Me By Photographer Steven Harwick, AKA Bound Leather Zine (@intoguilt)

Imane Khelif photographed by Sam Rock for d la Repubblica

i think if people are to become actually accepting of disability they need to radically rework what they consider to be tenants of a fulfilling life. independence and self sufficiency can be nice but they're not required for a fulfilling life. neither is having a partner and children, having a job, or getting out of bed every single day. sure they can be enriching but so can other things. we need to stop considering the lives that disabled people live to be inherently subpar. inability and struggle is also a part of life, it doesn't devalue it. and acknowledging the difficulties of disabled people doesn't make their lives inherently unfulfilled either. we're here living life too.

Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg

Frida Kahlo  by Nicholas Murray, New York, 1946

whatever. go my scarab

FILM NOIR WOMEN WITH GUNS (pt. 1 & pt. 2)

Barbara Stanwyck, Double Indemnity (1944) dir. Billy Wilder Teresa Wright, Pursued (1947) dir. Raoul Walsh Rita Hayworth, The Lady from Shanghai (1947) dir. Orson Welles Jane Greer, The Big Steal (1949) dir. Don Siegel Joan Leslie, Repeat Performance (1947) dir. Alfred L. Werker Joan Crawford, Flamingo Road (1949) dir. Michael Curtiz Lizabeth Scott, Too Late for Tears (1949) dir. Byron Haskin Gloria Grahame, The Big Heat (1953) dir. Fritz Lang

some recent portraits of butches of color. via butchisnotadirtyword

She's alive! Alive!

ELSA LANCHESTER as THE MONSTER'S BRIDE in BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) dir. James Whale

Idilio - Fabian Chairez

I Saw the TV Glow (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun