a thirsty bitch

[portraitdelajeunefilleenfeu]

caidyh I look so short next to her...

#blondebrune #friendship #adelehaenel #strongwomen #haenel #tall #short #adele #stronger #selfie #elevatorselfie

we are so blessed to have caidy, sharing videos of adèle with us, and she knows. ❤️

[morningmightcomebyaccident]

- Céline Sciamma, writer-director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, in Cineaste, Winter 2019

[hanyeri]

He’s concerned that one actor isn’t seeing enough appreciation: Yeri Han, who plays Monica, the anxious wife of Steven Yeun’s idealistic Jacob. “In the editing room, she was the one who we were always centering our emotional story around,” Chung said of Han. “It’s her face, it’s her looks, and the way she picks at a bedspread because she’s upset. These little, subtle things that we knew: ‘This is making the film what it is.’” He paused. “And unfortunately, it’s invisible.” In Minari, Han navigates tricky, emotionally nuanced territory without the sort of melodrama or outsize performances that Hollywood tends to reward. “There are no loud speeches or anything,” Chung told me. “It’s just her being.” That’s the work that all actors do: the very act of being, which can range from emphatic to muted, animated to lethargic, impassioned to impassive. Asian performers are certainly versatile enough to capture that range—and yet tropes such as the “inscrutable Asian” have caused some casting directors to think of Asians as “not very expressive.” The pervasiveness of such casually racist myths—the inscrutable Asian, the perpetual foreigner, the racialized horde—is foundational to the invisibility of Asian actors during the Hollywood awards season. Given this backdrop, it’s little wonder when a quiet performance like Han’s is overlooked. — Shirley Li: ‘Minari’ and the Invisible Stars of Asian-Led Movies

[mscollywogs]

I finally was able to articulate another thing that passed me off in that AGM conversation which was her argument that it held to gender stereotypes and didn't show anything new or challenging about gender because it showed a woman becoming a man and still getting pregnant. What is not revolutionary about a man getting pregnant?? that argument only makes sense if you're still seeing Ben as a woman. FUckin' terphs

[13yearslater]

Successful trans men

I wish I knew about men like these growing up, I wish I knew that trans men could be successful after a lifetime of never seeing anyone ‘like me’ excelling in life. So here are some trans men - some that you may have heard of, some that you may not - that are successful in a range of careers. Never let being trans hold you back, never think you can’t do something, never think there is not a place for you.

Ben Barres American neurobiologist for Stanford University and advocate for women in science. Barre’s research on the interactions between glial cells and neurons changed the way that we understand the brain and opened up a whole new field of research.

Stephen Whittle Professor of equalities law. Founder of FTM Network in 1989 and Press for Change in 1992. Whittle has been heavily involved in trans activism since joining the Self Help Association for Transsexuals in 1979. His research and activism has been instrumental in ensuring the rights of trans people in the UK.

Michael D Cohen Actor, teacher and coach. Making his break in award-winning Nickelodeon sitcoms Harvey Danger and Danger Force he was the first series regular actor to publicly come out as transgender. Cohen has a BSc in cell biology and a masters degree in adult education, teaching at his own acting studio and providing workshops.

Chris Mosier American triathlete and award-winning coach. Six time member of Team USA in both duathlon and triathlon, Mosier also won two national championships in racewalking and was the first transgender athlete to qualify for the Olympic trials to compete against other members of his gender.

Yance Ford African-American film producer and director. Ford received an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking and was nominated for an Oscar for his part in producing and directing the documentary Strong Island which follows the death of his brother.

Kael McKenzie Canadian judge. Serving in the Canadian Armed Forces for several years, McKenzie later attended law school and and worked as a lawyer before being appointed as a judge to the Provincial Court of Manitoba in 2015. 

Shane Ortega Native American former flight engineer in the US army, former marine and professional bodybuilder. Throughout his career Ortega has served in Iraq and Afghanistan in over 400 combat missions. He has a long history of advocating for the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell and the recent banning on transgender service members in the US army. 

Drago Renteria Chicano photojournalist and deaf and LGBT activist. Renteria founded the Deaf Queer Resource and is CEO of DeafVision - a webhosting and development company run by deaf people and the founder of the National Deaf LGBTQ Archives. Renteria has been instrumental in both creating and hosting many online deaf/queer spaces online along with being heavily involved in real-world activism for decades.

Phillipe Cunningham Elected city councillor for ward 4 Minneapolis and previous special education teacher, Cunningham holds a masters degrees in Organizational Leadership & Civic Engagement and in Police Administration and is passionate about tacking inequalities in his community. 

[jenroses]

The vast majority of these men did not get puberty blockers early. I think that’s important for trans youth to know… that stupid legislation can’t stop them from being trans and transitioning well, even if the hoops are worse and take longer. (I think trans youth should be able to transition when and how they need to, but in the face of current transphobic legislation, you need to understand that even if they manage to delay you, they can’t stop you.)

[adayinthelesbianlife-deactivate]

OUT IN JAPAN についてのお問い合わせ - Part II

Part I (includes project concept)

[rabbitrah]

I was assigned a virtual class of first graders to observe and I'm obsessed with how they frame themselves in their zoom squares.

[diabeticlesbian]

Selected works from gay photographer James Bidgood as featured in his Taschen Postcard Book, 1999

[moonwyvernarchive]

Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.

[elodieunderglass]

God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.

Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,

the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…

The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…

And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?

I feel like there is so much to learn from the way Gurney does his work - his blog is here http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com 

[sliceofpearpie]

it is a delight to watch him paint !

for a handy print book, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter has been recommended to me by several pro illustrators whose work relies on realist picturing with convincing deep space

[creating-a-mess]

100 year old Galapagos tortoise with a few weeks old Galapagos baby posing for a new family photo, and its own baby photo from 100 years ago.

[memewhore]

[foldingfittedsheets]

This isn’t even the most like birds a plant can look! This green birdbush grows in Australia and appears to make hummingbirds except, wait, there’s no hummingbirds in Australia. So what is this plant doing.

[bouncyirwin]

I am in awe 😯

[yesbothways]

Annihilation?!?  

[transcube]

I first learned of Sarah Everard on Twitter, through familiar sentiments about female vulnerability hashtagged with an unfamiliar name. Inst

Here was the obligatory chorus of living women saying, “see? This is why I am afraid of being raped, afraid of being murdered. This why I won’t go out alone, this is why I don’t wear headphones, this is why I hold my key between my knuckles, this is why I cross the street to avoid walking past a man.”

I’m not the intended audience for these messages since I’m neither a woman who feels afraid when alone at night nor a man prone to feign surprise at the fact of women who are. Yet as a spectacle, it was unavoidable, promoted in Twitter moments and written up as an event in itself by outlets like NPR and the Washington Post, the latter of which characterized tweets as “demand(ing) change” though it cited no examples of such. This is the sort of empty gesture that passes as feminist now, or at least feminism-adjacent: the dutiful documentation of ladies venting their spleen, the “amplifying” of women’s voices with no discernible purpose. Or is there? Women are “never safe,” a CNN headline declared, helpfully removing the sub- from the text.

...

To those who insist on seeing Everard’s death exclusively through the lens of a gender war, I want to say: fear and rage can be an entry point into the rejection of violence against women but not the termination or sum of our collaborations. We’ll find no empowerment in petitioning for the protection or mercy of men, neither of which we have a good track record of procuring anyway, and it’s frankly embarrassing that these conversations so assiduously avoid the possibility of defending ourselves. It doesn’t require guns, necessarily, or any implement at all, though I recall with admiration Miss Major’s anecdote of keeping a brick in her purse when she worked. Self defense training and martial arts can be more accessible. But it’s pathological to refuse to tell a woman who habitually treats her house key as a weapon that she might benefit from obtaining a knife, just as it’s stunningly regressive to ignore the greater degree of violence inflicted on women in their homes and workplaces, by people they know and sometimes love.

~ Charlotte Shane

[rob-pattinson]

STEVEN YEUN Diana Markosian × GQ › 2021

[andreii-tarkovsky]

We didn’t have a word for our, as you guys call, gay/lesbian people. So we coined that word as an umbrella for all our tribes. We never said, “Well, you’re transgender. You’re bisexual. You’re lesbian.” We never knew those terms. Those are all from Western culture, you know, LGBTQ and all that. So on some level, it’s about getting rid of labels. Those terms were forced upon us.

[gaylor-moon]

This is really important

[gatheringbones]

nancy and bonnie, lesbian sacred sexuality, by marcelina martin and diane mariechild, 1995

[I was 32 when I tested positive and I made the decision to never have sex or intimacy again. I had just broken up with my girlfriend and my life was a mess. My health was good then. I think my decision was premature. I was frightened about the possibilities. I gave up on living. I had a really strong feeling that I was a poisoned person. I didn’t have sex with anyone for four years. I was into the death part of HIV. I thought I was a dead person, just waiting to die. It was very sacred for me to learn that I wasn’t a poison person. I couldn’t have learned that without sex. Before I was embracing death, I had given up. I had given up on any kind of intimacy with anyone. I was so alone. I was 36 when I met Bonnie and I was totally smitten. My relationship with her changed my attitude about who I am and particularly who I am with this disease. On a day-to-day level I’ve realized that I’m not just a person waiting to die. I can live my life. It has been very life-affirming. Now, I don’t feel so frightened, I’m more comfortable. I don’t even think I was afraid of giving the disease to someone else. I felt that if I approached someone they would react in such a way that I would feel totally rejected. I didn’t want to take that chance. I’ve had a hard time with this disease in the lesbian community. I haven’t always been received graciously. It’s nice to meet people who can see beyond my HIV status. When we first started having sex I was self-conscious. At first I was rigid, no you can’t do this to me, you can’t do that to me. And they were all things I really loved. I wanted to have that flowing sex with someone who didn’t have any boundaries. Bonnie really broke down a lot of my rigidity. We have changed a lot about what we think is safe sex and what isn’t. In the passion of our new relationship we did a lot of things we don’t do now. Truthfully, I don’t love safe sex. I would like sex to be more spontaneous, without any planning, but it can’t always be that way. This is the 1990’s and there is this new disease and a lot of old diseases too. I think lesbians tend to be cavalier about AIDS- we don’t think we can get it. Sacredness, when I was younger, meant the grass, the trees, the lakes. Now that I am in my thirties I think what is really sacred is to be able to be comfortable in a hostile world, to feel like there is something that makes you able to live in the day-to-day world. Something that gives you a cushion. That is what is sacred.]

[empressofkalumina]

Happy International Women’s Day.

[mourir-courir]

Portrait de la jeune fille en feu / Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

dir. Céline Sciamma