date night
also acquired today two anatomically correct heart rings that fit into one another
Ilya Kaminsky, from “Galya’s Toast,” in Deaf Republic
Antony Gormley: 'Quantum Cloud' Series (2000) medium: steel
Sometimes you just gotta punch a pillow and take a cold shower over it
I am loved! 😊 [white knuckle gripping the sink unable to meet my own bloodshot eyes]
“The roles that we construct are constructed because we feel that they will help us to survive and also, of course, because they fulfill something in our personalities; and one does not, therefore, cease playing a role simply because one has begun to understand it. All roles are dangerous. The world tends to trap you in the role you play and it is always extremely hard to maintain a watchful, mocking distance between oneself as one appears to be and oneself as one actually is.”
— James Baldwin, “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy Norman Mailer” in Esquire
love as recognition
anna gavalda / friedrich nietzsche / clarice lispector / jandy nelson / rebecca perry / mhairi mcfarlane
the front seat of the car is a type of confessional
i genuinely think that physically it’s easier to have hard conversations when you’re both facing forward, not having to look at each other. the catholic church knew this also
greenwood cemetery
A sheep in the role of Cordelia in “King Lear With Sheep.”Credit” Nick Morris.
Untitled, Katie Niles, 1976, from Nothing But the Girl: The Blatant Lesbian Image (1996)
“I am typing these words as June 2003 surges with Pride. What year is it now, as you read them? What has been won; what has been lost? I can’t see from here; I can’t predict. But I know this: You are experiencing the impact of what we in the movement take a stand on and fight for today. The present and past are the trajectory of the future. But the arc of history does not bend towards justice automatically—as the great Abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed, without struggle there is no progress . . .”
- Leslie Feinberg
This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.