Tokyo by XAVIER PORTELA
(via gotapathy)
Young black woman being taught not to react to smoke being blown in her face, in a Civil Rights class in 1960.
I think too few people realize that these people needed to be trained to take the abuse they received. It’s all that much more powerful to realize how much work actually went into it.
(via moneymandale)
I fight for freedom being a woman who can not be free. I am Mexican but I’m not stupid as many of them. To me nothing or especially men boss me around, nothing that I stay at home darning socks or washing dirty underwears. They say that Fashion involves you to shave, put makeup on, use modern dresses. Well, I leave my eyebrows and my mustache, I wash my face, I use my blouses! In a society frowned upon women who smoke, drink, or say bad words and especially those who sleep with anybody they wish too. Well, I drink and smoke, say shit and I sleep with who I want! Only those with the devil can be fucking Communists they say. I am, Ball of bastards! I am free to paint as I wish too and not as others tell me, starting with my chubby. I am free to get drunk with tequila when my ovaries feel like it. I am free to have sex with women and men. I am free to choose between eating mole or strudel. I am free to accept death at a young age.I am free to give me in the fucking mother.
-Frida KahloLucho por la libertad siendo una mujer que no puede ser libre. Soy mexicana pero no soy pendeja como muchas de ellas. A mi nada que me manden los hombres, nada de que me quede en mi casa remendando calcetines o lavando calzones cagados. Que la moda dice que te rasures, que te pongas maquillaje, que uses vestidos modernos. Pues yo me dejo mi cejas y mi bigote, me lavo la cara, uso mis huipiles! En sociedad es mal visto que las mujeres fumen, que tomen, que digan groseras y menos que se anden acostando con quien se les antoja. Pues yo tomo y fumo, digo chingaderas y me acuesto con quien quiero! Que solo las que tienen el diablo metido pueden ser comunistas. Yo lo soy, bola de cabrones! Soy libre para pintar como quiero y no como me dicen los demas, empezando por mi gordo. Soy libre para emborracharme con tequila cuando se me hinchan los ovarios. Soy libre para acostarme con mujeres y con hombres. Soy libre para escoger entre comer mole o strudel. Soy libre para aceptar morir siendo joven. Soy libre para darme en la madre a mi misma.
-Frida Kahlo
— Frida Kahlo (via quotemadness)
(Source: quotemadness.com, via quotemadness)