'urban Orchid' A/w 2003 Collection By Arkadius

Israel has begun its ground invasion of Gaza in complete darkness. Palestinians have been cut off from cellular and internet connection. There is going to be a slaughter.

one thing i need to start living by is “become the thing that you want” if i want friends who throw themed parties maybe i should start throwing those parties. if i want someone who writes me love letters maybe i should start writing letters for the people i love. if i want to hang out at museums and pretty cafes maybe i should invite my friends to these places. and maybe even then i won’t find the kind of people i want to be around. but then i would have become the exact person i want to be around. and maybe that’s good enough.

Sylvia Rivera at the 1983 Christopher Street Liberation march. Her banner features the S.T.A.R (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) Logo, and reads "And God Created He and She But He Also Created Me!"

Illustrations from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Bernie Wrightson (1983)

hustler rejects (1977)

latex maids + rubber nurses: photo special no. 1 - peter w. czernich (2020)

happy mothers day to every person who has ever made me feel part of a community when i felt like i had nowhere else to belong

gaza has just been completely cut off from the world.

after increased intensity of israeli aistrikes tonight, the last cable providing communications was destroyed. telecommunications have been completely cut off. they cannot reach one another. they cannot reach paramedics. the red crescent society has completely lost contact with their branch in gaza. nobody inside can reach anyone inside, and especially not outside of gaza to tell us what is going on. this is a complete atrocity.