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Hortense Mancini by Jacob Ferdinand Voet - 1675

Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin (6 June 1646 – 2 July 1699), was a niece of Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister of France, and a mistress of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland. She was the fourth of the five famous Mancini sisters, who, along with two of their female Martinozzi cousins, were known at the court of King Louis XIV of France as the Mazarinettes.

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Joan Baez at the Viking Hotel in Newport, 1964. She is reading Cavalier, a men's adult magazine similar to Playboy.

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sometimes i think about gay people who lived centuries ago who thought they were all alone who imagined a world where they could live openly as themselves who met in secret spoke in code defied everything and everyone just to exist and i’m like..i gotta sit down. whew i gotta sit down

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Margaret Atwood, from Paper Boat: Selected Poems; "He Shifts from East to West,"

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Dress

c.1873

Great Britain or France

The ruched skirt and draperies on this dress reverberate with intense colour, revealing the fashion for bright new synthetic dyes. Their inception owes much to the work of Sir William Henry Perkin (1838-1907), who discovered the first famous artificial colour by accident in 1856 when he was a student at the Royal College of Chemistry in London. While experimenting with a synthetic formula to replace the natural anti-malarial drug quinine, he produced a reddish powder instead of the colourless quinine. To better understand the reaction he tested the procedure using aniline and created a crude black product that ‘when purified, dried and digested with spirits of wine gave a mauve dye’. This dye created a beautiful lustrous colour that Perkin patented and which became known as ‘aniline violet’ or ‘mauveine’.

Perkin’s discovery led to a revolution in synthetic colour from the late 1850s onwards. Textile manufacturers soon turned to his aniline process and the resulting fabrics were characterised by an unprecedented brilliance and intensity that delighted the consumer. Women’s dresses acted as a perfect advertisement for these rich hues, especially as trimmings usually matched the colour of the gown. In August 1859 the satirical journal ‘Punch’ described the craze for purple as ‘Mauve Measles’, a disease which erupted in a ‘measly rash of ribbons’ and ended with the entire body covered in mauve. Soon other synthetic dyes were being produced with evocative names such as ‘acid magenta’, ‘aldehyde green’, ‘Verguin’s fuchine’, ‘Martius yellow’ and Magdela red’ to match their gaudy appearance. Dye analysis of this dress showed that the silk was coloured with synthetic dyes belonging to the methyl violet and aniline blue families of dyes.

Victoria & Albert Museum

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When I think of care and pleasure I think of:

Me and my partner hanging out in bed during a “bed day,” constantly communicating about what hurts and what positions our bodies need to be in, offering to make each other tea or bringing over the chips. Spooning, reading, telling stories, making out and napping, in the middle of a massive pillow pile. We aren’t trying to cram ourselves into an able-bodied vision of what sexy or a relationship is; it’s totally okay for us to rest, chill, care for ourselves and each other. Our care needs are not some gross secret walled off from date night.

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “Care as Pleasure” in Pleasure Activism

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Manhattan is a Lenape Word, Natalie Diaz | Winter Without You, Sarah Kay 

[ Text ID: It is December and we must be brave. / It is December and nobody asked if I was ready. ] 

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one thing about butches on tumblr they fucking love this little guy

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Hey uh… anybody in South Dakota wanna call to do literally the exact opposite as that?

South Dakota

Subject: A Call for Solidarity and Swift Action: Confirm President Trump's Cabinet

November 19, 2024

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Whitney Bedford - Veduta (Bonnard Mediterranean Mid Morning), triptych, 2022, ink and oil on linen on panel, 114 x 60 in

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Haven't figured out a politic way to word this but before saying someone/thing "makes you uncomfortable" please ask yourself this important question: is it any of your fucking business

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South Dakota people: we're voting for trump for lower grocery and gas prices!!!

also South Dakota population: declines the removal of taxes on groceries/human consumables

Hhhhhhhhhhh

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Mosaic floor tile excavated at Bayland Abbey in Yorkshire, England, 13th century

from The British Museum

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poker is a hateful game that punishes people who wear their beautiful sensitive heart on their sleeve