+ Dolly Parton

I love old country music. They just don't make em like they use to. Ive been listening to old Dolly songs from the 60's and 70's. Her voice and personality is uplifting, relatable, and inspiring so i thought i would pay her a tribute. 

+ humansofnewyork blog re-post

"I have a Masters in history, a Masters in anthropology, and a PhD in education."
"What would you say has been your greatest accomplishment?"
"My personality."

-in Mexico City, Mexico

+ pablo boffelli on flickr as Feli Punch

Warpaint - Disco//Very - Keep It Healthy (Official Video)

these talented women are coming to the Gothic theater soon, I plan to be there!

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In 1966, Uhura was the first black woman as a main character on US TV who was not a servant. NBC refused to let Nichelle Nichols be a regular, claiming Deep South affiliates would be angered, so Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hired her as a “day worker,” but included her in almost every episode. She actually made more money than any of the other actors through this workaround, but it was still a humiliating second-class status. The network people made life hard for Nichols.

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Maud Wagner was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States. Little is known about this awesome vintage lady, however according to The New Yorker, Maud traded a date with her husband-to-be Gus Wagner in 1907 for tattoo lessons. 

pic and text by: http://lomographicsociety.tumblr.com

+ Retro Bette Midler

I just love these old photos of Bette and this great song "this ole house" sung by the one and only. the audio video was put together by my sister and her friends at the blue barn in Evansville.

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A welder at a boat-and-sub-building yard adjusts her goggles before resuming work, October, 1943. By 1945, women comprised well over a third of the civilian labor force (in 1940, it was closer to a quarter) and millions of those jobs were filled in factories: building bombers, manufacturing munitions, welding, drilling and riveting for the war effort.
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+ Avant Garde Diaries presents: Iris Apfel

born August 29, 1921Iris Apfel is an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion icon.

"just be yourself, express what you like, the fashion police are not going to take you away."

+ Women stand up! its an important time for women rights during this election, we must fight to protect our rights by voting for obama, who will not defund planned parenthood. Womens rights is still an important struggle that we can overcome if we work together!

+ the Oaks

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (Reuters) - Rosie Napravnik became the first woman jockey to win the Kentucky Oaks when she steered Believe You Can to victory in the 138th running of the three-year-old fillies' classic on Friday at Churchill Downs.

text: http://www.chicagotribune.com
pic from : http://sports.yahoo.com/rah/photo?slug=057875f13e67a1d99425df701b1b76bd-getty-143837052

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+ henna

Lila Downs

if you've seen Frida, the movie, then you've heard Downs' amazing voice singing many of the songs in spanish. her new album is free to listen to on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6444880

ALIENS

one of the coolest movies ever with one of the toughest female characters as well...

portrait of the day

shot in Paris by David Bellemere featuring Elsa Hosk, Zuzanna and Julia Bijoch.
More from Free People: http://blog.freepeople.com/#ixzz1c0YQ1m3j

female portrait: Hilary Walsh

Hilary Walsh was born in San Francisco and raised in Philadelphia. After attending business school in New York, she followed her interest in photography and worked as a photo assistant in several cities, including Paris and London, before launching her own career. Walsh is most noted for her fashion editorials and celebrity portraiture, which are characterized by her use of subdued lighting to emphasize the natural beauty of her subjects. Walsh’s photographs appear in publications such as Vogue, Elle, GQ, Vanity Fair, Interview, Double, Casa Vogue, Nylon and V. Her advertising clients have included American Eagle, Current Elliott, DKNY, J. Crew, Vans, Equipment, bebe, and the City of New York.
Currently, Hilary resides in Los Angeles with her husband Emmett Malloy and her son Henry
View here website here - http://www.hilarywalsh.com/

female portrait of the day

Natasha Poly in Muse Magazine Fall 2009 by David Hamilton

cute of the day

Female Portrait of the day.

a berber woman, photographer unkonwn

Berbers (Berber: Imazighen / Imaziɣen) are the indigenous peoples of North Africa west of the Nile Valley. They are continuously distributed from the Atlantic to the Siwa oasis, in Egypt, and from the Mediterranean to the Niger River. Historically they spoke the Berber language or varieties of it, which together form a branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Today, varieties of Maghrebi colloquial Arabic are spoken by a large portion of Berbers besides the Berber language itself. Foreign languages like French are used by the educated in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Spanish is also known by some Berbers in Morocco and in the annexed Western Sahara and Italian in Libya. This presence of European languages was due to Europe's occupation and colonization of the Berber world. Today, most Berber-speaking people live in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali and Niger.[2][3] The presence of the Arabic language and dialects is due to the spread of Islam and to the immigration of some Arab tribes to the region centuries ago. A Berber is not necessarily only someone who happens to speak Berber. The Berber identity is usually wider than language and ethnicity, and encompasses the entire history and geography of North Africa. Berbers are not a homogenous ethnic group and encompass a range of phenotypes, cultures and ancestries. The one unifying force is the Berber language and an identification with the Berber heritage and history.