Dreaming Of Something New

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Year 2026: Horses “Horses symbolizes vitality, movement, freedom, and transformation”

Photographed by Andrew McGibbon All The Wild Horses (2012)

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Faces and Phases by Zanele Muholi

Begun in 2006, Faces and Phases is an ongoing series of photographic portraits of Black lesbians and transgender individuals Muholi has met in South Africa and beyond. The portraits work as a visual statement as well as an archive, presenting and preserving an often abused and ostracized community through visual records.

As Muholi writes: “In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is Black queer visibility. It is important to mark, map and preserve our mo(ve)ments through visual histories for reference and posterity so that future generations will note that we were here.

“In Faces and Phases I present our existence and resistance through positive imagery of Black queers (especially lesbians) in South African society and beyond. I show our aesthetics through portraiture.

“Faces express the person, and Phases signify the transition from one stage of sexuality or gender expression and experience to another. Faces is also about the face-to-face confrontation between myself as the photographer/activist and the many lesbians, women and trans men I have interacted with from different places. Photographs in this series traverse spaces from Gauteng and Cape Town to London and Toronto, and include the townships of Alexandra, Soweto, Vosloorus, Khayelitsha, Gugulethu, Katlehong and Kasigo.”

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“Kiara, Paris, February 95”

Kiara Kabukuru photographed by Thierry Le Gouès

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A hibiscus flower under ultraviolet light, shining for the polinators.

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[admireforever]

The Watermelon Woman

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June 8, 2025 - Anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles stop a column of police cars by bombarding them with rocks and objects from an overpass. [video]

[mournfulroses]

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter featured in The Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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June 9, 2025 - Huge crowds protesting in the streets of Paris, to demand the release of the Madleen activists of the Freedom Flotilla who were kidnapped by Israel in international waters, and an end to the genocide. [video]

[femmeorchids]

my hat 4 the pride parade 🫡

[blondebrainpowered]

Harlem grocer standing in front of his store, 1937.

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[julietteiluj]

I love being a lesbian I love being black I love being a black lesbian

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a scene from a lesbian strip club. not sure of the source but i've seen this photo used to promote leilah weinraub's documentary "shakedown" about a black lesbian strip club of the same name. the club itself had to be shut down in 2004 after repeated harassment from police but you can still watch the documentary for free on its official website here. really cool look into black lesbian culture from the early 2000s

[blacksapphhicmaddonna]

I love being a Black lesbian and I love Black lesbians

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michael b. jordan & wunmi mosaku SINNERS, 2025