Mar 30 2013
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Girls Rifle Team, Drexel University, circa 1925
I aspire to be the young woman on the far right.
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Members of the Ovici family, a family of Jewish dwarf entertainers known as the Lilliput Troupe, who survived Auschwitz, perform on stage.
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From The National Police Gazette, 1887. ”Barnum’s Big Chance.”
A beautiful etching. A lot of ‘freak’ photographs and drawings from this time period were quite extreme. I don’t think viewers of these images actually believed they were real; they wished to believe. Who wouldn’t? Look at that gorgeous elephant-child. I want him or her to exist in the world. (As rude as it is, I crave the feeling of their soft wrinkled ears under my fingertips.)
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“Five Members of the Monster Fan Club, by Diane Arbus, 1961.
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Mar 29 2013
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From The National Police Gazette, a popular American newspaper, 1881. ”A Newspaper Man’s Plight.”
Another image of a woman wielding a whip! Notice the man’s passive arm position, and the fact that he’s nearly all in black. He is not the focus of the image; it is the woman and her lovely whip/legs. Very sexual, very nineteenth century America. A kinky bunch!
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From The National Police Gazette (an American weekly newspaper), 1881. “Frail Women Don War Paint.”
There are a LOT of images of women wielding whips in this popular rag. (Another one to follow.) The readership was predominantly white and immigrant men.
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From The National Police Gazette, 1881. “Caught in the Shafting” and “Assaulted Him With A Razor.”
Note how their body positions are the same! One male, one female; both in unbearably (fatal) positions that are nevertheless titillating. I asked my students to write either about sex and death or about male/female sexual overlap, based on these images.
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Frank Cheyne Pape (1878 - 1972)
Illustrtions for Book of Russian Tales 1916
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Mar 28 2013
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October 15, 1982 - White House Press Briefing
Q: Larry, does the President have any reaction to the announcement—the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, that AIDS is now an epidemic and have over 600 cases?
MR. SPEAKES: What’s AIDS?
Q: Over a third of them have died. It’s known as “gay plague.” (Laughter.) No, it is. I mean it’s a pretty serious thing that one in every three people that get this have died. And I wondered if the President is aware of it?
MR. SPEAKES: I don’t have it. Do you? (Laughter.)
Q: No, I don’t.
MR. SPEAKES: You didn’t answer my question.
Q: Well, I just wondered, does the President—
MR. SPEAKES: How do you know? (Laughter.)
Q: In other words, the White House looks on this as a great joke?
MR. SPEAKES: No, I don’t know anything about it, Lester.
Q: Does the President, does anybody in the White House know about this epidemic, Larry?
MR. SPEAKES: I don’t think so. I don’t think there’s been any—
Q: Nobody knows?
MR. SPEAKES: There has been no personal experience here, Lester.
Q: No, I mean, I thought you were keeping—
MR. SPEAKES: I checked thoroughly with Dr. Ruge this morning and he’s had no—(laughter)—no patients suffering from AIDS or whatever it is.
Q: The President doesn’t have gay plague, is that what you’re saying or what?
MR. SPEAKES: No, I didn’t say that.
Q: Didn’t say that?
MR. SPEAKES: I thought I heard you on the State Department over there. Why didn’t you stay there? (Laughter.)
Q: Because I love you, Larry, that’s why. (Laughter.)
MR. SPEAKES: Oh, I see. Just don’t put it in those terms, Lester. (Laughter.)
Q: Oh, I retract that.
MR. SPEAKES: I hope so.
Q: It’s too late.
(Source: sexartandpolitics)
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“ I usually take a walk after breakfast, write for three hours, have lunch and read in the afternoon. Demons don’t like fresh air - they prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet; for a person who is as chaotic as me, who struggles to be in control, it is an absolute necessity to follow these rules and routines. If I let myself go, nothing will get done.
— Ingmar Bergman (via adieufranz)
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