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Unretouched Portraits Illustrate 19 Bare, Bold And Beautiful Women
Unretouched Portraits Illustrate 19 Bare, Bold And Beautiful Women
Alyscia Cunningham was fed up with other photographers suggesting to her that she should photoshop the bodies and skin of her clients. So she created her own photo series featuring unretouched, makeup-free women of all ages to highlight just how stunning natural beauty can be.
In January 2012, Cunningham released her photography book Feminine Transitions which features hundreds of unaltered portraits of women with paired with empowering words of wisdom. “I yearned to create something that actually celebrated girls and women in their natural state,” Cunningham told The Huffington Post.
The project includes women of all ethnicities and ages, with women ranging in age from seven weeks to 103 years old. Since the release of the book a few years ago, Cunningham has continued to photograph women and feature their portraits on the Feminine Transitions Facebook page.
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After taking each woman’s photographs, Cunningham chooses a quote that she felt resonated with that woman’s image. Every quote is an empowering message that celebrates each woman and her natural beauty.
“It is my hope that this series empowers little girls to know they are beautiful just as they are,” Cunningham said. With a broader message that “liberates aging women from hiding behind their make-up and hair color (to cover up the grays) and reminds every senior woman who feels that her wrinkles are a negative reminder of growing older, that each line is a story map of her soul and her wisdom.”
She added that she wants “every woman, young and old, all races and colors, to know that they are naturally beautiful. It’s time to stop allowing society to dictate our beauty.”
Check out the bare, bold and beautiful portraits from Cunningham below.
Head over to Cunningham’s website to see more of her work.
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REVIEW: Torobaka – Sadler’s Wells, London
REVIEW: Torobaka – Sadler’s Wells, London
Sadler’s Wells in London has a strong reputation for presenting innovative dance productions.
Torobaka is exactly the kind of production that many modern dance lovers are looking for – Akram Khan and Israel Galván collaborating together to create something exciting and unique.
Khan is a master of kathak – a traditional style of dance from the north of India. Galván is one of the finest exponents of contemporary flamenco – the dance that defines southern Spain.
Flamenco is thought to share its roots with kathak – Spain’s Romani population migrated from India (via the Middle East) in the 14th and 15th centuries – both styles of dance feature heavy use of percussive footwork and rhythmic cycles.
But Torobaka is more than just Khan and Galván coming together to showcase the similarities in their technique, what they’ve created through their collaboration is something extraordinary.
In describing their creative process, Khan and Galván count the poem Toto-vaca by Tristan Tzara as one of their main influences. The dadaist, surreal sense of the absurd seems to liberate the two dancers and three accompanying musicians, freeing them to explore new movements, new shapes, new sounds.
This style of dance isn’t going to be for everyone. The structure is sometimes hard to follow, there isn’t a lot of ebb and flow or dramatic arc to the work, occasionally it all felt just a little bit silly. But on the night that I saw it, the capacity audience at Sadler’s Wells leapt to their feet to give a standing ovation to one of the most creative, inventive, and surprising dance performances that you could hope to see.
Torobaka is being performed at Sadler’s Wells until 5 July 2015.
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Gareth Johnson
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#LoveWins on Instagram
#LoveWins on Instagram
Since the Supreme Court’s historic decision on marriage equality last week, over 1.5 million photos have been shared on Instagram using the hashtag #LoveWins.
HRC.org
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Donald Trump Told George Takei He Attended A Lovely Gay Wedding; Still Opposes Gay Marriage; Still Sucks
Donald Trump Told George Takei He Attended A Lovely Gay Wedding; Still Opposes Gay Marriage; Still Sucks
We’ve grown ever-so weary of hearing about/from Donald Trump, and yet we feel compelled to tell you what the mega-rich humanoid bottle of Orangina told George Takei over lunch several years back.
Speaking to Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word, Takei claims, “When I met him, he said, ‘You know what, George? I just came from a gay marriage’ — he had come from a wedding of a very important Broadway personality, Jordan Roth [who married the producer Richie Jackson]… He told me, ‘They’re good friends of mine. It was a beautiful marriage. They’re wonderful friends.’”
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However, the bloated blowhard didn’t stop there, couldn’t stop there, because he must always speak, lest the world spin off its axis.
When Takei asked Trump why he doesn’t support same-sex marriage, Trump responded, “‘Well, I’m for traditional marriage.’ We finally agreed to disagree — he was for traditional marriage, despite the fact that he’d been married three times. That is not traditional.”
Takei has no problems with Trumps’ triptych of failed marriages, because “you want to find the person that you love, but the important thing here is to understand that our democracy is a dynamic democracy, and our Constitution is a living document, it’s not carved in stone,” Takei opined.
Sadly, Takei didn’t ask Trump why the tanlines around his eyebags are so pronounced, you can make out his preferred brand of sunglasses.
You can watch the whole video here.
h/t: Hollywood Reporter
Derek de Koff
Tom DeLay: Justice Department Wants To Legalize Sex With Animals and ‘Little Boys’ – VIDEO
Tom DeLay: Justice Department Wants To Legalize Sex With Animals and ‘Little Boys’ – VIDEO
Just when you thought these people couldn’t get any more offensive – or ridiculous, Tom DeLay has announced that there is a “secret memo” from the Justice Department that aims to legalize “12 new perversions” including sex with animals and “having sex with little boys,” reports Right Wing Watch.
For good measure, DeLay added that gays are out for some Christian blood.
Speaking with Newsmax host Steve Malzberg yesterday, the former GOP House leader and Dancing With the Stars contestant said:
“We’ve already found a secret memo coming out of the Justice Department.
“They’re now going to go after 12 new perversions, things like bestiality, polygamy, having sex with little boys and making that legal. Not only that, but they have a whole list of strategies to go after the churches, the pastors, and any businesses that tries to assert their religious liberty. This is coming and it’s coming like a tidal wave.”
Malzberg bizarrely concluded the interview by saying “nothing would surprise me.”
Watch a May discussion with Malzberg in which DeLay compares the fight for LGBT rights with Islamic extremists “forcing someone’s belief down [the throats of] other people”, below:
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Michael Fitzgerald
Tom DeLay: Justice Department Wants To Legalize Sex With Animals and ‘Little Boys’ – VIDEO
Milano Pride 2015
Which 'Magic Mike XXL' Star Would Win a Vogue Battle? (Video)
Which 'Magic Mike XXL' Star Would Win a Vogue Battle? (Video)
Stars like Jada Pinkett-Smith and choreographers weigh in at the film’s premiere in this episode of Advocate Spotlight.
Jase Peeples
Following SCOTUS Ruling, Michigan Continues Debate on Discriminatory Religious Freedom Bill
Following SCOTUS Ruling, Michigan Continues Debate on Discriminatory Religious Freedom Bill
Following the Supreme Court’s historic marriage equality decision last week, the Michigan Senate will likely bring a discriminatory Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to the floor.
HRC.org
More Than One In Eight Americans Unaware They Have HIV, Says CDC
More Than One In Eight Americans Unaware They Have HIV, Says CDC
The Centers for Disease Control has issued a report that more than 1.2 million Americans are currently living with HIV, including about 156,300 who aren’t aware of it.
That adds up to about 13 percent of people carrying the virus who aren’t adequately prepared to manage their own health and pose a high risk of infecting others.
The L.A. Times reports that the White House has set a goal for 90 percent of people infected to be aware of their status. As of 2012, only four states — Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii and New York — had met that benchmark, the CDC stated last week during a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Colorado came very close, and another seven states — Alaska, Idaho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Vermont — may be meeting the target but didn’t have enough new HIV cases in recent years to provide a reliable estimate.
Louisiana ranked lowest in HIV awareness at 77 percent.
Among men who have sex with men — a group that accounts for about 60 percent or new infections per year — only Hawaii met the 90 percent goal, though New York came close and estimates suggest Alaska, Maine, Montana and Vermont have also hit the mark.
Moral of the story? Go get tested.
Dan Tracer
