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Po di sangui (1996), dir. Flora Gomes

Ayahuasca, Amazon, by Mirella Ricciardi

Uzbekistan. Chaikhana (teahouse) in town. Photo by Vsevolod Tarasevich. (via)

xinmeng zhang, vlada & yo by 23 dian dian for sicky mag

‘through her window’, yah yah scholfield, 2021

digital collage

The post-60’s, particularly the 90’s and early 2000’s, definition of “queer” as a political movement against assimilation and for radical redistribution is dead and faggot fills the same niche for me but with the added benefit of never having the potential to be normalized by straight allies.

Neoliberal Gay Inc and their straight allies really went out of their way to remove the previous utility of the term queer and to sap it of any meaning by normalizing the fuck out of that word. The power of queer was that it was a slur, but now that it’s a combination of slur, something enthusiastic allies call people unprompted, and a depoliticized personal statement that doesn’t even imply a connection to revolutionary ideals it’s lost in a cavern of competing mostly annoying definitions. The ambiguity that once defined it now is strict rigid normalcy. It’s really sad to see.

Feutre du Baou, raw felted wool dyed with plants 

Armando’s Family

Halloween in Suburbia - 1959

Ripley “Alien”

Air flow at high subsonic speed round a wing section in a wind tunnel - a picture taken at one millionth of second. Space encyclopaedia. 1960.

Golden Hour by Kanghee Kim

Mia Goth and Dakota Johnson in Suspiria (2018) Luca Guadagnino

Purple n°11 (S/S 2009) ph. Noritoshi Hirakawa

Arundhati Roy / Photograph Carlo Buldrini / 1982

A pair of art students climb on the bronze sculpture, 1975