Mid-Week Libation: From Susan B. Anthony to Divine!

Put on our eclectic playlist, check out the photography of Flo Ngala, & savor a glass of wine from Languedoc by renowned vigneron, Francoise Ollier

“Whatever it is that people find that they want to work on they also have to remember that they are human beings and they need to save some time for themselves for personal growth, for mental health, for their families, their loved ones so that they will have the strength to continue doing that work.” — Ana Castillo [https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1589345]

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Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Domaine Ollier Taillefer, Grande Reserve Faugères (Languedoc-Roussillon, France)

Purchase via Wine-Searcher or Vivino

French female winemakers are ‘stronger together’ with Vinifilles (via The Buyer)

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Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: Mind the Gap

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The Photography of Flo Ngala

WFMU @WFMU

Flo Ngala’s photographs of figure skating in Harlem celebrate young skaters of colour: itsnicethat.com/articles/flo-n…

FASHION @style_24_365

"‘When I Skate It Just Feels Free’" by FLO NGALA, LOVIA GYARKYE and EVE LYONS via NYT nyti.ms/2R8wnQt

Rolling Stone @RollingStone

Photographer Flo Ngala captured portraits of black men protesting in NYC last week. “What we’ve seen occur in the past few days in our country has shown me now more than ever that there is power in togetherness and in the fight for justice,” she says rol.st/3dMlhb9

It's Nice That @itsnicethat

Flo Ngala photographs one of America’s biggest Caribbean carnivals > buff.ly/2S8oask

It's Nice That @itsnicethat

Photographer Flo Ngala captures the raw emotion of one of America's largest carnivals > buff.ly/2yVZ6Mi

Hunger Magazine @HungerMagazine

Beautiful self-portraits by Flo Ngala bit.ly/2a5TFSR

RAWdance @_RAWdance

Dancer and scholar MiRi Park created a public Google document listing occurrences of dance as protest since May 26, together with additional recommended readings. It expands everyday. Dive into the resource: docs.google.com/document/u/0/d… (photo by Flo Ngala for The NY Times)

Official Site of Flo Ngala

Flo Ngala on Instagram

Flo Ngala - Works for Sale (Artsy)

An Intimate Look at How Photographer Flo Ngala Prepared to Be the First Black Woman to Shoot Inside the Met Gala (via Elle)

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Susan B. Anthony
by Katharine Rolston Fisher (1871-1950)

Her life is a luminous banner borne ever ahead of her era, in
      lead of the forces of freedom,
            Where wrongs for justice call.
High-hearted, far-sighted, she pressed with noble intrepid impatience,
      one race and the half of another
            To liberate from thrall.

If now in its freedom her spirit mingle with ours and find us
      toiling at dusk to finish
            The task of her long day,
On ground hard held to the last, gaining her goal for women,
      if for her word we hearken,
            May we not hear her say:

“Comrades and daughters exultant, let my goal for you be a mile-
      stone. Too late have you won it to linger.
            Victory flies ahead.
Though women march millions abreast on a widening way to free-
      dom, trails there are still for women
            Fearless to break and tread.

“Keep watch on power as it passes, on liberty’s torch as it
      travels, lest woman be left with a symbol,
            No flame in her lamp alive.
In the mine, the mill and the mart where is bartered the bread of
      your children, is forged the power you strove for,
            For which you still must strive.”

Her spirit like southern starlight at once is afar and around us;
      her message an inward singing
            Through all our life to run:
“Forward together, my daughters, till born of your faith with
      each other and of brotherhood all the world over,
            For all is freedom won.”

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Drag Performance of the Week: Divine - “You Think You’re a Man”

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Happy Wednesday everyone! Today is the birthday of Frédéric Chopin, Tsangyang Gyatso, Nikolaos Gyzis, Mary Elizabeth Price, Lytton Strachey, Oskar Kokoschka, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Mercedes de Acosta, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Basil Bunting, Maud Morgan, Glenn Miller, David Niven, Ralph Ellison, Robert Lowell, Dinah Shore, William Gaines, Harry Belafonte, Ron Howard, Javier Bardem, Thomas Adès, Lupita Nyong'o, Ke$ha and Yuhua Hamasaki!

What do you think is divine on this Wednesday?