Her Museum

Nina / xx -- / A girl’s place in chemistry Toronto

[mesogeios]

“The best translations into English do not, in fact, read as if they were originally written in English. The English words are arranged in such a way that the reader sees a glimpse of another culture’s patterns of thinking, hears an echo of another language’s rhythms and cadences, and feels a tremor of another people’s gestures and movements.”

— Ken Liu, Translator’s Postface to The Three Body Problem (via as-if-falling)

[leregretdestempspasses]

Ždiar, Slovakia 1953

[isladevenus-archive-deactivated]

1. Antony Gormley

2. Jamie Heiden

3. Excerpt from “Wild geese” by Mary Oliver

4. Anne Magill

5. Hans Vanderkerckhove

[mesogeios]

What’s the sweetest thing your guy has ever done for you?

He’s genuinely one of the kindest, most thoughtful, and most empathetic human beings that I know so this is quite difficult to answer. 

One particular act that struck me (around the time that we started dating) was him seeking out and reading all of my favourite works of poetry and prose (on top of his heavy academic workload). It was such a kind and attentive gesture, for someone to ask, what words have made you who you are?—Where can I catch glimpses of you? 

[mesogeios]

“There is no good answer to how to be a woman; the art may instead lie in how we refuse the question.”

— Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions (via luxe-pauvre)

[bonjourfrenchwords]

Le racisme n'empire pas, il est filmé • Racism is not getting worse, it’s getting filmed • /lə ʁa.sism n‿ɑ̃.piʁ pa i.l‿ɛ fil.me/ Inspired by @elainewelteroth

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[hermuseum]

Serene

[aconsilio]

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”

— Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via theknopeway)

[hermuseum]

Very fitting for International Women’s Day.

[makinginfinity]

[gentlemanuniversee]

gentlemanuniversee

[hermuseum]

If I had to summarize Dalmacija in one picture...

[witlovesyou]

Big sister drops to her knees to show affection to newborn Photo by James Irwin

[bando--grand-scamyon]

OHHH MY GOD

[english-idylls]

From Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856).

[mesogeios]

“She was always planning out her own development, desiring her own perfection, observing her own progress.”

— Henry James, The Portrait Of A Lady

[ghostlywriterr]

Abandoned lighthouse on Sakhalin Island, Russia. 

[aseaofquotes]

Karen Armstrong, The Bible

Submitted by baekstabs.

[witchinghour]

The Mirror-Faced Grim Reaper in Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), dir. Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid

“This film is endowed with an acute sense of restlessness and alienation; reflecting this uncanny estrangement in the doubling, tripling and quadrupling of its central character, and in its cyclic narrative, a structure that seems condemned to repetition. Why is the hooded Death figure constructed as a kind of mirror? Are we dealing with Nietzsche’s notion of ‘eternal return’? (…) You could go on forever about the meaning buried in this particular work. It invites and eludes analysis.” – CINEMA AND DREAM-LOGIC IN MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON

[rainh]

still in utter belief that i saw this with my own two eyes and managed to capture it on camera

[dreamyfaerie]

Dolce & Gabbana campaign, by Ferdinando Scianna, Sicilia (1987) - An Italian dream. 🌷