Twitter is dying, but this Nilgansito is only sleeping. This is because two actual geese are in charge of this Nilgansito, instead of an attention-seeking billionaire.
Nilgans 🐥 (Egyptian goose) am Eckensee im Oberen Schlossgarten, Stuttgart-Mitte.
Photos of trans women and femmes in NYC from 1930-1940 by street photographer Weegee and colorized by doctoral candidate Eli Erlick in UC Santa Barbara . Go check out the thread!
On Weegee:
"Weegee also frequently shot [trans people] picked up by the police. “At the time, these were staples of the tabloids, and I’m sure they were not received warmly,” says Bonanos. “They were probably look-at-this-freak pictures. When he makes them, though, they’re not cruel.” Such pictures speak to Weegee’s compassion for underworld characters, a group he clearly had empathy for. “One gets the sense that he, at least in the photographs, had an attitude of, ‘Ah, let them do whatever they’re going to do.’. He was not a person who was overtly political. But I think he had that streak of – as the expression goes – comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable,” he adds, explaining Weegee’s approach to shooting different classes. "