In the 1980s the most dangerous place for a teenage American girl to be was in a horror movie. The wider the eyes and the rosier the cheeks, the more certain it was that she would meet a grisly fate.
In 2012 it’s ABC Family that has it out for the young women of America. Beginning with the awkward teen pregnancy on “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” ABC Family has doubled down on young women facing epic trials: “The Lying Game” (teenage girls are separated at birth, face intrigue), “Pretty Little Liars” (teenage girls lose a close friend, face intrigue), “Switched at Birth” (teenage girls are switched at birth, face intrigue), “Make It or Break It” (teenage girls do gymnastics, face intrigue).
—ABC Family has it out for the young women of America (via tvhangover)
(Source: The New York Times)
February 4th 1938 Walt Disney releases “Snow White”
“Disney won an honorary Academy Award for his pioneering achievement, while the music for the film, featuring Snow White’s famous ballad, “Some Day My Prince Will Come” and other songs by Frank Churchill, Larry Morey, Paul J. Smith and Leigh Harline, was also nominated for an Oscar. The studio re-released Snow White for the first time in1944, during World War II; thereafter, it was released repeatedly every decade or so, a pattern that became a tradition for Disney’s animated films. For its 50th anniversary in 1987, Snow White was restored, but cropped into a wide-screen format, a choice that irked some critics. Disney released a more complete digital restoration of the film in 1993. Its power continues to endure: In June 2008, more than 60 years after its U.S. release, the American Film Institute chose Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the No. 1 animated film of all time in its listing of “America’s 10 Greatest Films in 10 Classic Genres.””
I can’t believe what I’ve just read in regard to Canada’s new Conservative Government passing an amendment that can deny “pre-op” trans people from air travel in Canada. Here is the amendment 5.2 (1) An air carrier shall not transport a passenger if … (c) the passenger does not appear to be of…
Baltimore’s African American celebrate the 15th Amendment, establishing the right of suffrage
Monument Square, Baltimore
1870
William Chase
Stereoview
Stereoview Collection
Maryland Historical Society
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On this day in 1870, the 15th Amendment, granting African American men the right to vote, was ratified. Read about how although this amendment was ratified, it took almost a century for it to be fully realized on the Library of Congress 15th Amendment to the Constitution Primary Documents Web Guide site.
Two 150-year-old dolls have been x-rayed in a bid to discover if they were used by Confederate soldiers to smuggle medical supplies past Union blockades during the U.S. Civil War. It is thought the large dolls – Nina and Lucy Ann – had their hollowed out papier-mache heads stuffed with quinine or morphine for wounded and malaria-stricken Confederate troops.
