Stills From “The White Tiger (2021)” //dir. Ramin Bahrani

Nighthawks by Edward Hopper | Night-time Solitude by Holly Warburton

Resenting the male gaze but also being obsessed with how you’re perceived by others

Margaret Atwood /// Susan Sontag /// Real Men - Mitski /// Shame is an Ocean I Swim Across - Mary Lambert /// Birds of Prey (2020) /// post by jitterati /// Liquid Smooth - Mitski /// Jennifer’s Body (2009) /// Bravado - Lorde /// Diagnosis - Cynthia Cruz

“humanity is inherently selfish and bad” bbbrrrghuhjfkg. humanity is seeing a stranger’s grocery bag break open on the sidewalk and harvesting fruits and veggies from the branch-like cracks of the asphalt for them, just because you can. humanity is helping a lost child find their mother on a crowded beach, looking for the ladybug-patterned parasol with their hummingbird-small hand in yours. it’s an elder’s fingers wrapped around your arm as you help them up the stairs because the elevator is broken, and feeling like you’re doing exactly what you’re supposed to be doing, like this is what you would’ve been doing had you been alive centuries or even millennia ago. there will always be a heavily pregnant woman who will smile at your when you give up your seat, a nice blind man in the fruit aisle who will ask you to please pick the riper plantain for him, a tired cashier whose face will light up when you compliment their tattoo sleeve. humanity is connection

David Seidner, Ballet, 1979.

A Woman Sitting On The Edge Of The Bed - Spanish School, 19th Century / Adèle Haenel in House Of Tolerance (2011) / Ashley Graham for Vogue Paris (2018)

“May the flesh of kings feed the earth”

Graffiti seen in Portland, Oregon during the ongoing protests

I swear by my principles, that I am not a petty bourgeois; in any case, I find myself situated in the line of the small proletariat.

when virginia woolf said “as a woman I have no country”

“I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

Chess isn’t always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful. It was the board I noticed first. It’s an entire world of just 64 squares. I feel safe in it. I can control it. I can dominate it. And it’s predictable, so if I get hurt, I only have myself to blame.

THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT (2020)