#KiraSpinoff

• A bisexual, polyamorous woman and activist
• In a “het” relationship with partner Larry Nelson
• Known as the Mother of Pride for her work in organizing the first LGBT Pride events
• A participant in the Stonewall Riots
• An active member of the Gay Liberation Front, Gay Activists Alliance, Coalition for Lesbian and Gay Rights, BiPAC, and BiNET USA,  among others
• Co-founder of the New York Area Bisexual Network
• Founder of the first Alcoholics Anonymous chapter for bisexuals
• An incredibly important figure in the LGBT community, who paved the way for Pride and LGBT activism as we know it today

19th & 20th century tiaras

Phases of the moon, Geomantie’ (Geomancy) - Codex Palatinus 833 Germanicus

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1. Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.
2. I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
3. To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
4. I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.
5. An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
6. There is no colour line in death.
7. Humour is laughing at what you haven’t got when you ought to have it.
8. If you want to honour me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race — give that child some help.
9. I will not take ‘but’ for an answer.
10. I am the American heartbreak? The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.
11. Like a welcome summer rain, humour may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
12. I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, Why Democracy means, Everybody but me.
13. Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

The #ReclaimMLK campaign, inaugurated by the founders of Black Lives Matter, aims to remind the world that the slain civil rights leader was far more than the voice behind the famous “I Have a Dream” speech delivered in Washington in 1963. Born out of a fear that King’s memory has become a sanitized version of the historical person, the #ReclaimMLK campaign dedicated the five days between King’s birthday (Jan. 15) and today’s federal holiday to acts of civil disobedience in his name. 

The #ReclaimMLK campaign exists to shatter the white-bred illusions that have, as Selma director Ava DuVernay put it, "reduced [King] to a catchphrase, four words: ‘I have a dream.’"

The Cold War (1947-1981) was a sustained period of conflict, primarily between the USSR and the USA. Spurred on by continuing tensions from the end of WWII, The Cold War was a clash of ideologies - communism (Soviet Russia) vs. capitalism (America), with each side vying for dominance in a bitter power struggle. The term ‘Cold War’ comes not from Russia’s climate, but instead refers to the lack of actual army-to-army warfare taking place. Instead, both counties fought for their beliefs through technological advances such as the space and arms races, while their client states fought in proxy wars - e.g. Vietnam and Korea.

What may have eventually ensured that The Cold War didn’t become ‘hot’ was the impending threat of nuclear warfare. Both the USSR and the USA had frantically stockpiled as many nuclear weapons as possible in the struggle to be the superior military force, but the threat atom bombs posed was not so well known until 1952, when America exploded the H-Bomb; 2500 times more powerful than that dropped in Hiroshima. Russia followed suit, possessing their own H-Bomb by the following year. Suddenly, the world was a much more dangerous place. Both nations knew that if they were to fire their missiles, the enemy would respond immediately; resulting in wide-spread mass destruction for them both. As Soviet leader Nikita Chrushev said: “The survivors of a nuclear war would envy the dead.” [+more]

Guns used during the Warsaw Uprising 1944