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Little forest stream in Eifel

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jackson joyce, "11:05am, sunday," 2024, oil on canvas

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Window - Steffen Kern , 2025.

German , b. 1988 -

Black pastel and colour pencil on paper , 20 x 20 cm.

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the lilies i got last sunday opened and one of the stems was variegated :’)

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Ema with cat illustration like Tom and Jerry, Choshi Nambu Shrine, Ichinoseki, dedicated in 1951, in the collection of the Iwate Prefectural Museum. Tom and Jerry were created in 1940, so it is not strange that they are depicted on the ema.

トムとジェリーみたいな猫図絵馬、一関市銚子浪分神社、昭和26年奉納、岩手県立博物館所蔵。トムとジェリーは、昭和15年に作られたので、絵馬に描かれても変ではない。

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So a white woman today wished me happy canada day, and when I did not respond positively, told me that while she's not much for canada day, she was thankful for her freedoms as a queer/trans person.

I told her "glad you all get freedoms at least"

And it really is 'you all' and not us.

My people's traditional systems of gender and social roles are not recognized. There's no legal recognition for people who are ayahkwêw, iskwêhikan, or înapîkasoht. No understanding of the roles of tastawiyiniwak.

Our traditional styles of relationships, the way that we do "marriage" has no legal protection. Legal marriage takes after european christian marriage. Why are Indigenous unions considered less valid? Why does the occupational government get a say in who I choose to share my life with?

Polyamory was not uncommon among my people. People regularly had multiple partners. You could have multiple spouses. These relationships nowadays have no recognition, no protection.

Children were raised communally. Nowadays most kids are raised without our language. More than 70% of kids in care in Alberta (where I live) are Indigenous. Instead of being raised by the community our kids get stolen off reserve and sent to white families.

People had the right to end relationships at any time. How many women get stuck in abusive marriages because of the high financial cost of divorce? How many Indigenous wives have been murdered by settler husbands before they could leave???

50% of sex trafficking victims in so called canada are Indigenous women and girls. Rates of rape and sexual violence are higher against our women and two spirit people than anyone else. We are just now starting to talk about how many Indigenous girls went from residential school to arranged marriages with white men.

But its great that settlers can have their queer marriages recognized. Happy canada day.

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Just had a fucking beautiful owl moment so good I nearly cried. Northern Pygmy Owl so close I could have reached out grabbed them and put them in my mouth for safe keeping

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where’s that article by james frankie thomas where he says like “prior to my transition there was only one kind of sex i wanted to have. and i thought i could never have it” because i am about to blow these people’s minds

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The unnerving sight of an approaching car in the dark: photos by Henri Prestes.

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the fact that op turned off rbs is very very funny to me. anyway i want this post on my blog too.

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ur always on that damn leitmotif

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Linda Lysell (Swedish, 1947) - Motif with Cake (n.d.)

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“The Globe Shrinks” - Barbara Kruger

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Polar birds

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Piece for the Polar Lights 3 Charity Zine, available here ❄️ polarlightszine.itch.io/polar-lights-3

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Anna Atkins’ quietly ethereal cyanotypes (algae and seaweed)