alícia. 🕷

romaine brooks was a gender nonconforming lesbian painter who, although reaching the peak of her career in the 1920s, seemed resistant to the trends of the day and instead adopted her own muted color palette of mainly grays, whites, and blacks. much of her art in turn explored gender nonconformity in women, and brooks spent much of her life in a same sex relationship with poet natalie barney. more on her life from the polk museum of art

la france croisée (1914)

ida rubinstein (1917)

miss natalie barney (l'amazone) (1920)

side note: this being the same natalie barney with whom brooks spent more than 50 years of her life

self portrait (1923)

peter (a young english girl) (1924)

side note: this is a portrait of gluck, aka hannah gluckstein, another gnc lesbian artist who brooks was close friends with

Lesbian academics recreating classical dances in Paris, 1905-06

"O Despertar de um Sonho" (pt. I)

documentário sobre Carolina Maria de Jesus, exibido raríssimas vezes. embargado pela ditadura, restaurado pelo IMS

Lesbian and Gay Pride Parade, London, June 1985