a stripper named equality

christine, she/her twitter: @_christinecath instagram: everybodyhateschristine

[normali-tea]

HELLO ARE YOU A FELLOW NEWNHAMITE APPLICANT

i genuinely have no idea how long ago you sent this because i never check my tumblr but i just graduated!!! so i’m a newnham alumni lol. 

[oaluz]

1. What are the words you do not have yet? [Or, “for what do you not have words, yet?”]

2. What do you need to say? [List as many things as necessary]

3. What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence?  [List as many as necessary today. Then write a new list tomorrow. And the day after. ]

4. If we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language, ask yourself: “What’s the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?” [So, answer this today. And everyday.]

[dorfs]

[lohanthony-deactivated20210629]

[rafswerk-deactivated20221217]

Omahyra Mota by Craig McDean for Self Service Magazine No. 46, S/S 2017

[oddfilmstills]

altered carbon s01e10

[orixinall]

[thelovejournals]

I’m in love with you because you make me feel safe. It sounds corny and vague. People always talk about feeling safe with someone and you wonder what it even means. I still don’t really know. All I know is that when I’m with you, I feel like I’m clutching a giant thing of pepper spray or reliving a moment of being carried to bed by my parents when I was five years old and fell asleep in front of the television. All day long, I can feel fragile, like a raw nerve, and when I come home to you, it’s like I just put on the thickest winter coat and installed bulletproof windows in my apartment. ‘Honey, I’m home…and no longer terrified.

Ryan O'Connell

[jazminesullivan]

Letitia Wright Vogue Meets The Next Generation Of Great British Actresses

[gostle]

compare yourself only to your previous self

[glowingangel]

[larmoyante]

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum — a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I’m watching over it for no one but myself.

Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973 (via larmoyante)

[fashion--in--film]

[ozzyosborntodie]

when your mom makes you talk to distant relatives

[deltayouthnc]

“BLACK LESBIANS,” Gay Pride Parade, London, United Kingdom, June 1985. Photo © @gettyimages 

[motel23]

[theclassicsreader]

To whom do I owe the woman I have become?

Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name 

[aura-eden]

Henri Matisse