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When I'm liking your vent post just know that I'm kneeling with my sword to offer you support.

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1990s FTM portraits by trans photographer Dean Kotula (featured in his book The Phallus Place read here)

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WATCHER (2022) dir. Chloe Okuno

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CHRIS PINE 2023 | Mark Seliger ph. for Esquire US

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it’s a cautionary tale TO YOU. if i did those things it would have turned out fine

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MÄDCHEN IN UNIFORM (1931) dir. Leontine Sagan After the death of her mother, teenage Manuela is sent off to a boarding school run by the autocratic Fräulein von Nordeck. Initially withdrawn from the other girls due to her grief and anger at being sent away, Manuela is drawn out of her shell by the beautiful and sympathetic young teacher Elizabeth von Bernburg. But when Manuela’s fondness for her teacher turns into a romantic attachment, it becomes a school-wide scandal. Based on Gestern und Heute by German playwright Christa Winsloe. (link in title)

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This Work Never Ends - Jenny Hart, 2002 hand embroidery on salvaged cotton 

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dining room at the Madonna Inn in san luis obispo, ca

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Sarajevo, january 2023.

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Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? / @/oceaii (tumblr) / Liv Ullmann Changing / The Elektra Complex / Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman from "Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry / unknown / @/violentcherries (tumblr) / @/nutnoce (tumblr) / Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea / unknown

i. Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? [ "This haunting is architectural. It is not about you. It is about where you are. There are bones in the foundation. This house is a graveyard. This house is a corpse. You are inside the corpse. That makes you the maggot." ]

ii. @/oceaii (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a deer. The deer looks forwards in the first panel and turns back to face the audience in the second panel. "Turn and face / the person you've become." ]

iii. Liv Ullmann Changing [ "I will never forget the loneliness I knew as a child. For a period in my life I hid behind a mask. Did not want to acknowledge any longing. / Now it is a part of me-something I can share. / Both the loneliness and the longing." ]

iv. The Elektra Complex [ "If you were to peel the skin of me apart as a fig's, you would finally understand. I am my mother's daughter. From poisoned seeds sprout poisoned fruits." ]

v. Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman [ "I didn't want / to be the dead star / that uses borrowed light to survive." ]

vi. unknown [ Black and white illustration of two deer. They are both labeled with words. The deer in the background says "just be." The deer in the foreground replies "just being is the hardest part." ]

vii. @/violentcherries (tumblr) [ "the environment you are not thriving in is not yours forever / IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE / ... / IT'S OKAY to abandon the things you used to love" ]

viii. @/nutnoce (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a scorpion doing chores. It's tail just barely curls over the front of a clothes line. Various pairs of socks hang from the clothes line. It stands before a bucket with more clothes inside. "I come from the toughest, meanest place you can imagine. / I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but / It seems that when life gets hard / I have to get harder to match." ]

ix. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea [ "I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar." ]

x. unknown [ "1. Man is a MORAL animal. / 2. You can get human beings to do anything - IF you can convince them it is moral. / 3. You can convince human beings that anything is moral." ]

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agnès varda by juergen teller, 2019 via mubifrance

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Whatever our lives might have been if the time continuum was disrupted, our destinies have changed.

Star Trek (2009) dir. J.J. Abrams

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Nadja of Antipaxos in season 4 of What We Do in the Shadows

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Violet Chachki in Caged Heat for Interview, March 2016

Shot by Steven Klein

Styled by Ludivine Poiblanc

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