Five By Five

Angry Queer Femmo | Political Brat

[nemfrog]

“Nurse, loaded with pollen,” and other bees. The bee and white ants. 1856. 

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“I am a witch, an enchantress of sorts and have already been worshipped and hung and in the same order.”

— Anne Sexton, from a letter to Paul Brooks written c. June 1968

[interwebfool]

Pretty sure my ancestor was a lesbian in the 1920’s

[autumnalsonata-deactivated20190]

“Sombre is she, her soul a blasted star,”

— Endre Ady, from A Selection of Poems: “Prayer to Baal” 

[memory63]

Young artist falls asleep with papier maché mask of Marlene Dietrich on her lap, 1950

[endless-unfolding]

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride this day down into night, to sit alone and smooth the unreadable page with the pale grey ghost of my hand.

—Ted Kooser, “A Happy Birthday,” in Delights & Shadows (Copper Canyon Press, 2014)

[fernsandmoss]

Chris Enos

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Henrik Ibsen, from The Complete Plays & Works; “When We Dead Awaken,” c. October 1899

[die-rosastrasse]

Edward Robert Hughes (1851-1914)

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

Walter Crane (1845-1915)

[lesbianherstorian]

from girl fight comics by trina robbins, reprinted in off our backs: a women’s news journal vol. 4 no. 2, december 1974

[soracities]

“I walk lightly so as not to crush my cheerfulness. I walk heavily so as not to fly. In both cases the ground protects me from disappearing into adjectives that cannot be used to describe it.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from ‘From now on you are you’

[bluebeardsbride-archive]

The Deadly History of Women Using Perfume as Poison

From the Affair of Poisons in Louis XIV France to Dior's Hypnotic Poison eau de toilette, scent has been sinister for a very long time.

[clawmarks]

Mermaid illustration from The Craftsman - 1906-1907 - via Internet Archive

[makingqueerhistory]

“Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics.”

Jane Addams

[signorformica]

Jeu de tarot divinatoire dit Grand Etteilla ou Tarot égyptien. Paris ~ ca.1880 BnF  Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

[makingqueerhistory]

“Both aesthetically and ethically, I seek to translate my rage and my desire into new images which will undermine conventional perceptions and which may reveal hidden worlds. Many of the images are seen as sexually explicit - or more precisely, homosexually explicit. I make my pictures homosexual on purpose. Black men from the Third World have not previously revealed either to their own peoples or to the West a certain shocking fact: they can desire each other.”

— Rotimi Fani-Kayode (via makingqueerhistory)

[loveage-moondream]