embarrassment has good bones

Anise was a lesbian magazine that ran from 1996-2003 in Japan. There were 9 issues total and contained articles, manga, essays, short stories, and so on.

ITALY. Rome. October 1994. A dinner setting. Steve McCurry

oh emily wilson translation of the iliad we’re really in it now

Cemetery in the mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Flickr

happy chungking express day to all who celebrate

Lomochrome color ‘92 Sun-kissed

Kneecap (2024) dir. Rich Peppiatt

Stained glass lamps

Sylvia Wynter, circa 1972.

i dug this photo up from the institute of the black world archives (at the schomburg center) in 2010. i was wynter’s research assistant at the time. i lived then, as now, in oakland, california, and three times a week made the long aggravating commute from the lower bottoms in west oakland to the wynter’s house in the oakland hills

i was also writing a chapter on wynter for my dissertation. hence me finding this photo, in the midst of an intense two weeks of through and cataloguing documents, including an unpublished 900+ page manuscript wynter had written.

i took this photo of wynter’s picture then. when i got back to oakland, i showed it to her, with no prompting.

her response was with a characteristic wynterian curiosity:

“is that me?”

the photo ultimately became the cover of the great katherine mckittricks volume on wynter. i’m proud to have made a tiny contribution to that wonderful work.

Couvent abandonné. Viana do Castelo, Portugal

Neon Vancouver

Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith photographed by Andy Warhol, 1971.

NEON LIGHTS - Blade Runner (1982) more

Concept art by Ul de Rico for The NeverEnding Story (1984)