Julie Rae Powers, Photographer

MFA Student at The Ohio State University interested in coffee, bikes, bow ties, Appalachia & LGBT issues./ julieraepowers.com/ IG: julieraepowers

[the-architects-interior]

Rose-y dreams.

[thoughts-memories]

[marci1900]

[legrandcirque]

Stan Wayman, A lesbian couple strolling through the woods after their wedding, 1950s.

[frogmp3]

this is really the most romantic image i’ve ever seen

[soracities]

But sometimes, I swear I hear it, the wound closing like a rusted-over garage door, and I can still move my living limbs into the world without too much pain, can still marvel at how the dog runs straight toward the pickup trucks break-necking down the road, because she thinks she loves them, because she’s sure, without a doubt, that the loud roaring things will love her back

Ada Limón, from ‘The Leash’ (via soracities)

[inclined-ice]

[earpwave]

[earpwave]

“I’ll always love you, the Bee Charmer.”

[lovelustquotes]

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.

Fannie Flagg (via lovelustquotes)

[epocchly]

someone: are you even gay?

me:

[homojabi]

Not all lesbians are thin white girls who wear Calvin Klein underwear and go camping every weekend. Lesbians are brown girls in salwar kameezes and bindis and black girls with dreadlocks and afros and Muslim girls in hijabs and Jewish girls in tznius, lesbians are fat girls and 5X+ girls and girls with big bones and girls who are 6 feet tall, lesbians are poor girls on welfare and girls getting food stamps and homeless girls and girls working multiple minimum wage jobs, lesbians are girls with depression and anxiety and girls with personality disorders and psychosis and girls in the hospital and girls who are suicidal, lesbians are girls with disabilities and girls in wheelchairs and girls with chronic pain and girls who are blind and deaf and girls who are in recovery and girls who can’t recover, lesbians are girls who are 5 years old and girls who are 85 years old and girls who have known their whole life and girls who just found out, lesbians are girls from literally all walks of life and all cultures and all religions and our stories are so unique and so vast and to reduce us to only a small group of girls who most of us aren’t is disingenuous of who we all are as a whole.

[lizcarrot]

Mrs. & Mrs. Camilli ❤ February 4th, 2017

[bubblemintt]

THIS 🙌🏼

[definegold]

Got damn

[appalachian-appreciation-deacti]

Abortion Clinic Closures Will Have 'Devastating Impact' on Women in Appalachia - Rewire

“Rural women, women of color, low-income women will be disproportionately affected the closure of the clinic,” said Margaret Chapman Pomponio, executive director of WV FREE.

“It means that getting by day-to-day for marginalized women just got harder in West Virginia.”

[artsnquotes]

Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.

Jean-Michel Basquiat (via wnq-art)

[julieraepowers]

"In my own life, I have been obsessed with photographing the people who were my lovers, had been my lovers, or whom I wanted as lovers. Like Ed, I wrote myself in as the lover. Sometimes, the obsession lasted for years. It was photography as the sublimation of sex, a means of seduction, and a way to remain a crucial part of my subjects’ lives." –Nan Goldin Via The New Yorker. Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency": http://ss1.us/a/Nt6IHe7A

[buzzfeedlgbt]

* rings cute elopement alarm * Photos courtesy of Christine Skari Photography