Photo by Andrea Sainz
Michaela DePrince - Ballet Dancer
The Avant/Garde Diaries present a beautiful film about 17-year-old Michaela DePrince, who has made the incredible journey from Sierra Leone, where she was orphaned at three years old and a refugee of the country’s brutal civil war, to pursuing her dream to the top of the New York ballet scene. Watch in awe.
I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.
Albert Einstein’s advice to a little girl who wants to be a scientist, in a 1946 letter.
(via Brain Pickings)
To call a man a “white man” is racist terminology in itself. Terminology perpetrated and promoted by the media.
Walter Mosley tackles racial identity in the context of the Trayvon Martin case. (via newsweek)
As it is calling us milky, but nevermind.. just get over it “black”
Maje is paying homage to Brigitte Bardot with a limited edition collection of five t-shirts featuring the fashion legend’s iconic photographs. Check out the lookbook here »
