divisionleap:

A series of nightclub posters and ephemera documenting the fabulous career of the African-American performer Sir Lady Java - the first transgender performer to be defended by the ACLU. 

Sir Lady Java was an associate of Redd Foxx, and performed regularly in LA Clubs. In 1967 the LAPD decided to enforce Rule 9, which prohibited performers from “impersonating” another sex. Sir Lady Java picketed, and received national press in JET, and the Advocate. The law was eventually successfully challenged in a different case. 

Sir Lady Java also had a role in the 1976 film The Human Tornado. 

Does anybody know what happened to this pioneering performer? 

- Division Leap

Anthropomorphic cactus sculpture

oxblood:

heroinsight:

“Follow the rainbow to my door….”  The male Satin Bowerbird, an Australian species endemic to the rainforests of the East Coast regions of the mainland and Tasmania, constructs an intricate ‘bower’ on which to display, dance and attract a mate. All bowerbird species do this, however the Satin variety has a penchant for indigo blue and collects all kinds of objects in various shades of this colour to decorate the bower with. The male Satin bowerbird’s plumage has an iridescent sheen in this colour, and the female, whilst having spotted beige plumage, has a striking eye colour in this same indigo shade as well. Male bowerbirds spend an extraordinary amount of effort and time adorning their bowers, arranging and re-arranging objects around it’s entrance as seen in the above photo examples.

Outsider bird art

(via ceedling)

(Source: michellemoe, via ceedling)