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Black Venus
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Black Venus @blackvenusinfurs
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Body of a Woman II
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“You have to choose: to live or to recount.” - Satre
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Embrace the pain. To be in pain means you are still alive.
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Black VenusMay 20
The Body Doesn’t Lie
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Imagine how much better society would be if entertainers prioritized being first-rate artists over being third-rate activists.
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my biggest kink is when someone stops performing a personality—because it stopped earning them love—and in the ruins of a failed identity built on unconscious self-sabotage, they hear the ancient, erotic god in their voice.
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Jan 27
On Music
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Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults.
I like to remember this every Jan 27th.
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The hardest part of Notes from Underground is recognising that such painful, self aggrandising is inherent within a very many of our souls.
It would be such a relief if we could just admit that to each other.
A novel can do this. An app can’t.
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Dressed for Deception: on Wonder Woman, sex work, deviance and the role of subversion in society
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Ugh, that took longer than expected! Anyway, latest Substack post coming MOMENTARILY <3