Anindita Sengupta

Thank you! Yes, it’s lovely.

Some moody images from Rose Valley Falls near Ojai, CA. Taken a few days back.

#photography #nature #winter #mood

Omg, thank you. I’m so sorry about your dad passing and the grief. I’m glad the poem resonated.

Is anyone on @fotoapp.co? I'm not leaving Instagram but I am exploring this new platform. Foto launched publicly today so I suspect more folks will be kicking the tires in the coming days. Please look me up if you're experimenting there. You can find me @flakphoto — Cheers!✌️📸

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Nice list of fellow finalists.

GIFT OF THE BOOK lights go off all over rhode island everyone falls into bed I stay awake reading rereading the long-awaited prose of your body stunned by the hunger

C.D. Wright

Supporting the #BlueSkyArtShow today, the theme is #Monochrome
Abandon mine in Hvalfjörður #iceland #EastCoastKin

Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men's Chorus Concert - OperaWire The Kennedy Center has canceled The Gay Men's Chorus concert on May 21.

Kennedy Center ‘Abruptly’ Cancels Gay Men’s Chorus Concert operawire.com/kennedy-cent... - per Francisco Salazar / Opera Wire

Recycle We pick up the shards of the world. We cut our hands. We pick up the shards of the world. Ankh Spice 7 Nov 2024

In an Operating Room Outside of the Cis Woman's Imagination In an operating room outside of the cis woman's imagination, no tray of organs-severed. No blood for her to leaden with a massacre's name. After anesthesia, nothing is removed. Nothing wasted. Instead, skin budded inward, a rose blooming into its own mouth. While the patient is still sedated, the doctor scalpels genesis, sutures her body toward the truth. There is no organ severed & named a weapon for the convenience of a body's disposal. No organ severed & speaking at all. Made a puppet in the lazy pantomime of metaphor. If anything is cut away, let it be the word his from the tip of the cis woman's tongue. Let it be her tongue. If anything speaks, let it be the new & perfect organ, who says /I was a Georgia O'Keefe painting dressed in drag & now, darlings see how I bloom, how my petals slowdance the breeze./ The cis woman's severed tongue says nothing—least of all to name trans women animals. The poem is about imagination? Right? I want to tell you that I believe the tongue would whisper I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm not willing to lie.

torrin a greathouse (@tagreathouse.bsky.social)

Curated Collections About LGBTQIA by Orion Scribner A handmade directory of queer games & zines on itch.io

While I'm sharing itch.io lists, I recently stumbled across this amazing, like, directory of queer resources somebody clearly spent a lot of time on:
frameacloud.itch.io/curated-coll...

Thank you!

A close-up photograph of a rose in black and white. The title is Resistance.

Resistance | #expressionistphotography #macrophotography

I want to lay claim to the dark power of my monstrous identity without using it as a weapon against others or being wounded by it myself. I will say this as bluntly as I know how: I am a transsexual, and therefore I am a monster… A creature, after all, in the dominant tradition of Western European culture, is nothing other than a created being, a made thing… being called a “creature” suggests the lack or loss of a superior personhood. I find no shame, however, in acknowledging my egalitarian relationship with non-human material Being; everything emerges from the same matrix of possibilities. “Monster” is derived from the Latin noun monstrum, “divine portent,” itself formed on the root of the verb monere, “to warn.” It came to refer to living things of anomalous shape or structure, or to fabulous creatures like the sphinx who were composed of strik- ingly incongruous parts, because the ancients considered the appearance of such beings to be a sign of some impending supernatural event. Monsters, like angels, functioned as messengers and heralds of the extraordinary. They served to announce impending revelation, saying, in effect, “Pay attention; something of profound importance is happening.” Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire, I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts, I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatural process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fabrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me; the same anarchic Womb has birthed us both. I call upon you to investigate your nature as I have been compelled to confront mine. I challenge you to risk abjection and flourish as well as have I. Heed my words, and you may well discover the seams and sutures in yourself.

susan stryker, _my words to victor frankenstein above the village of chamounix_ (as quoted in @onionflower.bsky.social’s _sea-witch_ but i had the rest handy from the other day)

A reflection in a scratched glass window layers a woman, a car, and assorted vague objects

Looking in

#photography

Don’t be trash.

Really strange watching the American government become hostile to Canada, western Europe, and Mexico in order to cozy up to the dictatorships of eastern Europe.

Do Americans even know this is happening? Do they have any idea what this means for their lives?

"Untitled" by James Baldwin from Nepantla an anthology of Queer Poets of Color

'Chilling effect': Arts organizations react to end of DEI initiatives from fed agency The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

The NEA will no longer fund arts programs that promote DEI or "gender ideology." The federal agency has cancelled grants that have funded programs for underserved communities for more than 20 years.

Light From Uncommon Stars Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel...

This is a beautiful book — highly recommend. Though the reference in their intro has a reference to predatory people (wish they’d remove that).

Light From Uncommon Stars https://buff.ly/4hyZV1P

#books #sff #fiction #writingcommunity #reading

A monochrome image of clouds in Long Beach, CA

Cloud | Monochrome


#photography #monochrome #California

It's raining in Southern California this week, which we needed badly! Much relief. Hoping the fire-ravaged forests will heal soon. #forests #photography #nature #green #leaves #plantlife

study the masters like my aunt timmie. it was her iron, or one like hers, that smoothed the sheets the master poet slept on. home or hotel, what matters is he lay himself down on her handiwork and dreamed. she dreamed too, words: some cherokee, some masai and some huge and particular as hope. if you had heard her chanting as she ironed you would understand form and line and discipline and order and america.

Lucille Clifton

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Red Rock Canyon, Utah

#birds #trees #nature #photography #Utah #monochrome

Wildflowers in the Tijuana wetlands, California


#flowers #wildflowers #photography #nature #ecology #wetlands

Bridge | monochrome #photography

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

“Our mission is to save lives and alleviate suffering,” she said. “Not having the opportunity to contribute to that, and have it be taken away overnight, arbitrarily, without notice or reason, being called a criminal or radical lunatic, has just been deeply heartbreaking.”