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Danny Lane

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Nobuyoshi Araki - [Grand Diary of a photo maniac], 1994/2007 via

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Carrie Fisher at home, 1980

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i really want both of these as posters i love an ancient depictions of women and goddesses so much

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Leslie Feinberg on trans exclusion in feminist spaces.

“We’re in danger of losing what the entire second wave of feminism, what the entire second wave of women’s liberation was built on, and that was ‘Biology is not destiny’. ‘One is not born a woman,’ Simone de Beauvoir said, ‘one becomes one’. Now there’s some place where transsexual women and other women intersect. Biological determinism has been used for centuries as a weapon against women, in order to justify a second-class and oppressed status. How on Earth, then, are you going to pick up the weapon of biological determinism and use it to liberate yourself? It’s a reactionary tool.”

From TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

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Christto & Andrew, An Unusual Request, 2015

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Klara Benjamin by Thierry Le Goues for Elle Germany, December 1997

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Untitled, Photo by Shirley C. Burden, 1956

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bea camacho, efface, 2008

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“Men dream of women. Women dream of themselves being dreamt of. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance is a judgment. Sometimes the glance they meet is their own, reflected back from a real mirror […] She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others and in particular how she appears to men is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life.”

— John Berger, Ways of Seeing (1972) 

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Icarus, 1970 - ADGER COWANS

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“She decides God is no good, but he must exist, / he must exist so she can hold him accountable.”

— Ada Limón, from “The Echo Sounder,” Lucky Wreck (via lifeinpoetry)

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“Although we live in close contact with neighbors, masses of people in our society feel alienated, cut off, alone. Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Yet they are the outcome of life in a culture where things matter more than people. Materialism creates a world of narcissism in which the focus of life is solely on acquisition and consumption. A culture of narcissism is not a place where love can flourish.”

— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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 when fiona apple said ‘nobody can replace anybody else so it would be a shame to make it a competition and no love is like any other love so it would be insane to make a comparison with you’ and adrianne lenker said ‘there are no enemies we’re make-believing everything is really hanging on’

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Lou photographed by Larissa Hofmann for Jil Sander.