Anna Constance

“People seem to have a hard time responding to a woman’s sexuality without having the desire to literally touch it. I guess in some ways, sexuality implies that, but I don’t think sexuality necessarily invites someone else to participate. I don’t want people to interpret my work as an invitation to fuck me.” - Inga Muscio

- Nan Goldin

“Art needs to be political — or let me say, my art is political” - Zanele Muholi

also interesting reading: Kathy Acker - A Study in the Sadeian Woman

M.E Thomas (p.243)

I love Hannibal

FRANK KAFKA

first and foremost Cahun was a writer, actress, and activist, but it was her performative self-portraits that broke new ground. Her images, some made as early as 1912, disrupted the institutionalised narrative of the time. They interrogated the idea of woman as object of the male gaze by reworking the tropes of masculinity. Her work revealed and undermined traditional thinking around gender, sexuality, beauty and identity, and did it in a way that is strikingly similar to contemporary feminist art and photography. Cahun paved the way for the feminist art movement.

https://purple.fr/diary/love-ren-hang-exhibition-opening-maison-europeene-de-la-photographie-paris/ <3 <3 <3 

ANAIS NIN

“There were enough thoroughly bad women, and he preferred to see himself ruined by a beautiful demon that to be bored all his life and to commingle his spirit with that of a so-called virtuous woman. He had his own ideas as to the value of life, and prized an hour of voluptuous intoxication over an entire century of empty existence.”

“I don’t see how a guy looking at a naked girl in a magazine is degrading to women. Everyone has their sexuality. It’s how you treat people in everyday life that counts, not what turns you on in your fantasy... Generally I don’t think pornography degrades women... I love looking at Playboy magazine because women look great naked.”