The Cabbage

Long day in the sun

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:58:00 -0400

Long day in the sun

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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:44:32 -0400

"What’s impossible to ignore is how many of the individuals diagnosed with mental disorders are..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:44:15 -0400

“What’s impossible to ignore is how many of the individuals diagnosed with mental disorders...

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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:43:50 -0400

strangedayshavefoundme666: Postcard post-punker with a gorgeous...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:43:44 -0400

strangedayshavefoundme666:

Postcard post-punker with a gorgeous everything, London, 1983. (source)

drarna: the reason why people are so hard to read is because they are composed of the letters a, t,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:43:35 -0400

drarna: the reason why people are so hard to read is because they are composed of the letters a, t,...

"If we define sexual orientation based on anatomy, as most people do, who would an intersex person be..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:43:01 -0400

“If we define sexual orientation based on anatomy, as most people do, who would an intersex...

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:38 -0400

Friedrich Nietzsche

psych-facts: More here

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:30 -0400

psych-facts:

More here

aseaofquotes: Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:21 -0400

aseaofquotes:

Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

"Everyone makes me crazy and mad. The more they talk, the more I get twisted inside. I sit by myself..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:16 -0400

““Everyone makes me crazy and mad. The more they talk, the more I get twisted inside. I sit by...

"Burn all of your bridges just so that you can build them again with thicker ropes. Hurt all the..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:12 -0400

“Burn all of your bridges just so that you can build them again with thicker ropes. Hurt all...

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Fri, 17 May 2013 23:42:06 -0400

"I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:41:54 -0400

“I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.” - David...

"We are told “no,” we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. “Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:41:45 -0400

“We are told “no,” we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. “Get a degree, get a job, get a this,...

"We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t design and..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:41:27 -0400

“We tend to think animals are lower than us, but all the scientists in the world couldn’t...

posttsecret: “Mother, I am more like you than I ever wanted to...

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:41:20 -0400

posttsecret:

“Mother, I am more like you than I ever wanted to be.”

Posted from the PostSecret website

Frida and Jacqueline Lamba

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:04:40 -0400

Frida and Jacqueline Lamba

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Frida Kahlo and Josephine...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:58:23 -0400

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Frida Kahlo and Josephine Baker

(submitted by Noémi)

mooglemisbehaving: tyndall-blue: riskycuriosity: artemisiumabs...

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:37:22 -0400

mooglemisbehaving:

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

I’d like a movie about her life too, please.