This Carcass breath'd

Early modern European freakery, and sexual politics, lesbian history and pop culture. Or whatsoever else I fancy. The title is taken from one of my favourite 17thC homoerotic poems, by Katherine Philips: 'To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship'.

[merelybeing]

yes, academy, wtf is wrong with you?

[aghostinsummerclothes-deactivat]

“Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with flowers in it. Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The others disappeared; there she was alone with Sally. And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it — a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down), she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling!”

[vestatilleys]

Vesta Tilley, c.1900′s.

[tea-with-theo]

Norma Shearer in The Waning Sex, 1926.

[thisobscuredesireforbeauty]

Actress Lizhu Wu in the 1930’s. Source

[blackness-by-your-side]

[constantneverland]

This is beautiful and heart breaking

[youreastopalongtheway]

My gay heart

[ap00]

I don’t think straight people even understand we have this fear

[lanky-brunettes-with-wicked-jaws]

“Something Good” 

[twixnmix]

Anna May Wong photographed by Carl Van Vechten on April 20, 1932.

[notdavidfincher]

All men need something greater than themselves to look up to and worship. They must be able to touch the divine here on earth.

Elizabeth (1998), dir. Shekhar Kapur

[amyjake-archive-deactivated2017]

I always thought it would be funny to kill somebody at a funeral.

[lush-retina-is-dead]

Susan Sarandon by Brigitte Lacombe

[plannedparenthood]

Celebrate boyhood

How to Raise a Feminist Son

By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and illustrations by AGNES LEE

via the New York Times

[fyeahbroadway]

[awomanofmystery]

 Eliza Doolittle and Mary Poppins  

 "Television special effects are featured in mass in this charming medley of greatest hits by Julie Andrews and her alter-egos Mary Poppins & Eliza Doolittle! “  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usVahlDjv0

[noviabutch-deactivated20180208]

BUTCH - photography by meg allen

[bardsandbawds]

Must be some bucket.

Newport Mercury, 31 October 1763.

[bardsandbawds]

Female pallbearers. From The Brides Burial (ballad) seventeenth century.