in the realms of the empyreal

The 7 Teacups in the Kern River location: Kern Canyon, California, USA

Lexi Lee Schnabel (American), Who Goes There, 2024, Oil on canvas

Tomb of Amenemheb, a commander under Thutmose III. On the lintel, the deceased appears in a hunting scene. Theban necropolis (TT85), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna.

Mill Run Road, Montrose, West Virginia.

Grasshopper Cafe, South Korea

Central Northside, 2026

The Blue Grotto by August Kopisch

Duster, West Texas 2022

On Our Backs magazine put lesbian desires front and centre. Launched in San Francisco in 1984 by members of the lesbian feminist BDSM collective Samois, the magazine aimed to provide “entertainment for the adventurous lesbian,” a tagline that riffed on Playboy’s own “Entertainment for Men.” On Our Backs was the first glossy magazine in the U.S. to celebrate lesbian sexuality and pleasure—and it did so explicitly. Its name served as a middle finger to off our backs, a radical feminist journal with anti-pornography messaging during the height of the feminist sex wars of the 1980s.

Russula

couple making out on shut down I-65 in Louisville, Kentucky (6/3/26)

Norma Jeane Baker in 1941 and Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) in the mid-1950s.

VELVET GOLDMINE (1998) dir. Todd Haynes