“Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.”
—Victor Hugo
Riot grrrls of the Amazon variety. Amidst the Ukraine’s high rates of sex trafficking and gender oppression, a new movement of empowered women takes form—Asgarda—a tribe of Ukrainian women, mostly students, who live together in the Carpathian Mountains seeking complete autonomy from men. Approximately 150 women live together under the leadership of 30-something Katerina Tarnousk. Reviving the tribal traditions of the Scythian Amazons of ancient Greek mythology, the Asgarda train in martial arts, taught by former Soviet karate master, Volodymyr Stepanovytch, and learn life skills and sciences in order to become ideal women. French photographer Guillaume Herbaut met the Asgarda and documented their daily life and studies.
Via Teenage
How awesome is this? and in the Carpathian Mountains no less?
“We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no interference. A place where you can listen to your LPs for hours on end. You can live in your room, your own rent-free corner of the universe, and create a world of pleasure and interest entirely centered on yourself and your interior aesthetic and logic.”
—Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
Hazy Crazy Kisses by The Flat Duo Jets
“To me, the term ‘hipster’ is benign. Is it a way of dressing? Is it a lifestyle? Is it about the possessions somebody owns? Is it because they have a beard… because there are so many kinds of beards! To me, it is a shorthand for something that people are a little bit threatened by, because it is always used as a derisive term. No one is ever gushing, ‘He was just an amazing hipster!’ The moment you throw that word in, you are undermining any aspect of that person.”
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Carrie Brownstein; “Portlandia” co-creator, Wild Flag & Sleater-Kinney guitarist
(via billboard)
(via fuckyeahwildflag)
Concrete Goals for the End of the World
Anastassia said it’s the year of the dragon. Apparently, that means it’s going to be a good one. Obviously.
1. quit my job
2. try out another city
3. get through 75% of The Cheese Board Collective Works
4. buy a ticket to Rome
5. be a boss bitch
This should be easy.
Porlandia Tour - San Francisco - ‘Push It’
This was the grand finale at Portlandia’s San Francisco show on December 30th, 2011. With Carrie Brownstein, Fred Armisen, Mirah and Thao.
Why did tickets have to sell out? WHY?!
This New Year’s evening, between 1 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., I took a series of buses from the Marina district in San Francisco through the Fillmore and over to the Powell Street BART station, where I took BART back to Lake Merritt in Oakland. I weep for humanity. Truly and deeply.
