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“dude look at the personality on that girl”
“oh shit man i’d talk to her all night long”
i would do my homework but
sadly i am only an eel
Why I love Recess, especially Miss Grotke
Images 7, 8: she’s a feminist
Image 5: notice how she’s talking about endangered species and on the wall, there is a poster of Earth Day
Image 6: she’s aware of and against white supremacy and eurocentrism
Images 2, 3, 4, 6: history teachers are technically not allowed to give their opinion they’re just supposed to teach what’s in the books, but she doesn’t care and makes sure her students know it
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‘Saturday Night Live’ 38x21 | Weekend update
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.
Kahlo was quite the ladykiller.
Anonymous asked:
Most people say they don't want to remember their freshman year. What do you remember most from yours? Do you miss it?
I actually really loved my freshman year. I remember I had a bunch of classes with people who thought like me, which was cool, and I remember joining drama club and that being the best decision ever. There was a really great senior class that helped mentor me and shape my thoughts, particularly this one awesome chick who loves books and fish crackers. I also joined youth group at my UU church that year, which really brought me out of my shell and allowed me to be who I was. I just remember accepting a lot of things about myself, my friends and the world, and realizing that it was ok to make mistakes and it was absolutely ok to be sad. I do miss it sometimes, because I had such a thrill of discovery about everything that year, but that thrill continues, so I suppose I don’t miss it much.
