heretik @heretikradikal@mastodon.social

, the intention was not to just have it be my voice or my vision, my photographs, but to celebrate the lesbian culture

—#JoanEBiren
*img 1975 JEB (self-portrait). Dyke, Virginia, in 1979 Eye to Eye: Portraits of Lesbians (self-published, now re-released)
https://time.com/5938729

Images I had never seen before, images I had seen and not perceived. Images on which to build a future.

—#JoanEBiren, Dike Show 1979-1985
JEB traveled USA & Canada with an ever-evolving legendary slide show on the construction of 'lesbian semiotics'
https://aperture.org/editorial/queer-looking/

The humility of a leatherman is not bestowed but learned. It is acquired through an understanding of human limits:
. . . and any transgression must be a willing one.

—#GeoffMains, 1984 UA
*img #ZachCooperArt Leatherspace, in 1996 #DrummerMag No 198
#LesFolliesDesHommes

The measured exercise of fantasy bespeaks limits. It is a constant testing of the lines that have been drawn between mind and reality by cultural indoctrination.

—#GeoffMains, 1984 UA
*img 1487-1490 #DonatoBramante Cristo alla colonna, Pinacoteca di Brera + n.d. #JohnKlamik aka #Sean Bound and gagged
#QueenlyDiptych

we soak our bodies as operators of lust,
—or a sultry luster il[lust]ration:

*img 1939 #GrantWood Sultry Night—the print was banned by USPS for obscene, pornographic.
#LesFolliesDesHommes

, on the view and observations of actual communications of related verbal behavior as a golden gateway for describing the idiomatic modes of individual thought.

#SoftSubversions

I carry silence like a blood-filled egg, ready to drop it into someone’s hands.

—#DavidWojnarowicz, 1991 CttK
*img 1989 #AndreasSterzing Image for the poster of the film Silence = Death, directed by #RosaVonPraunheim

—of what archetypes to let guide us,

#SoftSubversions

(the archetypes and the collective unconscious)

*img 1996 #DelmasHowe The Gathering (The Piers, NYC)
#LesFolliesDesHommes

Ce que les autres abandonnent, je le prends.

#SoftSubversions

We're agent provocateurs of gender.

*img c 1900s #BergAndHøeg collection (#MarieHøeg #BoletteBerg), A Person In Traditional Women's Attire Holding an Umbrella
#LesFolliesDesHommes #TheFaggotArchive
https://digitaltransgenderarchive.net/catalog?f%5Bcollection_name_ssim%5D%5B%5D=Berg+and+H%C3%B8eg+Photographs

My history and consciousness will allways have the imprint of my life as a woman. This abiding difference is something to be treasured, not diminished. . . Intuition and will concretized in the flesh.

—#MaxWolfValerio
*img Max, in 1996 #LeslieFeinberg TW #TransgenderWarriors

batallas—batallos

*img 2008-10 #EduardoHernándezSantos Tiempo de soldados, Serie Palabras (Cuba)

¿Y si al morir no nos acuden alas?

—#JoséLezamaLima, 1941 Enemigo Rumor
*img 2018 #RocíoGarcía Esperperando por el enemigo, aún... (díptico, Cuba)

(bubble with words)

*img 1974 #AdrianPiper The Mythic Being, Cycle I: 6/6/70, censored from The Village Voice Series

; the photograph shouts a thin silence—the emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor.

*img gathering tribes at Mayday Conference Atlanta, in 1971 #FagRag No 2
#LesFolliesDesHommes

Remember me, but ah!
forget my fate.

*vid 1993 #IsaacJulien The Attendant
https://ubu.com/film/julien_attendant.html

, where directional narratives affect transmission—codes of recognition.

#SoftSubversions

, or to unbind the tyranny of our mirrors.

*img n.d. #RobertLoughlin untitled (doble Brute with cigarette)
https://www.robertloughlin.us

It demonstrates the far-reaching effect of antiquarian legacies, . . . the ways in which antiquarianism shaped the production of sexual knowledge within sexual science,

*img 1977 #ArthurTress Wrench Fantasy, The Piers NYC
#LesFolliesDesHommes