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Scanned from the book L'Inde des tribus oubliées; 1993; Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone

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closing statement from an article about being intersex & the possible connection of gender expression and sexuality in intersex individuals, published in The Gay Liberator, 1970s

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And speaking of Sophia Tolstoy, her diaries are just so depressing. 

“I am to gratify his pleasure and nurse his child, I am a piece of household furniture, I am a woman. I try to suppress all human feelings. When the machine is working properly it heats the milk, knits a blanket, makes little requests and bustles about trying not to think […].“

She wrote this when she was 19, one year into her marriage to Leo and as she was pregnant with the first of his 13 children.

A few years later, when she was 25 or so:

“I am so often alone with my thoughts that the need to write in my diary comes quite naturally … Now I am well again and not pregnant—it terrifies me how often I have been in that condition. He said that for him being young meant “I can achieve anything”. For me […] reason tells me that there is nothing I either want or can do beyond nursing, eating, drinking, sleeping, and loving and caring for my husband and babies, all of which I know is happiness of a kind, but why do I feel so woeful all the time, and weep as I did yesterday? I am writing this now with the pleasantly exciting sense that nobody will ever read it, so I can be quite frank with myself […].“

During her 12th pregnancy she wrote about taking scalding baths and jumping from high pieces of furniture to try and miscarry.  And at one point while reading her husband’s diary (which he told her to read) she found the sentence “There is no such thing as love, only the physical need for intercourse and the practical need for a life companion.” In her own diary she wrote “They ebb and flow like waves, these times when I realise how lonely I am and want only to cry…”

A few years before her husband’s death, she published a cycle of prose poems titled “Groans”, under the pseudonym “A Tired Woman”.

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the most depressing quote from her diaries:

“I have served a genius for almost forty years. Hundreds of times I have felt my intellectual energy stir within me and all sorts of desires - a longing for education, a love of music and the arts… And time and again I have crushed and smothered these longings… Everyone asks, “But why should a worthless woman like you need an intellectual or artistic life?” To this question I can only reply: “I don’t know, but eternally suppressing it to serve a genius is a great misfortune.”

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Matteo di Giovanni, Annunciation with Saints John the Baptist and Bernardine of Siena (Pala di San Pietro a Ovile), 1455. Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation with Saint Ansanus and Saint Maxima, 1333.

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Kohna Deh, Afghanistan by National Geographic

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Dude’s coping hard.

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u can just do whatever at any age all of the time nobody cares except teenagers

[64mpg]

teenager will be like ur 40 with a hobby ? 💀 that’s sad <- nobody else thinks this way though they are just going through some stuff

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The Chalice of Grimfridus, Carolingian, 9th century

from Dumbarton Oaks

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the art of not being ready and doing it anyway will take you far

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Rainy day in Fukui, Japan // Countryside of Japan[福井++] ♡

[thetireddoctor]

There was an attack on the Berlin Pride parade. A car drove into the crowd. We don't know much yet but one death has been confirmed in the German media.

This is horrifying and a reminder of why we need Pride.

Berlin Pride parade called off after car hits crowds, police say | CNN

“We are searching intensively for suspects,” police said.

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there’s not enough posts on tumblr about zohran’s people I gotta fix that

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Can't argue with a solid message that resonates with people

🌹🇵🇸

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Zohran Mamdani’s City Hall Wants to Build Tenant Unions

A new New York City initiative, led by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement, will send volunteer organizers into neglected build

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