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i inhale you my very odoriferous one, you smell very headily of lilac, sappho could have done no better by clasping you against her violet breasts

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@museofviolets
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thread of this and that 🏛️
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@museofviolets
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i think you all think about yourselves too much
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@museofviolets
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very important gallery wall update
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@museofviolets
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it's this
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emailing art history experts what’s the cuntiest painting
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mothers!
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@museofviolets
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3 months
i wish you would look upon older women as role models and someone you can learn a lot from rather than evil hags with no inner life who want nothing more than to make a pact with the devil to steal your youth
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@museofviolets
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i know my girls were having this and a cigarette for breakfast
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1920s toaster working
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@museofviolets
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this colour combination
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@museofviolets
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"April the angel of the months, the young Love of the year." Vita Sackville-West, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘯
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@museofviolets
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this energy
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@museofviolets
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2 years
"feminism is for everyone", "lesbians are non-men loving non-men" you are pathetic and you will achieve nothing and i hate you
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@museofviolets
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2 years
men
@botvirginia
Virginia Woolf Bot
2 years
Ugly in body, repulsive in mind
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@museofviolets
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1 year
73 questions with virginia woolf would have changed lives
@museofviolets
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1 year
i wish they had vogue 73 questions back in the 1920s when all the lesbians were around
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@museofviolets
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3 years
it's taurus season, it's time to just
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@museofviolets
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Virginia Woolf photographed by Gisèle Freund, 1939 and portrait of Virginia Woolf by Vanessa Bell, 1934
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@museofviolets
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happy birthday to my mother
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@museofviolets
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when i asked which historical lesbian started it all for you and the good majority of you said virginia woolf
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@museofviolets
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i was bored so i made a list of terms of endearments vita uses to address virginia in the letters
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@museofviolets
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2 years
lesbianism is sooo organic like the lines of female bodies just belong together in perfect harmony
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2 years
lesbians tag yourself
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@museofviolets
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lily (of the valley)-bearer
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@museofviolets
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it's getting revamped
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@ivressesdhier
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by popular demand (paola's) here is our lesbian wall
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@museofviolets
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4 years
virginia woolf was so right when she thought "these walls should be green"
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@museofviolets
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3 years
vita's writing room radiating the atmosphere of a cosy evening in
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@museofviolets
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3 years
"i was written by a man", "i was written by a woman", i was written by virginia woolf cause i'm a melancholy lesbian and most people fail to make sense of me
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i went to a botanical garden and there were homosexual people
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@museofviolets
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4 years
"Lover of woods, of words, of flowers, Lover yourself of the things I love, Friendship was made of the quiet hours Hung between earth and the sky above." Happy birthday to Vita Sackville-West
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@museofviolets
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4 years
virginia fucking fucking virginia woolf woolf
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@museofviolets
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2 years
lesbians and their perfumes, a list
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@museofviolets
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4 years
i went and made it all (that i could find at least) the women vita sackville-west slept with
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joan maude in salomé, 1931
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insane way to finish a song
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@museofviolets
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To honour Virginia Woolf's birthday, here's a thread of some of my favourite quotes from her diaries ✨
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romaine brooks was born on the 1st of May in 1874
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@museofviolets
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Thread of books by and/or about lesbian I've read, non-fiction and fiction
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3 years
this particular edition of carol
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@museofviolets
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4 years
pictures of virginia being an aunt make me go 🥺
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@museofviolets
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3 years
when sylvia plath said "I feel the weight of centuries smothering me" and virginia woolf said "My roots go down to the depths of the world, through veins of lead and silver. I am all fibre. All tremors shake me, and the weight of the earth is pressed to my ribs."
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@museofviolets
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4 years
for anyone who's struggling to get vita sackville-west and virginia woolf's letters: penguin is releasing them in february
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@museofviolets
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3 years
i don't remember seeing this portrait of virginia by vanessa before today
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virginia woolf being a lesbian, a thread of evidence coming mainly from her letters:
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No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami
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26 quotes by Lesbians for the 26th of April💜⚢
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24 July, 1929 What is love or sex, compared with the intensity of life one leads in one's book? Your Vita
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@museofviolets
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the beauty in the phrase "the breast of the moon when she lies on the breast of the sea"... the sea and the moon are lesbian lovers
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if you need to expand the definition it's not for you 🤭
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@museofviolets
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Collages featured in Between Us: A Legacy of Lesbian Love Letters
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@museofviolets
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Virginia Woolf, Orlando / Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
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lavender fields 💜
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@museofviolets
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just found out vita read a book called "virginia woolf: a commentary" and destroyed the author's take on mrs dalloway with this annotation: "Rubbish. It was a frankly lesbian love V. told me "
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@museofviolets
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who wants to buy my kidney so i can get this
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@museofviolets
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oh to be naked in front of a huge window in paris and have a cat
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Un studio à Montparnasse, Christopher R.W. Nevinson, 1926
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@museofviolets
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"ass or tits?" bro long-dead women whose names start with v
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"Should you wish to make sure that your birthday will be celebrated three hundred years hence, your best course is, undoubtedly, to keep a diary." Happy Birthday to one and only Virginia Woolf
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@museofviolets
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the original manuscript of orlando dedicated by virginia woolf to vita sackville-west
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this goes really hard
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@museofviolets
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when you're being mean to me this is what happens
@colinarmis
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Luzon Bleeding-Heart (Gallicolumba luzonica)
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@museofviolets
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thinking about love that preserves lives, how many lesbians would have disappeared from memory if someone else hadn't kept a letter they wrote or a picture of them
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@museofviolets
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4 years
i'm gonna make a thread(s) about vita and virginia being lesbians cause you all will believe "queer archivists" or whatever instead of reading source material❤️
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@museofviolets
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"I wove with my own hands the crown of violets that will be placed upon your head." Renée Vivien, Bona Dea
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real
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@SZSPIRIA
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Gay people in 1920s were probably like girl have u read the new Virginia Woolf yet
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my contribution
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virginia woolf: writes the most beautiful sentences that make you perceive the world differently also virginia woolf: names a character in her lesbian short story 'pussy'
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@museofviolets
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a thread of some of my favourite quotes from Virginia Woolf's letters
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same-sex marriage
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Violet Keppel's terms for Vita Sackville-West
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what next, heterosexual marriage?
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florence lesbos 2023
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never ending cycle of beeing the sleepiest woman in the world
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@museofviolets
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every lesbian i know found it within an hour of learning her name 😭
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after 3 years of studying renée vivien, i’ve FINALLY found it – the photo that makes me see why you’d let natalie clifford barney ruin your life 🙏🏻
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@museofviolets
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„lesbians are bad at flirting” YOU are bad, historically lesbians have been telling women they wished they were in bed with them
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hihi
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crocheting is so insane to me… i’m making knots in yarn and eventually i’ll have a book sleeve that looks exactly like 💌
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@museofviolets
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this is where i lay as sappho stooped down to kiss my forehead and turned me into a little lesbian
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Art Nouveau crib from c. 1900, France.
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Virginia Woolf was a huge lesbian
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lady sackville after the publication of orlando
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guess who has a dolly wilde tattoo now
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the intimacy in knowing what someone's hands feel like in touch
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need this marlene dietrich summer
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dorothy wellesley and vita sackville-west in 1927
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oh to be a woman in a leyendecker's illustration
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do NOT touch me
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THE virginia woolf picture according to fools vs. according to lesbians
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that's her
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the pic on the right is new to me!! but i couldn't find the original look at her in her green gingham
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if i saw a woman dressed in this in 1930 i'd start biting on furniture
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saw this picture of vita for the first time today
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