Don’t look back, you are not going that way…. Past is not what matters, look right before you, what matters is what you are currently doing and what you will do….
Portraits of the people of Siberia by Alexander Khimushin
1. Buyat girl, Buryatia Republic, Siberia (ethnic Mongols)
2. Dolgan girl, Republic of Sakha, Siberia
3. Even young man, Yakutia, Siberia (the Even are a different group than the Evenki)
4. Nanai girl, Siberia
5. Nanai people with the photographer, Siberia
6. Nivkhi man, Siberia
7. Sakha girl in traditional wedding mask, Siberia
8. Sakha girl
9. Tazy woman, Siberia
10. Uilta girl, north of Sakhalin Island, Siberia
when lizzo said “self love is survival” and when hannah gadsby said “do you understand what self-deprecation means when it comes from somebody who already exists in the margins? it’s not humility. it’s humiliation” and when mitski said “i used to rebel by destroying myself, but realized that’s awfully convenient to the world. for some of us our best revolt is self preservation”
ok but lazy makeouts?? you and your girl are sitting together and so close that suddenly youre kissing and you don’t even remember who started it because all you can think about is how pretty her sighs are and how sweet she tastes.. and then youre pulling her up onto your lap and running your hands down the curve of her back and her fingers are in your hair and her body is pressed up against you and all you want to do is stay there forever, kissing and worshipping this girl that makes your head spin
I feel like this gets lost in the midst of the discourse surrounding immigration but the fact that people are considered legal and illegal based on their relative position to made up borders and that their value to society is determined by a piece of paperwork is abhorrent and physical borders should be abolished