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“As it turns out, the blues world was the perfect realm for people who were thought of as “sexual deviants” to inhabit, in part because people in the entertainment industry had far more leeway to flout sexual mores. But blues music also thrived far outside the scope of the dominant white American culture in the early 20th century. In Jazz Age speakeasies, dive bars, and private parties, blue singers had the freedom to explore alternative sexuality, and on a rare occasion, they even expressed it in song.

In lyrics, they talk about ‘bulldykers,’ which is what they called butch lesbians at that time, or ‘BD women,’ ‘BD’ being short for bulldykers. There were references to being ‘in the life,’ which was understood to mean being homosexual.

Harlem’s 133rd Street was called ‘Jungle Alley,’ because there were so many nightclubs on it. Harlem had the only Roaring Twenties jazz clubs and cabarets in the country that drew white “tourists” curious about “race music.” The Clam House was famous because it had Gladys Bentley, reveling in her image as a ‘bulldyker.’ Because of her, it became a place where black lesbians and gay men would go to hang out. White sightseers from downtown would check out her show as well.”

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hi! I'm looking for queer people / events/ stuff from the 1920s/30s. Do you have any articles talking about the period of time? Thank you for all your amazing work!! xx

I can write you a list, that is a period we have been able to cover quite a bit, fortunately! Personally, I can’t think of a better way to celebrate reentering the twenties than looking back to how our queer ancestors dealt with it last time. This probably isn’t all of our articles from this time period, but they are the ones I remember:

Alexandru Bogdan-Pitești

Billy Tipton and the Question of Gender

Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz

Leslie Hutchinson

Claude Cahun 

Alan Turing

Evelyn Irons

Alan L. Hart

Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Princess Vera Gedroitz

Zdeněk Koubek

David Paynter

Sophia Parnok, Russia’s Sappho

Bricktop, the Fabulous

Salim Halali

Virginia Woolf: Struggling (And Never Being Perfect)

Tamara de Lempicka’s Life

Jane Addams 

Ljuba Prenner

Amrita Sher-Gil

Elmyr de Hory

Different from the Others, the Beginning

Victor Barker

Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir, A.K.A Agent Bronx

Nils Asther

Sir Ewan Forbes, the Doctor

Frieda Belinfante 

Langston Hughes: The Poet

Vita Sackville-West: Creating a Legacy

Lesbia Harford

Josephine Baker: A Woman with Eclectic Talents

Magnus Hirschfeld: The Founder

György Faludy

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The fucking power of this thumbnail. The 420. The perfect use of the image. Wow, this really says “yeah, I just dunked undead!Avantika and a menagerie of sea horrors onto your ship in the middle of the fucking Arctic. And then ended the session. What about it?”

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abuse is addictive due to brain’s hormonal response to extreme stimuli and it’s still not the victim’s fault if they crave abuse or feel restless and anxious without it, it does not mean they wanted it or deserved it, they’ve been hurt so much their brain is damaged by it, nobody on this planet consents to brain damage or wants to cope with feeling absolutely dreadful all the time and craving pain so much while feeling guilty and ashamed for feeling it, it takes ages to stabilize and have your brain hormones regulated properly again but it can and will happen so just keep hanging in there, you are healing all the time no matter what you do

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it’s the titematic universe

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Where is everybody? José Manuel Ballester

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Beau @ Marius

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so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

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Ah yes, the 5 love languages:

touch starved

my parents never told me they are proud of me

i love Stuff

im so fucken tired please god just let me rest for 5 minutes

hey pay attention to me

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Artwork in Bristol by Lanie Rose (link to her instagram in source)

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I cannot stress how important it is to be intersectional about your feminism. listen to black women, listen to trans women, listen to disabled women, and please acknowledge the fact that there are different types of women who go through different types of struggles than you

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You should be outraged. You should be enraged and if you are not, if the senseless killing of the black community at the hands of our police force does not anger you please reevaluate your humanity.

To be unmoved by the current issues of our society is a privilege. To prioritize looting and damage to property over lost black lives and police brutality is to lack humanity.

Please evaluate and educate yourself, this is a major issue and we need serious reform and revolution in this country.

You can’t love the Romantics and academia and remain ignorant and complacent.

Photos taken from @thetogfather on Instagram

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Found some good ol’shrooms on my hike today 🧚🏼✨🍄

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self-portrait based on my reflection in this jar of peaches

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