A Homo Hodgepodge

happy pride month everyone!!

in absolute tears about the pride module at my work

Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).

Not surprising but well said

Kahmora Lee Hall, Denali, and Utica

Happy Pride Mnth.

[Camera person chuckles]

birth

I get that a lot of the art portraying Madonna and Child as fabulously wealthy europeans in splendid robes and golden light was meant to glorify God + whichever nobility was sponsoring the artist, and while of course it’s genuinely beautiful art, it just always struck me as horribly missing the point, which is that the supposed son of God started in incredibly humble circumstances, among the kind of people that everyone else looks down on

‘Massacre des Innocents’ by Leon Cogniét, 1824. Although the Feast of the Holy Innocents is in a couple of days time, this painting is still really relevant in that it portrays Mary as how She really was: a scared refugee mum, so fearful that Her son was going to be one of the Innocents killed by King Herod.

New favorite interpretation of the nativity. 

Gloria sticker on the payphone

from an exhibit of nativity sets in barcelona (2023), with jesus born next to atm machines (top), in a war-destroyed movie theater (middle), and in an alley (bottom, featuring graffiti saying “coronavirus”, “no human being is illegal”, and the anarchist symbol)

“bits to use in everyday conversations”