girlsgetbusyzine:

Women are tattooing themselves in diverse, powerful and creative ways. Women with Tattoos is an ongoing project celebrating this creativity, while subtly raising questions about gender and identity.

Women with Tattoos is a collaboration between Christina Theisen and Eleni Stefanou. They both live and work in London.

They’d love to hear from you, whether it’s a simple ‘hello’ or a tale about your tattoo you’d like to share:

www.christinatheisen.com 
christinatheisen@gmail.com
+44 (0) 7877826983

www.elenistefanou.com
estefanou@gmail.com
+44 (0) 79 1046 7183

London World Pride Procession 2012 - by Wunmi O.

THE BEATLES WAITING TO CROSS ABBEY ROAD, 1969

“The front cover design of Abbey Road by the Beatles was taken on 8th August 1969. At around 11:30 that morning, photographer Iain Macmillan was given only ten minutes to take the photo whilst he stood on a step-ladder and a policeman held up the traffic”

virgilante:

It’s Britain’s finest actors vs Shakespeare in the 2012 Cultural Olympiad

(via maddiesaur)

garconniere:modernistwitchery:sonails:

A radical feminist and a well-known figure of the Manchester punk and post-punk scene, Linder was known for her montages, which often combined images taken from pornographic magazines with images from women’s fashion and domestic magazines, particularly those of domestic appliances, making a point about the cultural expectations of women and the treatment of female body as a commodity. Many of her works were published in the punk collage fanzine Secret Public, which she co-founded with Jon Savage. One of her best-known pieces of visual art is the single cover for Orgasm Addict by Buzzcocks (1977), showing a naked woman with an iron for a head and grinning mouths instead of nipples. “At this point, men’s magazines were either DIY, cars or porn. Women’s magazines were fashion or domestic stuff. So, guess the common denominator – the female body. I took the female form from both sets of magazines and made these peculiar jigsaws highlighting these various cultural monstrosities that I felt there were at the time.”
In 1978, she co-founded the post-punk group Ludus, and she remained its singer until the group split in 1983.

* note that this article uses “radical feminist” to mean “person who is radical and a feminist,” not “radical feminist” as racist transphobic douchebags use it.

(edited to add link to her art)

(Source: stephaniematon)