According to the map we've only gone 4 inches.

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Sampler (Mexico, 18th–19th century).

Linen embroidered with silk.

Image and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[zegalba]

Ana Mendieta: Siluetas Series (1973)

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butch gillian anderson

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a “soft butch’’, if you will

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and how could we forget about this

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rest in peace

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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen - Chat noir couché en boule sur un divan (1920)

[mochafemme]

Marsha P Johnson with Snoopy

[igotworms]

I read these earlier this year and now I'm in a slump, and can't focus. I don't know how I read almost 80 books before the spring started and almost nothing since.

[bookcoversonly]

Title: 2666 | Author: Roberto Bolaño | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)

[weil-weil-lautre]

“Healthy people flee contact with the diseased. This rule applies to almost everyone. Hans Reiter was an exception. He feared neither the healthy nor the diseased. He never got bored. He was always eager to help and he greatly valued the notion - so vague, so malleable, so warped - of friendship. The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can only manage a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too, the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.”

— Roberto Bolaño, 2666, 661

[cosmonautroger]

Goya, The Devil’s Lamp

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[latenightsushi]

We moved this bookshelf closer to my desk over the weekend, and I’m really happy with how it turned out! I even had time to set up some Halloween decorations 🎃

[heavything]

‘Dead Amanda’ : Bright Lights Big City, Jay McInerney 1984.

[quoted-books]

‘Things happen, people change,’ is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanation, an ending that would assign blame and dish up justice. You considered violence and you considered reconciliation. But what you are left with is a premonition of the way your life will fade behind you, like a book you have read too quickly, leaving a dwindling trail of images and emotions, until all you can remember is a name.

Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City (via quoted-books)

[whilereadingandwalking]

Carmilla is sexy and macabre and queer as heck—but only in this version, perhaps. Carmen Maria Machado is the perfect editor for this book. She introduces the lesbian vampiric tale—a woman named Carmilla is entrusted to stay with a family for a summer; Laura slowly falls under her spell despite increasing nightmares and strange weakness. Machado explains of the real lesbian love affair and historical letters that laid the roots for Le Fanu’s vampiric tale, disdaining Le Fanu’s erasure of more explicit love in the original letters. Her added footnotes add a vividness and a queerness to the text that would otherwise be lacking. 

And Robert Kraiza’s illustrations are as scary as they are sexy. The editor and illustrator thus take a classic vampire tale (preceding Dracula) that is full of queer subtext, and make it explicitly and lushly queer, all within an already intriguing gothic vampire tale. I highly recommend this read, specifically in this edition.