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Cab Calloway and host Eddie Albert on “The Eddie Albert Show” in April 1953.

I generally agree with that post going around about how you should let kids fuck around and find out with physical play but it carries this weighty implication that if you don’t develop kinesthetics at an early age you’ll never develop them at all, which is a very discouraging way to talk about the real possibilities of adult life

the sense of horror when you finish a book that was Ass Bad and you go to see what fellow haters are saying but all the reviews say it is the best thing they've ever read. feel like i just saw my reflection in the mirror move all by itself or something

Patrick D Pagnano, selection from Empire Roller Disco, 1980

Ppl will be like “end the stigma around mental illness uwu” but still judge you if you’re unemployed or single or not completely self-sufficient or healthy or perfectly groomed or still live with parents and don’t see the hypocrisy in that whatsoever

Marlon Brando by Cecil Beaton 1946

Tony Leung on the set of In the Mood for Love

Brush factory, Loughborough, 2022.

"the best way to screw jkr over is by making her characters queer!" actually. The best way to screw jkr over is to stop engaging with the property she still profits off of and read a different fucking book

Tina Turner performing at the New Fillmore East Theater in New York City on December 31, 1974.

Photos by Richard E. Aaron

“I’m just a girl” first of all you’re a grown ass woman second of all free yourself

Megan Thee Stallion

Japanese actress and male impersonator, Kawaji Ryuko. Ryuko was the star of Shochiku Kagekidan Women's Theater (Shochiku Revue) in the 1940s and 50s

Cowboys (2014), by Deana Lawson

Office Building of Centraal Beheer (1970-72) in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, by Herman Hertzberger. Photo by Klaus Kinold.

Frede's Women's Nightclub in Montmartre, Paris (December 1950) from Pix magazine

just found out that if i stay in my room all the time my life will eventually shrink to the size of it and i will lose all memory of how to function as a person. shocked & upset

girl shocked to discover that inaction can have consequences too

A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts (1975) dir. Jan Oxenberg

there is no minimum amount of suffering before you are allowed to want to alleviate it

Drag King Portraits, London, Paris & NYC, (1995-1996), The Drag King Book, Del LaGrace Volcano

SCORPIO RISING (1963)

dir. Kenneth Anger

COLMAN DOMINGO by Campbell Addy for TIME, February 2025

TRAMELL TILLMAN Interview Magazine (2025)

📸: yuri.pear0

Your white boyfriend will do nothing for you. Leave him. Join my terrorist Organization

The answer to your problems is self-discipline

thanks for the movie rec but is the butch protagonist you're talking about actually butch or just a mostly averagely feminine woman temporarily dressed in practical clothing to do her practical job because that's different

[DRENCHED IN BLOOD] we really should all do this again next week, yes