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elysionsprincess: mooglemisbehaving: tyndall-blue: riskycurios...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:37:51 +1000

mooglemisbehaving:

tyndall-blue:

riskycuriosity:

artemisiumabsinthia:

Josephine Baker, later known as ‘Bronze Venus’, ‘Black Pearl’ and ‘Créole Goddess’ was born in America in 1906 and later moved to France to become a singer, dancer, and actress. She was the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture, and became famous worldwide.

Though she grew up as a maid in wealthy white households she eventually became an exotic dancer in France, famously appearing in next to no clothing, and became a French citizen in 1937.

Ernest Hemingway referred to Baker as ‘the most sensational woman anyone ever saw’ and she received approximately 1500 marriage proposals in her life time. She became a muse for Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Christian Dior. She had a variety of exotic pets including a cheetah named Chiquita, a chimpanzee named Ethel, a pig named Albert, a snake named Kiki, a goat, a parrot, parakeets, fish, three cats, and seven dogs.

When WWII broke out, Baker became a volunteer spy for France, and assisted the French Resistance by smuggling messages written in invisible ink on sheet music. She made great efforts to aid those in danger of enemy attack, sent Christmas presents to French soldiers, and smuggled information she gathered in Spain back to France by pinning notes containing the information on the inside of her underwear. She was awarded the Medal of Resistance with Rosette and later named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.

Baker also aided many civil rights movements by refusing to perform to segregated audiences and storming out of a club in Manhattan with actress Grace Kelly after she was refused service. She worked with the NAACP and spoke at a Washington march alongside Martin Luther King Jr. as the only official female speaker. Baker was actually asked by Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow to take his place as leader of the American Civil Rights Movement, but Baker declined on the grounds her twelve adopted children ‘were too young to lose their mother’.

Baker died in 1975, four days after her final show, attended by such names as Mick Jagger, Shirley Bassey, and Liza Minnelli.

Oh and she was queer and had a relationship with Frida Kahlo. All around badass.

I’d like a movie about her life too, please.

i knew it

Motherfucking Anastasia. She’s there.

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Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:33:24 +1000

alison i’m a bad bitch hendrix

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:47:44 +1000

alison i’m a bad bitch hendrix

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endquestionmark: #the amount of happiness within my body has a...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:41:12 +1000

endquestionmark:

#the amount of happiness within my body has a direct relationship with the floofiness of bones’ hair (via mochitastic)

caffeineideology: Boop.

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:15:44 +1000

caffeineideology:

Boop.

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jitterbugjive: I put my portal game at the highest quality...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:07:49 +1000

jitterbugjive:

I put my portal game at the highest quality graphics in order to read this cup and….

star trek alternative opening [x]

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:13:56 +1000

star trek alternative opening [x]

nyliramrae: youarelookingatthis: some members of fandoms are...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:48:25 +1000

nyliramrae:

youarelookingatthis:

some members of fandoms are exactly like this…

Brilliant commercial.

ethicalbutchering: glorfindels: #THESE TWO #BROTP #and ofc...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:43:13 +1000

ethicalbutchering:

glorfindels:

#THESE TWO #BROTP #and ofc with bev we’ve got the brot3 #honestly though these idiots can you imagine if they had worked together before bev came into the picture #i bet you anything jack worships at the altar of katz#brilliant; driven; takes zero shit #and somehow possesses the MAGICAL ability to keep brian and jimmy focused #literally no one else in the history of ever in the bau has been able to diffuse the tag team of buttheads that is price and zeller #and that among many other reasons is why bev is my queen #QUEEN KATZ AND FOOTMEN PRICE AND ZELLER#there is precious little levity to be had in this show but when it happens it’s BEAUTIFUL#bless the sassy science squad #bless (balphesian)