Instead of having to put “do not touch” signs on everything, museums should hre people whose specific task is to watch that people don’t do that. This staff should be armed with rolled-up newspapers, and full permission to use them against visitors, with exactly as much force as they personally deem necessary. You sign a waiver about it when you walk in. Most of the time, just the gentle reminder of their presence would do their work for them, museum visitors would be far more likely to keep their hands to themselves if they’re aware that at any moment, a little elderly museum lady may approach them and go
Sometimes I think about lesbian icon renée vivien lauging so hard she had to leave a lecture bc the man was talking about how a book of anonymously published love poetry was the pinnacle depiction of a young man’s desire towards women…… but it was her book. She wrote it. About her girlfriend.
She’s the one on the left.
She IS and I’m obsessed with this image but how could you leave out that the one on the right is the girlfriend in question
elizabeth. she/her. old as balls. too old to put up with any swerf/terf/right wing/Tory nonsense so don't. I like comics, star wars, creepy british 70's horror films, vintage clothes, making stuff and learning new things. I'm on Ao3 as shifty_badger, where i don't write anything apart from incoherent and embarassing notes to writers. i'll probably like you and your fandom unless you're a knobhead about it. all RL names have been changed.
