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Touching grass isnt enough, I need to be buried alive

thinking about beetles and how they are just neat little guys

im just like joan of arc I too experience the voices that tell me to wear men's clothes

Louise Breslau

La vie pensive (Pensive Life), 1908

The strikingly monumental painting brings a highly Proustian tone to the tradition of Impressionist portraiture in the style of Edgar Degas and Henri Fantin-Latour. The scene takes place in the salon of Louise Breslau’s house in Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris. It radiates deep ennui and a muted sense of tension. As she often did, the artist has shown herself from the back, revealing only her famous aquiline profile. The letter in her hand and her hair swept back from her high forehead give her an intellectual mien. In the foreground sits her attractive red-haired partner Madeleine Zillhardt, stroking a borzoi. Her turquoise eyes are lost in a laudanum daze. The title, La vie pensive, is to be understood as a reference to both the vita activa and the vita contemplativa.

The light-filled, colour-laden canvas, giving an impression of sensitivity and vigor, is painted with long, swift brush-strokes in a style that evokes the matte fluidity of pastels. On the white tablecloth in the centre of the painting stand a series of elements often found in still lifes, alternating opaque and transparent textures – a bouquet of flowers, a basket of fruit, a carafe and glass, and a porcelain plate. A knife pointing at a peach symbolises the two women’s carnal passion for each other.

Though Louise Breslau was a leading figure in Swiss art circles in Paris, she had to work hard to achieve recognition in her home country. The canvas was only accepted at the ninth national fine art exhibition in Basel in 1908 after the artist complained to the Federal Council about the misogyny of the Association of Swiss Painters and Sculptors, which had once again followed Ferdinand Hodler and voted to reject women the previous year.

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Phone world has been so bleak & stupid lately but real world has been beautiful & promising

Off to Italy for a week in a few days, and my colleagues surprised me with a cake and cards for my birthday (that I wont be at work for). Feeling very loved and lucky 😭

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I feel okay about my life currently. I enjoy my job, I love my girlfriend, and I appreciate that I have the opportunity to see more of the world. I feel good about my future too. Things have settled, and I no longer find myself self-sabotaging or feeling flighty. I still feel sick at how vulnerable I've made myself, sometimes. I feel sick when I start to think about how quickly life can change. I used to regularly anticipate disappointment, it would comfort me to know that I've mentally prepared, and that I've broken my own heart before someone else could - now I don't want to give those thoughts space.

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Happy International Women’s Day!

Just letting the gworls know I'm not dead

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i dont want a lgbt support group. i want a lesbian bar where i can hang out and be toxic

Source - Drawing The Line ; Lesbian Sexual Politics On The Wall, by Kiss & Tell ( Lizard Jones, Susan Stewart, Persimmon Blackbridge)

“They had fertile eggs, which means that females were consorting with males at some point,” George says. But the birds appeared to use the males only for procreation, returning to each other to raise their families.

And once paired, the lesbian couples stuck together. Gulls are known monogamists. “The female-female pairs stayed together from one year to the next. Those that had viable eggs were perfectly able to raise them,” George says.

They seemed perfectly healthy, George says, and their young were too. They were just as capable of raising healthy offspring as their counterparts that grew up with male-female parents.

This was not exactly welcome news in Washington, DC.

After the researchers’ received their first grant from the National Science Foundation, their funding was brought up in a 1978 House of Representatives hearing on a bid to cut the NSF budget. Conservative lawmakers were scandalized. “It held up the NSF [National Science Foundation] funding for 10 days. This obviously touched a very, very raw nerve,” George said.