“I Want To Take Voguing Not To Just Paris Is Burning, But I Want To Take It To The Real Paris.”

Shelley Duvall at home with her pet lizards (1989)

Young butch watched over by a poster of Bruce Lee, from Sophia Wallace's "Girls will be Bois" series, 2002–2007.

Despair is easy, hope is hard. And brother, I like to stay hard

A marcher in a gay rights parade up New York’s Fifth Avenue, July 1979. Photographed by Brian Alpert.

some night time doodling, another masked/helmeted lesbian

I saw these trousers with the cutout at the hips and had to draw them

Chiara Goia: Mongolia in Winter

a "midwife" you say... tch. such a foolish word. a wife could never be mid. all women are epic

Rebel Dykes in the 1980s, London. Photograph credit to Laney Shimmin.

i think if people are to become actually accepting of disability they need to radically rework what they consider to be tenants of a fulfilling life. independence and self sufficiency can be nice but they're not required for a fulfilling life. neither is having a partner and children, having a job, or getting out of bed every single day. sure they can be enriching but so can other things. we need to stop considering the lives that disabled people live to be inherently subpar. inability and struggle is also a part of life, it doesn't devalue it. and acknowledging the difficulties of disabled people doesn't make their lives inherently unfulfilled either. we're here living life too.