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Do the things you do but go further with them. Like get a ton of cat hair and glue it all over your body. Walk around like a cat-man in the middle of the night through the alleyways, y'know?

[nakedbrownie]

i am Going Through It ™

[nakedbrownie]

𝚗 𝚘 𝚠   𝚠 𝚑 𝚘   𝚠 𝚊 𝚗 𝚝 𝚜   𝚝 𝚘   𝚝 𝚊 𝚔 𝚎   𝚊   𝚛 𝚒 𝚍 𝚎  ?

[floriental]

[fuckyeahmercury]

First Queen photoshoot contact sheet – 1973 Taken by Michael Putland

[mehreenkasana]

The female nude in Western painting – hairless, buxom, invariably with skin as white and unblemished as a pearl – was there to feed an appetite of male sexual desire. She did not have desires of her own. She existed to be looked at, posed in such a way that her body was displayed to the eye of the viewer, there only to be consumed. Of course, there was hypocrisy in this, too – “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her,” wrote Berger, “Put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting ‘Vanity,’ thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.”

Emma Hope Allwood, Why we still need John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (via @dazeddigital)

[annadelveys]

“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is, essentially, the story of a 12-year-old who starts cussing, masturbating, and disobeying her mother—in other words, going through puberty—it becomes apparent to the feminist-minded viewer why two adult men are called in to slap her around for much of the third act. People are convinced that something spooky is going on with girls; that, once they reach a certain age, they lose their adorable innocence and start tapping into something powerful and forbidden. Little girls are sugar and spice, but women are just plain scary. And the moment a girl becomes a woman is the moment you fear her most. Which explains why the culture keeps telling this story.”

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Rookie, The Season of the Witch

For readings on the correlation in horror between puberty and the monstrous, see:

Barbara Creed’s The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism and Psychoanalysis (specifically, the chapter called “Woman As Possessed Monster”)

Aviva Briefel’s “Monster Pains: Masochism, Menstruation, and Identification in Horror Film”

“‘The Hair That Wasn’t There Before’: Demystifying Monstrosity and Menstruation in Ginger Snaps and Ginger Snaps Unleashed”

Bianca Nielson’s “Something’s Wrong, Like More Than You Being Female”: Transgressive Sexuality and Discourses of Reproduction in Ginger Snaps”

Shelley Stamp Lindsey’s “Horror, Femininity, and Carrie’s Monstrous Puberty”

(via bluntlyblue)

[saintjoan]

When we un-packed it, the Paris curator was embarrassed to discover lipstick marks on its cheek: someone in the Louvre had played at being Pygmalion—or Hadrian—and kissed it. And who could blame them? Up on a pedestal, center stage, the effect of its beauty was jaw-dropping.

[romularunning]

To burn the Witch is to admit that magic exists.

- Erin Anastasia

[universalbeauty]

[tseneipgam]

Mongolian child asleep with reindeer photo by Hamid Sardar

[lesbianherstorian]

“wild geese” from dream work by mary oliver, may 1986

[cafeinevitable-deactivated20220]

Sleeping Beauty Woken by Snow White’s Kiss

Neil Gaiman’s children’s book, The Sleeper and the Spindle, is a richly illustrated collaboration with artist Chris Riddell that retells the story of Sleeping Beauty. But this time the princess is rescued not by a prince’s kiss, but by a queen’s.

[neoyorzapoteca]

Anne Waldman, from “Fast Talking Woman”

[muck-raker-deactivated20181222]

“I VIOLATE ARTICLE 27, SEC. 553-4 OF THE MARYLAND ANNOTATED CODE SAFELY, OFTEN, AND EXTREMELY WELL”

[ID: black & white photo of a man wearing a t-shirt printed with the above text]

Sections 553 and 554 of Article 27 of the Maryland Code prohibited sodomy (punishable with a sentence of “not less than one year nor more than ten years”), oral sex, and “any other unnatural or perverted sexual practice with any other person.”

Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, Washington, D.C., October 11, 1987. Photo © Exakta, via @lgbt_history

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[lachantefleurie]

published in Amber Flora 

[superbestiario]

[ecstaticwaters]

Malls Across 80s America by Michael Galinsky

[lachantefleurie]