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Fammi vedere se - utilizzando queste parole come un piccolo stralcio di terra e la mia vita come un pilastro - riesco a costruirti un centro.

Qui Miaojin

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Ceramic glazed tiles by Maude Smith

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My Wife’s Lovers, 1891 by Carl Kahler (Austrian, 1855–1906)

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Pretty baby by Tatsiana Melnikava.

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These are true:

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the thing is the thing  this is the thing this is also the thing the thing exists inside my head and inside your head and on the page and the thing is the key and also the thing a thing is a hole in a thing it is not

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beauty is so rare a thing, Pound sang so few drink at my fountain

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is fixity the thing is consistency the thing is there a difference between sincerity and authenticity are those things marked by fixity and consistency

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change is the thing

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this exists inside this frame but it also exists inside this other frame

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the dragon is the frame and the gaze is the frame and control is the frame

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this is the intention and this is the reception and this is the important part even when this is not the important part

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this is the transubstantiation this is the transmutation this is the transition this is the trans this is not the cis

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Circling the Sun, Angela Lane

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These are the axes:

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Bodies are inherently valid

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Remember death 

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Be ugly

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Know beauty

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It is complicated

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Empathy

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Choice

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Reconstruct, reify

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Respect, negotiate

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I used to think there is no future

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HARD FEELINGS

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Trans children have been reduced to figures for what they are so clearly not, abstract ciphers of this or that etiology of gender, this or that political platform. Trans childhood, under such circumstances, has yet to visit us. Yet trans children already exist, left to fend for themselves in a culture that suffers from being unable to imagine children with a richly expressive sense of who they are. […] We make children vulnerable by the force of law, the deprivation of their economic earnings, and the infantilization of their personalities, only to raid their bodies, minds, and souls to enrich an order of things that cannot stomach their savvy and enviable divergences from normativity.

Histories of the Transgender Child, Julian Gill-Peterson

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Night Hours #7

10,5 x 15cm, ink on paper, Kevin Lucbert, 2023

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Voguing at Mars nightclub in New York, 1988. Photo: Catherine McGann / Getty Images

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I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls. The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

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Sunlit dew in Finland (Photo: Tiina Törmänen) [OS] [1280x1280] - earthmoonsun

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Nei licheni un organismo si dipana in un intero ecosistema e un ecosistema si addensa in un organismo. Passano da un «tutto» a un «insieme di parti» e ritorno. Passare continuamente da una prospettiva all'altra è un'esperienza che può confondere. «Individuo» viene da una parola latina che significa «indivisibile». Individuo è il lichene nella sua interezza? Oppure lo sono le sue parti costitutive, i suoi membri? Soprattutto, è la domanda giusta da porsi? I licheni sono il prodotto degli scambi tra le loro parti più che delle parti prese singolarmente. Sono reti stabili di relazioni e non smettono mai di lichenizzare: sono verbi e allo stesso tempo sostantivi.

L’ordine nascosto, Merlin Sheldrake

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Catherine Opie, portraits series.