screenprint from See Red Women’s Workshop
Hi, it’s mod w, I’m up really late again and I want to share some insomnia thoughts. 💫
For all lesbians anywhere,
You don’t need a girlfriend, partner or wife.
Girlfriends, partners and wives are (or should be) wonderful to have around but you are so far from needing one. So far.
Be an independent woman. Find the next step forward with your life and make it. Clap yourself. Take care of yourself, make friends, don’t starve yourself for love.
Do not for one second attach your worth to a woman that’s not there. Burn from your own need of you. Flare up under the magnificence of yourself in this terrifying and gorgeous world. Find your worth in your own work and beauty and strengths. Make them your own. Put all the pain and fear and sweat into this realisation.
Become a knight under your own banner. Not hers.
You do not need a girlfriend, partner or wife. Want is different from need. If you think you need a girlfriend, then you need yourself.
“there is no such thing as being biologically female because being female is about your interests and hobbies and feelings and personality” has to be the most conservative, sexist and backwards logic i’ve ever come across and yet it’s accepted and considered feminist.
638 days in space and the view is still amazing! Soaking up some sunset time in the cupola…
⛓🚬🍺"lesbians congregating" New Orleans, 1988 #bless #lesbianscongregate #neworleans #lesbianculture #dykebar #the80s #pleatsplease
Happy International Lesbian Day!
Patricia Cronin, Monument to a Marriage (installed at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY), 2006
In Monument to a Marriage, Patricia Cronin disrupts the cemetery. Installed ‘for eternity’ in New York’s necropolis, Cronin and her partner lie entwined upon a modern mattress among the memorials to the partners in and products of state sanctioned heterosexuality. By taking anticipatory revenge, Cronin out-manouevres the reality that she and her partner, Deborah Kass, could not be recognized as a family in the eyes of the American state at the time the work was made. “If I can’t have it in life,” says Cronin, “I’m going to have it in death.”