A VESSEL OF EXPRESSION FOR UNSUNG HEROES

Kaeemae’s words here are relatable. The quietly influential role of the intuitive model… 🙂
“My favorite way to work is for a photographer to explain what they are going for and I interpret and deliver just that. I have never not delivered as I always know what my clients want, even if they don’t!

“When I’m trusted and with little direction I work best because that’s when my own creativity kicks in,” she continues. “When I’m rigidly directed, I become frustrated easily and lose the excitement for the job. A lot of the times when I’m heavily directed, I’ll get into a pose nonchalantly in between takes and wait for the photographer to notice. They always do and that shot tends to be in the final selection.”

The Modelographers

Kae uses her body to celebrate and encourage femininity, blackness

Kae is tired of women of color being told they’re either “not enough,” or “too much.”

“A lot of what I do is to celebrate the unsung heroes . . . who are the source of creativity, expression and love in untold forms,” Kae says in an email interview.

While studying dance in college, Kae discovered how to use her body as a form of expression. She realized, “I could never be delicate or graceful, everything in me was raw passion and emotion.”

Photo by shotbymiah

With a K cup size, Kae is very familiar with objectification and body shame.

“Funnily enough, having big breasts since the age of 11 has forced me to deal with being objectified for a long time,” she explains. “As you can imagine, I went through the stages of trying to hide my body, wearing…

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More Spiders | Dave Rudin

Figures of Grace

Nude, Iceland, 2014

A few days ago, the annual announcement was made of the winners of the Black and White Spider Awards.  This was the sixth year that I’ve entered, and in the past five years, I have not won a first, second or third place award, but I had been awarded with two Honorable Mentions – one two years ago and the first one two years before that.

This year, I made a step forward – not by being in the top three, but by receiving two Honorable Mentions.  One of them, which is at the top of the list of Honorable Mentions on the contest’s website, is a photograph of Rebecca Tun in Iceland’s Jokulsarlon glacier lagoon on my trip there in 2014.  The other one (at the bottom of the list, ironically) is of Sienna Hayes made at a local beach last year when she was visiting…

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killersatellit:

New English trailer for “The Goldberg-Papers”, starring Rebecca Tun as narrator.

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unshavedisart:

Rebecca Tun, ph. Austin Osuide.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II.

expressingfemselves:

Video source: expessingfemeselves, tumblr – same date

felmcyber-hairy-armpits:

Rebecca Tun

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Rebecca Tun

maulett:

and looking back

Rebecca Tun

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Rebecca Tun

Sexualized Saturdays: “Fully Functional,” Lt. Commander Data and Asexual Representation

“…the potential future inclusion of real androids in the queer community is interesting…”

Lady Geek Girl and Friends

In contemplating possible articles related to ace week, I tried to think of classic geek characters who are asexual. That led me to wonder, “How would I even know? It’s not like we get 24/7 access to these fictional people’s’ lives.” But then, very quickly, I realized that we do know that a lot of our favorite characters are not ace/aro because so many of them have had on-screen relationships and sexual encounters that are presented as a product of the characters’ own sex drive (rather than as ace people who are accommodating their partner). But why? Is there something about our sexual lives that is so essential to our identities that it requires exposition in our fictional characters, or is this just an example of ace erasure? After some additional geeky contemplation, it occurred to me that there is one beloved character who is, in fact, perfectly suited to…

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