best in the (pacific north) west!

[buttonpoetry]

You are meticulous because everyone is watching. You are afraid because it is the only way you know how to love.

Melissa Lozada-Oliva, “Ode to Brown Girls with Bangs” (via buttonpoetry)

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[cizayox]

This is honestly what i look like in my minds eye

[lifeinpoetry]

There comes a point when you have to hold the man responsible for what he did. I have decided it’s degrading to say I let him. I say my name into the open cellar covering my eyes. I will lead myself out of it.

— Emily Skaja, from “[Eurydice],” Brute

[boeing747]

Dude…. Bro…… What if we Just became Narrative Foils For Eachother Bro……… had a lot of like…..Tension because of the Symbolism in our Character Arcs that becomes clear when Contrasted against each other bro……

[cartagenacatalina]

Soledad de mi pieza

[airmom]

anyways, we’ll make it through ladies, like always

[lifeinpoetry]

Out poured each grief I have named and each grief there is no language for.

In the dream, I saw a way to survive and I did. This is how I remember it. I lost a whole river. I stayed standing.

— Clementine von Radics, from In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive

[acrosswomenslives]

In 1980, photographer Anita Corbin decided to turn her lens on the young women of UK subcultures. Over the next two years, rockabillies, mods, goths, rude girls, skinheads, rastas and more posed for Corbin and opened up about what it was like to be a young woman navigating an alt scene, and the importance of female friendships. 

“I have chosen to focus on girls, not because the boys (where present) were any less stylish, but because girls in “subcultures” have been largely ignored or when referred to, only as male appendages.” -Anita Corbin, photographer, “Visible Girls”

Listen to our interview with Corbin and learn what happened when Corbin and her portrait subjects reunited earlier this year.

Are you a woman in a subculture? Do you feel welcome? What role do female friendships play in your scene of choice?

[ginocchie]

i love these pictures

[lifeinpoetry]

A year later, he texts me happy birthday, says he still remembers all the good memories we had.

I let her be happy. I burn it all down.

— Kanika Lawton, from “After, He Tells Me to Get Up,” published in Glass

[elegieenbleu]

JEAN-MICHEL FOLON /

La vie sentimentale de Folon (1970)

Texte de Giorgio Soavi, illustrations de Folon. Aux éditions Milano Libri

[earthstory]

Moss on lava The flow patterns in a basaltic lava field on Iceland are clearly outlined by the growing greenery, that colonises the areas through which the flows funnel the rain down the sides of these nested volcanic vents. Loz Image credit: Bernhard Edmaier http://www.bernhard-edmaier.de/en/portfolio.html

[one-abuse-survivor]

Me: I’m scared I might secretly be an awful person and I’m just fooling everyone into thinking I’m good.

Therapist: the fact that you care so deeply about being a bad person is proof that you’re actually good. Bad people don’t mind being bad.

Me: oH NO, I have fooled her too,

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@rooovie

[dankmemesreasonforliving]

[seanklingelhoefer]

Veronica blends in

Flower District, Manhattan, NY 2018.

Nikon 35ti | Kodak Ultramax 400

[lifeinpoetry]

I imagine love like gnawing. // I wanted a body equally like and unlike my own and never found her.

Rachel Mennies, from “July 16, 2016,” published in The Adroit Journal (via lifeinpoetry)

[5centsapound]

[5centsapound]

Carlotta Cardana The Red Road: Picturing Modern Native American Indigenous Identity    

*signal boost for indigenous solidarity #nodapl  see more details on how to help here

support an Indigenous photographer here, working hard to document the Great Sioux Nation’s protests in North Dakota. 

Photo #2: Ula and Tim Tyler. This Eastern Shoshone couple have been married for 54 years and experienced reservation life before there was electricity or running water.

Photo #4: Ishkoten Dougi. Ishkoten is an artist from the Isleta Pueblo Indian Reservation in New Mexico. He is portrayed in his studio, surrounded by his artwork that represents some of the atrocities inflicted on Native Americans.

Photo #5: Evereta and her Mustang. When Evereta Thinn, 30, entered college as the only Native American in her English 101 class, it was at that moment she realized that she needed to speak up and not be that stereotypical “shy” Indian who keeps to herself. She works as an administrator at the school district on the Navajo Nation and aspires to start a language and cultural immersion school for the Diné (Navajo) people.

Photo #8: Fast Eddie (left), a pow wow dancer, is pictured with social media celebrity, Two Braids.

Photo #10:   Jarrod after the rodeo. Jarrod Ferris, Eastern Shoshone and Arapaho from the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, has been bull riding since age 6. He hopes to one day win the title as world champion so that he can buy his mom a new house.

*Photo #13: Crisosto Apache, from the Mescalero Apache tribe of New Mexico, is an activist for LGBT rights in the Native community. He explains that there is no word for “gay” in any Native American language, but is referred to as being “two spirited.”

Photo #14: Maka in his classroom. After traveling the world and teaching English in Japan, Maka Clifford, from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, realized his calling was going back to the Reservation to teach his own people and inspire young kids to explore life off the reservation.