Worthless-art:

midsommar

I have ridden in your cart, driver, waved my nude arms at villages going by, learning the last bright routes, survivor where your flames still bite my thigh and my ribs crack where your wheels wind. A woman like that is not ashamed to die. I have been her kind.

--Anne Sexton, “Her Kind”

THE VVITCH: A New-England Folktale (2015), dir. Robert Eggers. Witches Sabbath (1789) / Witches Flight (1798) by Francisco de Goya.

Before I was even a little girl, my father cut out my tongue. When I would cry, he would scream to silence me. So I have grown in silence, in the void between stars.

— Michelle Evans, from Just Another Dead Black Girl

hannah gadsby took the format of a 1 hour standup special and split it into 3 related acts: 1. do normal standup comedy jokes. funny. feminist. 2. riff extensively on art history. move back and forth between outrage at the patriarchy and hilarity. 3. critique the whole format of standup comedy, explain why she’s quitting her comedy career, and discuss her experiences as a survivor at the intersections of homophobia and misogyny with complete seriousness and sincerity. Woven in with stories from the “regular jokes” and “art history jokes” cast in a new light. will make you cry.

what a legend.

1) Hannibal, 3x02, ‘Primavera’ written by Jeff Vlaming & Bryan Fuller 2) Maggie Nelson, Bluets