from the crooked rib

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pipercarter:

Empire Line (2005) series by British photographer Gavin Fernandes.

Fernandes describes the series in British Asian Style: Fashion & Textiles / Past and Present:

By subverting representations of British “memsahibs” and their indigenous Indian servants, and through the interaction of period British costume and native Indian dress, Empire Line explores the politics of clothing and its relationship with class and caste in 19th-century colonial India.

Though so rooted in colonial imagery, I love how Fernandes’s work also speaks to the complex and often problematic cultural exchanges of the contemporary fashion industry.

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37thstate:

Photographer James Petrozzello‘s gorgeous portraits capture the strong beauty of the FELA! Broadway dancers paying tribute to the original Fela Queens.

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- Sonia Sanchez

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marrypotter:

Day into Night

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oddballsdontbounce:

for z.

when we put our faith in the wrong places
like the thick hands of men who are still young and fumbling,
who give out words like breath is not the thing that keeps us alive-
when we put our faith in boys and spend our power on
trying to make them the men that we love,
their hands will be…

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (via 99knots)

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