Water Nymph

Centre de Documentació i Museu Tèxtil

June 23 2026 | the mystical rock in the river

KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

Chanel spring 2026

Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 20 cm 

[ID: “Trached dykes eat pussy without coming up for air.” Connie Panzarino, a longtime disability activist and out lesbian, would attach this sign to her wheelchair during Pride marches in Boston in the early 1990s. Shockingly explicit, her sign refuses to cast technology as cold, distancing, or disembodied/disembodying, presenting it instead as a source and site of embodied pleasure. “Trach” is an abbreviation of tracheotomy, a medical procedure in which a breathing tube is inserted directly into the trachea, bypassing the mouth and nose. Someone with a trach, then, can, in effect, breathe through her throat, freeing her mouth for other activities (another version of this sign is “Trached dykes french kiss without coming up for air”). From a cyborgian perspective, this sign is brilliantly provocative and productive. It draws on the pervasive idea that adaptive technologies grant superior abilities,not merely replacing a lost capacity but enhancing it, yet it does so in a highly subversive way. The message here isn’t about blending in, about passing as normal or hypernormal, but about publicly announcing the viability of a queer disabled location. It’s disnormalizing, adamantly refusing compulsory heterosexuality, compulsory able bodiedness, and homonormativity. As Corbett O’Toole argues, it challenges the perceived passivity of disabled women, presenting them as actively pleasuring their partners, thereby graphically refuting stereotypes linking physical disability with nonsexuality.]

Chaouia; fibulae from Algeria, Aures; worn at the shoulder; silver & glass beads; late 19th - early 20th century

ib: crepuscularqueens

we could sit together and do nothing all day—i'd still be the happiest

(c) gifs by riverwindphotography, July 2026

SPIRITED AWAY 2001 | dir. Hayao Miyazaki

nightlight for mrsmollusca 🕯️