“The first time I saw a photograph of Claude Cahun, I was reading the London Review of Boo
“The first time I saw a photograph of Claude Cahun, I was reading the London Review of Books on a plane, and I mistook the woman in the photograph for Kathy Acker. It was the shaved head, the full mouth, the “go fuck yourself” look in the eye. As a teenage girl, I had collected all the Grove paperbacks of Acker’s novels, each featuring a different author portrait on the cover, but all with the same stance, the same attitude. All leather boots and red lipstick, a punch to your face and a hand down your pants.”Read more from The Dead Ladies Project by Jessa Crispin. https://spoliamag.tumblr.com/…/theoffingmag-claude… -- source link