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the 🐟muse...and the ☢etch...

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Paul Evans

"Lavenham Light"

#art

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Domenico Gnoli (Italian, 1933-1970)

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drag name jenny saisquoi

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1989 Beatrix Potter rabbit night light

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masterpost

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Two women napping on an 11th St. fire escape to catch a cool breeze on Aug. 30, 1948.

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The Graduate (1967) dir. Mike Nichols

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[Off 1 beer] I need your Blood

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Portrait of Christina Rossetti at age 26, by her friend, Pre-Raphaelite painter John Brett.

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From Belfast to Baghdad, See the World’s Dividing Walls

In 1989 Kai Wiedenhöfer photographed the fall of the Berlin Wall in his hometown, and was deeply moved by this experience of history unfolding. At the time, Wiedenhöfer, like many, believed this event would mark the end of walls being employed as political tools and dismissed them as anachronistic instruments of division.

Over twenty years later, history has proved us wrong; indeed walls have enjoyed a barbaric renaissance.

In steel and concrete, with watchtowers and barbed wire, mankind is building separation barriers at a rate perhaps unequalled in history - at least 6,000 miles in the last decade alone. (Our walled world)

Border barriers have been erected in the US, Europe, and the Middle East in the aftermath of political, economic, religious and ethnic conflicts. Wiedenhöfer has documented walls in Belfast, Ceuta and Melilla, Baghdad, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the American-Mexican border, Cyprus, Korea as well as the remains of the Iron Curtain.

Confrontiers presents Wiedenhöfer’s comprehensive project and evidences his conviction that walls are not solutions to today’s political and economic problems, but proof of human weakness, error and our inability to communicate with one another.

Photos by Kai Wiedenhöfer

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Its borderline painful for a giggler like me

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i need everyone to know that community is what will save us all in every single way imaginable. you forming a bond with your neighbour or coworker might help them move house or feel less alone or have the courage to leave an unhealthy living environment. you helping a stranger might provide them with hope. in turn, being able to lean on your community in times of need will save you. your broader bonds with your community are the revolution we need. our society seeks to divide and separate us in so many ways but we are all so much more united in our struggles and joys than you are made to believe. we need to hold onto each other very tightly.

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Source: The Exploding Frangipani ; Lesbian Writing From Australia and New Zealand -edited by Cathie Dunsford and Susan Hawthorne

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The female ski team covered 1420km across Antarctica in 57 days, 1989