just one more thing: my jessica mitford propaganda poster.
#propaganda #art #deccaMitford #journalist #communist #muckraker

but, honestly, if you can't be arsed to read my thread about decca mitford, please do indulge yourself & listen to her duet with good pal, maya angelou.
#music #mayaAngelou #jessicaMitford #deccaMitford #duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzQAOCGKM1E
('right said fred' - decca mitford & maya angelou)

she then: became a communist; moved to the states; married a civil rights lawyer & got involved with the struggle for equality; wrote 'hons & rebels'; got into investigative journalism & didn't die until she'd recorded a cover of the beatles' 'maxwell's silver hammer'.
decca's daughter, dinky, decided she'd be more like her mum than her aunties & married james forman, who was a member of both the black panthers &...
#art #illustration #deccaMitford #jamesForman #beatles #muckraker

as the fifth-born of six sisters, she was surrounded by that particular brand of eccentricity - the english aristocracy. it's no surprise that jessica (or, as her sisters anointed her, decca) was left largely to her own devices. the room she shared with her older sister, unity (who would later have an intimate relationship with adolf hitler), was designated in a typically adolescent way. for instance, your sister may have had bon jovi posters on her walls whereas you had bauhaus.
#deccaMitford

#art #history:
that old quandary - nature or nurture - has been rankling the human race for as long as we've existed...or from the second generation, at least. if you think you've fixed your ideas on the subject, you may not be familiar with the mitford sisters.
buckle up for this thread about the hellaciously good mitford sister, decca. [a hefty thread]
#deccaMitford #jessicaMitford #illustration #portrait #author #activist #communism #muckraker #journalist

#art/#history:
decca mitford (born #otd in 1917) would've been ROFLcopter if she'd been alive to see the absurdity of england today. as the fifth-born of six sisters, she was surrounded by that particular brand of wealthy english eccentricity - that breed that thinks it's in perpetual penury.
it's no surprise that jessica (or, as her sisters anointed her, decca) was left largely to her own devices. the room she shared with her older sister, unity (who would later have an intimate relationship with adolf hitler), was designated in a typically adolescent way. your sister may have had bon jovi posters on her walls whereas you had bauhaus. decca had the communist hammer & sickle to mark her territory. unity drew swastikas (bon jovi, clearly the fascists in this scenario). another mitford sis, diana, married oswald mosley.
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#mastoArt #deccaMitford #mitfordSisters #portrait #radical