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ub-sessed

White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.

--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963

Claire Schwartz. “& the Truth Is I Have No Story.” Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture, edited by Roxane Gay, 2018.

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crimson-femme

Excerpt from Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Butch-Femme Fashion and Queer Legibility in New York City, 1945–1969 by Alix Gitner

oldmanpeace

Jennifer Tilly, 1990's.

I miss the illusion of owning my body, at least. What he didn't take that night, I've sold, hour by hour. Not a waking moment to myself. Nothing of myself remains. When the boss comes down, and I startle, he offers me a sour candy. And I don't want it, but I reach out, and I take it.

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charnel-grounds

Antonín Hudeček (1872–1941) - Psyché, 1901

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junglejim4322

There’s a level of confessional that only occurs when someone is driving you home late at night

kittenmeats

“Vampyr” (1932) - Carl Theodor Dreyer

mabellonghetti

Jodie Foster red carpet looks from the 80′s

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Leslie Feinberg, Boston, 1984 Photo credit: Boston branch, Workers World Party

femmepathy

Leslie Feinberg in Outlaw (1994) directed by Alisa Lebow

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adz

researchers built wearable heart rate sensors powered by slime molds that had to be fed like Tamagotchis and literally everyone involved with the study began personifying their little heart rate friends