ava

she/her!

[thanksbrunette]

[525897]

[paxvictoriana]

James Baldwin, on reading:

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people. An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world can tell, what it is like to be alive. All I’ve ever wanted to do is to tell that. I’m not trying to solve anybody’s problems, not even my own. I’m just trying to outline what the problems are.”

(from interview in Life magazine, May 24, 1963)

[neshamama]

Ana Mendieta, works with water c.1970s

[luciferetlucia]

Rendezvous with Julie Delpy. March 13, 1995. Photo by Yann Gamblin

[heavensghost]

‘Love is an organic thing. It rots and softens.’

Words by Clementine Von Radics

[tobaccopuff]

[lamignonette]

[dreamstars]

[lamignonette]

[girlfriendsinjeans]

[gossamerg1rl]

The Drama (2026)

dir. Kristoffer Borgli

[theoptia]

Hélène Cixous, from The Laugh of the Medusa

Text ID: Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies ... Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it.

[small-bambi]

Harrison Wood Hsiang

[achillesinhighheels]

[debaucheryandexcess]

having a belly outline while wearing a dress is a very beautiful and sexy accessory. anyone who tries to tell you otherwise is getting put in the shredder

[bobbole]

Ana Mendieta, Silueta series