Daguerréotype, Deux jeunes femmes nues, unknown photographer, c. 1848
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Me: Once Upon a Time season 1 is so cozy and comforting :)
ouat s1: government corruption, a woman almost having to give her baby away against her will, a mine collapsing with a child inside, a girl locked in a mental hospital, arson, homeless children needing to steal to survive, said homeless children almost getting separated in the foster care system, infidelity, drugging and kidnapping, attempted muder, actual murder, a murder trial that has nothing to do with the real actual murder, a man slowly and painfully turning into wood, etc.
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Ball Gown
Emile Pingat (Paris, France)
c.1864
The MET (Accession Number:C.I.69.33.12a–c)
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A shop owned by a Black woman in a small town in France received this message.
Translation:
“Hello,
The concept and the idea are interesting for our small town and its people, we’re not saying anything about the fact a Black woman owns the place, she is in the clear as long as she comes from our land and not from Africa. But an Arab? An Arab at the front desk? An Arab everywhere? We’re fed up!! Isn’t there enough Viarmois (name of the people of the town) ? Unemployment is high for our beloved French people and you hire an Arab?
Its simple chores are for Arabs! Cleaning up…
That’s it!
Fire your employee if you don’t want us to make a petition against you!!
She is at the front desk on top of it she isn’t even presentable. Not even a tiny bit pretty!
PS: Hair straighter exists, frizzy/curly hair are not a French thing.”
The comment about the frizzy/curly hair shows that the “Arab” employee is not even a hijabi. So she is playing by their rules. She has a job, she doesn’t wear the hijab but because she is an Arab this person is trying to get her fired. If the shop owner wasn’t a Black woman this could get the Arab woman fired luckily she knows what racism is so she politely sent the racists off.
Anyway to the racists who will see this and comment as usual: I hope you choke in your sleep that will mean one less piece of shit on this planet and it will be one step closer to making this world a better place,
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Untitled, Bruno Braquehais, c. 1850s
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French Numero Magazine #188 Photography: Katja Mayer
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Léon Comerre (1850-1916)
"Pierrot jouant de la mandoline" ("Pierrot playing the mandolin") (1884)
Oil on canvas
Academicism
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