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Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Action Jacktion posted:

Newsweek does it again:

Europe:

US:

I'm giving Newsweek points for publishing the attention grabbing headline of "Heaven is Real."

That'll get the newstand readers going better than depressing talk about a coming war with Iran.

EDIT: Whoops I'm in the picture thread. Here's an icon of Christ the Liberator by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM

Here's something of the artist's narrative;

quote:

The Greek letters in the cross in Christ�s halo are the divine name revealed to Moses in the burning bush: "I am who am." The inscriptions in the upper corners of the icon are Greek abbreviations for "Jesus Christ." Christ wears the traditional Greek garments of icons, whether they are from Russia, Syria, or Ethiopia, but now they have African colors: burnt orange of the Maasai and white of the Saharan peoples. Like most African men, He wears necklaces.

The justification for this icon lies in the text Christ holds (Matt. 25:31-46). "When did we see you�?" those on Christ�s left will ask him at the Last Judgement. This text reminds us that Christ identified with the poor and oppressed of the world. The lives of the saints abound with stories about how Christ appeared as a beggar or a sick person in need. Christ has suffered in the Black members of His Mystical Body for many centuries -- slavery, exploitation, prejudice, and racial violence. The time has come to depict His solidarity with the Black peoples of the world -- in iconographic form.

Senju Kannon fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Oct 10, 2012

# ¿ Oct 10, 2012 00:02

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:47

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Hardcore Phonography posted:

Want more sub-human filth?

"I want to be a small business"

I know reporters tend to simplify their quotes, making the person quoted come off as dumb, but I can't help but wonder if that's the case here...

Tears of Idealism by Ling Jian

Communist Sister (I Love You I Kill You)
:nws:

for naked lactating woman; http://i.imgur.com/AYoU2.jpg
Revoluationary Madonna No. 3 by Ling Jian

Lot notes from Christies on Tears of Idealism, though it also touches on the artist's themes in general;

quote:

Tears of Idealism is one of the works from the famous series "Communist Sisters" that Ling Jian started in 2003. Each work from this series portrays a single erotic portrait of a sexy woman, representing an ideal and modern Chinese beauty with military attributes. For the first time in this series Ling Jian painted three different beheaded portraits on a wide and large canvas, emphasising the political role of women in the flying changing Chinese society.

All of Ling Jian's portraits of women are directly influenced by his muses, young Asian beauties, reflecting perfection and eternity, assets that have always celebrated military culture and served the official propaganda. These dream-like military youths reflect an apparent na�vety that creates a controversial iconography.
The reality compared to the aesthetical values that the painter is trying to hand over creates a distance, reinforced by modern Western modes of depiction for eastern aesthetics. This provocative and highly sensual style is to Ling the ideal way of portraying the conservative and rational reality of the true communist female soldier.

The artist chooses to only represent women as he thinks that in the evolutionary history of humanity women are always symbols of an era. He describes and paints them like true icons of a locally specific secular culture, giving them almost a sense of religion. The recurrence of the red colour in most of Ling Jian's paintings, introduced by inconspicuous details in the painting, such as little red books or simple touches of sinking red paint, not only refers to anger but also to passion. The Chinese cultural identity, which Ling describes in these paintings, is reinforced by this extreme and powerful interpretation of the traditional colour of communism. Tears of Idealism is quite an ambivalent portrait of cultural identity, as described in many of Ling Jian's fantastical images.

Also here's Christie's lot notes for Communist Sister because it's pretty interesting (I'd post notes for Revolutionary Madonna but I couldn't find any);

quote:

Ling Jian's Communist Sister series is a recent body of work that the Beijing and Berlin trained painter has embarked upon. In these works, Ling portrays in a highly provocative and emotional style, the idealized and fictionalized Chinese "Communist Sister". These compositions are seemingly fairly simple in their construction, however, upon closer ideological inspection, it becomes apparent that they function on a deeper level.

Continuing in the ancient Greek tradition of searching for ideal beauty in a variety of sources, Ling has abandoned the more contemporary practice of painting from one model, and instead generates an amalgamated idealised female form based on an assortment of sources. In his search for perfection and beauty, Ling will take the best eye, hand, lip or nose from each model and combine them to form his figures.

Interestingly, however, the "communist sister" that Ling depicts is counter to the true Chinese communist sister who traditionally symbolises modesty and loyalty -- a woman whose sexuality is replaced with her devotion to the state and to communist ideology. As an example, the traditional red arm band that Mao supporters would wear to symbolise their loyalty is here symbolically bleeding, hinting at the confused state of being. Ling's contradictory version deals with wider cultural and political issues that plague contemporary Chinese society. Although in theory China is still ruled by a communist leadership, it no longer operates under the economical and social constraints that it once did. As the effects of the emergence of a free market are being felt and the country is being inundated with the products and values of Western culture, there is a crisis of identity in which the values of the communist era are cherished yet increasingly shunned for the pleasures of a capitalist economy.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2012 17:58

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Cjones posted:

Uh, this person actually kind of has a point...

Not really. For one thing, mulatto is a pretty racist term to use and using Obama's biracial status as a way to discount his blackness is really lovely (it's also a tactic to mention how he doesn't count, because Republicans insist black Republican politicians or candidates mean Republicans aren't racist, which would mean a black Democrat president would make Dems not racist). I also question how many people referring to black Romney voters in the way the person describes are themselves black. If it's a majority, it seems less racist and more racialized, which isn't necessarily the same thing.

Here's a picture of Fritz Eichenberg's Black Crucifixion to go with talk about black people. Eichenberg did a lot of woodblock prints for the Catholic Worker newspaper. Apparently they were originally public domain but the copyright is owned by some private gallery. I don't know, it's been a while since I did a little bit of research into why his collection of prints is out of print and selling for $200. It's unfortunate, dude had a lot of great Christian and socialist artwork.

# ¿ Oct 22, 2012 20:14

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Frosted Flake posted:

I'm sorry that you feel that having different washrooms for the two sexes is a great injustice. Maybe more places will have family/handicapped washrooms in the next few years.

Maybe if cognitive behavior therapy was more common, people with gender dysmorphic disorder could get the help they need without worrying about changing society.

e: grammar.

Before you get into a discussion about transgender issues maybe you should say "I think transgender people are mentally ill cis people." That way you can be ignored completely.

Christ Sophia by Robert Lentz

Harvey Milk of San Francisco, by Robert Lentz

# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 18:48

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

massey ferguson posted:

there are trans and then there are trans who wont shut the gently caress up about it, some of whom could really benefit from therapy. I'm not saying this to be snarky, I went through therapy myself for depression and drug addiction and it was the best thing i ever done

In America you need three months therapy before you can be prescribed hormones, so most trans people not only go to therapy but are medically required to if they want to have an endocrinologist prescribe them medication instead of using street hormones. Of course there's a socio-economic aspect where trans people without insurance cannot get this, and the fact that the endocrinologist (unless sympathetic enough to diagnose a general hormone imbalance) isn't covered by insurance even if they have it. But those people would likely go to therapy if they had the ability.

Robert Lentz, Oscar Romero

Robert Lentz, Salvadoran Martyrs

Sorry I just really like Robert Lentz, it's pretty great seeing progressive figures and LGBT subjects done in traditional iconography. The fact that he's a Franciscan brother is also really cool.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 20:50

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

massey ferguson posted:

This is the last post I'll make about this cos i hate these lovely derails, but do you honestly think that some people with body dysmorphia wouldn't benefit from therapy to make themselves feel more comfortable with their own bodies? Changing your sex if you chose to do so will be the biggest decision in your life (not to mention the most irreversible one) so why not explore every avenue available before making the decision.
And yes this means i believe in Gay conversion therapy psuedoscience well done to that poster

People who get sex changes have to get a psychologist's referral you ignorant rear end.

EDIT: This is also in the UK, I'm pretty sure other countries with socialized medicine.

Here are some images from the 2012 Ugandan Pride Parade.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 21:04

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 23:02

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Seoinin posted:

Holy poo poo I think that woman on the left in the sunglasses is my cousin.

Contribution - your daily reminder that the Catholic church is dreadful.

Leonardo Boff
"One of the worst fundamentalisms is that of neoliberalism".
An outspoken advocate for the poor and downtrodden, as well as an early supporter of Liberation theology. Accused of Marxism, because honestly where does a man of the cloth get off speaking for the voiceless, he was gagged by order of the Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (aka the loving Inquisition), Cardinal Ratzinger.

The threat of second gag order in '92 lead to him leaving the Franciscan order.

Popular story, but he got married less than a year after he left the order and priesthood and has said countless times that if the Catholic Church allowed priests to marry he'd be a priest again. And honestly what got him was his Mariology, where he connected Mary to the trinity. Something of "Mary Co-Redemptrix" that has had some popularity among some Catholics but the official church condemns. Course it was pretty clear that was a bit of a trumped up charge. He's still Catholic apparently. I took a sociology class with a guy who had seen him in the past decade and said as much.

Similar vein, here's a video in which Sri Lankan Jesuit, Aloysius Pieris, talks about an art installation at the Tulana Institute in Sri Lanka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSW59lK58VQ
Basically, he commissioned a lot of Buddhist artists to make images based off Christianity. He wanted to see Jesus through the eyes of devout Buddhists. This piece in particular is based off the pieta, but focuses on the pieta through the lens of Sri Lanka's civil war. Aloysius Pieris is a liberation theologian who tries to bring together Asia's poverty and Asia's religiousness. Like Boff he's also had to go before the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, but has said basically that Asian theologians speak a language that the curia (the governing body of the Catholic Church) cannot understand. Sadly not as well known as Latin American or African American theologians.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2012 08:27

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

# ¿ Nov 15, 2012 01:50

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

# ¿ Nov 15, 2012 04:13

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Black Griffon posted:

My point is that they are actively segregating and attempting to destroy the Palestinian population. They've successfully convinced their own countrymen that Israel is simply "better" than Palestine. If I could find the graphs that showed what the average Israelan believed about the average Palestine, I'd post it, but I can't dig it up right now, so I just have to hope you've seen it as well.

The Israeli state are utter tyrants, is the point. They've managed to convince a nation that the Palestine state shouldn't be. The reason the comparison is important and not just a "Goodwin" is because the occupation of Palestinian lands and the acts of terror against the Palestinian population bear such striking resemblances to the neo-nazi actions against "non-Aryan" populations that we've seen in countries like South Africa. It's gone beyond the hyperbolic comparison to the striking reality. The apartheid against the Palestinian population is real, the propaganda is real.

They are not trying to take over the world, but the crimes of the Nazis were not limited to that idea. Their crimes were many, and the moment Israel commits any of them is a moment you have to realize that something has gone wrong. One very important part of realizing just how terrible the Nazi regime was, is to realize how many terrible things they did and not focus on the "obvious" like the holocaust and their drive to take over the world.

I completely accept that my comparisons to the Nazi regime might be accepted negatively, but I believe that there is a point where the comparisons become apt.

It's a comparison made by some Holocaust survivors, even.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSlFR541Uoo

# ¿ Nov 18, 2012 05:35

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

budgieinspector posted:

Wait -- there's an "American" ancestry other than Native American? And these non-Native natives settled almost entirely in the Bible Belt?

Methinks a shitload of people can't grasp even the most basic notions of genealogy.

for animal cruelty: http://i.imgur.com/3UsD6.jpg

http://www.change.org/petitions/criminal-prosecuters-in-santiago-de-chile-give-patricio-millar-the-maximum-punishment-for-his-abuse-of-dogs

http://pachnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/aspirante-que-ahorco-y-enterro-su-perro.html

That part of the country, it's not that uncommon for people to not know what their family's country of origin is. My family's from north-eastern Kentucky, and we have no clue what country we came from. Germany? Ireland? Scotland? Switzerland? It could be all of them or none of them. After being in the country for almost 300 years it's hard to know for sure, and quite honestly "American" is about all we really need to know.

# ¿ Nov 19, 2012 13:36

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

I saw this outside a BART station in Oakland.

# ¿ Nov 21, 2012 21:35

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Psalmanazar posted:

Loses a lot of impact when you see the URL at the bottom. bdsmmovement.com

Also Prison Rape is a serious problem.

It's just bdsmovement, apparently it's some kind of boycott against Israeli products. Seems pointless since I'm pretty sure most people's tax dollars are more likely to go to Israel than their spending dollars.

Website's kind of funny, too, there's an article about "how to support Gaza using BDS" and the fifth way is to "Pressure your elected officials to enforce a military embargo on Israel."

A poster I found on their website, something about "not even one shekel"

# ¿ Nov 21, 2012 23:59

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

^^^
They put a paw on the transgender flag. Of course they did.

nubdestoryer posted:

I decide based on how a woman looks and behaves, and she looks like a woman, and has given birth.

The person who gave birth was Asian. You know, dude with a goatee???

This is a compilation of pictures of Nong Toom, a Muay Thai boxer from Thailand.

This is a poster from the film they made of her life from 2003

She's a kathoey who started kickboxing to support her parents and to pay for her transition.

# ¿ Nov 29, 2012 18:37

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

"The Santerias of Buenos Aires display statues and stamps of a young woman who looks like the Virgin Mary, yet she is crucified and her body hangs from the cross, reminding us of Jesus. She is called Santa Librada, and her worship is very popular amongst the poor urban people of Buenos Aires�. The issue of Librada�s body is ambiguous: sometimes she has a well defined female body with full breasts and round hips� but in statues she often looks elfin, like a Peter Pan who will never grow up, as Jesus will never be old. Her clothes are similar to the Virgin Mary�s traditional attire, including sometimes a head cover�. Librada is neither Jesus nor Mary, but a dress, a cross, and superficial gender challenges which present us with a pattern of divine transvestism." Marcella Althaus-Reid, Indecent Theology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender, and Politics, 2000

# ¿ Dec 1, 2012 21:40

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Hasters posted:

Hey, that one of my Senators! Why so glum Lisa? The Governors literally going to give $2bn for Conoco for doing nothing, and offshore drilling permits are being issued at record rates; not to mention Democrats are about to be permanently gerrymandered out of power in the State. If you can't be happy now, when?

And then there's this rear end in a top hat. He's on the short list to be the next Pope and wow is he a loathsome human being.

Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, defended Uganda�s odious�Kill the Gays� bill and other legislation oppressing LGBT people. Last year, the National Catholic Register quoted Turkson as saying that the desire to imprison or execute gays and lesbians was understandable because hatred of gays is so ingrained in Africa: �The intensity of the reaction [to homosexuality] is probably commensurate with tradition.� And, rather than vociferously decry the persecution of any of God�s children, Turkson claimed there might be a good reason for it: "Just as there�s a sense of a call for rights, there�s also a call to respect culture, of all kinds of people. So, if it�s being stigmatized, in fairness, it�s probably right to find out why it is being stigmatized".

He even chastised U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for calling on African countries to end the criminalization of homosexuality: "[The Church pushes] for the rights of prisoners [and] the rights of others, and the last thing we want to do is infringe upon the rights of anyone. But when you�re talking about what�s called �an alternative lifestyle,� are those human rights? [ Ban Ki-moon] needs to recognize there�s a subtle distinction between morality and human rights, and that�s what needs to be clarified."

Full story here.

Man I started thinking "He's got a point, Europeans and Americans do use morality as a means of controlling Africa, and if homophobia is going to be confronted within Africa it needs to be done on African terms in order to promote Africa's selfhood" but then I saw the alternative lifestyle part and went "Oh he's just a homophobe hiding behind a cultural relativism argument, nevermind." Post-colonialism and homophobia can sound very similar if you're not careful!

Being African isn't an excuse for being homophobic, clearly.

# ¿ Feb 14, 2013 02:46

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Lord Lambeth posted:

Definitely a perspective thing.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2013 18:51

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

Experto Crede posted:

It's Buck Angel, the "man with a pussy". He changed his gender but decided to keep his vagina and stars in porn.

But basically trans* people have an awful time where public facilities are concerned, I think that image is basically saying that laws are being made so that people can only use the bathroom of their birth sex or something? I have no idea how something like that would be implemented/enforced.

Arizona had a bill banning a person from using a bathroom facility that isn't for their birth sex.

quote:

The sponsor of an Arizona bill targeting transgendered people who want to use bathrooms of the gender they identify with says he's giving up on the issue this Legislative session.

Republican Rep. John Kavanagh said Wednesday there's concern in his caucus about some of his proposal's definitions, so it will have to be shelved until next year.

Kavanagh caused a national uproar in March when he proposed the bathroom privacy language.

The original bill would have made it a crime for a transgendered person to use a bathroom other than the one designated for his or her birth sex.

After an outcry from advocacy groups, Kavanagh changed the measure to instead shield businesses from civil or criminal liability if they ban people from restrooms that don't match their birth sex.

From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/arizona-transgender-bathroom-bill-_n_3394164.html

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 07:47

Senju Kannon: Apr 9, 2011; by Nyc_Tattoo

spiderbot posted:

This is by Br. Robert Lentz, OFM. He's popular in gay christian circles for his icons portraying possibly gay saints (and gay people who should possibly be called saints):
Refreshingly, he also paints non- caucasian Christ:

He also has a non-caucasion, woman Christ.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2013 23:54

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