[dk-thrive]

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (J. B. Lippincott, 1937)

[dk-thrive]

“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity (Trinity University Press, October 11, 2016) (via Alive on All Channels)

[milksockets]

jo hammar in heavy rubber magazine

[scansimages]

Liz Johnson Artur

[achillesinhighheels]

[achillesinhighheels]

Precious Renee Tucker for the final The Face cover, photographed by Steven Klein

[improvisedliturgy]

The fear of how you are seen, the fear of what you are, is solved by accepting it all the way: you are seen in all possible ways at all times, which means you really are all possible beings at all times.

Brook Ziporyn, Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism

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Press & Pull: Two Decades at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop

[iamheavymeta-lll]

[dyingenigma]

444irefly hair by joey george for AnOther Man magazine

[whentherewerebicycles]

“We need to tell each other stories of different ways you can live, different ways you can be; predicated not on how close you get to the life you were assumed or expected to have, but on the queer wanderings of the life you live. I would have liked to have known there were other ways of living, of being. I would have liked to have known that women do not have to be in relation to men.”

— Sara Ahmed, Living a Feminist Life

[achillesinhighheels]

"black, queer and visible" by Ajamu X (1990s)

[achillesinhighheels]

[magicalblackjuju]

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i say a little prayer, 1970

[notchainedtotrauma]

tell them who taught you to dream. to stay. to breathe. and then show them who taught you to leave.

from Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

[petaltexturedskies]

I also felt that she was holding herself together with a safety pin, was forcing herself to be clear, articulate, active—to keep moving, one step ahead of the sledgehammer of grief.

James Baldwin, The Evidence of Things Not Seen

[dyingenigma]

Puk Nini 'Open your Eyes' (1996) directed by. Fanta Régina Nacro