aniseshaw:

‘The Great Gatsby’ Still Gets Flappers Wrong

Through their writings, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald—the young, glamorous literary couple du jour—defined the Jazz Age as we know it. Scott declared his Southern belle wife, whom he married in 1920, “the first American flapper.” The inspiration for Daisy Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby,” Zelda was known for her wild antics, like drunkenly jumping, fully clothed, into the fountain at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Even as a kid, she was always creating a scene: She stole a car when she was 8; she went swimming in a flesh-colored bathing suit in her teens…. 

But Zelda, as fearless and trail-blazing as she was, can’t even embody the flapper movement fully. For one, it was not all white women, as NYU’s Modern America reports: “For the time being, the bob and the entire Flapper wardrobe, united blacks and whites under a common hip-culture.” Secondly, the flapper’s rebellion against Victorian sexual mores didn’t start among the high-society debutantes, but in “working-class neighborhoods and radical circles in the early 1900s before it spread to middle-class youth and college campuses.”

Pictured: African American Flappers at a football game in Washington D.C. from the Smithsonian Institute.

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nabutsrslythough:

same

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samorchard:

I did a comic about marriage equality…

(Original: http://www.roostertailscomic.com/?p=1588)

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stringmouse:

prospited:

roselapond:

One of the Fish has gone missing- And this one over here is lookin’ pretty smug. (and fat)

CSI: FISHTANK

case of the missing fish

but maybe its

sleeping with the fishes

Fish found guilty on 4 counts of murder.

Time served: appx. 6 months.

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heythereuniverse:

Needle playing a record | Victrola Coffee Roasters

Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of the needle (stylus) of a record player in a groove on a record. A record is used to store sound. It is produced by a machine with a head which vibrates in time to the sound being recorded. This cuts a groove in the record which varies according to the vibrations. A needle can then reproduce these vibrations as it runs along the groove and these, when amplified, produce the original sound.

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mypubliclands:

It’s National Frog Jumping Day!

Let’s celebrate with an epic frog fail!  Check out this amazing slo-mo video of a frog fantastically missing its target.  The video was shot by Dr. Andrew Montcastle, a postdoctoral fellow in the Combes Lab at Harvard University, whose research is focused on the material properties, structure and function of insect wings. Check out more of his videos at http://www.andrewmountcastle.org/movies.html

ilovecharts:

Geography of Hate

Students from Humboldt State University have created a map of racism and homophobia in America after analysing 150,000 tweets containing hate words sent between June 2012-April 2013.

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