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Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

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i kno its not rly a popular statement and it sounds dismissive but you'll be miserable for as long as u deny ur own agency in ur own happiness

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Ukrainian Hutsuls celebrate Christmas in the Carpathian mountains. Photographed by Evgeny Maloletka in Kryvorivnya, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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“When you first saw a Cubist or Impressionist picture there was a whole way of instructing the eye or the subconscious. Dabs of color had to stand for real things; it was an abstraction of a guitar or of a hillside. The opposite is going on now. If you have bands of blue, green and pink, the mind doesn’t think sky, grass and flesh. These are colors and the question is what are they doing with themselves and with each other. Sentiment and nuance are being squeezed out so that if something is not altogether flatly painted then there might be a hint of edge, chiaroscuro, shadow and if one wants just that pure thing these associations get in the way.”

— An Interview with Helen Frankenthaler

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they’re doing “is shaving feminist” discourse on twitter right now and we all know my thoughts on it. no need to do this again. but i will say. if our most “progressive/leftist feminist” women cannot wrap their heads around the concept of shaving being a tool of the patriarchy aimed to control women’s bodies that we should be ultimately working to discard. then maybe we should all just line up and sh**t ourselves. maybe there’s no hope for women after all.

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Snoopy zippo lighters owned by soldiers during the Vietnam war (1955-1975)

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isn't it crazy that a woman being gender nonconforming literally just requires her to exist in her own body without making any changes whatsoever. why does the fact that i don't wear makeup and i don't shave and i don't wear a bra have to be some political act. why can't i just fucking exist

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Day 32

Spring vibes Miffy

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"you don't get it, the usa is a fascist country full of government propaganda, and our rights as women and queer people are constantly attacked!! you have no idea what that's like!!" i'm hungarian 👍

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louise bourgeois’ home, nyc

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On gfs dashboard

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marlboro ad in 'film comment magazine,' january-february 1977.

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genuinely wild how every time some abusive asshole pulls a DARVO on a woman he abused the general public is like “we’ll never know what really happened, they’re both toxic they were both bad to each other” so the only way a woman can be abused and say she was abused is if she sits in a saint like manner and calmly takes all of it without raising a hand or word in retaliation. like holy shit it’s every time

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