.A has tweeted that Missy Elliott, Azealia Banks & Rye Rye will be on the Bad Girls ‘Remix’. Go shorty it’s ya birthday :)

OH MY FUCKING GOD

Oooo, exciting. 

This is EVERYTHING.

Ohhohoho

okorogariist:

BAMF

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King Lear goes First Nations

Shakespeare’s tragedy, King Lear, set in 17^th Century Canada, amidst the pressure of early contact and confrontation, with an all-aboriginal cast from across the country, including the renowned August Schellenberg, Mohawk, as Lear.  In this powerful family conflict, an aging father—dividing his kingdom—demands proof of love from his daughters, thereby unleashing a tempestuous tragedy that even a king can’t control. A play as big as Canada, resonating with our own history. 

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coldfish:

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thespunkywallflower:

J. Marion Sims is called “the Father of Gynecology” due to his experiments on enslaved women in Alabama who were often submitted as guinea pigs by their plantation owners who could not use them for sexual pleasure. 

He kept seven women as subjects for four years, but left a trail of death and permanently traumatized black women. 

Anarcha was one of the women Sims experimented upon. A detailed history of this monster is in Harriet Washington’s book, Medical Apartheid.

Sims believed that Africans were numb to pain and operated on the women without anesthesia or antiseptic. The procedures usually happened this way. 

Black female slaves who were guinea pigs would hold one subject down as Sims performed hysterectomies, tubal ligation, and other procedures to examine various female disorders.

Sims also performed a host of operations on other slave populations. The following excerpt details his “practice” on enslaved infants.

Sims began to exercise his freedom to experiment on his captives. He took custody of slave infants and, with a shoemaker’s awl, tried to pry the bones of their skulls into proper alignment.

makes me want to puke.

dear fucking god..