I LIKE TO LOOK AT THINGS

[carolathhabsburg]

Sada Yacco as Ophelia. Japan, 1904

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la tranquilidad de Barragán 

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Debbie Harry photographed by Chris Stein

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But in my belly’s flames / someone is dancing, calling me by many names / that are secret and filled with light and rise / and break, and I see my previous lives.

Denis Johnson, from “White, White Collars,” The Incognito Lounge (Carnegie Mellon, 1982)

[philoclea]

Auguste Rodin. Two Hands, 1909.

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[mi-soledad-maulla]

Valentine’s Day Love Letter (25 August 1918)

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PASTEL BRIDESMAIDS | 1960′S

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These are the actual colors of the bridesmaid dresses popular during the 1960s

Scurlock Studios, Washington DC. Courtesy of District of Columbia Africana Archives Project [LINK]

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Bought this one

[anneboyer]

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Can it be that in the West, in our time, the female body has been constructed not only as a lack or absence but with more complexity, as a leaking, uncontrollable, seeping liquid; as formless flow; as viscosity, entrapping, secreting; as lacking not so much or simply the phallus but self-containment--not a cracked or porous vessel, like a leaking ship, but a formlessness that engulfs all form, a disorder that threatens all order?

Elizabeth Grosz, Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism

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Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in Woodstock, 1964 

photo by Daniel Kramer

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Custom embroidery

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The Annunciation, George Hitchcock

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Leisure Hours, John Everett Millais