The woman who eschews femininity, who is content with her natural shape and size and smell, who is impatient with the lengthy rituals of femininity, is condemned by both sexes. To women, she is an uncomfortable reminder of the extent to which they have abandoned themselves to the demands of men. To men, she is a threatening warning that their domination is not total and that women still have the power to regain themselves.
- Anne Summers, Damned Whores and God’s Police
New York Magazine - April 2023 - The New York “It” Girl issue
alison bechdel in grand isle, vermont photographed by robert giard, 1995
a 1987 South Korean stamp depicting a giant oarfish
[id: a postage stamp with a detailed illustration of an oarfish underwater. end id]
6am in Nagano… I shot these all within 1 block of each other on the same street while traveling on assignment last month through Japan.
The intangible thing that happens with friends!!