Imelda Marcos I am not

May 28, 2016 07:54

One of the more vivid images from the Phillipine "People Power Revolution" which brought down the dictator Marcos and was supposed to bring democracy, representation, peace, justice, and economic development to the Phillipines forever was Imelda Marcos' shoe closet which had an unimaginable number of bespoke shoes in it, all of them of course ( Read more... )

austerity, shoes, feet, the lancet, shvambrania, health, capitalism, revolutionaries

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browngirl May 28 2016, 16:23:12 UTC
I should comment more sensibly than "this is an awesome post" but it drew me in despite my limited time today. And it is awesome.

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heleninwales May 29 2016, 12:44:39 UTC
Like browngirl I'm very busy at the moment(end of term marking) and tending to skim my online social media, but this post made me stop and read it carefully and also think about what you wrote.

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