flirting with kerosene

christina. xxi / korean / left-handed. "snow falling through the window: ash returned / from a failed fable." —ocean vuong

[candlewinds]

Love? What does a crook know about love?

THE HANDMAIDEN (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook

[redlipstickresurrected]

Mai Ta (Vietnamese, b. 1997, Saigon, Vietnam, based New York, NY, USA) - I Set the Moon on Fire Because She Wouldn’t Wake Up series, 2019, Paintings: Gouache on Watercolor Paper (Info with each pic)

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[bostonpoetryslam]

I had an instructor in high school who laughed at the possibility of me being a poet. That wouldn’t be the last time. But it helped me not need affirmation in the way too many fine but unpublished poets do. The publishing is not the affirmation. You are the same poet you were the day before. Awards have certainly enriched my life. Sometimes making it possible to eat, but they do not make me a poet.

Vievee Francis, interviewed for Brooklyn Poets (via bostonpoetryslam)

[bienenkiste]

Akon Changkou by Julia Noni for Vogue Germany March 2021

[luthienne]

Nikki Giovanni, from “Mirrors”

[Text ID: … but It Cannot Be A Mistake to have cared … It Cannot Be An Error to have tried … It Cannot Be Incorrect to have loved]

[modelsof-color]

Malika El Maslouhi by Eddie Wrey for Mansur Gavriel A/W 2020 Campaign

[toramona]

James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

[luntfontanne]

Youn Yuh-Jung photographed by Peter Ash Lee for The New York Times (April 2021)

[soracities]

“‘Love’, this English word: like other English words it has tense. ‘Loved’ or ‘will love’ or ‘have loved’. All these specific tenses mean Love is time-limited thing. Not infinite. It only exist in particular period of time. In Chinese, Love is ‘爱’ (ai). It has no tense. No past and future. Love in Chinese means a being, a situation, a circumstance. Love is existence, holding past and future. If our love existed in Chinese tense, then it will last for ever. It will be infinite.”

— Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

[modelsof-color]

Sekhou Drame by Manuel Obadia-Wills for The Greatest Magazine - Issue 19

[chopsaws-deactivated344321]

hi im begging online again 🥰 my transphobic dad has once again refused to let me eat without his permission. while i have a job and money hes throwing out the food i buy for myself. please help me escape the bastard. @/germaphobic on venmo.

[nevver]

Return to Magenta, Svitlana Moiseienko

[lifeinpoetry]

I start this with a simple confession: / I wanted to burn / this country down.

— Javon Johnson, from “UNTITLED, OR A FEAR OF GIVING THIS A NAME,” Ain’t Never Not Been Black (via lifeinpoetry)

[regardintemporel]

Alain Fleischer - Dans le cadre du miroir, 1984

[beholdingslut]

pietà, kevin young

[modelsof-color]

Sara Alwani Hawija by Rami Hanna for Elle Denmark Magazine - November 2020

[aaliyahbreaux]

help keep a black trans woman off the street

hey guys its aaliyah! a few days ago my land lord basically told me my female roommates aren’t comfortable sharing a room with me because I’m transgender??? they said tht me being transgender & having friends over (which wasnt detailed in the craigslist ad) is huge problem & I’m basically being given a month to leave. if you follow me on IG you know I’ve been trying to get a new job because my current one at starbucks hasnt been cutting it. they barely giving me any hours & because of that I’ve had to reduce my savings these past couple months from $400 to $100 just to get by. Good news is I found a new place in the area tht I can afford Bad news is its gonna be $900 to move ib (monthly $600 plus $300 deposit) if there is any way yall could spare a couple bucks each to help me get there I would more than appreciate it.

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[aaliyahbreaux]

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