Quietus
Top photo was taken on 4x5 film
Others are taken on 35mm film

witchymoonhag:
blueandbluer:
aishawarma:
Learn to defend against a bigot grabbing your hijab from behind!
In this post-election hate-crime spike, self defense is more important than ever. Practice this move until it becomes muscle memory and teach your body to react before thinking.
(via Zee Abdulla)
Signal boost. Anyone know if this would work equally as well if he grabbed with his other hand? I feel it wouldn’t, but it’s still better than nothing.
If the attacker used the other hand, then the woman wearing the hijab could use the opposite arm than is shown. SO PRACTICE BOTH SIDES.
Also please note the position of her arm on his. It’s not on the elbow but just above it. That is will be important for the submission. The grip on her hand is important as well. It looks like she is using a monkey grip where the thumb stays with the fingers of the hand instead of wrapping around. It protects your thumb from being broken and can be a stronger grip in general.
But yes, practice practice practice practice
Btw, if you click on her name, Zee Abdulla, in the post it takes you to her Facebook where she has another video for a defense for a front hijab grab.

Let me Google that for them

postcardsfromspace:

tinareads:
To any of my friends - especially those working in industries where you are visible and can’t avoid comment sections,
If you are tired from having to defend your existence and educate people who are playing devil’s advocate with whether or not you should exist or be visible or take up space, feel free to tag me in. Send me a message letting me know which comment section to go to, and I will descend upon it. Save your energy. The next few years are going to be tiring. I’ve got your back.
People asking about things you can do to be an ally right now: this.

wilwheaton:

klaineandbiscuits:
vox:
Obama: once out of office, I’m gonna stop being polite and start getting real
Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has a great new interview with President Obama in Vanity Fair. In the wide-ranging interview, they discuss Abraham Lincoln, Obama’s biggest regrets from his time in office, and how a visit to the pyramids reminded Obama that cable news doesn’t really matter.
But perhaps the most intriguing bit was when, in a brief discussion of Obama’s plans for his post-presidency, Obama hinted that he planned to start speaking out more like an activist than a president.
There are “things,” he told Goodwin, “that in some ways I suspect I’m able to do better out of this office.” He elaborated that because of the “institutional constraints” of the presidency, “there are things I cannot say.”
He went on to essentially say he wanted to use his post-presidential bully pulpit more like an activist than a venerable elder statesman. “There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about,” he said.
And while vague, this is an intriguing hint that Obama is thinking about being a very different ex-president than we’ve been used to.
#Obama…With our blessings….Go…Kick….Some…Ass
I’d like him to start right now, please.

silenceformysoul:

Herbert Gustave Schmalz (1856-1935) - Too Late, 1884