Laura Valerie

The inspirations of a 24-year-old Australian romantic. I write at One April Morning.
May 22
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The way you slam your
body into mine reminds
me I’m alive, but monsters
are always hungry,
darling, and they’re only
a few steps behind you.
Richard Siken (via loveyourchaos)

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annstreetstudio:

Carey Mulligan speaks to husband Marcus Mumford at the official opening dinner of the Cannes Film Festival….

annstreetstudio:

Carey Mulligan speaks to husband Marcus Mumford at the official opening dinner of the Cannes Film Festival….

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May 21
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aacissej:

if i ever get married, i’m wearing jenny packham.

aacissej:

if i ever get married, i’m wearing jenny packham.

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theniftyfifties:

Marilyn Monroe in New York City, June 1957. Photo by Sam Shaw.

theniftyfifties:

Marilyn Monroe in New York City, June 1957. Photo by Sam Shaw.

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This myth that early risers are good people and that late risers are lazy has its reasons and merits in rural societies but becomes questionable in a modern 24/7 society. The old moral is so prevalent, however, that it still dominates our beliefs, even in modern times. The postman doesn’t think for a second that the young man might have worked until the early morning hours because he is a night-shift worker or for other reasons. He labels healthy young people who sleep into the day as lazy — as long sleepers. This attitude is reflected in the frequent use of the word-pair early birds and long sleepers [in the media]. Yet this pair is nothing but apples and oranges, because the opposite of early is late and the opposite of long is short.
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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
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“Don’t you know that slavery was outlawed?”
“No,” the guard said, “you’re wrong. Slavery was outlawed with the exception of prisons. Slavery is legal in prisons.”
I looked it up and sure enough, she was right. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution says:

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

Well, that explained a lot of things. That explained why jails and prisons all over the country are filled to the brim with Black and Third World people, why so many Black people can’t find a job on the streets and are forced to survive the best way they know how. Once you’re in prison, there are plenty of jobs, and, if you don’t want to work, they beat you up and throw you in a hole. If every state had to pay workers to do the jobs prisoners are forced to do, the salaries would amount to billions… Prisons are a profitable business. They are a way of legally perpetuating slavery. In every state more and more prisons are being built and even more are on the drawing board. Who are they for? They certainly aren’t planning to put white people in them. Prisons are part of this government’s genocidal war against Black and Third World people.

Assata (via michellehuxtable)

I tell my students this every single semester. 

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FBI’s most wanted for terrorism, everyone.

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beautilation:

“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.”  - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene

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