sequined scheme

Sometimes my childhood feels like it was some sort of aesthetic punchline.

EVERY NUN NEEDS A SYNTHI

marc chagall les amants au ciel rouge

Lil Simz for Interview Magazine

Jeanloup Sieff - Blouse by Annacat (Nova 1972)

There is tension, there is ease, there are these moments in between where time is lost and the word masculinity and femininity don’t easily exist, there is only gentility and care moments where we feel bare and full all at the same time! When it’s all said and done we just screaming and reaching to be felt, reaching for some sense of our unbiased selves, pure and in love.

Siouxsie Sioux, Vortex Club, Wardour Street, London, 1977. Photo by Ray Stevenson.

selec+ (the photographic showcase) no. 44, 1991

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Masha Granich.

Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

French Chris by Nan Goldin, 1979

wolfgang tillmans, "rat on trash bag," 1995, and "rat disappearing," 1998, chromogenic print

The North American frontier is an enduring symbol of romance, rebellion, escape, and freedom. At the same time, it’s a profoundly masculine myth—cowboys, outlaws, Beat poets. Photographer Justine Kurland reclaimed this space in her now-iconic series of images of teenage girls, taken between 1997 and 2002 on the road in the American wilderness. “I staged the girls as a standing army of teenaged runaways in resistance to patriarchal ideals,” says Kurland. She portrays the girls as fearless and free, tender and fierce. They hunt and explore, braid each other’s hair, and swim in sun-dappled watering holes—paying no mind to the camera (or the viewer). Their world is at once lawless and utopian, a frontier Eden in the wild spaces just outside of suburban infrastructure and ideas. Twenty years on, the series still resonates, published here in its entirety and including newly discovered, unpublished images.

Olive Morris: co-founded the Brixton Black Women's Group and the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent in London, some of the first organizations for Black women in the United Kingdom.

Excerpt from Appearances Can Be Deceiving: Butch-Femme Fashion and Queer Legibility in New York City, 1945–1969 by Alix Gitner