Well then.
One billionaire bigot telling another they might want to get a life.

Rukiye Garip, Turkish

It's amazing that these are *watercolor*. #Art

https://www.instagram.com/rukiyegarip/

ARTIST: **Shoda Kakuyu** (JAPANESE, 1879-1948)
#ART: **Green Shade** 1933

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Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894)
"The Yerres, Effect of Rain", 1875.
Oil on Canvas, 80.3 × 59.1 cm.
#Art

It's absolutely wild how many men fantasize about women getting hurt because women said they are scared of men.

Blessed Beltane.

I love the goth candy

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Bodily autonomy includes how we allow our bodies to be used in labor

To follow up, in humans there's more variation than many realize. Even aside from the beautiful variety of ways penises and vulvas can look... at birth, there's a scale that doctors apply to determine if an infant is male, female or #intersex. So yes, even our genitals are on a spectrum.

The first image is the basic scale. The second is variations which include elements of both male and female genitals. (These are more uncommon. Also, many intersex people don't know until puberty.)

#Gender

"...poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action. Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives."
--Audre Lorde

Some fun prompts to get wheels spinning (though the fake amnesia one seems like not so much a reverse and has definitely been done).

#Writing

Started reading I Fell in Love with Hope by Lancali. I'm 15% in and already know this book is going to tear me up and leave me crying in a puddle.

Synopsis: Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, a group of terminally ill patients embraces the joys within their reach: friendship, freedom, rebellion. Each in their own way is broken; each in their own way is stronger for it.

That leaves out that they're young people--the age isn't clearly defined, but they seem like young teens.

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Hair ornament created by Lalique in 1897

(I love Lalique designs.)

#Fashion #Art

The enamel pieces placed in the gold and silver frame are translucent.

Just finished reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor. It's powerful, often very difficult to read as it includes explicit descriptions of rape as a tool of war, and other violence and bigotry...but it's essential to the story.
The post-apocalyptic, war-torn alternate Africa is clearly established. The magic and spirituality are fascinating. And the young people at the center of the story, especially the protagonist, are imperfect and engaging.
Highly recommend.
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Small things can challenge the status quo