Kiss Me My Girl Before I’m Sick

Some of the marvelous portraits reimagining famous African Diasporic imagery, by Omar Victor Diop, a young Senegalese artist. (All photos © Omar Victor Diop, by Omar Victor Diop)

New York Times: “African Diasporas, Playing with the Past,” by Jean-Philippe deDieu

An idyllic winter scene with woodgatherers near a castle (1853) by Frederik Marinus Kruseman

i would like my face held for a little while please

Leather and Steel 🗡️🖤

(available as stickers via patreon through september 2025)

[ID: Digital illustration of a nude trans masculine person, cropped from thigh to neck. They are posed head on, one hand resting on the strap of a black leather strap-on harness. The other hand is holding the hilt of a sword, pointing down. They have top surgery scars, body hair, and a bandaid on their thigh for their T-shot. They are framed in thorny vines, with some 6 pointed stars around them. The background and figure are both a ochre yellow, with black lineart offset by red. /. End ID]

MORGAN SPECTOR photographed by Ruven Afanador for The Cut

Are you courting her with ancient texts of forbidden, eldritch knowledge? Are you actually even trying?

This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the largest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. It spans nearly 400 billion miles — 40 times the diameter of our solar system. 

Credit: NASA

CLUE (1985)