[fionaapplerocks]

Hey Fiona are you over your insecurity yet?

[furples]

me

[amenxart]

Gustave Moreau - Study for Lady Macbeth (1851) Brian De Palma - Carrie (1976)                                                                               Alexander McQueen - Joan (1998)

insp.

[itsashuri]

Angela Davis, prison interview 1972

[universal-invariants]

does a tweet ever bring you hope

[modedamour]

via oroborostore

[freshmoviequotes]

Stalker (1979)

[artistsbooksandmultiples]

Jenny Holzer Survival: Finding extreme pleasure… New York City, USA: Self-published, 1984 6 x 10" Edition of 10 [+1 AP] signed copies

Text on cast aluminum plaque.

[bienenkiste]

Photographed by Venetia Scott for POP

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

the thing is, ellen bass / for example, mary oliver 

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

“I’m not a stable person, and often I encounter great difficulties in life, which often seems quite unbearable. There’s nothing I can do about that. But I love the world and life itself, and, even when in pain, I still have the pleasure of feeling part of a cosmic movement.”

— hermann hesse

[sjowgren-deactivated20240728]

when the ghosts come ashore: things i should say to myself in the mirror or things i would say to the city of st. louis if it could hear me, jacqui germain

[soracities]

Adonis (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

[girlfromenglishclass]

When Death Comes (Mary Oliver) 

[manticoreimaginary]

[mantzoukasvoice]

‘It doesn’t matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don’t have a steely something in the middle that says, “You know what, I’m actually really, really good at this and this is what I can do and I’m going to do it.” It’s not about arrogance. It’s about inner self-belief and getting on with it. If I sat around thinking about acting all day I’d lose my mind. [Acting] is a convenient way to live and be curious about people and that’s why I do it.’

[mysimpsonsblogisgreaterthanyours]

[benafflecks]

Kill Bill: Volume I (2003)

[rs620-deactivated20150411]

Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground.

Sara Ahmed (via rs620)

[kyle-mccabe-stiansen]

“A 1971 Gigi Looks At Sex: A Way of Life, A Private Joy,” Vogue US April 1, 1971

Photographer: Irving Penn 

[thorodinson]

Life’s a bitch, now so am I.

Marlon Brando on what James Baldwin taught him about white guilt and white responsibility:

“He made it very clear to me that all of us white liberals–guilty, well-meaning people–were merely a big flashlight cast upon the evil of racism, and the flashlight found some corners where it continued, and still continues, to live. ‘Throw the light,’ he told me, ‘and then get out of the way. This is our battle to win.’ He also told me that I expected a medal or a blowjob if I opened a door for a black woman or helped a black man get a job. ‘You are a white raindrop on the desert floor of America’s racism,’ he told me. He was right. But I kept showing up, being the flashlight, being the raindrop, and realizing how utterly hopeless our desire to expunge our guilt was. We deserve the guilt. The guilt stays with us. A cross, an anvil, to bear for eternity.”

[old-friends-senior-dog-sanctuary]