Posts by: dogpossum
But she deserved it. She was the one opening her mouth, right?
By dogpossum On 17th June, 2013 · Leave a Comment · In lindy hop and other dances, menz, webbing, wimminz
No, actually. That’s incorrect.
So far’s I can tell, this is how it goes:
Sister writes moderately feminist (not especially radical feminist) piece about gender shit in dancing.
Some of her peeps read it, link it up. Word circulates. Peeps get to chatting. Tumblr gets a-whirring. Discourse, discussion, grown up talk and thinking happens. All [...]
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Bandit’s Roost (1888), by Jacob Riis, from “How the Other Half Lives.” Bandit’s Roost, at 59½ Mulberry Street (Mulberry Bend), was the most crime-ridden, dangerous part of all New York City.
You must look at the hi-res version of this here.
Look at this man:
Via mindlessmunkey of course.
(via mindlessmounkey)
I set aside a bit of time now and then to fuck over the patriarchy. But it’s just one of my (many) hobbies. I probably spend more time crocheting.
In May 2011 I wrote a post called A difficult conversation about sexual violence in swing dance communities
I need to bump this post again, because it’s been getting a stack of traffic lately.
This was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever written. When I started linking ideas together, and mapping out [...]
I read some thing on vernacular jazz dance about the lack of female DJs at European swing dance events…which I now realise was a response to my joke post about women DJs, which was actually Olive and Astrid in Fringe, being science nerds.
This past MSF (which is one of the two biggest [...]
Nine million people came up to me this past MSF weekend, kind of randomly, to say “I’ve been reading your blog!” I knew maybe two of them.
So hello, there people who’ve been reading my blog. Make sure you make your own blog or tumblr or whatever, ok? Because conversation is so much more than [...]
Fully fat from dogpossum on 8tracks Radio.
title year artist bpm length
You Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya – 2009 – Luke Winslow-King (Rich Levison, Cassidy Holden, Shaye Cohn) – 142 – 2:12
Truckin’ – 2012 – Paul Asaro And The Fat Babies (Andy [...]
