#donna gottschalk

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I am your worst fear//I am your best fantasy. After Donna Gottschalk.

Letterpress on latex gloves, stymie 30 point medium and bold.

[joeinct]

Myla, Sausalito, California, Photo by Donna Gottschalk, c. 1972–73

[gacougnol]

Donna Gottschalk

Self-portrait with JEB, E. 9th Street, New York, 1970

[lanotteviene]

maybe god is in how Donna Gottschalk photographed her sister Myla. they loved each other so much it's palpable. they'd sneak out and wander into abandoned buildings, the same abandoned places Donna would take her girlfriends, and there the two sisters would transform; one into a photographer, the other into a muse. two queer girls with nowhere to go, huge oppressive world outside, completely free with each other in ruined buildings.

once Donna moved to San Fran, their phone calls were so long she got Myla a recorder, so she could make her tapes about anything and everything; long sprawling loving chats where she hides pain how in those tapes we hear Myla's voice, at turns bashful and chatty, funny and fond, telling her sis anything and everything because they just missed each other that much. maybe god is in trans people and lesbians and in sisters and in all siblings who love and defend each other

[ortodelmondo]

Donna Gottschalk, Oak, Robin, Binky, Chris et moi, Bébés Gouines, E. 9th Street, New York, 1969

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[floatingloneliness]

Donna Gottschalk

[murakamijeva-muza]

Here is a photo of Donna Gottschalk at the Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day rally in 1970. Photo by Diana Davis.

Happy Women's Day!

“We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.” ― Margaret Atwood