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We love good comics, and that's why we love good editions from great publishers.

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Everyone should make a comic about their sexual obsession, well for some it would be really short, but for others it would be the nightmare of the moral guardians!

Please describe the content of the comic you envisage creating.

It is also only possible with simple means without real images only in their imagination. Here is a little guide

Think of it as an advertisement for something really crazy...... from the era of anarchist comics.

The amazing pacifist who will bravely defend democracy with a weapon if necessary when it comes to an emergency. Adapted from the brilliant Albert Einstein.

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The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

We always say we rehabilitate and educate with compassion and understanding, but when it really comes down to it, it's going to be hard!

Red lines are not to be crossed, full stop

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We are not into culture war and panic, we are only into the clear signal of denial that democracy is weak. To all those who follow the path of blindness, hatred and misanthropy!

JOAN JUMPSUIT - 2024

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You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Vivienne Westwood

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Vivienne Westwood

What a life! I want to thank both of you and also those who bring fashion forward in their own special way.

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Radical chic and professionalisation

Frontal colour photograph of a narrow black house with two upper floors. The window frames of the upper floors are white and partly decorated. On the ground floor there is a shop with a huge clock whose numbers go up to 13. World's End boutique with 13-hour clock

Born out of necessity, she soon developed her business into a respectable skill. In November 1971, she and her partner, Malcolm McLaren, opened their first boutique at 430 Kings Road in London under the name 'Let it rock', a reference to the Chuck Berry song. McLaren had started selling his fashion at the location two months earlier with a friend from art school, Patrick Casey, in the previous shop called 'Paradise Garage', until the owner, Trevor Myles, let him take over. Most of the clothes, some of which were second-hand, were aimed at 'Teds', as McLaren himself wore teddy boy suits and despised the hippie clothing that was prevalent at the time. Westwood designed the styles and East End tailor Sid Green and a seamstress took care of production. The standard range included teddy jackets, tight trousers and creeper shoes. As the racism and sexism of the Teds became increasingly apparent, they renamed the shop 'Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die' in memory of the untimely death of acting icon James Dean in the spring of 1973 and focused on rocker fashion. At the end of 1974, the name was changed to 'Sex' and the range shifted to erotic lingerie and SM items.

The boutique became a meeting place for the London punk rock scene, including Sid Vicious and other members of the future Sex Pistols, the Chelsea band members and Mark Stewart. The radicalisation of Westwood's worldview was also reflected in the shop's subsequent name: 'Seditionaries - Clothes for Heroes' (from 1976) and 'World's End' (from 1979), under which the shop still exists today.

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Yes, what a castle in Scotland and then the highlander lived here too..... in the reality of fiction. Marvellous

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Highlander (film) - Wikipedia

Places to visit...

Eilean Donan Castle

revolution for inclusion

All well and good, now you have to put it into practice in the real world and really start a revolution of inclusion.... so that it spreads.... Disabled people must become uncomfortable so that they are recognised politically, culturally and economically.

This is only possible by pointing out grievances and fighting...... Revolution means fighting to achieve goals and eliminate grievances.

Fight back and be outraged!

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IPC President Andrew Parsons has ignited a 'revolution for inclusion' with an impassioned speech at the opening ceremony for the Paralympic Games in Paris. In a rousing speech, the head of the International Paralympic Committee called for the games to be played in the spirit of liberty, equality and fraternity, shouting 'liberte, egalite, fraternite' to the assembled heads of state and spectators on the Place de la Concorde.

'Liberte! "The right to live freely and without oppression," Parsons exclaimed, his voice ringing with energy as he spoke of the importance of equality. Every person with a disability has the right to a life without barriers, without discrimination and without marginalisation – and we are going to make it happen! Fraternité! We are one, and we are so much more than the same! "We all belong to the same family: humanity!" He is determined to overcome the 'enormous obstacles' that people with disabilities still face, especially outside of sport.

'Through their incredible performances, Paralympic athletes will challenge stigmas, change attitudes and redefine the boundaries of what is considered possible,' Parsons continued. '225 years ago, the Place de la Concorde was the centre of the French Revolution. I hope that the spark of the inclusion revolution will now also ignite here. Vive la revolution de l'inclusion!' This call should resound beyond France to the whole world.

Please find down the speech given by Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee on August 28, 2024, on the occasion of the Paralympic Games Opening Ceremony. Find attached the french translations (pronounced and full). 

 [IN FRENCH DURING THE SPEECH]

"Dear athletes,

Dear lovers of the Games in France and around the world,

Welcome to the country of love… and the country of revolution.

Since tonight is the start of the most beautiful of all revolutions: the Paralympic revolution.

Tonight, the revolutionaries are you, the athletes.

Like our ancestors with their phrygien caps, you have panache and audacity.

Like all the revolutionaries around the world, you have courage and determination.

Like them, you are fighting for a cause that is bigger than you.

But, in your case, your weapons are your performances.

In your case, your weapons are your records.

In your case, your weapons are the emotions of sport.             

Even if all your life stories are unique, you have often lived with people listing all the things you are unable to do.

Until the day you first entered a sports club.

On that day, you understood that sport would not impose any limits.

On that day, you understood that sport would never put you in a box.

Like all athletes, you trained, you sweated, you failed and you got back up again…

And you became the great champions that we are honoured to have with us tonight.

What makes you revolutionaries is that, when they told you “no,” you continued.

When they said “disability,” you replied “performance.”

When they said it was impossible, you did it.

And tonight you are inviting us to join you in this Paralympic revolution.

Tonight, you are inviting us to change our perspectives, change our attitudes, change our society to finally give every person their full place.

Because when the sport starts, we will no longer see men and women with a disability, we will see you: we will see champions.

With you, we are going to re-live all the most beautiful things that sport has to offer.

We will be like kids when you are on the start line.

We will be like coaches when it gets to match point.

We will be wild supporters when you cross the finish line!

As with the Olympians, each of your victories will make an entire country proud.

But your power is such that each of your victories will also make a whole country change.

Each of your victories will help to move the world forward.

Because every emotion that you make us feel will carry a message that will never be forgotten:

You have no limits, so let us stop imposing limits on you.

That is the Paralympic revolution.

A gentle revolution, but one that is going to profoundly change every one of us, forever.

An individual revolution, but one with a universal reach.

A sudden revolution: on 9 September, we are going to wake up different.

There are few events that can truly make the world a better place.

The Paralympic Games have this unrivalled power, not only to thrill us but also to transform us.

So tonight, I want to thank the International Paralympic Committee and its President Andrew Parsons: thank you for giving us this unique opportunity to revolutionise the way we see the world.

I would also like the thank all those public and private partners who have allowed this revolution to start:

Thank you, Mister President of the Republic,

Madam Mayor of Paris,

Madam President of the French National Paralympic Committee,

Madam Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games,

Madam President of the Ile-de-France region,

Mister Presidents of the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area and the Seine-Saint-Denis department,

Ladies and gentlemen representatives of French and international sport,

Dear partners,

Thank you for your commitment. Thank you for putting all your passion and ambition into this project.

Thank you to this frenzied public that we discovered this summer, and that is back with us this evening!

Dear lovers of the Games, dear fans of ‘Les Bleus’

It’s not over, we’re going to experience more incredible moments!

It’s not over, our French athletes still need you!

Tonight, Team France is back in business, ready to break all the records!

Dear French athletes,

You’ve been waiting for this moment forever, and you are going to have the most wonderful crowds to carry you all the way to the podium.

They’ve practiced their songs,

They’ve painted their faces,

They’ve got their flags ready

They are going to make you feel the force of a whole country behind you.

[IN ENGLISH DURING THE SPEECH]

There are 1.3 billion people with disabilities worldwide. That is 16 per cent of the entire world population. The majority of them (80 per cent) live in low-income countries and have poorer healthcare, less education and are poorer than people without disabilities. Yet disabilities could often be avoided through prevention.

In 77 per cent of all people with mild visual impairment or even blindness, the cause can be prevented or treated

In children, almost 60% of hearing loss is due to preventable causes.

80% of all people with moderate to severe hearing loss live in low- and middle-income countries.

What a potential that is simply lying idle and can certainly make the world an even better place.

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Show yourselves, become visible..... time on the sidelines is over!

Antinous (Ancient Greek: Ἀντίνοος, Latinised Antinous) was an incredible individual who captured the heart of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Born on 27 November between 110 and 115 in Bithynion-Klaudiopolis, Bithynia, and passing away on or shortly before 30 October 130 in the Nile near Besa, Antinous was a favourite and presumed lover of Hadrian. After his death, he was declared a god and worshipped. Many of his portraits have survived to the present day, and they are truly magnificent! From the Renaissance to the present day, the art surrounding Antinous has been widely received. This applies both to the art handed down from antiquity and to re-creations and interpretations of ancient works of art in modern times, which are equally stunning!

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If immortality is almost attainable, then it is probably only in this way! These days, it is unfortunately no longer the case that really rich, powerful people have art created that shows what they worship or rather what they love idolatrously, to whom they are addicted. But who knows what the future holds?

Powerful people only collect things that can increase in value for them or make their status visible.

But what Hadrian did goes beyond the dimension of art and desire... He made his beloved a god and thus honoured him in art and history! Their togetherness was certainly unprecedented, the conversations, the union of two people in such an imbalance of power and yet probably equal as only love can be.

Oh, are we all only as loved as Antinous!

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Little is known about Antinous, and his actual significance for our time is not derived from his life, but from his lasting impact to this day. Even in antiquity, the little real information about his life was mixed with legends. To this day, the fascination that Antinous exerts is primarily based on his relationship with Emperor Hadrian and the many works of art that were created in memory of the young man. Scholars have never been able to reconstruct the personality behind the sparse information in the historical sources and the works of art.

What is certain is that Antinous was born between 110 and 115 in Bithynion-Klaudiopolis in north-west Asia Minor. The handsome boy came to the emperor' s attention during one of Hadrian's journeys. Today, it is no longer clear whether the first meeting between the two took place during Hadrian's stay in Bithynia in 121 or not until 123/124. From this point onwards, Antinous accompanied the emperor on all his travels.

Throughout his life, Hadrian strived to fulfil a Greek ideal. In the Roman imagination, this also included pederasty. Here, the man took on the role of mentor for the boy in all areas of life. Christian tradition and modern reception later reduced these relationships more and more to the sexual component. In addition, the emperor himself was dissatisfied with his marriage to his wife Vibia Sabina.

There is hardly any information about Antinous' exact relationship with Hadrian. In the Athenaeus ‘ Scholars’ Banquet it is reported that the Alexandrian poet Pankrates is said to have recommended himself to Hadrian with a particularly refined form of flattery: The poet presented the emperor with a rose-red lotus flower with the words that this flower deserved to be called the ‘Antinous lotus’ for the reason that it had sprung from the ground where Hadrian had once struck down a lion with a spear in the desert near Alexandria at the last moment, just before it would have attacked Antinous. The lion's blood would have coloured the lotus, so to speak. The emperor was delighted and gave the poet a position in the Museion.

The circumstances of Antinous' early death are also shrouded in legend. What is certain is that the young man fell into the Nile near the city of Besa in Middle Egypt on or shortly before 30 October 130 and drowned in front of his paternal friend. The later historians Cassius Dio and Aurelius Victor report that the circumstances of the death were unclear. According to some historians, Antinous' death was an accident. According to other reports, he sacrificed himself for the emperor in order to ensure a long and happy life for him. Antinous is said to have learnt from an astrologer that his suicide would give the emperor his expected lifespan during his lifetime. In contrast, the late antique Historia Augusta, a collection of imperial biographies whose information should be used with great caution, argues that Antinous took refuge in suicide in order to escape Hadrian's excessive sexual advances. In retrospect, a court intrigue cannot be ruled out either. Hadrian's wife is said not to have been particularly sad about the death of her rival.

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Hadrian’s super hot lover Antinous. After his suspicious death Hadrian had him immortalized as a deity.