you are real | adam j kurtz
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stop hating on girls who wanna kiss people in museums or aquariums or art galleries stop hating on girls who want things that might be cliche stop hating on girls who want boys to treat them like they’re magic i will protect all girls with my life and just because they care about things that you don’t doesn’t give you the right to belittle them ok i will fight u
period.
(a photo series shot by sisters rupi and prabh kaur. art direction by rupi kaur.)
i bleed each month to help make humankind a possibility. my womb is home to the divine. a source of life for our species. whether i choose to create or not. but very few times it is seen that way. in older civilizations this blood was considered holy. in some it still is. but a majority of people. societies. and communities shun this natural process. some are more comfortable with the pornification of women. the sexualization of women. the violence and degradation of women than this. they cannot be bothered to express their disgust about all that. but will be angered and bothered by this. we menstruate and they see it as dirty. attention seeking. sick. a burden. as if this process is less natural than breathing. as if it is not a bridge between this universe and the last. as if this process is not love. labour. life. selfless and strikingly beautiful.
So, my whole life I thought my favorite color was purple. “What’s your favorite color?” “Purple.” Always. That was my answer. And it wasn’t a lie. I truly believed my favorite color was purple.
And then my sophomore year of high school, someone I had just met in art class asked me if my favorite color was green. I have her a weird look and responded, “no, purple.” She shook her head “nope, you literally wear something green every day. Your favorite color is definitely green.” And I laughed it off. We’ve been friends ever since, and she hasn’t let it go. “Where’s the green?” “There’s the green!” And I never thought twice about it.
But lately I’ve started noticing that my closet is full of green clothes. And while I do find the color purple very beautiful, I actually prefer green. And I find the color green just, very attractive. And I realized that green is my fucking favorite color.
This makes it sound like green being my favorite color was forced upon me, but honestly it was nothing like that. Green has always been my favorite color, I was just not able to see it and accept it.
And I’ve also recently realized that when I write this short story, you could replace a few choice words and this would be the explanation of how I realized I was gay.
Please read this entire thing
I adored you. You were so soft, so diabolically angelic looking.
following yesterday’s kukur puja (featured here) is today's gai tihar, the third day of nepal’s hindu tihar festival. literally meaning “worship of cows”, gai tihar is dedicated to honouring the cow, which is viewed as the incarnation of the hindu goddess laxmi, the goddess of wealth.
in the secular but hindu dominant state of nepal, cow slaughter remains illegal and can carry a prison sentence of up to twelve years. said mahatma gandhi, “if someone were to ask me what the most important outward manifestation of hinduism was, i would suggest that it was the idea of cow protection.”
photos by (click pic) niranjan shrestha, navesh chitrakar, prakash mathema, sunil sharma and binod joshi. (see also: the third day of diwali in india, and making the marigold garlands)
Featured in Iain S. Thomas’ book How To Be Happy: Not a Self-Help Book. Seriously.
I love this quote. :) Book pages collaged with matte medium, then coated with watered down white metallic acrylic. I used a Sharpie for the writing bit.
Just have fun… [Art journals] aren’t meant to be masterpieces, just everyday art meanderings. -Kelly Hoernig




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