"“Nature herself insists on our emergence every generation” --Anohni (on “trans phenomena”)

"Everybody is half dead. Everybody avoids everybody. [...] I know, I’m one of those everybodies, and to me it is terrible; and so all I’m trying to do all the time is just open people up so they feel themselves and open up to somebody else. That is all. That’s it." -Nina Simone, 'Nina' (Rodis, 1969)

La sal se puso moreno (Salt Changes Color) - (Mariana Yampolsky, 1989)

『おにいさまへ…』(1991)

"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke." (Vincent van Gogh)

Semana Santa Cora, Nayarit (Héctor García, 1969)

A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

"This then is no calamity. No. This is jubilee. Our crown, you said, has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do, you said, 'is wear it.'" (Toni Morrison -- Eulogy for James Baldwin, 1987)

横尾忠則「友達22美輪明宏さん」[Tadanori Yokoo, “Friend 22 Akihiro Miwa”(1976)]

Wendy Carlos, 1960

"Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own." (Helen Oyeyemi - Mr Fox, 2011)

Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg, 1988)

Mr. Titan and General Shadow (Kamen Rider Stronger, 1975)

“But I remember her gait, how her hip flicked when she walked. She smelled like Kool menthols.” (Denise Maloney, daughter of Anna Mae Quash, 2014)

Surveillance (Jennifer Chambers Lynch, 2008

Japan, 1964

Itee Pootoogook (Canadian, b. 1951), The ground is wet for it’s been raining during the night. It is early fall and it’s early morning, 2010. (Pencil crayon on paper, 30 x 24 in.)

“Let no one be fooled by the fact that we may write in English, for we intend to do unheard of things with it” — Chinua Achebe

“Stand to face me beloved and open out the grace of your eyes” - Sappho, Fragment 138 (trans. Anne Carson)