Be careful of words

“As in lesbian connection? Frankie is experimental, but Grace is pretty straight.“ ↳ Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin at the Los Angeles LGBT Center (x)

Jane Fonda And Her Daughter Vanessa Vadim at Central Park in New York, 1969. Photos by Paul Slade (Paris Match)

Blossom Dearie recording, 1957

“I don’t like being called a lady writer, Norman.”

Photo: Diane Arbus, Susan Sontag on a Bed, New York, 1965

Happy birthday to Patricia Highsmith, who was born on this day in 1921. Watch Alison Bechdel, Terry Castle, editor Robert Weil and Highsmith biographer Joan Schenkar discuss her work. 

John Waters in his home photographed by Sandy Kim

Phranc in the Patty Schemel documentary Hit So Hard

“I am afraid that there are more people than I can imagine who can go no further than appreciating a picture that is a rectangle with an object in the middle of it, which they can identify. They don’t care what is around the object as long as nothing interferes with the object itself, right in the centre. Even after the lessons of Winogrand and Friedlander, they don’t get it. They respect their work because they are told by respectable institutions that they are important artists, but what they really want to see is a picture with a figure or an object in the middle of it. They want something obvious. The blindness is apparent when someone lets slip the word ‘snapshot’. Ignorance can always be covered by ‘snapshot’. The word has never had any meaning. I am at war with the obvious.”

Spending my #snowday in the stacks, how bout you? ❄️📚 (at Strand Book Store)

I found a book of lesbian poetry and theory and I’d like you all to appreciate this cover art of a butch/femme mage/swordswoman pair

Couple in the subway, Paris, 1986, Dolores Marat

my love, i am the speed of sound.