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[flyandfamousblackgirls]

Icon Fem Queen, Octavia St. Laurent

[unsungbabe]

Grace Jones | Love Is The Drug (1980)

[inesmanai]

Wales Bonner SS23 by Inès Manai

[expiredpersona]

[coutureicons]

paris is burning (1991)

[spring2000]

m le magazine du monde september 8th 2018 “le jeu de la séduction” adut akech photographed by harley weir

[fakemargiela]

Alek Wek, Kadra Ahmed Omar, Kiara Kabukuru, Debra Shaw, Margareth Lahoussaye-Duvigny and Adia Coulibaly photographed by Peter Lindberg for Vogue Italia April 1997 Alta Moda

[medievalpoc]

Hieronymus Bosch

The Garden of Earthly Delights

Netherlands (c. 1500)

Oil on panel, 220 x 195 cm.

Museo del Prado, Madrid

Full resolution ‎(30,000 × 17,078 pixels, file size: 222.86 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

I wanted to showcase some of the incredible detail this painting has to offer. All too often, high resolution images aren’t available or leave a lot to be desired (blurry, poorly-lit, et cetera).

I also wanted to include some of the implied Sapphic dalliances that may be going on in some of those pools.

More Images

[robertxdarling]

Octavia Saint Laurent in Paris is Burning.

[scoutingforqueers]

Debra Shaw by Dan Beleiu

[egypt-museum-deactivated2021071]

The Canopic shrine found in Tutankhamun ’s tomb is protected by four statues of Goddesses, Isis, Nephthys, Serqet (Serket) and Neith. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes.

[afroklectic]

Senegal, 1966 by John Scofield

[funkpunkandroll84-deactivated20]

Marsha P. Johnson at a Christopher Street Liberation rally with a curtain that has the words GAY LOVE written all over it, c. 1970s

[cotonblanc-deactivated20150422]

Issey Miyake starring Alek Wek

photographyduc liaostylingedward enninful make-upmary-jane frost

2000 (minus 3) Curator and Fashion Director Terry Jones Production Design Dante Ferretti

Fashion/Cinema, Biennale di Firenze (1998)

[thecolorblockcurator]

Portrait de Marguerite, 1906, Henri Matisse 

[touba]

“Far from his spiritual home, an African Muslim faces Mecca during prayer in Mopti, Mali, a trade center on the southern rim of the Sahara. His rooftop outpost on the sunbaked mud mosque overlooks a branch of the Niger River.”

Photograph from “The Sword and the Sermon” by Thomas J. Abercrombie, published in the July 1972 issue of National Geographic.

[varietas]

Man Ray: Ady Fidelin in front of the plaster sculpture “Albatros”, by Alberto Giacometti. / via Soler y Llach, c. 1937.

More photos:  here, here, here, and here.