Fred Astaire

Busby Berkeley dreams

[communicants]

Morning for the Osone Family (Keisuke Kinoshita, 1946)

[words-of-emotion]

[arabellesicardi]

Femmeness is especially vilified because it’s seen as being connected to decadence and class-privilege. I know this from experience: if you bring five bucks to the thrift store, you can walk out with a total gem and look really good. It takes a good eye but you cultivate that from being without, like I did. You have to cultivate that skill, and you earn it by being able to feel really confident. It’s a problematic notion because it also allows men and masculine people to put on a working class aesthetic: “Look at the one flannel I wear over and over again!” This isn’t seen as performance, it’s seen as more authentic. I experienced really fucked-up mean-girl dynamics in anarchist spaces, because there was a vying for social capital. There was really shitty and weird behavior. I’m more focused on surviving and creating a sustainable lifestyle that’s not just me crying at the end of every meeting. People were emotionally terrorizing, and I don’t think it’s any coincidence that it happened to femme women more often. In political spaces, the Left demonizes femininity because it is associated with excess – as though all of these heterosexist men would listen to us if we came into meetings looking like shit. They wouldn’t even hear us out if we didn’t look fucking fierce.

*screams yes at this a thousand fucking times until i pass out*  (via arabellesicardi)

[googieheim-deactivated20250121]

Behind the scenes of Capitol Hill Web Series S2 by creator and director, Wes Hurley. Photos by Bronwen Houck.

[whommel-xlov]

I have now watched all of season 1, so I’m ready. Bring on the Monsoon season!

[lilcowgirl]

[criplit]

My dad found me a disability activism pin from the 70s…aaaand I love it.

[analogcinema]

Erica Schreiner - untitled video still from Dirty Pictures ©2014

[eggsackley]

[an-alarming-amount-of-bees]

[realityayslum]

Sigismund Blumann

Seal Rocks and the Cliff House, Ocean Beach, San Francisco, c1910

Via the Cliff House Project

(for Dame de Pique)

[transphysics]

The first transgender suicide hotline in the US

For the first time, there is a hotline in the US that is staffed entirely by transgender people, to serve transgender people.  Everyone in the trans community needs to be spreading this around.  Lives could be saved. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860

[skye--lane--art]

[skye--lane--art]

paint yah

[datingdisasterzofaqueergirl]

Any bar is a gay bar if you just believe in yourself.

[zarglepoetry]

buy here

[secretdreamlife]

[neptunepisces]

this weekend i am assisting on a shoot for a project starring some of our nation's most beloved drag queens, and a few weeks ago i recieved a letter saying i got into college so i think i am moving to olympia in the spring to study visual arts and media studies. it seems to me that things are coming together

[neptunepisces]

everybody is pregnant