teasing the moon

33. devon. wisconsin. germany. musician. feminist. reader. writer. pluviophile. scorpio.

[astraystayyh]

this post actually broke my heart.

[gravity-rainbow-deactivated2024]

William Hawkins 1962 Clouds with moon and stars

[piscesarchivee]

girlhood never stops we just evolve…

[tildab]

https://pin.it/114QnKJ

[veiligplekje]

[elierlick]

Now THIS is art. 😍

[lady-sanctum]

“When I first saw the original painting, I began to do some research on that little boy. I could find everything I wanted about every other detail in the painting, but there was nothing about him. No history. And so I wanted to find a way to imagine a life for this young man that the historical painting had never made space for in the composition: his desires, dreams, family, thoughts, hopes. Those things were never subjects that the original artist wanted the viewer to contemplate. In order to reframe the discussion, I decided to physically take action to quiet [and crumple] the side of the painting that we’ve been talking about for a very long time and turn up the volume on this kid’s story. And that’s the reason why I started that painting.” Via Artnet News 2019/03/27

[daisychainsdaydreams]

[huariqueje]

Girls with wind in their hair    -   Tor-Arne Moen

Norwegian, b. 1966 -

Woodcut , 45 x 45 cm.

[huariqueje]

Girouard Avenue and Sherbrooke Street  -  Philip Surrey , 1971

Canadian , 1910-1990

Oil on masonite  16 x 20 in  40.6 x 50.8 cm

[psikonauti]

Simen Johan (Norwegian, b. 1973)

Untitled #176, 2013

[debunkshy]

Great Horned Owl Joe Creason Park, KY 10 March 2022

[dailynietzsche]

“Man likes woman peaceful, but however well she may have trained herself to seem peaceful, she is essentially unpeaceful, like a cat.”

—F. Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §131 (edited).

[psikonauti]

Emma Amos (African-American ,1937 - 2020)

Secrets (4 parts), 1981

Etching, handmade paper, chine colle and weavings

[didistutterproject]

Part of what disability activists argue is that disabilities should not be foremost understood as medical.

My speech impediment is not caused by the way tongue moves, by my vocal cords, my teeth, or my lips. My speech impediment is not even caused by my brain and the physiological way it interacts with my vocal organs.

Of course the speech of everyone who speaks vocally is caused by their lips, tongue, vocal cords, brain etc. But none of these things are what cause a speech impediment.

My speech impediment is caused by the way I speak being heard and understood as abnormal. As unfortunate. As inferior. My speech impediment only exists because our society has already decided that the way my lips and tongue move, the way my voice sounds, is not as good as the way that other people’s lips and tongues move, the way that other people’s voices sound. Society has just assumed that the mere differences in how I speak—the halting and repeated sounds, the fact that I take a little longer than those considered “normal”—must be bad differences.

This is one of the reasons Did I Stutter is critical of disciplines which “pathologize”—or treat as a medical condition—abnormal forms of speech. We simply don’t think that what’s really going on when we call some forms of speech “impediments,” “stutters,” “lisps,” “slurs,” or “bumps,” is medical at all. We believe that the way speech is understood and prioritized is always, first and foremost, a social judgement.

[yakhult]

by aniaharasimczuk

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

— Edith Stilwell

[tristealven]

“Have you still got your space? Your soul, your own and necessary place where your own voices may speak to you, you alone, where you may dream. Oh, hold onto it, don’t let it go.”

— — Doris Lessing, from her Nobel lecture “On not winning the Nobel Prize”  (via lifeinpoetry)