[lachantefleurie]

“A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits.”

— Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo 

[nobrashfestivity]

Ana Mendieta, Creek, 1974. 

Super 8 Film. © The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC.,Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.

[ripempezardexerox]

[mournfulroses]

Virginia Woolf, from The Selected Essays of Virginia Woolf; “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown,”

[pg-mag]

Stephen Doherty, ink and watercolor on paper

[antigonick]

“—isn’t this what God felt when he pressed together the first Beloved: Everything. Fever. Vapor. Atman. Pulsus. Finally, a sin worth hurting for, a fervor, a sweet—You are mine.”

— Natalie Diaz, excerpt of “These Hands, If Not Gods”, from Postcolonial Love Poem

[tanyushenka]

Beirut, Lebanon, May, 1965

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

[zzzze]

Egon Schiele The Embrace (detail), 1917 / Painting

[lifeinpoetry]

“i found god in myself / & i loved her/ i loved her fiercely”

— Ntozake Shange, from For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

[oldfilmsflicker]

Poetry In Motion, 1982 (dir. Ron Mann)

[wkwz]

One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (1977) dir. Agnès Varda

[warmfigure]

still can’t stop staring at this arrangement i made

apricot beauty foxglove, scabiosa and orlaya

[punlovsin]

sylvia.

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[lachantefleurie]

[bb-susina]

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown s2e1 - Jerusalem