“suffering feels religious if you do it right” no shut up it doesn’t. my friends laughing in the kitchen while i make dinner feels religious. the sun on my face after a long winter feels religious.
somebody in the notes posted this screenshot from the one & only, ursula k le guin. and now i'm screaming wtf
Willem Arondeus, the gay Dutch resistance fighter who gave his life trying to protect his Jewish countrymen from the Nazis.
Born in Amsterdam in 1895, Willem was one of six children. From a young age, he was a talented artist and his parents encouraged his creativity, until he came out as homosexual at age 17. In a time when nearly all gay people were in the closet, Willem’s parents could not accept his choice to live openly. Their rejection led Willem to run away from home. On his own, Willem took odd jobs and eventually became a successful visual artist and writer. He was commissioned to paint a mural for Rotterdam’s town hall, in a style that combined modern abstract painting with a traditional Dutch motif. Willem was a well-respected author who published a popular biography of Dutch painter and political activist Matthijs Maris. In 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. Willem immediately joined the resistance movement, and urged his fellow artists to fight against the Nazi occupation. WIllem published illegal anti-Nazi pamphlets calling for mass resistance against the Germans. Willem was especially committed to saving Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Bringing in others to the cause, Willem arranged for Dutch Jews to be hidden in people’s homes. He used his artistic skills to create false identity papers. In 1943, Willem hatched a brazen plan. Dressed as a German Army captain, and with 15 men behind him, Willem boldly marched into the Public Record Office, where lists identifying people as Jews were kept. Willem drugged the guards and planted a firebomb. The resulting blaze destroyed tens of thousands of documents, and delayed or prevented many Jews from being identified by the Nazis. Unfortunately, Willem was captured by the Germans and sentenced to death. Willem’s last words before being executed in July, 1943 were, “Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards.” In 1986 Yad Vashem recognized Arondeus as Righteous Among the Nations. Because of his sexual orientation, Willem’s story was omitted from Dutch history books. Only in the last 20 years has his courage become widely known.
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The pink supermoon is full moon in April.
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Be the Cowboy visuals, by Bao Ngo
“Why are so many men so determined to stop women from assembling in spaces without them? What are they so afraid of? Perhaps it’s the idea that there might be spaces in which their input and opinions aren’t only considered unnecessary but also are not missed. Is it just sheer hostility towards women thinking they are entitled to operate for even a moment in the world without a man present to qualify their existence? Perhaps it’s much simpler than that. Perhaps these men, so used to being coddled and listened to and flattered with attention, just cannot tolerate the indignation of being left out of something by the women they’re so used to considering themselves better than.”
a collection of vintage lesbian protest pins
1970′s feminist vandalism
I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me. - Rosario Costellanos
Art “Generations” by Mikai Sakura
They’re trying out nail polish
Besides the misogyny I feel like the key reason why you don't see female gender non conformity celebrated in popular culture/media the same way we're starting to see male gender non conformity celebrated is that it's not profitable or marketable... you can't exactly sell a lack of makeup and shaving products to women whereas selling all that femininity shit to men opens up a whole new demographic to make money off of
any story that someone tells you in the kitchen is a good one
bluebeard's egg, margaret atwood
“sisterhood feels good”, an elder lesbian at a los angeles christopher street west demonstration, photographed by cathy cade, 1972
