Robert Mapplethorpe, Self-portrait 1980

VELVET GOLDMINE dir. Todd Haynes, 1998 Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Brian Slade costume design by Sandy Powell

Ruby Dee photographed by Carl Van Vechten on September 25, 1962.

African-American cowgirl Nellie Brown, and her horse. Circa 1900 - 1915.

Robert Frank, New York City, 1947

Chloe Atkins’ portraits of lesbians at San Francisco’s Club Q featured in her published collection Girls Night Out (1998)

all prisoners on death row are political prisoners. capital punishment is part of both the afterlife and presentlife of lynchings and slavery. the myriad of issues including the permanence of death as punishment, how death sentences are deployed in an overtly discriminatory manner, how capital punishment does nothing to actually prevent crime, denies people any chance of restorative justice all of these are secondary to the simple fact that the state should not have the right to kill human beings. some of y'all keep missing the point and focusing on the dichotomies of guilt versus innocence when it comes to the liberation of prisoners on death row (and otherwise). regardless of whether or not an individual is "guilty" of the crime they have been charged with, the state should not be able to detain them indefinitely before murdering them. full stop. rest in power marcellus williams and may we, in the words of george jackson, "rage on aggressive and free" until no human being is murdered by the state again

the front seat of the car is a type of confessional

UFC women’s strawweight champion, Zhang Weili

Nicolas Faure. Goodbye Manhattan. 1984

PEARL (2022) dir. Ti West