Words by Marjam Idriss
Virginia Wolf Sappho always looks a bit grumpy cus
Iris Murdoch
Radclyffe Hall in riding gear carries a whip at all times
Wenche Lowsow in queer heaven there’s no monogamy right
Tuulikki Pietilä Eleanor Roosevelt
Emily Dickinson Audre Lorde
Sylvia Rivera Tove Jansson
Marilyn Monroe Florence Nightingale no shut up it’s true
Frida Kahlo Phillipa Foot
Agnes Wergeland Billie Holiday Patricia Highsmith
Ebba Sparre Queen Christina of Sweden
Marlene Dietrich
Joan Crawford Greta Garbo
Katharine Hepburn my friend told me basically everyone in all black/white films ever
Edith Piaf
Colette
Gertrude Stein, Amelia Earhart, Dusty Springfield
Marsha P. Johnson, Edna St. Vincent Millay
someone suggested
Julie d’Aubigny bi fencing opera singer posing as a nun
queer vigilante Stormé DeLarverie, Leslie Feinberg, Eleanor Butler & Sarah Ponsoby
Anne Lister, Adrienne Rich
Elizabeth Bathory it will probably be fine what is heaven for if not experimenting with thumbscrews
if there’s no monogamy in heaven there’s also no judgement so the whole bloodbath thing is fine and not even true but her being a dyke is true
Aileen Wuornos, Josephine Baker
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and so on
Featured image by Maisie Noble https://www.instagram.com/maisienoble/?hl=en
Photograph: Josephine Baker