In Search Of Our Mothers’ Gardens

[visual-poetry]

»i want to live in a city where…« by martin firrell (+)

[noiseandwhip]

“Do the work to unlearn your sexism.” Photo by @tlynnfaz on instagram. Artwork by Talia Fazlalizadeh.

[noiseandwhip]

Tehran, Iran. Photo by @amiraria4 on instagram.

[nobrashfestivity]

Laura Gilpin, Sunrise on the desert, 1924

[unearthedviews]

MOROCCO. Tangiers. 1995.–Bruno Barbey

[nemfrog]

Tracks of meteors deriving from a radiant point during a meteor shower. Astronomy for the use of schools and academies. 1882.

[mercestmoi]

Malick Sidibé, Portrait de Mselle Kanté, 1965

https://poetry.princeton.edu/2013/11/07/fugitivity-is-immanent-to-the-thing-but-is-manifest-transversally/

[performativerelics]

Lorraine O'Grady - Art Is… (Troupe Front) (1983-2009)

[noiseandwhip]

Strength. Beauty. 

http://www.jeremiahariaz.com/trail-riders/

[howstrangethemusicsoundstome]

I am truly distraught by the lack of Octavia Butler fandom on this website. 

[wordswilling]

“We have lived before. We will live again. We will be silk, stone, mind, star. We will be scattered, gathered, molded, probed. We will live and we will serve life.”

— Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

[noiseandwhip]

Toyin Ojih Odutola, Picnic on the grounds, 2017–18, charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper, 1.9 x 1.3 m. Courtesy: the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York https://frieze.com/article/unselfconscious-new-black-emerging-artists-colour

[driflloon]

shakyla ramsey and shaanti chaitram for lucys magazine

[lesepaules]

“a woman who explores the depths of her despair or depression isn’t typically valorized as a hero on a fearless quest to render ‘any darkness visible,’ but is instead perceived as a redundant example of female vulnerability, fragility, or self-destructiveness.”

— Maggie Nelson, The Art of Cruelty

[afroklectic]

Backstage at SA Fashion Week : StyleBySA Collection

[morobook]

Morocco.Essaouia.1990

[morobook]

Morocco.Marrakech.Jamaa El Fna square where acrobats, magicians and troubadours entertain the crowd.2000