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”I Love Women (Gay & Proud).” From a photo by Bettye Lane (undated). Schlesinger Library.
INSTRUCTIONS ON NOT GIVING UP
ada limón / princess mononoke (1997) / mary oliver / gang of youths / albert camus / the two towers (2002)
if i was in a jane austen novel i would be the one sent to the seaside for my health
rowena-in-red
Gender abolition, but make it:
- clothes sorted by body shape and style, instead of gender
- removing unnecessary gender markers from non-medical documents like a driver’s license
- genderless bathrooms where the stalls have floor-to-ceiling walls for privacy
- abolishing gendered toys, colors, professions, hobbies, etc.
- they/them as the default if you don’t know someone
And NOT:
- trans and non-binary people being barred from identifying with and expressing their gender
fka twigs’ style
In my opinion ? We should all be able to glow. Just a little bit. Just for a little while. Just maybe have a little bioluminescence. Just some light. As a treat.
geyserbaby
crazy how so many of your experiences as a girl are shaped based on whether you are perceived as attractive or not
Doubly so when you’re trans
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (1985).
the fact that kristen stewart and robert pattinson both started in twilight and have had similar film trajectories – gotten into small, critically acclaimed indies and received almost identical levels of critical success in that area, before moving back to more mainstream things and having very comparable levels of talent – and yet kristen is still deemed a shitty actress bc of twilight and robert is now held up by film bros who think he’s the second coming…..
it’s misogyny babes
Here I was minding my own business and reading Dear Prudence when all the sudden:
“Q. Not liking life on the farm: All my life I’ve dreamed of living on a farm. I never thought it would really happen, but a few years ago I took a great leap of faith and married a man I met via a dating website for farmers. The trouble is that farm life isn’t like I thought it would be. My husband has to work really hard, sometimes 12 to 15 hours a day especially during the harvest. And every day he has to get up before dawn to milk and do other chores. Plus the work is dirty so he is always filthy. He’s really good about not tracking dirt into the house, but it is still annoying. This really isn’t how I pictured farm life and I kind of want out. But my husband is such a great guy that I don’t want to leave. I doubt he’d want to start another career that could take us back to the city. I just don’t know what to do. Can you see a way out?“
BAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA
Prudie’s response was pretty soft on this doofus, but did have this nugget of wisdom:
I think this is an important warning for other farm-fascinated urbanites thinking about moving out to the country on impulse. Try visiting for a week or two first, or joining a work-study agricultural program, rather than going straight from “apartment-dweller” to “farmer’s wife.” I’m not sure why you were surprised to find that farm life is both dirty and difficult, but it’s hard to muster a great deal of sympathy for your situation, given that you performed so little research before making such a drastic, life-changing decision.”
