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@anna3mart1n0 (Taken with Instagram at UCLA Intramural Field)
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For the past three years, I’ve struggled daily with social anxiety and with periodic episodes of depression.
Even though I believe that...
The Falls of Minnehaha flash and gleam
The “laughing waters” tumble 53 feet as Minnehaha Creek nears the end of its journey from Lake Minnetonka to the Mississippi River.
Photos by Steve Date
Hands down one of my favorite spots in town.
(via emm-in-sem)
Blue Powderhorn Lake (by lankforddl) (via Powderhorn 365)
Hey, I know that photographer. Er, I know of him. I know his wife from yoga. He’s got a gallery of photos from my studio.
oppressedbrowngirlsdoingthings:
Spotted: An extremely oppressed brown woman skating her way to Oppressedville.
Because it’s Saturday—and part of my extended birthday weekend—it’s baby photo time. (And extra love ‘cause she’s rocking orange!)
Adorbs!
A contingent of 15 nurses arrive in the southwest Pacific area, received their first batch of home mail at their station
1943
(via racialicious)
In 1940, Life magazine published a short photo essay focused on a little boy in Liberty County, Ga., who was about to undergo a blood test. Keats was struck by the sweet images of the child, and cut the group of photographs out of the magazine. That little boy was the inspiration for Keats’ character Peter, the African-American protagonist of The Snowy Day and six books that followed. (via ‘The Snowy Day’: Breaking Color Barriers, Quietly : NPR)
(via racialicious)
11 Year-Old Carries On Family’s Aztec Dance Tradition
San Francisco Mission District resident Connie Xochiquetzalli “Xochi” Peña has been an Aztec dancer all her life.
As a 2 year-old, she danced an entire parade route. Now 11, Xochi sometimes steps in for her mother and teaches dance class at the Mission Cultural Center.
She comes from a long line of Aztec dancers. Her great-grandfather on her mother’s side was also a dancer in her family’s native Toluca, Estado de Mexico.
Xochi has big plans for herself, ones that include practicing either law or medicine. If dancing parade routes as a toddler and teacher classes while still in the sixth grade is any indication, we’re sure she can do anything she sets her mind to.
via SF Gate
Photo: Rod Yip/The Chronicle
(via racialicious)
Hidden in the Open: A Photographic Essay of 140-Years of Black Male Couples
Historian Trent Kelly has collected 146 rare vintage photographs of black male couples from the past 150 years.
Although the large majority of the pictures depict gay couples, the collection also includes images of families and friends but they all have one thing in common: they capture images of love.
Below is a snippet of why Kelly started the collection along with a few photos from his archive.
“Historically, the Afro American gay male and couple has largely been defined by everyone but themselves. Afro American gay men are ignored into nonexistence in parts of black culture and are basically second class citizens in gay culture. The black church which has historically played a fundamental role in protesting against civil injustices toward its parishioners has been want to deny its gay members their right to live a life free and open without prejudice. Despite public projections of a “rainbow” community living together in harmonious co-habitation, openly active and passive prejudices exist in the larger gay community against gay Afro Americans.”
(via racialicious)
GRIM VIEW: Jewish descendants of Ethiopians who had immigrated to Israel protested over discrimination against Ethiopian Jewish people in Kiryat Malachi, Israel, Tuesday. (Amir Cohen/Reuters)
(via racialicious)
