Mood

Sinéad O'Connor December 8, 1966 – July 26, 2023

On stage at the Olympic Ballroom, Dublin, 1988.

Vivienne Westwood safety pin earrings

amata for gia

i-D Spring 2011 Lady Gaga shot by Mariano Vivanco wearing Mugler.

Eva Herzigova for Dolce & Gabbana Fall, 1995

the female urge to be covered in blood

jade baraldo - perigo

Duquesa para revista Capricho (edição digital), 2025. #duquesa #capricho #fashionmagazines #fashion #magazines

paulharries: Mikey and Gerard

Tokyo 2006.

[Taken August 13, 2006 / Posted Augusy 18, 2023]

I’ve been on my knees since I was 5.

In the chapel,

in a bedroom,

in an alley late at night.

Always facing an inflated

godlike

version of some guy.

But as a girl you do what you need to survive.

You open wider, take the body.

Thank your father, you’ve been naughty.

2 Hail Marys, 20 lashings.

“I’ve been sent to punish you for daring to exist.

You will never know a love as meaningful as this.”

I’ve memorized

the lines

since I was 10.

From the Bible,

from the playbook,

from the magazines for men.

If you should mess it up, you’ll start again.

But, still, they only want

the women

they condemn.

I think that I’d have too much fun in hell.

With the pagans

and the hedonists

and sapphics there as well.

Purgatory seems the better fit

I can’t stand waiting in the corner,

but I do love being hit.

There’s not a torture you can prescribe

that I wouldn’t find

a way to like.

Every single second I’m alive

I’m sharpening an axe I’d like to grind.

“I was sent to punish you

for the way I was designed.

You will never know a love

that you fear more than mine.”

- “God Fear a Woman” 2023