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Monica Vitti, “La ragazza con la pistola” (Mario Monicelli, 1968).

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Holly Warburton - Spirit Hold 02, 2019 // Jarek Puczel - Beloved, 2014 // Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights // A Ghost Story (2017) // Emarosa, “You Won’t Love a Ghost” // Sophia Narrett - This Meant Nothing // Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis // Gerald Edward Moira - The Silent Voice, 19th c. // Christopher McKenney - ghosts, 2012 // Etel Adnan, “Five Senses for One Death”

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“Being a witch means living in this world consciously, powerfully, and unapologetically.” 

- Inner Witch: A Modern Guide to the Ancient Craft, by Gabriela Herstik

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Anna Akhmatova, from “Upon The Hard Crest,” featured in “A Treasury of Russian Verse,”

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Happy Valentine day to my wonderful love @p0ck3tf0x!!!! I love you more than anything and everyday with you is more wonderful that the day before! I love you!!❤️❤️❤️

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Films by or about people of colour directed by women*

Some notes on the list:

This list is non-exhaustive.

The movies I counted as “starring” poc of colour have at least 1 poc as lead or co-lead.

I respect the fact that some people do not want to see movies about poc as told by white women and have separated these movies accordingly.

Some of the directors who are woc who have directed the movies starring woc are not the same race as their casts.

What counts as a woc in the western world is not what is necessarily counted as a woc in the countries that those women are from. I have created my international list based on my own western perspective.

American films directed by WOC starring POC

13th (Ava DuVernay) Documentary Appropriate Behavior (Desiree Akhavan) Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash) Eve’s Bayou (Kasi Lemmons) Everything Everything (Stella Meghie) Farah Goes Bang (Meera Menon)  Girlfight (Karyn Kusama) I Like It Like That (Darnell Martin) I Will Follow (Ava DuVernay)  It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting) Love and Basketball (Gina Prince-Blythewood) Losing Ground (Kathleen Collins) Pariah (Dee Rees) Peeples (Tina Gordon Chism)  Middle of Nowhere (Ava DuVernay) Mississippi Damned (Tina Mabry) Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair)  Mosquita y Mari (Aurora Guerrero)  Real Women Have Curves (Patricia Cardoso) Saving Face (Alice Wu)  Selma (Ava DuVernay)  Something New (Sanaa Hamri)  Songs My Brothers Taught Me (Chloe Zhao) Yelling to the Sky (Victoria Mahoney)

Directed by WOC starring white people The Republic of Love (Deepa Mehta) D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson) Vanity Fair (Mira Nair) Jennifer’s Body (Karyn Kusama) Last Night (Massy Tadjedin) The Invitation (Karyn Kusama) Equity (Meera Menon) Shake It (Hella Joof)

International WOC

At Five in the Afternoon (Samira Makhmabaf) Iran Belle (Amma Asante) UK Bend it like Beckham (Gurinder Chada) UK Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf) Iran Bollywood/Hollywood (Deepa Mehta) Canada Dil Dhankande Do (Zoya Akhtar) India Double Happiness (Mina Schum) Canada` Earth (Deepa Mehta) Canada/India Fire (Deepa Mehta) Canada/India Heaven on Earth (Deepa Mehta) Canada Jean of the Joneses (Stella Meghie) Canada  Lipstick Under my Burka (Alankrita Shrivastava) India Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair) India Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud) France The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert) Brazil Salaam Bombay! (Mira Nair) India A Simple Life (Ann Hui) Hong Kong Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) Japan Sugar Cane Alley (Euzhan Palcy) Martinique Sweet Bean (Naomi Kawase) Japan A United Kingdom (Amma Asante) (UK) Wadjda (Haifaa al-Mansour) Saudi Arabia Water (Deepa Mehta) Canada/India The Wedding Party (Kemi Adetiba) Nigeria

Directed by white women starring POC

2 Days in New York (Julie Delpy) 35 Rhums (Claire Denis) American Honey (Andrea Arnold) Ayanda (Sara Blecher) Black Panthers (Agnès Varda) documentary Brick Lane (Sarah Gavron) The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) Frida (Julie Taymor) Girlhood (Céline Sciamma) Honeytrap (Rebecca Johnson) Itty Bitty Titty Committee (Jamie Babbit) Mi Vida Loca (Allison Anders) No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis) Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston) documentary Portrait of Jason (Shirley Clarke) documentary Things We Lost in the Fire (Susanne Bier)  The Wedding Song (Karin Albou) Whale Rider (Niki Caro) Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold) 

*I know people will want to add onto the list and I appreciate that, but before you do please check whether a film is directed by a woman. This blog and list is in support of women directed or co-directed films. Please respect that. 

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“In a hundred years of movies, homosexuality has only rarely been depicted on the screen. When it did appear, it was there as something to laugh at, or something to pity, or even something to fear. These were fleeting images, but they were unforgettable, and they left a lasting legacy. Hollywood, that great maker of myths, taught straight people what to think about gay people… and gay people what to think about themselves.” (The Celluloid Closet, 1996)

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Black Orpheus [Orfeu Negro], 1959. Directed by Marcel Camus

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-Elizabeth Bishop

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OH HELLO ✨💫 I have some new prints up on Etsy! ✨💫 Along with enamel pins, patches and key-chains too!

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.......I won't say, I'm in love......

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Charles Amable Lenoir French, 1860-1926 “Death of Sappho” (detail)

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You over Her [not as a body but as a steeple]

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Saiba, 1858

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Girls Will Be Girls: The Women at the Birth of Punk