Un chant d'amour (1950) // dir. Jean Genet

this video always cheers me up

a good orgasm will do you like a factory reset

I have been super busy with work projects lately, so here's a study from My Neighbor Totoro that I managed to finish in between.

Why you should trust your dogs instincts

These books have been in circulation for decades. The purpose of these book bans is to show that authoritarians want submission.

White supremacy has so much shame that their need for suppression of truth is endless.

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Emma D’Arcy photographed by HBO to promote House of the Dragon

INTERVIEWER: When I consider what a risk it must have been to write about homosexuality when you did…

BALDWIN: You’re talking about Giovanni’s Room. Yeah, that was rough. But I had to do it to clarify something for myself.

INTERVIEWER: What was that?

BALDWIN: Where I was in the world. I mean, what I’m made of. Anyway, Giovanni’s Room is not really about homosexuality. It’s the vehicle through which the book moves. Go Tell It on the Mountain, for example, is not about a church and Giovanni is not really about homosexuality. It’s about what happens to you if you’re afraid to love anybody. Which is more interesting than the question of homosexuality.

— James Baldwin, from an interview with The Village Voice

someone in the UK threw eggs at Charles and was arrested and has been banned from openly carrying eggs in public and has since been sent death threats but their statement on the matter was so fucking good