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Marsha P. Johnson, transgender gay rights activist (1944 – 1992).
Marsha “P.” Johnson fought back against the police during the Stonewall Rebellion. She stated the “P” stood for “pay it no mind.” Marsha was photographed by Warhol and was part of the Hot Peaches Review. Marsha co-founded STAR (Street Transvestite/Transgender Action Revolutionaries) with Sylvia Rivera, to help aid, feed and shelter for queer/trans homeless and runaways. STAR advocated trans inclusion in the mainstream gay movement.
Marsha P. Johnson was an American, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as Malcolm Michaels, Jr. and was a transgender gay rights activist and popular figure in New York City’s gay and art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Marsha was likely murdered — her body was found floating in the Hudson River shortly after the 1992 Pride March — though the police declined to investigate and ruled her death suicide.
Marsha P. Johnson remains a legendary figure in the foundation of the modern fight for queer equality.
Photographer Diana Davies. Title: Marsha P. Johnson at Gay Liberation Front meeting. Alternate Title: Marsha P. Johnson (ok G.L.F. + “S.T.A.R.”) at a GLF meeting.
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Josef Velčovský (Czech, born 1945)
Evening in Kersko (Homage to Bohumil Hrabal), 2014
Acrylic on canvas laid down on cardboard, 75 × 100 cm
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Simon Åslund (Swedish, based Stockholm, Sweden) - From projects Shady Deals, in Shady Places, 2018-2019 and Night (Digital) and (Analog), 2018, Photography
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Karoliina Hellberg (Finnish, b. 1987)
E, 2016
Acrylic on canvas
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Timothy A. Matthews aka Timothy Adam Matthews (British, b. 1980, based Liverpool, Merseyside, England) - Bohemian Kitty’s on a Lazy Sunlit Sunday, Paintings: Oil on Canvas
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Andrew Cranston (British, b. 1969), If on a winter’s night a traveller, 2017. Oil on hardback book cover, 24.5 x 18 cm.
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Giulia Maria Belli - L'Alcove du serpent, 2021
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Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) dir. Hayao Miyazaki
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Antonio Corradini, Modesty 1752
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A portrait of a fairy (1869) - Sophie Gengembre Anderson
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Elaine Kazimierczuk - Black Swan Irises at the Oxford Botanic Garden, 2019
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Sally Nixon
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“I told Miyazaki I love the “gratuitous motion” in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are. “We have a word for that in Japanese,” he said. “It’s called ma. Emptiness. It’s there intentionally.” Is that like the “pillow words” that separate phrases in Japanese poetry? “I don’t think it’s like the pillow word.” He clapped his hands three or four times. “The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it’s just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb.””
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Rogert Ebert, on Hayao Miyazaki
(Also applicable for improv.)