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To who's aid was this?

Stopping after a minute, if that cause he's cooning ....

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Blac Chyna & Rob Kardashian Deliver Baby

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RZA -- Russell Spit At Azealia ... But She Was Out of Her Mind

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RZA has broken his silence ... condemning Azealia Banks for the confrontation with Russell Crowe ... claiming Russell was simply trying to prevent her from intentionally cutting another guest with a glass.

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HMMMMMMM

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Director: Clarence Fuller DP: Jared Frost Prod. Co: SOMEWHERE entertainment Edit: Clarence Fuller Label: Polydor Records Rep: Laure Scott

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What really stings about this are the levels a black one has to go through to have people hold her abusers accountable .

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How does this dress speak to a survivors narrative?
aired - 08/19/12

- coming out of blood red wig rih days // sex kitten bdsm rich days -- last we see of her honestly // until BBHMM

- moving into a hyper stylized au naturel look.

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This meme -- theres no one around when you need someone to hold your abusers accountable, to help you heal --- but you can be so easily fetishized.

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HBA is a very complex brand for its gelatinous but hyper specific signifiers . It's very futuristic and also very referential . To a degree I find HBA to speak to a theoretically genderless future , but I wouldn't say it's speaking specifically to a heterogeneous one.

These garments on black bodies recalibrate the way we've internalized notions of black masculinity and femininity - that it's a high fashion label (having very early on distinguished itself from "streetwear") makes a wearer of color's class signifiers fluctuate. Such an important brand for the mixed messages it gives. An ever evolving brand and idea.

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"It was all about my childhood in the Caribbean. We had such high education but we had nothing. Our uniforms were so formal in comparison to our lives. So we would tear it up and make them our own.”

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There is a really tragic class element to the oppression (not that we should be surprised) in the beginning when a "rich queen" - insulated, upper class homosexual man - casts the regularly battered "scary queens" into a box - a gully.

the buggery laws have been a backbone / pillar for rationalizing a nationwide fear and disdain for queer people in jamaica who have nothing but these gullies and each other.

The end of this feature is on an uplifting note - showing festivity in the midst of chaos , however the subtext is that of impending violence . Together in the fight, together through the night , but what happens in the gullies when the camera's light goes out?

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Young and Gay Jamaica's Gully Queens Full Length

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Gogo Graham worn by photographer Maria Jose

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Gogo Graham worn by photographer Maria Jose

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Macabre , stunning , important.

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Gogo Graham - worn by artist Ser Serpas for FW 16

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Gogo Graham - worn by artist Ser Serpas for FW 16

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We agree that this season was very intense for everyone involved and that her garment making practice is not about uniformity - it is its own language to and for femmes who have to make it through their days as hyper visible and disproportionately attacked. These are there stories walking down the runway. This is not fashion for spectacle's sake.

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“This is an expression of my own relationship to violence" -- speaking to the hectic display for FW16. Putting blood on these bodies haunts her in hindsight , reflecting on the disproportionate number of black trans/femmes to have been murdered that year and onward.

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Our Mothers of Sorry and Perhaps Redemption 

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Our Mothers of Sorry and Perhaps Redemption 

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Lemonade Stills  .

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Yes, I've always held a close relationship to clothing and armor and one of the most common things people say when they first put on my clothes is, "I feel powerful."

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I will always remember these looks on Azealia Banks as giving her work life and her form a lot of strength and power. She is super -- super villian or super heroin -- thats for her to dictate , not the viewer. We are however allowed to read these celebrity bodied in context with the times and this tour where she's wearing these garments predates a jaw dropping amount of televised murders of brown femmes. Her outspokenness pushing through till now -- she is still one of our Supers. and I'd like to think she's on the side of the black femme ALWAYS.

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BCALLA is a queer fashion designer living and working in New York City whose work has been worn by stars like Azealia Banks and Lady Gaga. To quote the designer, his work is “built on collaborations with other dreamers who refuse to see the world the way it is.”

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"Using fashion and makeup as a way of protesting against societal expectations, the gully queens once again demand respect in this photo series"

Make up and clothing as protest ... hmmmmm

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there is so much tension in this photo .
the pose and the styling all project the gaze back onto itself -- who are we looking at here? where is her comfort ? where is her support ?

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won’t you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.

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Poetry Everywhere: "won't you celebrate with me" by Lucille Clifton

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predates Rihanna and the internet's participation in her abuse narrative

no one understand the gravity of her abuse until after her autobiography comes out

takes up space with legs, hair and stage presence.

spiritual space - meditation, mantra, etc.

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- rage fueled by capitalism
- anti-white as anti-institution via lawyer parallel
- sex sex sex
- return to red head rih

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Bitch Better Have My Money (Explicit) - Rihanna

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I bring this up mainly to give a little background to the title of the presentation and to show how consistent the troupes of abject femininity are, the thematic nature of revenge as enacted by femmes, the extremes of violent reciprocation on male aggressors.

- the ax
- sex / luring
- the stupidity of men -- campy 70s style

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I Spit On Your Grave (1978) - Original Trailer

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WE'VE MOVED to a new YT channel - you should SUB: http://bit.ly/horrortrailers FOLLOW (daily wicked stuff): https://www.google.com/+horrornymphs | ADD us on snapchat (uncensored feed!): user 'horrornymphs' The original movie is almost intense and brutal as the recent remake! So definitely worth getting this DVD!

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- queer fairytale
- cyclical violence and the woes therein
- a different approach to femininity sexually/intimately
- romance / polarity

“Two households, both alike in dignity
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.” Romeo x Juliet

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Mykki Blanco - "High School Never Ends" (ft. Woodkid) (Official Music Video)

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- passing for straight or masc as self defense
- plurality - non conformity
- violence as profitable -- the state x the banjees (sex work?)

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Mykki Blanco - The Initiation (Official Video) - Art + Music - MOCAtv

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Mykki's second single from Betty Rubble: The Initiation Produced by Sinden https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/betty-rubble-the-initiation/id648071926 Directed by Ninian Doff and produced by Pulse Films. Director: Ninian Doff Producer: Tamara Harel-Cohen Prod Company: Pulse Films Exec Producer: Laura Tunstall DOP: Patrick Meller Steadicam: Jonathan Iles Additional Photography: Adam Vardy Production Manager: Tarquin Glass Art Director: Anna Rhodes Set Dresser: Helen Mearns Stylist: Alex Day Make Up: Krystle Gohel Director's Rep: Joceline Gabriel Like MOCA on Facebook: http://bit.ly/MOCAFacebook Follow MOCA on Twitter: http://bit.ly/MOCATwitter +1 MOCA on Google+: http://bit.ly/MOCAGooglePlus

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Let's take a minute and listen to the non cis perspective

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Let's take a minute and listen to the non cis perspective

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TWTWTWTWTWTWTWTWTW

I had to include this because somehow this rape allegory/testimony becomes the ashes from which a phoenix rises.

The end of this track by Big Momma is the speaker spitting on the grave of their abuser .

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Jack'd (Prod. Michælangelo) by Big Momma

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This look speaks to Barbara Hammer's Monsterous Feminine theory .

- the skinlike garment covered in organic resemblant detailing plus the ashy/soot eyemake up seems abject. She embodies Monstrous Feminine here. -- though I assume the goal was Alien more than anything else

- after the Lemonade hype this appearance at the Met Gala -- reading images in succession

- more covered than usual, the fantasy is less about sex and more about rejecting and pulling the gaze in simultaneously

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The fur bra and long claws - not to mention the saturated black-out filter - creates a beast out of Azealia here.

- the width of the pants, the claws, the hair, the fur all take up space

- a non cuddly beast/animal -- cc rihanna gi jane look

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This might not be explicitly about revenge but this track and its packaging foreshadows some of the strife Azealia Banks has gone through in her career.

- as a sister track to the breakthrough track '212' this track hardens Azealia even more - reacts to her hecklers a year after 212 is released

- the occult imagery - the eye in palm, the owl, the spinning dial - shrouds Azealia in a mystique which takes up its own space around her - defends her  against her enemies

- attacking the police (tired of all this drama) -- referring to police brutality and overall policing Azealia her words and body.

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Music video by Azealia Banks performing Yung Rapunxel. (C) 2015 Azealia Banks / Prospect Park

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see Shane Oliver (HBA), Ian Isaiah (HBA), Venus X in this collage .

Origins of a style and community (ideology)

To be Ghetto and Goth as being anti-capitalist/underground/not celebrity.

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For some time Rihanna has been praised for her "ghetto goth" look -- but these style choices are in response to a community that some people in this very room have a closer tie to than BadGalRihRih.

- custom HBA -- this brand seems to resonate with celebrities as encapsulating a school of thought and practice that they vaguely cannot get close enough to. They may consume the style/the practice with their unlimited resources but the magic happens when we see it and either A) choose to participate with it/buy into it B) see ourselves in it and reject its celebrity use C) look it up and explore its origins

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what this coat means / what hba stands for

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what this coat means / what hba stands for

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This is how Beyonce embodies "hood" .

That coat is several grand and not entirely available to the general public.

This style choice happens in the video for the most gimmicky/performative track on the album (in my opinion)

The lyrics seem to capture her rage and bends it into this hyper masculine if not abject feminine testimony.

The braids, the Ankh, the fur -- whats going on here?

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Beyonce and her HotSauce whilst performing as Oshun.

- Beauty x righteous fury

- This is a world of her creation and mediation where she can lash out - why is it about items rather than people

- Beyonce upholding the mystic negro / madonna-whore

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"She suffered many misfortunes and, deep inside, she's sometimes melancholy and sad.  She can be petulant and demanding when her whims aren't met, and she can be vindictive when crossed."

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Janell Hobson analysed the imagery presented in the video for "Man Down" in her book Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender, which "challenges postmodernist dismissals of identity politics and the delusional belief that the Millennial era reflects a 'postracial' and 'postfeminist' world." In the chapter titled "Disclosures: Black Women's Resistance to Sexual Violence", Hobson explores how black women have "found the courage" to speak out about sexual violence, protest against it and not remain a silent victim.

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Just wanted to throw this into the mix to show how not media literate people are.

- fashion choice or trauma ?

- trending or traumatized?

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Huda Beauty - Makeup and Beauty Blog, How To, Makeup Tutorial, DIY, Drugstore Products, Celebrity Beauty Secrets and Tips

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Rihanna's G.I.Jane Makeover - Huda Beauty - Makeup and Beauty Blog, How To, Makeup Tutorial, DIY, Drugstore Products, Celebrity Beauty Secrets and Tips

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This video is sizzling! Rihanna in the barricades? We may see an extrodinary number of men signing up to be next to the Barbadeon princess. Noting quite says Go Army like RiRi in a bullet vest! Rihanna's makeup is so...

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Cuts hair, fully clothed, butch queen

- this is what trauma looks like for celebs.

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Rihanna Opens Up About Chris Brown | Oprah's Next Chapter | Oprah Winfrey Network

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- Why nudity?

- Is this strength//is it capital?

- Does transparency wed itself to vengeance?

- Is Rih's body a resurrection testimony in and of itself?

HBA and what it does to reveal and conceal her intentions and form. The garment as a physical manifestation of code switching.

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hmmmmm -- what is the narrative here actually? Tell us

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is our trauma/revenge only acceptable when it's sexy? 

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is our trauma/revenge only acceptable when it's sexy? 

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She has morals, she's hyper sexualized, she's pro black, but sick and tired of sick and tired niggas.

- She's not afraid to gun you down/enact justice extrajudicially

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Coffy (1/9) Movie CLIP - You Better Believe It's Comin'! (1973) HD

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Coffy movie clips: http://j.mp/1ut6dXY BUY THE MOVIE: http://j.mp/12N22lO Don't miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u2y6pr CLIP DESCRIPTION: Coffy (Pam Grier) blows away dope pushers to avenge her sister's hospitalization due to contaminated drugs.

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Pam Grier is one of (if not) the most iconic Femme Fatales in film history. Though her roles were usually very flat and blaxploitative -- she still paved the way for enraged femmes of color.

- rage sold with sex // the male gaze as validation of anger
- the body as a weapon -- hair, breast, claw

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