Tag: Art

On a Hunt for 19th-Century Erotica, We Found Lesbians

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

If it wasn’t clear from the headline, this essay explores sexually explicit themes, and includes images that may not be fit for workplace viewing. Alexandra Vasti’s research anchors the first part of the piece, before passing the perspective to Raisa Rexer.

On a Hunt for 19th-Century Erotica, We Found Lesbians

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The Invention of Heterosexuality

Invention of Heterosexuality | Queer History – Rogan Shannon

Poem: The Dream of Reason

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters by Francisco Goya.

Night spills ink across the fractured mind,
where echoes rise, unshaped and nameless.
Silence bends, brittle beneath its weight,
shadows pulse with restless hunger.

Thoughts unravel, thin as candle smoke,
drifting where the fevered wind calls.
A hush lingers at the edge of knowing,
a murmur swallowed before it takes shape.

Wake, before the monsters take your name.
Sleep, and they will teach you how to fly.

—T.A.

Trotsky: The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

LEAVING out of account the weak echoes of pre-Revolutionary ideologic systems, the only theory which has opposed Marxism in Soviet Russia these years is the Formalist theory of Art. The paradox consists in the fact that Russian Formalism connected itself closely with Russian Futurism, and that while the latter was capitulating politically before Communism, Formalism opposed Marxism with all its might theoretically.

Literature and Revolution: The Formalist School of Poetry and Marxism