what I love about this invitation is that it’s left open to interpretation by the viewer. this fem might be offering herself to be restrained - or she might be suggesting her lover submit themselves to her. either way, she is taking control of her erotic desires, the ultimate sexual intent of her invitation not ambiguous in the least

images like this make me ache for access to archives of On Our Backs and the similar lesbian sex publications that flourished at the time. this is what resonates so deeply in my soul it seems elemental - a desire felt innately, a shock of recognition, a reflection finally for what I had no name, no language for; only a dormant ache that trembled, voiceless, in my marrow. the tender supplication in being on my knees at a butch’s feet; imploring her at once to let me adore her, and that she adore me in return. asking at once for her strength and protection whilst offering my care and devotion. the passivity of this posture is illusory; it is an active declaration of profound emotion that insists upon acknowledgment. it eloquently expresses an element intrinsic to my femness: my absolute love and desire for the butch lesbian. 

Janelle Monáe and Grimes Share New Song and Video “PYNK”

☼ Hoe-roscopes: The Signs as Insta-Thots ☽ the book! 

This series was really fun to make. I illustrated and hand painted everything, including the descriptions. I’m just posting the first six signs, but you can find all 12 of your favorite zodiac babes (who were inspired by real babes on instagram) plus the “13th” sign ophiuchus in the book. You can buy it here:

http://www.michellekwon.com/shop/hoe-roscopes 

100 copies printed 

printed on 100% recycled paper 

28 pages 

Thank you so much for the love! ♡☽☼

Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Naomi, 2010

Robert Mapplethorpe - Untitled (1973)

This is Alison Bechdel’s coming out story as featured on the Oberlin College website. 

Sage Sohier, At Home With Themselves: Same-Sex Couples in 1980s America

Her

I had been told about her. How she would always, always. How she would never, never. I’d watched and listened but I still fell for her, how she always, always. How she never, never. In the small brave night, her lips, butterfly moments, I tried to catch her and she laughed a loud laugh that cracked me in two, but then I had been told about her, how she would always, always. How she would never, never. We two listened to the wind. We two galloped a pace - We two, up and away, away, away. And now she’s gone, like she said she would go. But then I had been told about her - how she would always, always.

Jackie Kay (from Life Mask, 2005)

Duncan Grant, Bathing 1911

Tate

Nicole Eisenman: Night Studio, 2009, oil on canvas, 65 by 82 inches; at Leo Koenig.

Feminist Duration Reading Group: Transfeminismo

Tues 3 May,  7pm-9pm SPACE, 129–131 Mare Street, Hackney London, E8 3RH

The next meeting of the Feminist Duration Reading Group will focus on Spanish Transfeminismo. We will start with an extract from the film My Sexuality is an Art Creation, by Lucía Egaña Rojas (2011). Together we will then read and discuss a translation of the Manifesto Transfeminista (2010). As the translation will be projected on the evening, there is no need for you to bring along a physical copy.

The Feminist Duration Reading Group is open to all.

For copies of Juan Vincente Aliaga’s article And the altar started to moan and groan! Transfeminist artistic practices in Spain, a taxonomy, 2015, which will provide valuable context, please email: [email protected]

Please contact Persilia for directions [email protected]

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CLITERACY: 100 Natural Laws, by Sophia Wallace

Easy A - 2010