If you want to be loved
A meditation on women, bodies, identity, value, youth and beauty. We'll see if I stick to it. There was a run for a minute there of stories that got stuck in my craw.
If you want to talk about hip hop misogyny and put that on black men, consider that the audience is white guys and they’re buying it up.
9 8 18 percent of American women between 40 and 44 have never given birth.
First of all, “have never given birth” is different from “childless.”
Jenna Freedman and Josh MacPhee on DIY Feminism
Thursday, May 3, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Brooklyn MuseumElizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052Jenna Freedman, librarian at the Barnard Zine Library, and Josh MacPhee, founder of Interference Archive, discuss the evolution of feminist print culture. They trace its trajectory from activist poster making, offset printing, and graffiti in the late 1970s and early 80s to the rise of the feminist zine in the 90s.This program is free with Museum admission.
(image: London graffiti, 1980. Photo by Jill Posener)
4Grateful
For equanimity, Joko, Boorstein. Grateful for Michelle’s eloquence, equanimity and perspective, too. Grateful for my own mother.
Watching a dear friend struggle mightily against … I don’t know what. Neither demons nor the inevitable quite finishes that sentence. Against all the shit we’ve all internalized about men, love, beauty, money, success, youth. Fear of age, fear of isolation, fear of desperation, desperation. I get it. I get how hard it is, but giving in is no solution.
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Louise Bourgeois, She Lost It [performance pieces] 1992](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2c22kZmHO1qa54clo1_250.jpg)
i need misandry because my normy male friends don’t know how much awful shit they say on a daily basis
There’s plenty more. Thinking about feminism and mysandry.
(via karaj)
The price alone, she said, indicates that she is an escort, not a prostitute.
How often does the times get into the subtleties of “escort” vs. “prostitute”? Also, read through to the part about the hotel’s rules for prostitutes (but not escorts?)
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Lena Dunham responds to the issue of race (and only having white main characters) in Girls.
lol k i’m not gonna say that was the worst way to respond to that (extremely even-handed) question, but oh man, i… i mean, i just don’t think you wish very hard, is all. is not all, but is all i’m going to say.
relevant
We asked at least two people of color to audition but they were busy. Plus, if we had people of color in the cast we’d have to talk about race and do you have any idea how hard that is?
