Bee & Puppy Cat

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Is that to much to ask? #equality #feminism

“In 2014, New York locals Arianna Maya Gil and Sheyla Grullón decided to do something about the mostly male skate scene. Together they formed Brujas, a collective of girls who love to skate. The skaters, who range in age from 15 to 27, gather from all over New York City: Soundview, King’s Bridge, Washington Heights, and the Lower East Side.

Brujas have taken over the Riverview Skate Park bordering the Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, directly influencing the politics of the space. “The skate park might no longer be a man cave of refuge anymore,” Gil explains. “Less and less spaces exist that are just places for men to get together and let their misogyny go unchecked.” Establishing a headquarters at the Bronx skate park has changed the gender dynamics of the park itself, says Gil. “It’s not rare to see a new girl at the park.” Many of the new skaters take videos, photograph their friends, or practice their first ollies.

Skating ties into many social and political issues and the Brujas are not afraid to point out inequalities. Gil, who has been skating since she was fifteen years old, has seen the increased policing of youth of color. “Back when I started skating, getting your board confiscated was completely unheard of,” Gil recalls. Today, many skaters are moving from the streets and into skate parks, something that has been driven by a rapid gentrification—in the sanctioned skate parks, skaters are less likely to be bothered by police or neighbors.”

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TEAM BRUJAS! WITCH POWER 

“gary the ghost”

Here’s what politics looks like if you take out the men 

Out of the 22 people running for president in 2016, only two of them are women. Elle U.K. is confronting this imbalance directly through the magazine’s #MoreWomen campaign, launched on Oct. 1 to celebrate women’s global power. Their eye-opening launch video shows how easy it is to make full rooms seemingly sparse.

Part of the Nine Stages of Decay (jp. kusōzu) paintings by Fuyuko Matsui

Keeping up the Pureness (1, 2) The Parasite Will Not Abandon the Body (3) Joining the Conversion (4, 5)

Kobayashi Kiyochika: Master of the Night

darth mail

love this scene