MY BRILLIANT FRIEND | 1.03 The Metamorphoses

In Weimar Germany, in 1930, before Hitler, you could get gender treatment as a trans woman. The laws against homosexuality were largely unenforced, and the earliest gender-affirming surgeries were being developed.

A few years later, those same people were all living inside Hitler's Germany. It was all gone.

In the US in 2024 you could get an M, F, or X gender marker on your passport. No questions asked, just circle the box you want.

It's gone now.

Each verse of history has the same refrain. Kill your generation's fascists and rebuild.

- Karen M. Dunak, “The White Wedding Revived” in As Long As We Both Shall Love: The White Wedding in Postwar America

he got the job done 🫢

incredible

Hall, Creech Grange, unknown artist (signed with monogram 'D.R' lower right), English school, c. 19th century, watercolour.

he was trying so hard to act like a troublemaking rebel while wearing his lil sweaters with the shirt collars peeking out.... whatever you say gorgeous

beaded & embroidered felt earrings ❤️✨ handmade with vintage & salvaged beads

etsy

raffaella cerullo & elena greco | the story of the lost child, by elena ferrante / hbo l'amica geniale / nbc hannibal's script / letters to milena, by kafka / the story of the lost child, by elena ferrante / anna akhmatova tr. by judith hemschemeyer, “poem without a hero” / bts l'amica geniale / twin flame, by weyes blood / wuthering heights, by emily brönte / my brilliant friend, by elena ferrante

Old Viking cave dwelling and farm, Rutshellir Caves, Iceland

Job Savelsberg

Catherine Deneuve photographed by Jerry Schatzberg, 1965.