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When someone tries to take my picture

Alright, Ms. Streisand!

#drag race #lady gaga #gifs #self image #vanity

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“If I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from homophobia…, I’m dying from racism…, from indifference and red tape, because these are the things that are preventing an end to this crisis. If I’m dying from anything, I’m dying from the president of the United States…, I’m dying from the fact that not enough rich, white, heterosexual men have gotten AIDS for anybody to give a shit. Living with AIDS is like living through a war, which is happening only for those people who happen to be in the trenches. Every time a shell explodes, you look around and you discover that you’ve lost more of your friends, but nobody else notices. It isn’t happening to them. They’re walking the streets as though we weren’t living through some sort of nightmare. [AIDS is] more than just a disease, which ignorant people have turned into an excuse to exercise the bigotry they have always felt. AIDS is really a test of us as a people. When future generations ask what we did in this crisis, we’re going to have to tell them that we were out here today. And we have to leave the legacy to those generations of people who will come after us. Someday, the AIDS crisis will be over. Remember that. And when that day comes…there’ll be people alive on this Earth, gay people and straight people, men and women, black and white, who will hear the story that once there was a terrible disease in this country and all over the world, and that a brave group of people stood up and fought and, in some cases, gave their lives, so that other people might live and be free. So I’m proud to be with my friends today and the people I love, because I think you’re all heroes, and I’m glad to be part of this fight. AIDS activists are…so busy putting out fires right now that we don’t have the time to talk to each other and strategize and plan for the next wave…And we have to commit ourselves to doing that. And then, after we kick the shit out of this disease, we’re all going to be alive to kick the shit out of this system, so that this never happens again.” – Vito Russo (7/11/1946–11/7/1990), May 9, 1988. Picture: Vito Russo & Larry Kramer, New York City, June 1990. Photo by Michael Abramson. #HavePrideInHistory #WorldAIDSDay (at New York, New York)

#aids #homophobia #politics

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Some Keith Haring-inspired HIV awareness nail art. Tomorrow is World AIDS Day, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the activists who, in the dark early days of the epidemic, fought against injustice and ignorance with such passion, strength, and style.  So many people risked so much– safety, livelihood, friends and family.  And they did it while surrounded by almost unimaginable loss.  I work as a nurse at a clinic for people with HIV/AIDS, and have both coworkers and patients who lived through those early years.  It’s a daily privilege and inspiration to work with them.

I feel like we need some of their strength right now.  It’s easy to become complacent in an era where HIV treatment has become so remarkably effective.  But HIV meds are crazy expensive, and many many people in the US rely on federal funds through the Ryan White CARE Act, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act to access HIV care.  And there are serious reasons to be worried about whether these programs will continue to be funded or even exist in our current political climate.  HIV continues to affect many of our society’s most discriminated against and vulnerable groups disproportionally– gay people, POCs, trans people, people living with mental illness and addiction, poor people, sex workers.  Do you realize that the lifetime risk of an HIV diagnosis for black men who have sex with men is 1 in 2?  And for Latino men who have sex with men it’s 1 in 4 and rising.  I’m not making this shit up.  It’s straight from the CDC.  And it matters.  

We have to keep working.  Silence = Death.

#nail art #keith haring #aids

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instagram.com/wuukasch

#art #love #heart

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p r o c r a s t i n a t i o n

#art #procrastination #gifs

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Queen Latifah photographed by Al Pereira, 1989

#queen latifah #portrait

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You’re in charge of assigning every child on Earth the monster under their bed. One child in particular has caused every monster assigned to him/her to quit. You decide to assign yourself.

#text post #monsters

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by Liu Xue - 刘学

#art #sculpture #mermaids

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when i wrote this i thought it was fucking hilarious

#comics #mental health #depression

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#art #frida kahlo

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Exquisite Ceramic Sculptures by Hitomi Hosono

Link: Ceramic artist Hitomi Hosono composes ethereal porcelain sculptures in monochrome.

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#art #sculpture #flowers

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A camera, leaf and lucky timing.

#art #photography

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I have this sense that I didn’t really start growing up until my twenties.

#winona ryder #portrait

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It’s an excuse to never clean up.

#comics #cat lady

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Sarah Paulson

#sarah paulson #portrait

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Tattooist Doy | Seoul Korea “Sea, Mountain, Sky”

DM: @tattooist_doy

#tattoos #space

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Denise Romecki finds inspiration for her sculptures in cresting waves. Romecki creates her original pieces using stoneware clay. Requiring at least two kiln firings, her ceramic sculptures resemble beautifully rising white-capped waves that have been stunningly frozen in time. (Source)

#art #sculpture