writerdreamerbeliever:

So I’ve noticed that about 75% of the fandom absolutely detests Mira (brilliantly portrayed by Katrina Law) and to be honest, I haven’t the slightest idea why. 

First of all, look at Katrina Law:

Um hello did it hurt when u fell from heavenz

like srs how is 1 person allowed to b that beautiful???????

Mira in Blood & Sand

• She first appears in ep 1x09: Whore. She’s showing off masks to Licinia, a friend of Lucretia, who totes wants to effff Spartacus. Mira wears the mask of Diana, Goddess of the Hunt. Oh hello mask only reserved for badasses yes good

• Lucretia orders her (as Mira is a slave, her body is never her own) to go visit Spartacus to have sex with him cause Lucretia thinks Spartacus won’t last long with Licinia
• Spartacus refuses Mira.
• Mira is confused. Not much background is given on her, but one can easily assume that’s she’s been subjected to a certain way of life that teaches her she doesn’t have much to offer besides her body.
• This is new and different for her. It’s no wonder she’s attracted to him.
• She backs off.
• Mira goes back a second time to get wit Sparty ONLY BECAUSE Lucretia said she would um oh yeah KILL her if she didn’t succeed this time.
• Spartacus lets her stay. He doesn’t want to see her killed. In return for letting her stay, he asks her to go outside the villa and find Varro’s family.
• Ohp, she fulfills his request. Atta girl.
• Later on, Spartacus stumbles upon her in a bad spot with Hector, one of the ludus guards. So what does Sparty do? Oh yeah he freaking beats the shit outta the guy and presses the man’s face against a burning lamp lol nbd
• It’s obvious Mira has a full crush on him at this point, and it’s also obvious that Sparty is still totes in love with his wife who we saw for like 5 minutes. So when Mira goes to thank him for saving her from Hector, he tells her he would have done the same for anyone. 
• And she calls him out on his hero complex in what has to be my favorite Mira scene ever. She states plainly, “You are an ass.”
• Fast forward to Varro’s death. This destroys Spartacus. We all remember Andy Whitfield’s devastating portrayal of despair. Mira comes to comfort him. He doesn’t push her away. He lets her. She comforts him without sex.
• She tends to Spartacus’s wounds from his fight with Varro. 
• And when Sparty finds himself in the company of the man that kidnapped his wife, he fucking strangles the mother fucka. What does Mira do? Oh yeah she fucking resets the guy’s body to make it look like Sparty had nothing to do with it and covers for him, putting herself at risk but oh yeah she’s so useless omg.
• When Varro’s widow Aurelia comes to the ludus to work and support her son, Mira shows her the ropes and protects her from Ashur’s lecherous stare.
• At Spartacus’s request, Mira agrees to open the gate between the ludus and the villa to lay way to his rebellion. Then they finally fuck. And guess what guys? If Sparty was not attracted to her or didn’t like her HE WOULD NOT HAVE TOUCHED HER.
• So back the gate. How does Mira overpower the guard there? Oh right she fucking stabs him in the neck with a broken shard of pottery hello you perfect, badass bitch.
• She leaves everything she’s ever known behind when she joins in full-force with Sparty’s revolt.

Oh yeah and look at how Andy’s Spartacus looks at her:

just. sayin.

Mira in Vengeance

• So Sparty and Mira are in a relationship now. But she knows that he’s still mostly in love with his wife, but he’s giving Mira all of himself that he can and she takes it because she’s in love with him and that’s the truly heartbreaking thing about her

• Anyway, Mira accompanies Spartacus on like every mission ever, proving herself to be quite the leader and military strategist. She learns how to use a sword, and later, a bow and arrow.

• She befriends Chadara, encouraging the woman to fight rather than rely on a man for protection. But she’s so anti-feminism riteee?
• Then Gannicus arrives with the preggo Illithiya and shit kinda goes downhill from there for Mira and Sparty. 
• Spartacus knows he should just dispose of Illy, but she uses her pregnancy against him. Rather than see Sparty kill his own child, Mira literally takes matters into her own hands and tries to strangle Illy to kill her.
• Spartacus stops her and grows distant from Mira. They no longer sleep together and they both agree that he, Sparty, wasn’t trying hard enough at the relationship anyway. THEY ARE STILL AMICABLE, however.
• Fast forward some more. Mira takes a fucking axe to the chest on another mission. Unable to bury her body as they are on a mountain, Spartacus wraps her body in vines. It’s from this that he gets the idea to weave the vines to allow a small number of rebels to scale down a less-protected side of the mountain.
• Mira’s death is what ultimately inspires the rebels to leave the mountaintop and defeat the romans. 

Casual reminder that Mira was a friend to Nasir, Aurelia, Naevia and Chadara, trained by Lucius, lover to Spartacus…and she and Saxa totes kissed.

And aww look how cute:

Conclusion

So if you’ve ever said that Mira was useless, stupid, weak, unimportant, dependent or that Spartacus never truly cared about her, I’m not saying that you’re wrong but you are so totally fucking wrong.

Oh my god there are people who hate Mira? What even nooooo. LOVE HER.

(Source: timeywimey-sexywexy, via fuckyeahladiesofspartacus)

todaysdocument:

“I respectfully remind you sir, that we have been the most patient of all people.”

-Letter from Jackie Robinson to President Eisenhower of May 13, 1958

After he retired from Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson went on to champion the cause of civil rights from his position as a prominent executive of the Chock Full o’Nuts Corporation.

Robinson had grown increasingly impatient with what he regarded as President Eisenhower’s failure to act decisively in combating racism. In this letter dated May 13, 1958, he expresses his frustration and calls upon the President to finally guarantee Federal support of black civil rights.

Read more at Featured Documents…

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rollingstone:

Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are giving $70 million to USC in Los Angeles to establish a four-year undergraduate program for students interested in a mix of the arts, visual design, entrepreneurship, computer science and marketing. The gift will create the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation, with the intention of attracting students “who challenge conventional views of art and industry.”

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faineemae:

oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:

Spotted: An extremely oppressed brown woman skating her way to Oppressedville.

Let me tell you about this oppressed girl though, she started her own international Hijab company online called Vela Scarves.

Marwa Atik was born and raised in the California to Syrian parents. Her passion for the veil (hijab), combined with her eye for fashion and design expertise, is apparent in her exclusive creations. Vela was born in 2009, when Marwa simply began incorporating her favorite accents, such as ruffles and zippers, into otherwise bland veils and advertising via word of mouth. Marwa also extended her creativity to designing actual techniques of how to wear the veils, based on their respective designs and style.

In 2010, Marwa and her sister, Tasneem Atik Sabri, partnered to officially launch their company and website to bring beautiful, elegant, and affordable veils to women globally.

(Source: missatiktive, via rebekahloves)

mingdoyle:

Gambit, little King of Hearts.

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karnythia:

theotheryang:

karnythia:

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937. 

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs. 

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. 

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’. 

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli. 

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

Still waiting for her movie. And appearances in period dramas.

I heard there was a movie in the works[http://www.inquisitr.com/658074/rihanna-to-play-josephine-baker/] and that they were eyeing Rihanna for the role.
Imo, that’s a no.
And I’ve only ever seen her in Midnight in Paris, but I don’t think they said her name.

I will fight them if they try to cast Rihanna. Not just no, hell no.

fuckyeaharchangel:

geekvariety:

Dark Angel custom figure by Warrack

This is UNREAL.

sonofafieldnegro:

youngblackandvegan:

neeneeism:

WHY CAN’T STUFF LIKE THIS GO VIRAL? Morehouse Whiz Kid is Causing a Stir: 13-Year-Old Dominates College. LOVE THIS STORY PLEASE READ MORE…

PLEASE SHARE! SHARE! SHARE!!!!!!

At thirteen years of age, Stephen Stafford is causing quite a stir at Morehouse College. Stafford has a triple major in pre-med, math and computer science. Though he loves playing video games and playing his drum set, he is no typical teenager. He is exactly the kind of student I had in mind when I wrote the book, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about College,” because he shows the power of the black male mind when we put our energy into things that matter most. Over the 17-years I’ve spent teaching at the college level, I have never seen anything more impressive, nor more reflective of what black men represent.

“I’ve never taught a student as young as Stephen, and it’s been amazing,” said computer science professor Sonya Dennis. “He’s motivating other students to do better and makes them want to step up their game.”

Stafford began his college career at the age of 11, after being home-schooled by his mother. Stafford’s mother said that when Stafford began to teach her instead of being taught by her, she knew he needed to be in a college environment. Since that time, he has excelled in his classes and continues to grow intellectually.
via ramomart.com

come on

you know why this stuff isn’t viral

regardless, this is an amazing story

Officially jealous of a 13-year-old boy. Kudos, kid.

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willynillylily:

Watertribe women are all bamfs.  Inspired by my desire to fix this whitewashed picture and came out with this.  PS CS3 and Paint tool SAI, ~11 hrs.  I’m proud of the result. 

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dianoetic:

lilpocketninja:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

rosesakurax:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

madmothmiko:

Dino Apocolypse

^ That cutie in the middle pic…I am VERY okay with living through a dinosaur apocalypse if I get to ride a dinosaur with her ;D

I want a comic about a fabulous queer women riding dinoaaurs in the apocalypse!

LESBIANS RIDING DINOSAURS

IN THE APOCALYPSE

This sounds like it would be the single greatest comic book EVER made :D

Somebody page Gertrude Yorkes, she would be all over this shit. 

SECONDING THE GERT YORKES COMMENT, AHHH

On the first pic I legit thought this was gonna be an AU Gert thing.

handful-ofdust:

fuckyeahlesbianliterature:

[image description: a scan of two old-looking pages. On one side is all illustration of Deborah Sampson. On the other side is the title page “The Female Review: Or, Memoirs of an American Young Lady” with further description below it.]

homosexualityandcivilization:

(Image courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society)

Deborah Sampson Gannett was born in 1760 outside Plymouth, Massachusetts. In May 1782, dressed as a man, she enrolled in the Continental Army under the name Robert Shurtliff. She fought in several battles until she was discovered, after being wounded in 1783, to be a woman. She received an honorable discharge and in 1785 married Robert Gannett.

Sampson Gannett was relatively unknown until 1797 when, in conjunction with the writer Herman Mann, she published a narrative of her time as a cross-dressed Revolutionary soldier. It was titled The Female Review: or, Memoirs of an American Young Lady, Whose Life and Character Are Particularly Distinguished - Being a Continental Soldier, for Nearly Three Years, in the Late American War.

The work was a straightforward tale that touched on the author’s homosexuality through descriptions of titillating, affectionate interactions with women. Sampson Gannett’s intention in publishing the narrative was to gain public attention for her attempt to be awarded a military pension. In 1802 Sampson Gannett commenced a series of public lectures about her life. Near the end of the presentations, she left the stage, returned dressed in her Army uniform, and executed complicated and physically taxing military drills.

Her presentation was extremely popular in Boston, and she repeated it in other New England cities. In 1816, after years of petitioning and with help from Paul Revere, Sampson Gannett was finally awarded the full pensions she deserved by both the state of Massachusetts and Congress.

Always reblog for cross-dressing female soldiers.

golden-zephyr:

This guy is AMAZE

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northstarfan:

ooksaidlibrarian:

Na’Toth, because she’s brilliant.

Yes, she is — strong, smart, and the most self-confident of all the diplomatic aides. In addition, her chemistry with G’Kar from day one was fantastic enough to rival any of the relationships that unfurled over the next five years of B5, and one of the most enjoyable parts of Season 1. And I’ll say no more because someone I don’t want to spoil is reading this.

My Spidey-sense was tingling…

NA’TOTH ♥

sqs-tec:

A great article highlighting what the I means in LGBTQI, its history, and the experiences of Claudia. Fabulous article for those who are new to the term and those who aren’t. Check it out!

“Understanding what intersex means also helps withunderstanding what it doesn’t mean. Our bodies are natural and normal and healthy; while some health problems are associated with some forms of intersex, simply being intersex isn’t a health problem in and of itself.”

[Thank you to i2i for posting!]

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marthajefferson:

Julianne Moore as “Famous Works of Art” by Peter Linderbergh - for Harper’s Bazaar

Seated Woman With Bent Knee by Egon Schiele, La Grande Odalisque by Ingres, Saint Praxidis by Vermeer, The Cripple by John Currin, Les danseuses by Edgar Degas, Madame X by John Singer, Girl with a Pearl Earring by Vermeer, Woman With a Fan by Modigliani, Man Crazy Nurse #3 by Richard Prince, Adele Bloch Bauer I by Gustav Klimt.

(via maderr)