
My daughter was born with a strange illness that stopped her from receiving the sunlight. We had to organize a nocturnal life for us. It was little bit difficult at the beginning, but then we got used to it and built a beautiful world under the moonlight. Instead of dogs we kept cats, instead of canaries we had an owl, we grew impossible plants and instead of sunbathing we were moonbathing. I know when the moment comes my beautiful daughter will meet a man who will be willing to share this world with her.

Cover for Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1963)
kiss your fucking gf’s tummy you Bastards

Thelma Wood, Silverpoint drawing, given to Berenice Abbott, 1929
“Like Barnes in Ladies Almanac, [Wood] used various flowers to suggest women’s genitals, often selecting such plants as orchids and bell-shaped blossoms. Involved and sometimes tortuous, the drawings often make blatant Freudian references with such images as a lady’s old-fashioned tall leather shoe or a frog and convey sensuality and eroticism. She presented one of these drawings to Berenice Abbott in 1929 and they remained close friends until Wood’s death from cancer in 1970.”
Emmanuel Cooper, The Sexual Perspective: Homosexuality and Art in the Last 100 Years in the West (London: Routledge, 1986), 162.
