Feminist Protest Against The 1968 Miss America Pageant
About 400 feminist demonstrators from the New York Radical Women (early second-wave feminist activist group) protest against the American society’s normative beauty expectations, sexual objectification (“The Degrading Mindless-Boob-Girlie Symbol”) and commercial exploitation of women at the annual Miss America Pageant on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States, on September 7, 1968.
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Young Nation/The Alley Project is a youth centered organization that works to confront gang violence in SW Detroit through the decriminalization of art spaces. Or, as they would put it:
This can be done by tapping into youths’ talents and interests, encouraging youth input, channeling the resulting passion, showing youth and adults how to harness their social capital, promoting partnerships in the community, building mentoring relationships, and sharing community resources rather than relying solely on limited resources for programming.
The way Young Nation accomplishes this is through the decriminalization of various types of street art, including murals/graffiti. If you go to The Alley Project, you’ll see where an abandoned lot has been turned into an outdoor art gallery—several walls were installed in the empty space, and on any given day, you can see youth at the walls, using spray paint to complete their latest installation. The garage doors in the alley have also been utilized in the name of art, as have the fences.
The reason they do this work is because historical gang violence and drug trafficking has been used to justify massive criminalization of youth in SW Detroit. This criminalization, in turn, has made gang recruitment of youth pretty easy—when adults are so wiling to throw a young person in jail *rather than mentor them or provide for any of their basic necessities*—youth have no problem heading to the one place they can find protection and family.
Young Nation does not “sit judgement” on gang members-but instead asks “what is the price you pay for that protection and family?” and works to provide safe places where youth can find mentorship and outlets for activities that satisfy their soul—and where they don’t have to pay the heavy price gangs often ask them to pay.
This amazing group of youth is also fundraising to get to the Allied Media Conference! They are integral innovators in the Detroit media landscape. The AMC will allow them the opportunity to network with other community driven social justice media makers AND influence the national and international understanding of Detroit.
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Holy shit. This is amazing/can I please be a goth goddess on the weekends and wear things like this?
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Ughh I have not been this miserably sick in such a long time. I can barely get out of bed to get water let alone leave the house. It’s fairly awful. I also had intense zombie dreams last night. I kept going back to the same dream after each of the 100 times I woke up. That never happens. But of course it only occurs when my dream is a terrifying gore fest. Fuck you Florida and your bad LSD/ most likely actually PCP strain. I know you are to blame.
Posted May 30, 2012 at 11:44am
An Aghori drinking water using a human skull.
In Indian tradition Aghoris are expected to keep company of the ghosts and reside in the Shamshans which is where the dead bodies are burnt. The Aghoris distinguish themselves from other Hindu sects and priests by their alcoholic and cannibalistic rituals. The corpses, which may be either pulled from a river (such as the Ganges) or obtained from cremation grounds, are consumed both raw and cooked on open flame, as the Aghoris believe that what others consider a “dead man” is, in fact, nothing but natural matter devoid of the life force it once contained. Therefore while for ordinary people cannibalism may be seen as primitive, barbaric and unclean, for Aghoris it is both a spiritual resource and a subversion of taboos.
In the Aghori view, nothing is profane nor separate from God, who is hailed to be all and in all. In fact, the Aghoris see it as a scientific approach in trying to discover how matter converts from one form to another.
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