cherrypeels

scoutingforqueers:

Max Hirschberger

flyandfamousblackgirls:

Da Brat at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards

discardingimages:

falling stars

Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, France ca. 1450-1470

Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, fol. 47r

fuckrashida:

From the Great Wall of Brooklyn project. Flatbush, 1985. Photographed by Jamel Shabazz.

moma:

Celebrate International Women’s Day with Wangechi Mutu’s depiction of pioneering feminist Funmilayo Anikulapo–Kuti. Mother of the famous musician Fela Kuti, she is said to have been the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria, and fought against the practice of female genital mutilation. Mutu explains why this diptych is both tantalizing and menacing: “The image and title are infested with the inherent contradictions that were the experience of a radical like Funmilayo. A visionary and brave fighter, she was caught in the upheaval of the creation of a nation’s identity.“

[Wangechi Mutu. Yo Mama. 2003. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2016 Wangechi Mutu]