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音楽. Yukako Manabe.

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Trans women "Keri Pratt, Virginia, Violet Pratt on Queen St" & "Violet and Kerry Pratt" - by Murray Cammick, Auckland, Aotearoa (1970s)

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Yarrow loves to be up high.

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Black henbane Root Sickle by Borealis Ironworks

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Château de Montimer, France (by Denis)

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Gilbert Williams

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Schmetterlingsbuch - Friedrich Berge - 1863 - via Internet Archive

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The Chimera by Gustave Moreau (1867)

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Rene Magritte (Belgian, 1898-1967)

Melusine’s Window, 1953

The Golden Ring, n.d.

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This Black History Month, reflect for a moment on the fact that George Washington Carver, famously "the inventor of peanut butter and more than 100 industrial uses for peanuts" wasn't, like, Doc Brown fucking around in his garage because he really liked peanuts but was specifically trying to introduce larger use of a nitrogen fixing legume into crop rotations against cotton monoculture which was destroying yields, livelihoods and the biosphere, and how most agribusiness farming now just destroys that topsoil on purpose and continues to grow a cotton monoculture (or soy or corn or whichever local monoculture is profitable) using petrochemical derived fertilizer, which is one element driving climate change

Daniel Hale Williams performed the first successful heart surgery. He also founded the first nonsegregated hospital in America because he was keenly aware of disparate health outcomes by race which is still a problem today.

WEB Dubois was a part of the delegations for the birth of the UN. His proposal to include in the charter that "the colonial system of government … is undemocratic, socially dangerous and a main cause of wars" was not adapted for the final draft. We might see inaction against colonial violence to this day as part of the failure of others to heed his warnings there.

I feel like so often when we look at Black History Month so much of it is driven by factoids but when taken as history in context its about a direct line from decades and centuries to what is happening right now.

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from Illusion: The Magazine for Crossdressers, Drag Queens, & Admirers, Volume 7, Issue 8, 1997

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Vladimir Bobri, illustration from The Sleepy Book by Charlotte Zolotow, 1958

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Clasped Hands of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, by Harriet Hosmer (1853)

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The cards of the Medieval Scapini Tarot, by Luigi Scapini, are in the style of the European Tarot. It's a gorgeous deck with a really authentic medieval feel and look to the card art.

After recreating the missing cards from 15th-century Tarot decks to form the reproduction of the Visconti-Sforza Tarot of the United States Games, Luigi Scapini was apparently inspired to create his own version of the Tarot in a similar genre.

The resulting Medieval Scapini Tarot appears to be a very interesting blend of 15th century imagery and contemporary artwork. The dark, gold and bronze colors and realistic representations of the Visconti Sforza Tarot seem to juxtapose in stark, but pleasant, contrast with the bright colors and almost caricatural additions of the artist.

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Terra Keck aka Her Lovely Face (American, b. 1991, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - Arcturus, Eraser Drawing, 2024, Graphite, Colored Pencil, Watercolor, Acrylic Paint on BFK on Panel

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Hengdi Wang S/S 2025