Showgirl Rosemary Williams reading, 1949 Photography by Stanley Kubrick

Barbara Bouchet in Amuck! (1972)

Ai Weiwei, “Chandelier” (2015)

If you’re trying to annoy me, you’re succeeding. Would you like to go and cry or something? No, but I wouldn’t mind if you faded into the sunset. Joanne Woodward as Mary St. John in From the Terrace (1960)

THE END

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via penisofoz)

Jolene by Dolly Parton except it’s playing downstairs while you’re laying up in the loft of a cabin listening to the thunder and rain hitting the roof tiles above you

— Shauna Barbosa, from “GPS,” Cape Verdean Blues

Frédéric Barzilay, Nuque, 1979

obviously I don’t think wearing makeup makes you a white supremacist but all of these are upholding the idea of whiteness as the ideal. modern instagram beauty culture goes hand in hand with racism and ignoring that is doing a huge disservice to brown & Black girls everywhere!

China Machado (1950’s)