The above illustration is by Jessica Ward was scanned from my copy of The Art of the Disney Princess. I love how she switched the roles of the prince and princess in Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Say what you will about Disney Princesses and their lack of feminism, but I love them. Belle will always be my favorite.
I think she’s supposed to be a pilgrim. Gobble gobble.
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University of Rochester’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library has acquired more than 6000 AIDS posters. Salon posted 20 of their favorites from around the world. Give them a browse to see how much the history of protection has evolved since the 1980s.
life:
No American art form has ever managed to capture the enduring appeal of the profoundly sordid as neatly as pulp fiction. From the propulsive storylines to the laconic prose to the striking cover art that has, for decades, routinely adorned pulp paperbacks, the genre is edgy pop culture at its most elemental: sex and violence with a side of wry.
Today, one publisher in the U.S. keeps the hard-boiled paperback tradition alive: since 2004, Hard Case Crime has published scores of titles — some of them brand new, others classics of the genre lovingly reprinted for a new audience — each one featuring a cover that, like the tale inside, grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go. Here, in partnership with Hard Case, LIFE.com presents a celebration of American pulp fiction, and the gorgeous, lurid cover art that has forever been its visual trademark.
Here is Friend Christine’s favorite genre of literature, and Our Hero is currently reading something of a modern pulp novel right now too. It’s called Hero by Perry Moore.
Indeed, Andrew knows me so well. The saucy pulp covers are too damn irresistible and the reason why I have two framed above my bed. My favorite series is Women Write Pulp published by the bombin Feminist Press at CUNY. I’ve often recommended their novel The Girls In 3-B before by Valerie Taylor in the past. If anyone wants to read to vintage stories of sex, drugs, and homosexuality, give these novels a try.
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I wonder why nobody has drawn this already.
THAT’S WHAT FINGERSTRIPES ARE FOR.
Oh my, Dick, you’re killing me…CLICK HERE or artist’s username for full NSFW image. It’s so sexy and beautiful and I had to share. *___*
I’m posting this because I know I’m not the only Nightwing luster on the internet.
The Most Aborable Breast Exam Poster Ever?
“Remember the posters you saw in your high school locker room with the realistic-looking diagrams illustrating the proper way to examine your breasts every month? And how depressing they were? Dear schools: Start hanging the above poster in girls’ locker rooms. It has puns, it has adorable cartoon versions of cheerful (but cautious) breast tissue, and it has copy that women young and old will actually be interested in reading. They had me at “Gland of Milk and Honey.””
via themarysue.com
From the same artist who brought you the precious gonad self-examination and menstrual cycle posters.
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Gustav Klimt’s Woman seated with thighs apart (1916)
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The Great Wall of Vagina
Changing female body perception around the world through art - that’s the idea behind this amazing exhibition currently to be seen in Brighton, UK. British artist Jamie McCartney has created a monumental wall sculpture showing women’s most private parts. The 9 metre long polyptych consists of four hundred plaster casts of vulvas, all of them unique, arranged into ten large panels. The age range of the women is from 18 to 76 including mothers and daughters, identical twins, transgendered men and women as well as a woman pre and post natal and another one pre and post labiaplasty. Described as “the Vagina Monologues of sculpture” this piece is intended to change the lives of women for good: “I realised that many women suffer anxiety about their genitals and I was in a unique position to do something about that.” Half a decade since its humble beginnings, the exhibtion is still a success. “If this sculpture helps just one woman decide not to proceed with unnecessary plastic surgery on their genitals then it will.
This installation is from the same artist featured in The Perfect Vagina.
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Betty Dodson Draws the internal clitoris
A must-watch for all women. Our anatomy is fascinating.
