Native American teen, 1870-90s

Lauren Drescher: 'Hands' (2016)

if u pay attention there are themes and motifs on my blog

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Ernst Fuchs - In bed (Big Nan), 1972

Cosmetic surgery is not “cosmetic,” and human flesh is not “plastic.” Even the names trivialize what it is. It’s not like ironing wrinkles in fabric, or tuning up a car, or altering outmoded clothes, the current metaphors. Trivialization and infantilization pervade the surgeons’ language when they speak to women: “a nip,” a “tummy tuck.” Rees writes, describing a second-degree acid burn over the face: “Remember when you were in school and you skinned your knee and a scab formed?” This baby talk falsifies reality. Surgery changes one forever, the mind as well as the body.

— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth

African-American cowgirl Nellie Brown, and her horse. Circa 1900 - 1915.

I know it makes you wildI know it makes you wild!

go go dancer - lizzy grant

She pulled the sundress out, I pulled the sundress up. That’s what I call summer love

'kitchen workers, ukraine' + 'sugar cane cutters, cuba' in (un)fashion - tibor kalman (2000)