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Björk photographed by Ohashi Jin (2000)

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Female subculture in 1980s Britain

‘I have chosen to focus on girls, not because the boys (where present) were any less stylish, but because girls in ‘subcultures’ have been largely ignored or when referred to, only as male appendages.

The female as an extra to the main show is hackneyed and rife – see the gang member’s watery girlfriend who tags along with the lads just to be with her dream boat man; the feisty female who, like George in Enid Blyton’s Famous Five, is a boy in everything but common sense, empathy and an intrinsic knowledge of when the violence should end; she’s the shaggable lead singer in the all-boy band; and so on and on. Does anything ever change?’

It’s often said that women are set up to do each other down, ‘getting their claws out’, ‘bitching’ and being ‘catty’ whenever another woman hones into view. The subjects of Anita’s pictures are confident and at ease, each generously supporting the other and seeing in her a kindred spirit and partner.’

by Anita Corbin

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i wear leather for the image but the feel is equally important. leather feels good against the skin. it moves when you move. black leather in particular has an appeal.

martin gore ‘me and my leather’

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Preston station. Oct 2012.

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Stoplight and LEDS on the Snow, 2024

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something something gayest boyband of all time idk

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LENNON: So, I don't know, I think that George is pretty heavy on it [LSD]; we're probably both the most cracked, y'know. I think Paul's a bit more stable than George and I.

WENNER: And straight?

LENNON: I don’t know about straight. [Laughs] Stable.

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grace jones & marianne faithfull photographed by lynn goldsmith, 1982

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Viktor Shklovsky, Technique of Writing Craft (1927)

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John Lennon at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis, TN | 19 August 1966

"We started watching the second show with hardly a worry clouding our Beatlemaniac minds. We were shocked out of that reverie in the third number. Some idiot in the mezzanine had exploded a cherry bomb, which sounded far too much like a gunshot. It was several seconds (though it seemed like hours) before we started breathing again. The Beatles never missed a note.   When asked about it later, Paul simply said that when he heard it, his heart stopped, but he realized he was still standing and didn't feel anything. He looked at John and saw that he was still standing, so they all kept right on playing." ~ Judith Sims TeenSet Magazine

Ticket to Ride: The Extraordinary Diary of The Beatles' Last Tour - Barry Tashian 

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Patriarchy is this double standard… is this double morality, double law. It is this that the man dominates just because he’s male and all that. So feminism is not something that I have to study. Girls become feminists without knowing what is feminism.

Nawal El Saadawi

Watch the full interview here.

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Mary Gaitskill, from Lost Cat as featured in Granta [ID’d]

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pet shop boys early 80s