Gender Warriors - Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin
[B] I’m sure some of you heard of Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin. She probably is most famous for her exhibition Ecce Homo which is based on a series of photographs recreating christian motifs with persons and contexts of the LGBTQ-community. My favorite series done by her is called könskrigare or in english: Gender Warriors. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
Superficial layers of the breast from Atlas of Topographical and Applied Human Anatomy by Eduard Pernkopf, 1933-1953
Also
Sacred Heart, an oil and egg-tempera painting by contemporary esoteric artist Benjamin Vierling, appears on the dust jacket of the standard edition of our newest title Veneficium: Magic, Witchcraft, and the Poison Path. The image features the emergence of Belladonna, Henbane and Datura —three plants allied to the Devil and comprising a part of the so-called ‘Witches’ Garden’— from a human heart.
Oh sweet Datura. How you turn my eyes to diamonds and my soul into flight.
Don’t do datura.
Ever.
Mine is mostly cognitive.
Cognitive.
I have all three. Well oops.
all three, it’s like christmas up here wow
All three. Definitely all three
red and blue here
all three :/ although less of green
ugh hate this anxiety
All three, although my cognitive/behavioural is way less nowadays. It took a whole lot of work to get to where I am now. Back in the day, I had pretty much every single one of these. Out of the physical side, I still get the rapid heart beating/shortness of breath/dry mouth/trembling & shaking which makes it very difficult to think straight. During the worse ones, lights get very bright and all my sensations become very hypersensitive. It really depends on the triggering situation though. I get triggered by way less things now than I did before. Back in the day, just stepping outside of my home would trigger me. Now, it’s just very specific things like situations where I have to do/say something in front of people watching me. I just get so anxious that all the physical effects start to hit me and then my brain goes completely blank and I can’t think of anything, which makes the physical effects even worse. I find though that it really depends on the people. If it’s ASL Club for example, I feel much more safer, maybe because I’m the instructor and go into the instructor zone. But even before every class, I’d get anxious, it’s just when I’m “in the zone” that it’s okay. But in other situations, I can’t seem to put myself into that same mindset. Out of the behavioural, I’d say the habitual avoidance/fear based decision making are the ones I struggle with the most still. Cognitive: Fear/mind games.
No matter how much I might bitch about it, I’m really grateful to myself for working through so much for over 15 years now. I’ve gotten so far.
Defesa pública da alegria, Outubro 2012.
(really bad photo of a comic i made and enlarged/printed on to baby pink gloss paper)
TODAY I REALISED THAT…ALL THOSE - WHO HAVE HATED ME - IN MY LIFE- COLLECTIVELY DO NOT HATE ME - AS MUCH AS I LOVE MYSELF.
