petermorwood:

bylillian:

foxy-nerdy:

Marie Baron at Arundel Jousting, photo by Stephen Moss

@petermorwood!

I’ve seen this photo before, but it’s always worth a reblog.

Here are a couple more, one demonstrating that a woman in armour doesn’t need a boob-plate or cleavage window to look good.

…and the other demonstrating why those fantasy features of “female armour” are a bad idea in real life.

alexander-coldfur:

thetundraterror:

ilybug:

The LGBT Youth Center in Phoenix, AZ called “One-In-Ten” was purposely set on fire recently. They house homeless LGBT Youth who a lot of them were kicked out or left and abusive home. They also have groups where the LGBT youth of Arizona can meet together and have a safe accepting environment every week. 

 Please donate to them here to help out, this is something terrible and tragic that I hope will never happen again.

Somewhat important detail: The person who set the place on fire was someone who used their services several times.

He was aged out of their services and was mad.

Women have always been part of white extremist groups. Some have even risen to prominent roles. During the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, an Atlanta woman named Elizabeth Tyler spearheaded the creation of the group’s national Propagation Department. She published a weekly newsletter advising “kleagles,” or paid campaigners, on developing new chapters. Tyler told them to recruit friends, to use churches as staging grounds, and to cast local minorities — blacks, Jews, Catholics, immigrants — as enemies. Kleagles were “encouraged to study their territories, identify the sources of concern among native-born Protestant whites, and offer the Klan as a solution,” Blee explains in another book, Women of the Klan. In the first six months of Tyler’s association with the K.K.K., its membership expanded by 85,000. When she formed a dedicated women’s wing in 1921, Tyler told the New York Times, “The Klan stands for the things women hold most dear.” The wing attracted some 500,000 members over the next decade.