Honestly the best piece of advice I can give to younger girls trying to figure life out is to completely ignore men. I’m not being quirky or cute when I say that, I mean it seriously. Ignore men’s judgments of you, ignore their insincere compliments, ignore their half-assed romance. Focus on developing yourself. Practice your art, play sports, do theater, volunteer, spend time with your friends, but do not put substantial effort into pleasing men. They’ll be there for you to pursue when the time comes and if you want to. But nothing will waste your youth more than fighting for male acceptance.
how universal of an experience is having the giving tree read to you as a small child and being distraught even tho the teacher seemed to think it was a nice story. also is this a gendered phenomenon. do girlchildren know on some level that they’re the tree not the little boy
The Angry Roses
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By Angela Deane
The question is: what sexuality are women to be liberated to enjoy? Merely to remove the onus placed upon the sexual expressiveness of women is a hollow victory if the sexuality they become freer to enjoy remains the old one that converts women into objects…This already ‘freer’ sexuality mostly reflects a spurious idea of freedom: the right of each person, briefly, to abuse and dehumanise someone else. Without a change in the very norms of sexuality, the liberation of women is not liberating for women. Neither is more sex.
Susan Sontag, The Third World of Women,’ Partisan Review, 1973 (via brittleglory)
Bhumika Arora backstage at Dolce & Gabbana Alta Moda Fall/Winter 2016.
You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
Angela Davis - from a lecture delivered at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. February 13th, 2014. (via ninjaruski)
from “needlepainting, a garden of stitches”, 1974.