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Chiara Ferragni with Dior

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Arthur Rackham  __  from The Ingoldsby Legends, 1907  

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Send her love letters. She won't go up in the attic in 40 years to find old text messages.

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Compilation: Hands

Primavera, 1470s. Sandro Botticelli.

Après le bal, 1874. Alfred Stevens.

The Painted Bridge, 1900s. William Russell Flint.

The Nymph caught the Dryad in her arms, 1904. H.R. Millar. 

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a list of s*xy things:

- cellos

- sword fights

- hands

- setting things on fire

- “make me”

- brushing someones hair behind their ear

- hoziers discography

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Ariadne: As you were leaving you yelled at the owners that the stairs weren’t suitable for “intoxacapitated” people… and then promptly fell down them.

Dionysus: So I WAS right

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Athena: NO. NONE OF THAT. SHAME ON YOU

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Dionysus: I prefer to think of hangovers as extreme sobriety, which can only be cured by more booze

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Sappho: I can always see lesbian subplots. It’s my hero ability

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LILY JAMES for the hollywood reporter [2015]

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Music Themed Cover of The New Yorker, 16th April 2018. The cover was illustrated by Tom Gauld.

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reblog if you’re gay, shy or a fucking idiot

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There are three breeds of cat:

Chonk

Goblin

Yeah that looks like a cat

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MAY 1: The Lavender Menace (1970)

Happy May 1st everyone! Today, we’re going to celebrate the iconic civil rights group The Lavender Menace and how they fought back against homophobia in the Women’s Rights Movement by protesting the Second Congress to Unite Women on this day in 1970.

Three members of The Lavender Menace celebrate after having successfully completed a Zap during the Second Congress to Unite Women. A Zap is a form of political protest pioneered by LGBT Rights activists which involved the public embarrassment of a celebrity or public figure (x).

In high school, you may have read about Betty Friedan as the brave author of The Feminine Mystique and as one of the women who launched the second wave feminist movement. Although to some, Betty Friedan is a feminist hero, if you ask most lesbians what they think about Betty Friedan you’ll probably get a completely different reaction. In 1969, as the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Betty gave a speech in which she identified lesbians in the Women’s Rights Movement as the “lavender menace,” a villainous group that was holding back the movement from being accepted by mainstream society. What followed was a careful plan for NOW to distance itself from lesbians and lesbian issues by blacklisting the Daughters of Bilitis.

Rita Mae Brown stands defiant in her Lavender Menace shirt amongst a group of NOW members (x).

This clear act of homophobia enraged one lesbian activist by the name of Rita Mae Brown. Scorned and impassioned, Rita and other lesbian activists left NOW and formed their own group that would welcome lesbians in and focus specifically on lesbian civil rights issues. The name they chose for themselves? The Lavender Menace. For the groups’ coming out party (no pun intended), the organizers of The Lavender Menace chose the Second Congress to Unite Women, which was being held in New York City on May 1, 1970. Decked out in lavender colored shirts and holding protest signs, the women of The Lavender Menace infiltrated the auditorium where the Congress’s opening remarks were being made, cut the lights and the microphone, and hijacked the stage. Although there were members of the crowd who booed, many of the women at the Congress listened to what the Menaces had to say and allowed their protest to continue. Karla Jay, one of the women who was a part of the protest recalls that “the audience was on our side.”

-LC

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Martha Shelley’s Lavender Menace T-Shirt, donated to the Lesbian Herstory Archives