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Lera Dubitskaya (Belarusian, 1996) - Valentine (2022)

Youssouf Doukanthi by Osma Harvilahti for SSAW Magazine , Summer 2021

the highly sacred Osireion at Abydos “Abydos, where is (…) a fountain [a well, the Osireion] which lies at a great depth, so that one descends to it down vaulted galleries made of monoliths of surpassing size and workmanship. There is a canal leading to the place from the great river; and in the neighbourhood of the canal is a grove of Aegyptian acantha, sacred to Apollo. Abydos appears once to have been a great city, second only to Thebes” [Strabo, Geography XVII, I, 42]

The village of Ogimachi

Radio City Fantasy/Machikado no Meruhen Illustration by Yoshitaka Amano

This is cornball but I feel tremendously lucky to have lived in a time and place where ive had the opportunity to connect with older lesbian women