Knee-deep in the Flooded Victory

@floodedvictory

Images and thoughts around Nayland Blake's installation "Knee-deep in the Flooded Victory" at the International Center of Photography from May 17 to September 8, 2013 Rehabilitating the art of personal spectacle. Costumes - Times Square - Street Art - Monsters - Drape yourself in queer and be your own Kaiju parade. See also: naylandblake.net

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divineofficial

smsomah

Close to Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, 2005. Ronald Vriesema

smsomah

Kinh; necklace from Vietnam; early 20th century

In Vietnam, as in China, fish and butterflies are auspicious motifs symbolising happiness and longevity. They often decorate jewellery, belts and headbands worn by women and girls.

smsomah

Merina; Madagascar, 1900-1908. Maurice Teissonnière

fandomsandfeminism

This Pride, may you always remember to-

Be who you are

Love who you love

Be weird without fear

Be a freak without danger

Find community without division

Seek the truth with eyes unclouded

makingqueerhistory

On Our Backs portrayed lesbian sex and sexuality, with real lesbians.

Created by, for, and about lesbians, On Our Backs came about in the tumult of the “feminist sex wars,” a deeply polarizing internal debate in the feminist movement regarding sex, sexuality, pornography, erotica, and BDSM. Divided into sex-positive and anti-porn camps, the sex wars saw rabid disagreement on what the nature of things like pornography were doing for lesbians and for society as a whole. Many feminists argued that pornography and erotica were inherently objectifying and abusive. Writer and theorist Andrea Dworkin argued that not just pornography but heterosexual sex as a whole was a “means of physiologically making a woman inferior,” and claimed that anyone aroused by porn that depicted sexualized violence (whether real or scripted) “was evidence of a mind that’s absorbed the propaganda of the patriarchy and eroticized the subjugation of women.” On the flipside, sex-positive feminists argued that pornography itself was not an inherent evil, but rather its morality was dependent upon the creators and participants. Rubin, one of the founders of the lesbian feminist BDSM group Samois, believed sexual liberation was a key component of the feminist movement and that public expressions of female sexuality were crucial in asserting women’s existence as fully realized beings.

theminotaursmanual

by Laerte Coutinho

las-lus

btw this is laerte. She is 73 now! Making art and being happy! It's never too late to transition

goth-queen

catchymemes

jeypawlik

I Got Married?! 3 years ago today!

I got married to Max 3 years ago today and never shared photos?! I did write a comic about it though… Go read that maybe?~ https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/i-got-married-jey-pawlik/ (it’s SFW) I also just posted a Behind the Scenes of this comic on my Patreon if you’re interested https://www.patreon.com/posts/159464473 [ID: Photo of Jey and Max exchanging rings with their officiant in the background. Photo of Jey and Max exchanging rings with their officiant in the background. Photo of Jey and Max kissing. Photo of Jey and Max walking back down the aisle after being wed. /end]