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instead of worrying abt whether or not yr scaring the hoes y dont u find some hoes that dont get scared, brave hoes. indomitable hoes

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Long Braid, Copenhagen

ph. Darren Ankenman

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Mankind had unleashed its hidden beast and the result was not only the tangible horrors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima but a miasma of hatred, suspicion, and bigotry that lingered still. Under such circumstances artists continued to work, but they could no longer paint or sculpt the reassuring “things” — objects, landscapes, or people — that had occupied their predecessors for centuries. To do so would have seemed fakes, tantamount to nostalgia for an innocent past that had most likely never existed in the first place. The myths and themes of nationalism were also unworthy subjects in an age that had seen so many crimes committed in the name of the state. Religion? For many, it had been lost among the broken bodies piled up like cords of wood that had — for artists who had not witnessed them firsthand in war — appeared in newsreels at the cinemas or in the front-page photographs of daily papers. Artists who were able to, who needed to work despite for the desolation or the times, had been forced to look deeper for a subject, to look inside and the only thing they could be sure of — themselves.

— Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women

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Emma Ranne

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i can’t stress how important it is to know who you are as a person because people will literally try to project their insecurities + preconceived notions onto you.

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rocking u eternally

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Bye Bye Africa [1999] directed by. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

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History and elegy are akin. The word “history” comes from an ancient Greek verb ίστωρειν meaning ‘to ask’. One who asks about things– about their dimensions, weight, location, moods, names, holiness, smell – is a historian. But the asking is not idle. It is when you are asking about something that you realise you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

-Anne Carson, from Nox

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Citlali Haro (Mexican, 1991) - On the Edge (2022)

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Palestinian women drink coffee, circa 1900-1920

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Mohammed El-Kurd, from Rifqa; "This Is Why We Dance"

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a kurdish man picking marigolds, seraw, southern kurdistan by sebastian meyer

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Paphos, Cyprus (by Yevgeniy Fedotkin)

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“Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj