there's not a thing i don't cherish

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Elephant seal flipper

[lovestereo]

Visit Original Link

[cluttrbugs]

Street Sale, 2010

[chanafehs]

Palestinian Lesbians, happy pride to my Palesbians !

[cosmicanger]

unwoven light by soo sunny park

[smsomah]

Maranhão, Brasil, 2005. Barnabás Bosshart

[handweavers]

one of the many problems with 'listen to x voices' rhetoric is that in order to be in the diaspora & gain citizenship in the first place your family often has to conform, to some degree, to western policy regarding our home countries & then those are the most plentiful voices in the west who talk about our countries. they will try to convince you that this is "the true voice" of the people of that country but they will gleefully advocate for foreign interventions that result in the widespread destruction and looting of their home country + they will position themselves as the greatest victims in all of this. but they clearly do not view the people back home with any kind of genuine solidarity or kinship only as pawns in their own personal narrative (revenge for an imagined alternative life back home, one where you still owned land or a held position of power there) and an opportunity to seize power for themselves. & then people in the diaspora develop a complex when people back home don't like them and don't agree with them & start claiming that everyone in the home country is brainwashed and the only way to free them is by invading and bombing everyone. they don't even view their cousins and family back home as real people, in this type of person's mindset simply by coming to west you are made real in a way that the rest of the world is not, it's sickening. and i know this song and dance very well like i'm in the western diaspora and the amount of ppl i meet who position themselves as progressive people but on the topic of foreign policy re: the home country sound like they work for radio free asia and are on the cia's payroll and chomping at the bit begging canada and co to bomb their country of origin is completely insane & if you even try to push back against this you're socially ostracized. same people will do land acknowledgements and then shun you for not supporting our government warmongering overseas it's just maddening

[theinternetarchive]

Leaf shaped brush washer Asian; Chinese, Jingdezhen c. 1723–35 Porcelain with camellia-leaf green glaze; overall: 19.7 cm

[cyberglittter]

photo taken after the miss natural beauty africa mini fashion show, where the contestants had to show their personal style

[critical-objects-deactivated202]

Laura Aguilar is a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work mines the intersection between feminism, body image, queer politics, and latinx identity. Her earliest works depicted latina lesbians in intimate portraits, calling to mind the frankness of Catherine Opie, while her best known series features self-portraits of Aguilar posed nude in the California desert landscape. These photographs are instantly striking, finding in the artist’s body formal elements that echo the landscape itself, as in its doubling here with the giant rock that eludes the frame. Aguilar also forces our gaze onto a body that does not conform to stereotypical images of latinx or feminine identity—a body type that is not so much othered as invisible, despite its ubiquity. The artist originally began to produce these photos as a means of grappling with her own issues with weight and self-acceptance, but quickly came to see them as something more. They offer a profound, ambivalent vision of woman and nature. We see Aguilar dissolve into the landscape in search of anonymity, at the same time that she reclaims the pride and beauty in her body far removed from the society that rejects it.

Laura Aguilar, Grounded #111, 1992

[kitschday]

eva antilla, white veil, 1950, tapestry hanging

[cluttrbugs]

Library Return Slot at 9am, 2008

[distantvoices]

PinkPantheress by @mircybr on Twitter/Instagram

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[godkissedme]

cut flowers / mia forrest

[nobrashfestivity]

Howardena Pindell Untitled 1972–73 American, born 1943 Acrylic and cut and punched papers on canvas Dimensions Overall: 87 1/2 × 91 1/8 × 1 3/4 in. (222.25 × 231.46 × 4.45 cm) Collection Modern and Contemporary Art Credit Line Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Endowment Object Number 2017.8 Vmfa

[enfranchisement]

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