Diamond Sea

Photo of trans-women in the late 1950’s living in the red light district, from the Swedish photographer Christer Strömholm’s book Les Amies de Place Blanche. 

“I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn’t, not really. Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn’t realize it would sometimes be more than whole, that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea. Because it’s the halves that halve you in half. I didn’t know, don’t know, about the in-between bits; the gory bits of you, and the gory bits of me.”

Like Crazy (2011) dir. Drake Doremus

soft grunge/models 

Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989)

“You said for better or for worse. You said that. You said it. It was a promise. Now, this is my worst, okay? This is my worst. But I’m gonna get better.”

Blue valentine (2010) dir. Derek Cianfrance