Valerie Hopkins (pen name Nifty Buckles). Author of myth & architect of The Darwind5 VAWT brand. Site: https://niftybucklesfolklore.fun
Nifty Buckles Folklore
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‘I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am, also, much more than that. So are we all.’
~ James Baldwin for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Christian Schloe
“Day in, day out
I hunger and
I struggle.”
Sappho
#BookWormSat #Pride
🖼️ = Jane Dickson - Stairwell (1984)
#BookwormSat 📚🏳️🌈
Discovering identity in Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a powerful LGBTQ+ classic.
"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."
A reflection on self-discovery, belonging, and finding your own path.
#PrideMonth #LGBTQLit
🏳️🌈 #BookWormSat 📚
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
Irish author and wit Oscar Wilde remains one of literature's most beloved voices.
His novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and sparkling quotes continue to inspire readers around the world.
#PrideMonth #OscarWilde #LGBTQ
📚 #BookWormSat #PrideMonth 🏳️🌈
"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."
Writer Virginia Woolf's novel "Orlando," explored gender, identity, & self-discovery a century ago.
#VirginiaWoolf #LGBTQLit #Orlando
Audiobook of The Race can be purchased here:
books2read.com/TheRace?form...
Narrated by Kevin E Green @Kevthegreen
(he did an amazing job bringing the story alive!)
Also, available to order your preferred library for borrowing.
#audiobook #nathaliemlromer
“My love and I took hands and swore
Against the world, to be poets and lovers evermore”
Katherine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper as Michael Field - It Was Deep April (1893)
#BookWormSat #Pride
📷 = Wikipedia
"Only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their agitated concern, mistake so frequently the arrow pointing to heaven for the one that leads to hell."
- Truman Capote, 'Other Voices, Other Rooms'
#Pride #BookWormSat
You said, "I love you and my love for you makes any other life a lie." -- Jeanette Winterson, Written On The Body, 1992
🖼️ Air De Capri, Gerda Wegener, 1923
#Pride #BookWormSat
“O thou of divers-coloured mind, O thou
Deathless, God's daughter subtle-souled...
Child of God, close craftswoman, I beseech thee;
Bid not ache nor agony break nor master,
Lady, my spirit.”
(Sappho, tr Swinburne)
🎨 Simeon Solomon “Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene” (1864)
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