Léna’s Blog

Visual diary of a bored (epicurean) French college student — Paris

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It’s 2025 and I’m still obsessed with Erwin wearing the new uniform.

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VIVRE SA VIE (1962) dir. Jean-Luc Godard

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put a crying angel over my grave when i die

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Gossip Girl (2007-2012)

Blake Lively as Serena van der Woodsen

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isabel marant fall 2000

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If you’re gonna be sad, you might as well be sad in Paris

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'The word pornography comes from the ancient Greek porne and graphos: it means "the graphic depiction of whores." Porne means "whore," specifically the lowest class of whore, which in ancient Greece was the brothel slut available to all male citizens. There were distinct classes of prostitutes in ancient Greece: the porne was the sexual cow. She was, simply and clearly and absolutely, a sexual slave. Graphos means "writing, etching, or drawing." 'The whores called porneia were captive in brothels, which were designated as such by huge phalluses painted on or constructed near the door. They were not allowed out, were never educated, were barely dressed, and in general were miserably treated; they were the sexual garbage of Greek society.' Andrea Dworkin, "Pornography and Male Supremacy" (1981) [taken from Andrea Dworkin, Letters from a Warzone (1988)]

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When a modern woman is blessed with a body that can move, run, dance, play, and bring her to orgasm; with breasts free of cancer, a healthy uterus, a life twice as long as that of the average Victorian woman, long enough to let her express her character on her face; with enough to eat and a metabolism that protects her by laying down flesh where and when she needs it; now that hers is the gift of health and well-being beyond that which any generation of women could have hoped for before—the Age of Surgery undoes her immense good fortune. It breaks down into defective components the gift of her sentient, vital body and the individuality of her face, teaching her to experience her lifelong blessing as a lifelong curse.

— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth

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Oldies — summer in Paris shot on my Kodak

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bizarre uk magazine october 2008

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anyways

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1971. Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg at Heathrow in London.