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Ciaran Murphy.

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White Americans ... are terrified of sensuality and do not any longer understand it. The word “sensual” is not intended to bring to mind quivering dusky maidens or priapic black studs. I am referring to something much simpler and much less fanciful. To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. ... Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become. It is this individual uncertainty on the part of white American men and women, this inability to renew themselves at the fountain of their own lives, that makes the discussion, let alone elucidation, of any conundrum—that is, any reality—so supremely difficult. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality—for this touchstone can be only oneself. Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. And these attitudes, furthermore, though the person is usually unaware of it (is unaware of so much!), are historical and public attitudes. They do not relate to the present any more than they relate to the person.

--James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time, 1963

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Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) dir. Mohanad Yaqubi

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Xie Lei (Chinese, 1983) - Dissolve 2 (2021)

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The Beach Boys's Brian Wilson sits alone in a church. (c. 70s/80s, photographer unknown)

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Tali Lennox (British, 1993) - Pleasure Sink (2024)

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I guess that cunt gettin eaten

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Silver dolls by Leo Costelloe & Winona May Dodds-Smith

Via leocostelloe

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train car was empty so i used my gameboy camera

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sri wahyuni, also known as ayu, performs in the “wall of death”, locally known as “tong setan” or satan’s barrel, at a fairground in medan, north sumatra, indonesia, may 10, 2025, photo by binsar bakkara

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mel tomlinson photographed by daniel s. sorine

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Ilya Kaminsky, from "A Cigarette", Deaf Republic

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hilma as fuck klint