Positive experiences in the fat dyke community from FaT GiRL vol 2

Johannah Herr, American War Rug I (Immigrant Detention), 2020. Tufted rug made from acrylic and wool yarn.

Rug references immigration detention and exploitation along the US/Mexico border.

Iconography: border wall fencing, ICE and Border Patrol bullet-proof vests, backpacks, prison toilet / water fountain combos, (reports surfaced that when these combined facilities broke, women in detention centers were instructed to simply “drink out of the toilet bowl”), thermometer (detention center cells are often kept at freezing temperatures and referred to by migrants as “hieleras” or “freezers”), slashed water bottles (videos surfaced of border patrol officers intentionally damaging or contaminating water bottles left in the desert for migrants by NGOs), teddybears (migrant demographics increasingly include children, who are traumatically separated from families), highway overpass / prison tent cities / Walmarts (all were repurposed as detention centers).

An embroidered masterpiece by Tzip Dagan, it’s done in several stages, some related to a very sad event in Tzip’s life, others - to strength, survival and optimism.

one of my greatest purchases was this contact sheet from the x-files preservation museum

Rosy-faced Lovebirds on a cactus in Paradise Valley, Arizona. 

he gets it he really does

“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

body horror meets fashion (dresses made by me)

Fresno County Sunrise, CA by Sierra Sunrise

Cahetel Rosier

“a community without romance risks being brutish and crass, superficial and brittle, cruel and even muderous. . . i don’t mean just romantic romance. i don’t just mean erotic romance. . . i mean the romance that allows us to soften our voices when we see each other.”

maya angelou, 1998

Rochester, New York, 1979 — Roger Mertin

I don't know how to talk about this

trans angels // ArtbyRoseBousamra

A BLURRED LOVE

Into One Another III, To PPP,  Berlinde De Bruyckere (2010) / Hysterics of Love, Eric Fischl (1997) / We Are All Flesh, Berlinde De Bruyckere (2009)

Simone Weil on projection and how to lose your object with grace. From “Void and Compensation”