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ms-demeanor · 9 months

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What are all the jobs/careers you've had?

porn cartoonist, showing tits on the internet, photographer, barista, denny's server (4 hrs), cashier at gun store, barista again, managing editor of a student newspaper (stipend), commission artist, political canvassing (2 hrs), layout editor of a community newspaper, barista again, whatever the fuck my job was at my current workplace in 2011 (many things), cartoonist for a feminist magazine, freelance graphic design, showing hole on the internet, wedding photographer, my current job (all of the stuff from 2011 plus tech support and planning server builds), and my band got paid at least once so i'm calling punk singer a job.

#i'm probably missing something but that's what i can think of off the top of my head

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musicalchaos07 · 1 year

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Jancy + College in New York Moodboard

Headcanons under the cut

Nancy goes to Columbia & Jonathan goes to NYU obviously

Nancy wants to live off campus, but Jonathan's scholarship covers dorms so the compromise is they spend the first year in their respective dorms to try to make friends

Nancy makes friends with two of her roommates and all three of them don't like the fourth

By contrast, Jonathan makes friends with all of his roommates and his cohort for the photography major

Nancy also makes friends with the couple that ends up being their little long-term couple friends (aka double dates/vacations) ( also yes I have named them and given them personalities)

They somehow get invited to spring break in the Hamptons and are like WTF rich ppl

Jonathan minors in English lit

Nancy refuses to take the subway without him because it freaks her out

They drive out to Montauk at some point to snoop around

After freshman year they get their own little two-bedroom apartment. The second bedroom is a guest room/dark room.

They write each other little messages using alphabet magnets on the fridge

Jonathan works a job at a bar in Greenwich that's owned by like a 50-year-old Irish woman who absolutely loves him

Jonathan also works in the school library

Both sets of his co-workers are like THIS is your gf the first time meet Nancy

Nancy works as a TA for one of her female professors she really admires

The professor loves Jonathan based on like 2 interactions with him

And the bar is next to a bakery so Jonathan gets day-old bread all the time

I also think Jonathan is constantly bringing home stuff he found on the curb and fixing it

Jonathan has to run Nancy her lunch/notes/books because she "forgets" it all the time

Nancy joins the student paper obviously and then becomes editor junior year

Nancy also impulse bleaches her hair junior year these events are not unrelated

I think Nancy also joins an honors society but in a leadership role

She also starts a student-run magazine that focuses on women & feminist issue

Nancy has Jonathan teach her some photographs skills just in case she needs to take photos while she’s out on a story

Nancy also has a habit of going to Columbia parties getting drunk and telling Jonathan before when to come and get her. Which pisses off the guys

I also think she gets drunk and keeps talking about how pretty and amazing her boyfriend is (never hot or handsome or gorgeous it's always Jonathan is such a pretty boy)

She gets a reputation as a Cinderella because Jonathan gets her at the same time every time

They actually host parties pretty frequently

Jonathan makes friends in college fight me

They make it a thing to do picnics in the park on Sunday

They also go to the Met & the MOMA pretty frequently. But they also find random art installations to go to

They also do all the big papers Sunday crosswords

Somehow they end up with two cats named Bowie and Ziggy

Jonathan's part of the school radio station

Nancy takes up ballet again as a casual hobby (She comes home in one of her leotards at one point & Jonathan.exe has stopped working)

At some point Argyle visits over winter break

They take him out and everyone falls in love with him

Jonathan definitely makes an entire photography project out of just pictures of Nancy and names it something cheesy

Will moves in when he starts his freshman year at NYU

They end up getting a bigger apartment because of this

They get engaged senior year and then spend the next year fighting the temptation to have a courthouse wedding before graduation

#There's a page and a half worth of headcanons under the cut #Me while making this @ the duffer bros: I KNOW MORE THAN YOU #I said it before this week but I'll say it again they can prey NYC Jancy out of my cold dead hands #stranger things #jonathan byers #nancy wheeler #jancy #nancy x jonathan #jonathan x nancy #st moodboard

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jossstefano · 4 months

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A Level Textiles final piece

i explored factors of sustainability in my A Level final piece, researching negative environmental impacts as a result of materials/fabrics - leading me down the path of using recycled and reused denim as my primary material within my designed corset.

Sketch Book

Here i was interested in feminist fashion and feminine attributes within fashion

i started by looking into flowers within fashion

Photographs taken: grandmothers garden in cape town, different locations in London

I had recently just gotten back from Cape town (my hometown) for the first time as an adult. This opened my eyes to aspects of my identity, leading me down a somewhat realization of nature and it’s close connection to my identity - especially as a woman.

in this i had a think about my first introductions to considered femininity

the first thought that came to mind was my mothers bestfriends wedding, where i remember having blush on my checks, getting dressed up and being surrounded by majority of the females in my life at the time

This inspired my first design heavily, using raw silk as my material - this being the same material of my flower girls dress as well as my mothers brides maid dress.

i went on to research more feminist fashion - looking into free the nip movements and the flower power era

i experimented with mesh/transparent materials and explored some free hand embroidery techniques

looking into feminist fashion as whole brought me to the idea of a collection of designs - with the idea of all of these designs next to each other to resemble a fence of flowers - linking back to my initial inspirations

experimentation with crochet - linking to my idea of a fence with flowers - experimenting with a crochet panel to resemble a fence - scrap pieces of black denim to resemble a flower (hand sewn)

within this idea of a fence of flowers - i looked into the idea of garments as a single panel. alongside this is looked into flowers as my inspiration in a more abstract sense, i went on to look into Molly Goddard and Alexander McQueen's fashion as my designer inspiration

mock up using these inspirations using layers of different laces

designer's researched inspired sketch's using black fine liner, blue and teal highlighters and pencil

all of these ideas combined

i constructed a panel garment using black tule and hand sewn tule flairs/flowers dispatched across the panel

the panel was held at the back with sheer black ribbon as well black elastic for additional support

experimentation with tule and a bunching method - hand sewn

FINAL GARMENT

styled with vintage polka dot white gloves and black sparkly formal trousers

Miscellaneous work

materials used - pencil, black biro pen, black fine liner, different shade's of blue colored pencil's

Miscellaneous styling with cut outs from magazine's

experimenting with a recycled pair of converse

mood board - cut outs from magazines

flower made with shoelaces - stiffened using a paste of corn starch and water - once they had dried i lightly spray painted with a gold shimmer spray paint

final product - converse cut outs on a high heel

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soleilsogolden · 2 years

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Madonna: a Cultural Icon

There isn't much room for debate when it comes to Madonna's impact on pop culture and society as a whole. Madonna lives up to her “Queen of Pop'' title, and more. She is often praised for the feminist ideologies she voices through her music, and for her efforts in blurring the lines between gender, race, and sexuality in her art. When asked to write a piece on a musician through a culturally-critical lens, I am writing about Madonna with no questions asked. Madonna challenged taboos in and outside of music throughout her career and is recognized for “leaving a mark on every facet of culture” from music to fashion, and even film. Of course, this sort of carefree spirit attracts criticism, and Madonna was no stranger to controversy. However, Madonna carried her rebellious attitude in spite of any bad press she received, and she continued to express herself and her ideas in the most in-your-face, offensive way possible. Madonna single-handedly transformed pop music, and as a tribute, I’ll reflect on her cultural impact and how her most popular songs from the 1980s challenged the status quo at the time.

Imagine it's the 1980s Reagen era: Political Conservatism, the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and ongoing LGBTQ+ stigma, a divide between Anti-Sex and Pro-Sex Feminism, oh, and big hair and colorful clothes. The transition from the 1970s to the 1980s brought about a decline in activism. The general social mood reflected a belief that the earlier movements of the previous decades had gone too far (Anti-War Campaign, Women's Liberation, Civil Rights, and Environmental Awareness, just to name a few). The perspective and core values of the Reagen administration, which was characterized by a rejection of 1970s American culture, had direct substantial impacts on American life in the 80s. Reagan won over the support of Religious Conservatives by standing for traditional family values and morals- ironically, he went on to be the first U.S. president to have been divorced.

Reagan remained steadfast in his efforts to uphold conservative ideologies, especially in the discussion of the relationship between men and women, and the role of women in society. He publicly expressed his aversion to feminist activism by opposing the Equal Rights Amendment in 1980 and instead supporting a “Human Life Amendment” which would have banned abortion and several forms of birth control. Reagan's conservative approaches to women’s rights trickled into the views of the average American, serving as a major blow for the feminist movement which lost some momentum at the time. And in the heat of it all, there was Madonna who stood firmly in the studio and created music and a reputation for herself that rallied resistance.

In the late 2010s, musicologist Eduardo Viñuela in conversation with Radio France Internationale argued that analyzing Madonna was to delve into the evolution of many of the most relevant and significant aspects of society in recent decades. For one, she was the first female artist to make use of the full potential of a music video. She collaborated with some of the top designers and photographers of the time, creating avant-garde cinematography and sexual imagery with inspiration from the underground club culture. Some videos reflect the “Feminist Sex Wars” of the 1980s- a major feminist movement that consisted of a conflict between self-identified feminists who were anti-porn and those who were pro-sex. The collective debates amongst feminists were fueled by disagreements regarding sexuality, pornography, prostitution, erotica, and other sexual matters. From the ingènue newly-wed character she created in “Like a Virgin,” to the red-dressed sinner who sexually provoked a saint in “Like a Prayer,” Madonna played around with the taboo themes of sexuality of the decade. By doing so, she was pushing people’s buttons and making a career out of her unapologetic self-expression.

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For a female pop star to create art that has overarching political statements was rare and rather unthinkable during Reagan’s presidency. Then and now, she has been regarded as a sexual icon and as the leading sex symbol of the era. Her consistent usage of explicit sexual content in the videos and lyrics caused her to face constant censorship by MTV and other entities- She was even threatened to be arrested by Toronto police on the grounds of “lewd and obscene behavior” for pretending to masturbate during her live performance of “Like a Virgin.” But, Madona’s efforts pushing boundaries and challenging the deep-rooted sexism in American culture was absolutely necessary at the time. Madonna took ownership of her own sexuality, capitalized off of it, and utilized it as a source of power- which was absolutely terrifying for the population of men who felt entitled to control women’s choices, particularly women’s bodies.

In the face of the early-80s AIDS crisis and a peak in homophobia, Madonna stood as an ally for the LGBTQ+ community. She was never shy about her adoration for the community, and has even been tagged as the first major mainstream artist to give LGBTQ+ images and themes mass treatment and exposure. Madonna was intimately connected to a wide community of gay men in the earlier years of her career as an artistic collaborator, a political ally, and as a friend, says Christopher Glazek, the founder of the YALE Aids Memorial Project. The 80s time period significantly affected the community; In spite of the stigma and criticism, Madonna appreciated, represented, and credited gay culture in her performances and musical endeavors, and made it a point to publicly denounce homophobia in the midst of a political and social climate riddled with homohysteria.

Madonna’s contributions to modern popular culture have been widely remarked by many, globally. British journalist, Matt Cain, assured that “without Madonna, from music to fashion to the whole concept of celebrities, today’s pop culture landscape would simply not exist as it is.” She took the values of American culture and communicated them in a way that was unheard of.

#Madonna #Vogue #Ballroom Culture #LGBTQ #1980s #80s #pop culture #music #Youtube

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bookgeekgrrl · 2 years

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My media this week (25 Sep-1 Oct 2022)

🎶 🎶it's the moooost wonderful time of the year🎶 🎶

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰👂‍ Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot #41) (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator) - I just really love Ariadne Oliver. Absolutely bonkers nonsense plot. So full of 'the youth today is terrible' stuff but for some reason I just find it amusing in this

🥰👂‍ A Little Light Mischief (The Turners #3.5) (Cat Sebastian, author; Morag Sims, narrator) - adore this novella about Molly (former thief, now lady's maid) & Alice (wrongfully disowned) who team up to be gay and do crime (as reparative justice)

🥰 Stately Homes of Wiltshire (waspabi) - Drarry, 57K, more magical house stuff, on the more lighthearted side (but not without its share of angst)

🥰👂‍ The Body In The Library (Miss Marple #2) (Agatha Christie, author; Stephanie Cole, narrator) - Stephanie Cole is the perfect narrator for Miss Marple

😍 This, You Protect (Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail #1) (owlet) - 64K, recovering WS Stucky, one of the preeminent classics in the Stucky fandom featuring Cat Eleanor, The Olds, grilled cheeses and sheep pj pants - reread because it's been over 2 years

😍 Team-Building Exercises (Infinite Coffee & Protection Detail #2) (owlet) - 22K, vignettes and short one-shots of the first year of recovery after contact; delightful on its own but made to wrap around the longer sequel

💖💖 +223K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

all i need from you (is all your love) (wearing_tearing) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 34K - just a sweet canon-divergent AU with two loveable dumbasses falling for each other

Behind the Lens and Eye of the Beholder (rhysiana) - TW: Sterek, 2K & 8K - AU where Derek is a landscape photographer - the first is their meet cute, the 2nd is their camping and photography date; a truly delightful AU

Here Lies Steve Rogers, Death By Bucky Barnes (fingerprintbruises) - MCU: Stucky, 11K - oblivious friends/roommates to lovers via accidental dick pics

Keep It for Me (stereobone) - Stranger Things: Steddie, 9K - no one's seen Eddie for 7 years since he was whisked off to witness protection but he resurfaces again for Lucas & Max's wedding

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

nothing to report, watched zero things

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

Hit Parade - Without The Beatles

Hit Parade - The Bridge: Nostalgic for Number Ones

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Enchanted Hart Haus

Switched on Pop - The Vergecast: The future of music pt I

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Broken Angel

Hit Parade - We Are Stardust, We Are Gold-Certified

99% Invisible #509 - Tale of the Jackalope

Vibe Check - The Gag of the Century

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Oyotunji African Village

Shedunnit Book Club - Bonus: Ask Me Anything Part Three

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - MicroHertz #7: Trailers Through the Decades

Into It - Queer Guys for Straight Eyes (Plus: What is Guy Branum Into?)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Bloodroot Feminist Restaurant

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Almost Paradise: '80s Love Ballads

'80s Soft Pop

Presenting Santana

Mexican Rock Legends

Dub Instrumentals

Future Bass Instrumentals

Classic Rock Instrumentals

'70s Mellow Gold

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aangussca · 2 months

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Art Studio 1 Lectures (19.4.24)

Lecture: My experiences in artistic research and practice (by Jacky Redgate)

Art school years (1977-1981):

1977-1979: "Combined realist and conceptual female experiences..."

Her works mainly "incorporat[ed] themes of emigration, motherhood, marriage, family and illness through [her] use of autobiography and dream[s]..."

Main techniques: photography, analogue film, performance installation and body casting/sculpture.

"Looking back now at my art school work at this time [1977-1979], I can see that art history, dreams and memory were more important to me than to many of my peers."

During the early years of the feminist art movement, she was involved in the Women's Art Movement, the Women's Art Group, the Feminist Art Theory, and in performance/screening events at the Media Resource Centre and the Experimental .

Artwork examples from the lecture:

Her Work to Rule series (original photographs - 1986-1987, negatives - 2018), Photographs March 1959 (reproduced in 2015) and Light Throw (Mirrors) Fold 1–10 (2014-2015) are among the many works drawn from Redgate's fascination with mirrors.

This fascination is with regards to how they interact with time, light and space, as well as their relationship to dreams ('hypnogogia' = the dream-like state between wakefulness and sleep, which accompanied by sensory hallucinations) and the self (she stated that she has been self-conscious about her own image in mirrors and photographs).

Like Photographs March 1959 (reproduced in 2015), the Untitled Day series (1999-2000) was influenced by the concepts of mirroring and the doppelgänger (since she has a non-identical twin sister).

The exhibition Hypnogogia with Mirrors, Old and New Works (1977-2023) explores the ideas of archives, memories, and reflecting upon personal traumas. In Redgate's case, her traumas about her immigration to Australia (when she was 11) were documented through her childhood diary.

These themes continue in her short film Mother England (1980), which focuses on the history between Australia and England, and her own experiences with immigration and with growing up in both countries.

In Wedding Wishes (1977) and the Untitled (Rosebud) series (1979), dolls and other childhood ephemera act as manifestations of personal memories, comforts and traumas, as well as the transitional period between childhood and adulthood.

There are plenty of other resources for these works, but I've provided a link to the webpage for the works included in Hypnogogia with Mirrors, Old and New Works (1977-2023), with a downloadable copy of the exhibition catalogue:

Practice-based research (group discussion notes from Oliver Smith)

Framing the learning/discovery/understanding generated in the studio:

Learning new processes - such iterative engagement is where their potential can be observed.

Consider the materials and/or materiality of your work.

Possible line of thinking with executing the idea: Commit to the idea -> Experiment and decide -> Refine

Interplay between the technical and the conceptual aspects of the work.

It is important to visualise the work, both in the specifics of the materials AND in the specific details of how you envision the work within a space.

Important to test potential directions for the work, which may open up new methodologies and resolutions.

Experiments/WIPs for my project (discussions with Oliver Smith and Jacky Redgate)

What I've done so far (some of my posts from previous weeks):

Recording the primary sounds (terrestrial biophony/geophony)

Making the secondary digital musical soundtracks in Ableton

Creating visual studies for my animated segments

Developing an animation test for how these segments may look

What I plan to do until I need to show my WIP presentation:

Continuing recording the primary sounds (aquatic biophony/geophony and biological anthropophony)

Testing the projection with the different fabric samples

Perhaps revise the installation concept (sketch)?

Creating a couple of test soundscapes

Perhaps creating another animation test???

#sca projects #year 3 art studio project 1 #aa sca yr 3 sem 1 week 8

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jerfdewa · 5 months

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Zeo Leonard “You see I am here after all”: a collection of niagara falls postcards

Q: “This is how I saw it, I took this picture, and what I’m showing you is literally my perspective on something.” For me, these questions—“Where do you look from? What’s your process of looking?”—are inherently political. They are feminist questions because they are about power and agency, about where you stand in the world and what you can see from where you stand.” Bottom of page 3/top of page four

C: Every photograph is, in some way, political. By publicizing an image, you are sharing your perspective, which has (consciously and/or subconsciously) been informed by your environment. Even an inconspicuous collection of Niagara Falls postcards are political.

Many Americans associate Niagara falls with romantic topics including: honeymoons, weddings, virginity, female sexual desire, and love itself. These connections have existed since Europeans first discovered the Falls. There may be several reasons why the settlers considered the region romantic. Perhaps its physical appearance reminded the colonizers of an “ideal” christian marriage. The falls are imposing, yet beautiful. grand, yet quaint. These adjectives can also be used to describe a traditional american marriage or atleast, a stereotypical american marriage.

Niagara Falls is the undisputed “Honeymoon” capital of the world. This industry earns hundreds of millions of dollars a year, which encourages locals to promote this romantic image. This is to say, our view of the region has been distorted by capitalism, which makes these postcards political.

Q:I do not why Leonard displayed her piece the way she did. What does Zeo mean by “perspective is reflected back to you” (pg3 line 16)? Can anyone explain her reasoning in lame man terms?

Q(2): Leonard mentions the male and feminist gaze several times throughout this interview. I wonder; Did she take the gender of the photographer/writer into account when she displayed her collection?

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repriseofthereprise · 6 months

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Julie Bindel speaks on “Myths about Andrea Dworkin”

This speech was given by Julie Bindel at the Andrea Dworkin Commemorative Conference, April 7, 2006.

Thank you; I’m really delighted to be here. Michael has stolen some of my thunder, in that he has spoken about the myths and the lies about her. If he were here, I’d have to kill him [laughter], but he’s not. So, what can I do? I did also try, this morning, before I came here, to change my first name to “professor” or “doctor,” just to fit in with so many of you, wasn’t able to, so I’m sorry about that. I’m just here in front of you as plain old Julie.

I want to start by telling you a little story about Andrea, and it’s something that I said I would put straight if ever she died and I was still here, because it was one of the tiny, tiny injustices that really irked her.

I knew Andrea for about ten years, almost ten years by the time she died. In 2004, I had the honor to interview her for a piece in The Guardian. She was coming over to the UK, and she was primarily coming to find a publisher for Heartbreak, and it’s fantastic that this book is out today, because, I mean, John will verify this, and her friends, that to her it was extremely important. This was the book that she wanted to write. And, you know, she said that she wrote it within about four months, it just tripped off the typewriter, or the PC that I think she started to use in the last couple of years. I had read the book just before I interviewed her, and it was a phone interview because I was in Europe and she was in the States, and one story that had really struck me was the story about Allan Ginsberg. Have any of you heard about how she admired Allan Ginsberg when she was a lass, when she was young, when she was an aspiring writer, and she thought this beatnik, whatever he was, was just the god who walked the earth, and she looked up to him. She eventually met him, and she thought him strange, but okay, and through a series of events, they ended up sharing a godson. And so by this time, Andrea herself was a very famous published writer and a very famous feminist, and of course she wrote, as in Woman Hating, as Sheila shared with us today, about violence towards women, about sexual abuse of women and children. And Ginsberg had a problem with this. Now why did he have a problem with this? Because he was a child sexual abuser. Because he was a member, I think it was of the North American Man-Boy Love Association, which is what is known as a pedophile organization, and his particular liking was for 12-year-old boys.

Now this was a bar mitzvah. Now who are at bar mitzvahs? 12- and 13-year-old boys and girls. And so this particular day that Andrea got up and decided she would behave herself, was their godson’s bar mitzvah, and she knew Ginsberg was going to be there, and that very day legislation had just been clarified about child pornography being illegal. Now she was delighted. She knew Ginsberg wouldn’t be, so she tried to avoid him. And there’s a photograph, isn’t there John, of her standing with his arm around her–you know those awful photos at weddings and things, where you’re going [laughter]–and he’s there, and he kept following her around saying what’s your problem, what’s your problem, is it because of the legislation, this is why you won’t talk to me, you’re a nazi, you’re an idiot, etc. And she said, yes, of course, I have a problem with it, because I’m a feminist, and I don’t think that children should be abused and raped, which you obviously do. And he said, “Well, I’ve never met anyone with your views who’s intelligent,” and she said, “Well, you havent been out much, have you?” [laughter]

And I was recounting this to her on the phone, and she said, [husky American accent] “Oh Julie, you’ve gotta put that in the piece.” And I said, “I promise you I’ll put it in the piece.” And we then remembered in 1997 or something, when somebody from one of the British broadsheets had interviewed her, and she had told the Ginsberg story, but he was tragically still alive, so the lawyers run scared and took the piece out about Ginsberg being a child abuser. So I said, “It’s okay, he is dead, isn’t he?” [husky American accent] “Yes, he’s very dead.” So I put this in my interview with her. And then when it came out, guess what? They had taken it out. And they had something really weird in there, like, so Andrea went up to Ginsberg and she said, “I think you’re horrible,” and he said, “Well why, is it because of the legislation?” And I then said, “Well, yes, because you’re foul.” [laughter] And he said, “Listen to me, the Right want to put me in prison,” and she said, “Well, actually I’ve got a bit more imagination than that, I want you dead.”

The true story is that Ginsberg was a child abuser, a child rapist, and Andrea has so eloquently written about it in Heartbreak, and it really would I’m sure, wherever Andrea is, thrill her if you could buy it and enjoy all of it, not just that section.

So Andrea was a good friend, and she was someone whose work was very important to me, and I am not going to precede this discussion with what I disagreed with her about, because I think we’ve heard that, not everybody agrees with everything everybody says, but essentially I think what she did was, she allowed those of us who were quite radical to become more radical, and she made some of the liberals think, and I think that’s extremely important.

She was a very very clever writer, and I think this is something that we lose; when we are talking about her controversial politics, we forget the fact that she was in fact someone who was a very eloquent and artistic writer. She was a very good journalist, and what was really really sad for me, in the last couple of years of her life, was the way that she would talk on the email or on the phone, about the fact that she couldn’t get published in her own country, and it broke her heart. And I said to her, “But they love you in the UK, so when you come over, you can come and meet some of my editors,” thinking, “Hmm, would she write about different things?” These are really treading on toes here. Before then, of course, realizing that they wanted to publish her, not because of what she wrote about necessarily, that was a bonus, but because of who she was and because of how beautifully she wrote. And I took her into The Guardian newspaper, and she met these bright young things, who had maybe done women’s studies at university, but certainly are more a part of the postmodern group than the radical feminist lot, and they just thought she was wonderful, and they talked about all kinds of issues to do with sexual violence, and at the end of the meeting, they of course asked her to write for them, and she did. She wrote for various sections of the newspaper, and it would have continued, and she was a great loss, because what we needed at that time, and still need, is a voice like Andrea Dworkin’s. The fact that she did get published in the UK I think really heartened her.

One of the myths about Andrea which is really prevalent is that she didn’t hurt, that she didn’t have a heart, that she didn’t feel pain, and the nasty, horrible, foul cruelty that was in print and heard from feminists as well as male commentators, the Left as well as the Right, really did break her heart. Nothing I think broke her heart more than the fact that when she was raped and when she wrote about it in 2000 in The New Statesman and then in The Guardian, is that she wasn’t believed, but that she wasn’t believed in print. So she could bear the fact I think that people wondered if she had been raped or not, because we all hoped she hadn’t been, some of us didn’t know whether she had been or not, but I would hope that all of us with a conscience recognize that actually Andrea believed that she had been raped, and the nastiness, actually the vitriol that spilled out into the pages of the broadsheet press was staggering. Joan Smith, who is a feminist, who has written good feminist books and articles, was the first. She said Andrea must be mad, there’s something gone wrong, it’s terribly sad, isn’t it. I met her at an event, just after she published it, and she said, “What’s happened to Andrea? It’s terribly sad.” Katherine Bennett, who writes for The Guardian, who isn’t a feminist, who hasn’t written interesting feminst books or articles, who is in fact a misogynist, [laughter] she went through a checklist of how Andrea couldn’t really have been raped, including, well, she got the date wrong, the fifth of April wasn’t a Wednesday, and anyway why didn’t she report it to the police, and if she had been raped, you know, why didn’t they draw the curtains, because you would think that they’d draw the curtains because they wouldn’t want to be seen, and then bearing in mind that she understands exactly how you go and get support once you’ve been raped, how come she didn’t do that? It must be a lie. She’s totally gone mad. And there was more of this from other commentators. And the subtext was clear: Who would want to rape Andrea? Okay? That was the subtext. Now, you may think I’m going over the top. Actually a very good feminist, who’s written very good feminist books and articles, actually said this to me. She said, “Who’d want to rape Andrea?” And these are women, or these are people, who really do have an understanding, who should know better, who have an understanding of the fact that rape isn’t about sexual desire as we understand it. Why would anyone want to desire a five-year-old sexually? But five-year-olds are raped.

And so she had that, that sniping, that snidey horrible commentating all the time, and there she was, in a great deal of pain. But she carried on. And it was a time I think many of us thought that she wouldn’t carry on, and that she really had had enough, but she did, and in my interview with her, and when I then met her a few months later, she said, “You know, I thought I had given up, I felt like I was going to give up, I felt like I had nowhere else to go, but now I feel a new vitality, and I want to help women.” And that was her. That was Andrea refusing to give up, even in the worst kind of pain, the worst kind of circumstances, and the most horrible nonsense that was thrown at her over and over again.

Now I just want to read you one or two extracts from these horrible comments about her, and I’m not doing it to depress us all, or to give the impression that only bad things were said about Andrea. You could fill this room with paper containing the things that are said about Andrea which are good and better even than that, about the women’s lives she turned around, that she saved, about the men that she helped to make think about these things, about the academics, about the scholars who she influenced, about the people that she gave pleasure to through her writing and her humor.

So the reason why I want to raise this as an issue is because I think it’s up to us to know how cruel people were to Andrea. Some of us in this room were cruel to Andrea. Some of us said horrible things in print and in public about Andrea. But we really have to think, why was this allowed to happen? Why was it okay for Andrea to get all of this crap, over and over again? But then to think about how she continued in the face of all of this. I’ll just read you some brief extracts.

Now when Andrea died I wrote her obituary for The Guardian and my editor said to me at the time, “Um, you know, Julie, it’s great, um, but you have to put something in about how disliked she was.” And I said, “It’s her fuckin’ obituary.” Do me a favor. Can you honestly imagine anyone else’s obituary who was revered, some great thinker, some great male thinker, and you put in, “By the way, he was ‘orrible, did you get — he wore polyester, wasn’t it, oh god, he had a gorge,” I mean, just imagine. [laughter] So I said no, fuck you, and actually it’s the copy deadline now, so get somebody else to do it. Anyway, so it went in as it were, without the horrible bits.

But Glynis Roberts wasn’t quite so firm, it would seem, with her editor no doubt begged her to put in something horrible in the obituary in The Times. She said (this was the Mail,, the Daily Mail), “Andrea Dworkin did nothing to convert anyone remotely suspicious of feminism. With her huge frame forever clad in shapeless dungarees, she wore the opposition down with her sweeping statements that women are sexual slaves who do not enjoy intercourse, and that men are essentially rapists. She even thought that high fashion was demeaning to women (you’ll like this bit, Sheila), since it was often created by men. (Oh, that’s the reason why!) [laughter] And presumably, her fondness for shapeless unisex dungarees. She teamed these with unflattering trainers, a rumpled t-shirt (John, you would think you could have done the ironing!) [laughter] and a veritable haystack of stringy unkempt hair, and a negligent attitude to her own massive weight.”

It was quite funny, actually, after Andrea died, I went to speak about her on Women’s Hour. I waited for everyone on BBC [Radio] 4, and there was a clip of Andrea speaking, the last time she had been on Women’s Hour, and she was asked, “Well, what about your hair?” She said, [husky American accent] “You know, my hair is very curly, and it’s quite wild, but I promise you, it’s very, very clean.” So I think she’d got over it. I mean, I think she had to grow a very thick skin to it.

And you know, somebody actually mentioned Will Self. Now Will Self interviewed Andrea in the late 1990s, and Andrea really liked him, and he really liked Andrea, and he came along to a memorial event that we organized in London just last September. And he thought she was a brilliant writer. He said one or two daft things in the interview about how she didn’t want to stand up in front of him because she was so fat she didn’t want him to see that she had got fat. I mean, if only he knew how little she cared about Will Self seeing how fat she was. But anyway. So Will came along to the memorial event, and I thought, that’s nice of Will, isn’t it. And then afterwards in the Evening Standard, he’s got a little column there, and he said, “To the Greater London Assembly, where the Mayor’s Women’s Affairs Advisor had thoughtfully arranged for a memorial to be held for the great feminist writer Andrea Dworkin. The vast majority of the 200-odd present were women, and not just any old women. These were mostly radical lesbian separatists, [laughter] who eschewed so-called ‘feminine frippery.’ Speakers poured on as much scorn on liberal feminists as they did on the hated patriarchs. How curious it was therefore to observe that these women in their neutral trousers and jackets, sporting short haircuts and looking so much alike, didn’t wear jewelry.” [laughter] Something is very wrong, isn’t it. “Didn’t wear jewelry.” [laughter] Let’s continue. “Or if they did, only the most discreet jewelry. And they looked so much like, well, men.” He then went on to say that, can you imagine an anti-nazi rally where the speakers were wearing swastikas? Do you get it? No. [laughter] The nazis are the enemy of the anti-nazis, aren’t they? So why would you then come along to say, the nazis are bad people but you’re wearing what they wear, so why do we, as hating men, want to look like them? Yeah, I can see it’s gone over your head. Anyway.

A particularly good one was, I think, because myself and Catherine Viner, a feminist who works on The Guardian, had both written things about Andrea that were true, and actually that were nice about her, because that is what she deserved, so they thought they better balance it out, you know, it being a liberal newspaper, so someone called Ivana Markin? I don’t know, I think she might be in Feminists Against Censorship or something like that, but she certainly had an axe to grind. “Dworkin’s true legacy,” she wrote, “has been that far too many young women today would rather be bitten by a rabid dog than be considered a feminist.” And I think that Finn, who you’ve heard from earlier, might have something to say about that. She goes on, and it’s too boring, and then she’s back to the rabid dog scenario. “Feminism today is practically taboo again thanks to Andrea Dworkin. When you mention the word, pretty eyes widen in horror. ‘But I actually like men,’ my friends still say. ‘And I want to be seduced,’ Women of all classes don’t want to be associated with a movement defined by the likes of Andrea Dworkin. And sadly, that is what the movement, something once so beautiful and extraordinary, has been allowed to become.” That was Andrea’s legacy, she said, and we know differently.

So, that aside, I think for me, the really important legacy of Andrea’s work, and I think probably the first one to say it, the first feminist to make these connections in print, was that you cannot just talk about one type of violence without talking about another. And we’ve heard about the domestic violence industry and how it’s become cuddly, and everybody can talk about domestic violence because it’s now accepted, and it’s gender-neutral, and no one’s really threatened by it, because you see all these posters of battered victims with their bruises saying oh dear me, poor me, what did I do wrong, and can’t someone help me. What she said is, we’ve got to make sure that we advocate on behalf of the women who really can’t speak for themselves and no one wants them to speak. So for example, women in prostitution. Women in prostitution, if they’re pimped, they will, remember, have been beaten. They will have suffered domestic violence. They will inevitably have been raped. Sexual harassment is part of their job, and they will probably have been abused, sexually abused, as a child, and they will be beaten by punters. So for a woman who is working in the sex industry, she faces pretty much everything that we tend to compartmentalize. There are some women who have had everything happen to them. There are some women, through luck, or through circumstances, or just the luck of the draw about the men that they meet, will have had the misfortune to know what we are talking about on every single issue that we can bring up today about sexual violence.

The last time I saw Andrea was in the UK, last October, and we were talking about a woman who had been abused into prostitution when she was a child, and she died, and when she was alive she did some extraordinary work to bring people’s attention to the fact that actually nobody enjoys being in prostitution and it’s never a job and it’s never a choice and why the hell should women who’ve had the worst circumstances throughout their childhood be the ones to be, I think as she put it, a spittoon for men’s semen, and I said to her, why do you think that the likes of Emma Humphreys does more work to help more women than those with more resources? And she said, and you may have heard her say this before, she said, “All women are oppressed. But those of us who’ve had child sexual abuse or who’ve been battered in a relationship with a man, or who’ve been prostituted, we’re wearing very short leashes around our necks. Other women who’ve had the fortune to get to 16 or 20 or 30 who haven’t been abused, are still wearing a leash, because we’re women, we’re a class, we’re all oppressed, so their leashes are longer. But it’s always the ones who wear the shorter leads who put themselves out more, and who do the most work.” And one thing that made me feel ill about the treatment that Andrea received throughout her life, was that when she spoke about being sexually violated, about being prostituted, about being beaten by her partner in Amsterdam, about being raped in 1999, what we heard then was those not believing her, because how on earth can a feminist be raped, who knows everything to do with being raped? Surely we can protect ourselves by being feminists and by being conscious of it, and anyway shut up, because you’re a manhater, and if you have been raped the last thing we want to hear about is you and your analysis of being raped. When we have built this movement on the testimony of women and children who have been abused, who’ve been brave enough to come out and speak, and were it not for them, we would not be here today. So I really hope that we don’t treat anyone else in the future as shoddily, as horrifically as we treated Andrea.

She wrote me some emails, thankfully some of which I’ve kept. No one can imagine that the last email I had, six weeks later she would be dead, and I was wishing that I had kept every single one of them. But a little extract from an email that she sent me in March, a month before she died. She said, “You ask how I am going on. I finished a piece on disability for Guardian Weekend.” (Which was published and which I hope you’ve all had an opportunity to read, it was published two weeks after her death.) “It’s due in two weeks’ time. I think I will keep it until then, in case I remember to put something else in or it reads a little differently. You know what it’s like, small things are important. I wanted to do it very much. They wanted it to be personal, so it is very personal. I’ve never been treated with such respect by my editors, but I find it so hard to write. I just have to start earning a living again. The years of sickness have made that impossible for quite a while. I am still working on the book I wanted to do on American literature. I will not be going to the conference in Chicago on pornography. I have mixed feelings about it. It takes a lot of pressure off me.” (This is a conference that she was invited to that disinvited her because they could not afford to go over with someone who could assist her. She was badly disabled at that stage.) She said, “It means the pressure is off me, because I don’t really have the energy. On the other hand, I feel as if the conference wouldn’t be happening at all if not for my work over the last 30 years. So it’s a mixed bag. Certainly better for my health. I feel strongly that it will be a good conference.” And then she said, “Please make a formal complaint about the fact that I wasn’t invited.” Which I did. [laughter] So fighting to the end. “For the rest, I find myself easily exhausted and still have trouble concentrating on my work. Two hours and I’m done. This is very distressing to me, but I fought very hard for those two hours and I try to honor them, berating myself for not being able to do more. That said, I feel a new beginning.”

So I think what we have to take away from today and from the work that Andrea did is that were she still here now, she would still be fighting. There would be none of this nonsense about how she wants to retire, and she’s burnt out, and she’s had enough, and let the young women do it. She would have continued. And so I think it is up to us. Some of us care about it, some of us don’t, some of us are passionate, some of us are not, but we can be absolutely sure that we’ll wake up tomorrow and men are still raping and abusing women, so unless we do something about it, they’ll continue unabated. And I’m sure that’s what Andrea would have wanted, for us to continue.[applause]

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Art Feminist Exhibition

Today, I want to share with you a theme (and a prompt) from the fearless and evocative realms of feminist art with our spotlight on two trailblazing artists — Tracey Emin and Francesca Woodman. From the bold strokes and haunting narratives that define their feminist expressions to my own interpretation.

TRACEY EMIN : A Portrait of Raw Emotion

Tracey Emin, a prominent figure in the Young British Artists movement, embraces an unfiltered exploration of personal experiences and emotions. Her art, often autobiographical, unveils the complexities of womanhood, vulnerability, and resilience. Emin’s provocative pieces, including “My Bed,” challenge societal norms and redefine the boundaries of feminist expression.

Influences and Inspirations: Inspired by the confessional nature of her work, Emin draws from her own life, relationships, and the turbulent landscapes of her emotions. Her influences range from the rawness of Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits to the unapologetic spirit of feminist literature.

FRANCESCA WOODMAN : Capturing Femininity in Shadows

Francesca Woodman’s black-and-white photography speaks volumes about the ephemeral nature of life and the intricacies of femininity. Known for her haunting self-portraits, Woodman’s work delves into the ethereal, exploring themes of identity, body, and the metaphysical.

Influences and Inspirations: Woodman’s influences can be traced to surrealist photography, with echoes of Claude Cahun’s introspective self-portraits and the dreamlike compositions of Man Ray. Her unique vision resonates in the delicate interplay between light and shadow, capturing the ghostly essence of the female experience.

Vision and Prompts Explanation: In this fusion of Emin’s trash feminist aesthetic and Woodman’s black-and-white photographic allure, we aim to celebrate the duality of feminist expression. Emin’s boldness challenges societal norms, encouraging artists to embrace unfiltered self-expression, while Woodman’s haunting elegance invites a nuanced exploration of the ethereal and introspective aspects of femininity.

In the spirit of fostering a truly inclusive dialogue, let’s emphasize that my vision of feminist is broad, intersectional, and open to all interpretations. We welcome the rich tapestry of perspectives, irrespective of gender identity. Male artists, non-gender-oriented creators, and everyone in between — your unique representation and interpretation of the feminist theme are not only welcome but celebrated. Art knows no boundaries, and our collective canvas is enriched by the diverse voices that contribute to the conversation. Let this be an invitation for artists of all walks to engage, create, and unite in the exploration of feminism’s multifaceted landscape with respect and open-mind vision. Your art, your voice, your perspective — it all matters. Together, let’s redefine and expand the narrative of feminist art.

Now Here are some of the prompt I used on Midjourney and Bing to create all the AI Artworks Influenced by these two great artists on this post :

Prompt 1 : woman wearing a light white silky waving skirt and one high heel shoe, seated in the middle of a destroyed kitchen with a bottle and a cigar, black and white Photography style, bold, gritty, ethereal elegance meets sensual haunted auto portrait and trash feminism, provocative, 35mm, High Contrast, Crepuscular Rays, Moody Lighting, Tracey Emin and Francesca Woodman influences — ar 4:3

Prompt 2 : woman, bald, screaming in a destroyed empty room, wearing a black and white gender fluid wedding outfit and makeup melting, black and white Photography style, bold, gritty, ethereal elegance meets sensual haunted auto portrait and trash feminism, provocative, 35mm, High Contrast, Crepuscular Rays, Moody Lighting, Tracey Emin and Francesca Woodman influences — ar 4:3

Prompt 3 : black and white Photography style, bold, gritty, ethereal elegance meets haunted portrait and trash feminism, provocative, 35mm, third view, High Contrast, Crepuscular Rays, Moody Lighting, Tracey Emin and Francesca Woodman influences — ar 4:3

I created all the images in this post with Ai And manual Edit, inspired by these two wonderful Photographers.

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OTD in Music History: Notable American pianist and composer Amy Beach nee Cheney (1867 – 1944) is born in New Hampshire. A historically important musical pioneer, Beach was the first successful American female composer of large-scale “classical” music – her “Gaelic Symphony,” premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1896, was the first symphony ever composed and published by an American woman. Against the odds, Beach managed to become one of the most respected and acclaimed American composers of her era. The only female member of the so-called “Second New England School” (alongside such noted American composers as John Knowles Paine, Arthur Foote, George Chadwick, Edward MacDowell, George Whiting, and Horatio Parker), Beach’s writing is primarily in a lush Romantic idiom, although in some of her later works she experimented with more “exotic” or “advanced” harmonies and compositional techniques. PICTURED: A portrait photograph showing the middle-aged Beach, which she signed for a fan. The signature here reads "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach" because, in 1885, Beach married Dr. Henry Harris Aubrey Beach (1843–1910), a prominent Boston surgeon, Harvard lecturer, and amateur singer twenty-four years her senior (Beach was just eighteen on her wedding day). In accordance with the customs and expectations of that era, she thereafter used the name "Mrs. H.H.A. Beach" for all professional purposes. In her own private correspondence, however, she continued to regularly use her given first name. An interesting example (coming in the form of correspondence with another notable American feminist and arts philanthropist) can be seen here:

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Also, jobs I've had (in approximate order, as best I can recall):

Wedding photographer for school math teacher

Buy/sell/trade raunchy-but-not-quite-porn-mags/create custom "fic" (for lack of a better word) for guys in my high school

Yearbook Camp TA (2 summers)

Write/storyboard for hardcore (awful) comic porn site

Nude pics

Coffee Shop 1

Commissioned artist

Freelance photography

Denny's (4 hours)

Gun Shop

School Newspaper (editorial position with stipend)

School Magazine (editorial position with stipend)

Coffee Shop 2

Local Newspaper (Art Director)

Fetish photos/videos for local customers

Grassroots Campaigns (2 hours)

Collecting recyclables

Coffee Shop 2 again

Literary Magazine

Freelance Photography

Freelance Graphic Design

Photography Assistant for Real Wedding Photographer

Current computer office job

Freelance Graphic Design

Feminist Magazine Cartoonist

Fetish videos

Freelance Graphic Design

Commissioned artist

Etsy seller (of very silly buttons and pins)

Other than the brief period after the newspaper ghosted me I've been employed pretty much constantly for like sixteen years and I had side hustles pretty much since the start so I have done a Lot of Weird Bullshit both for work and for fun.

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"do you have thoughts on the film drama" you so naively asked.

here is my manifesto, which is more of a timeline:

booksmart was my favorite movie in 2019, and when dont worry darling was announced, i was stoked O had a cool sounding project and got a great cast together. everything i knew filtered in from film twitter. harry replaced shia, which was exciting news

O made a series of posts praising the cast & crew, and this is what she said about harry:

inset the instagram

very cool! perhaps a little too pat-on-the-back for a man doing the bare minimum, but harry's name means something to fans and in the business. (you can track a bit of a huge boost in numbers of likes and comments on instagram after DWD and harry stuff).

at this point they were about a month and half into the so-called “romance”. they were photographed holding hands in january 2021 at harry’s managers wedding. DWD filming had wrapped in december but they were doing reshoots through february. a little bold for a director and her actor to be at the wedding date stage of the relationship after, at a minimum of knowing each other, 3 months. whatever. stranger things. hot people find a way of getting together. shrug.

she was also quoted around december 2020 in a “directors on directors” interview that she has a “no assholes policy” on set, and first implies/states that shia was perhaps an asshole that she fired intentionally. this will bite her in the ass apprxomiately two and a half years into repeating this version of the story.

summer 2021, we get pictures of them being cute in LA, kissing on a yacht in italy, and it’s all a lil scandy but whatever, she’s a grownup who is in the midst of a custody battle with jason sudeikis over their two kids and ostensibly working on edits for DWD and getting the ball rolling on her third projects. whatever- i’m supportive!

september 2021 i got to see harry on his second show of love on tour, which made me questions the depths of the fangirling i could be capable under the right circumstances. afterwards i was fed a lot of harry concert reels and even jealous because she wasnt at my show, but she was at a ton of harry's concerts across america. she was always bopping in the crowd, interacting with a few fans.

somewhere in 2021: first rumor of conflict on set gets some traction. a tiktok alleges that the person was a PA and witnessed florence being very frustrated with olivia and taking over directing her own scenes. truly just mindless gossip, but a seed is planted. did florence and olivia maybe not get along on the set of DWD?

december 2021, olivia is the vogue cover. first DWD teaser, first drop that itll be out september 2022. some key quotes "the feminist mystique on acid"

"The 1950s get this rap as a very controlled, conservative era, when in fact it was incredibly debaucherous. My grandparents on my mother’s side loved to party"

"I kept saying, ‘Why isn’t there any good sex in film anymore?"

"realize how rarely they see female hunger, and specifically this type of female pleasure"

"The celebrity press has been particularly harsh on Wilde, professing to be scandalized that a woman in her 30s should dare to find love with a man 10 years younger. “It’s obviously really tempting to correct a false narrative,” Wilde says, with rueful composure, when I ask if she’d like to address the furor. “But I think what you realize is that when you’re really happy, it doesn’t matter what strangers think about you. All that matters to you is what’s real, and what you love, and who you love.”"

around the end of 2021 we get her vogue cover story, and the start of this narrative she is pushing about female-led stories, about making good sex scenes, about female pleasure, etc etc. DWD is an erotic thriller- sweet, we could use more of that in cinema.

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juniperberries · 2 years

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keep scrolling if you dont want depressed ranting lol i cant figure out how to add a read more on mobile

im back on my bullshit rambling to nobody on tumblr dot com but can i just say that im struggling so hard with not wearing makeup these days

i used to wear makeup all the time from like 12 to maybe 22. like the kind of frequent makeup use that leads to feeling like a gross human without it. like spending a half hour to an hour putting on makeup in the morning in like middle and high school. i also refused to wear glasses in public when i first found out my vision sucked because i was an insecure 12 year old girl with unknown at the time autism who was terrified of not looking as nice as my “friends” (i also had a best friend until 13 who made it her mission in life to make me feel lesser than and prevented me from befriending her friends that i shared a lunch table with every damn day but anyway)

anyway i started wearing glasses every now and then in high school when i was feeling lazy in the morning. i think sometime after 18 maybe? i started going out places without makeup and it was nice! i didnt have to spend that extra time getting ready in the morning, i could rub my eyes as much as i wanted, i could nap during the day without worrying about getting makeup all over my pillow, and i didnt have to take it all off before bed

i think as i started to see more and more interesting feminist takes on makeup on this website i started to realize that i enjoyed the benefits of not wearing it and i didnt want to contribute to societal rules about women needing makeup to be seen as professional, as pretty, as people, etc. i stopped wearing it completely. i got married a few months ago with no makeup whatsoever.

thing is, as much as i realize that wearing makeup contributes to the problem, and realize objectively that i dont need it, i kind of feel like shit! i think it has to do with having the distinct memory of the attention i get with makeup versus without. makeup and clothing was a big part of my Artistic Expression in high school and i thrived on getting compliments from other women about my eyeliner or jewelry or whatever. i felt very Artsy and people were friendlier!

but add in the fact that i gained a fair amount of weight in 2019 and 2020 and im just fucking ignored a lot! people used to call me pretty a lot and it completely stopped when i stopped wearing makeup. i noticed a sharp difference in the coverage from our wedding planner and photographer on their websites for our wedding, which again i did not wear makeup for, versus other weddings they worked on that were more aesthetic or whatever.

it’s just so much more painful to experience all this when i know what it was like for me in the past! at this point i just feel gross and unattractive all the time which isnt good for my mental health either! i know objectively that it shouldnt impact my confidence and that We Live in a Society and that not wearing makeup is the right choice but try telling that to the vast majority of the population who arent so progressive. maybe the moral of the story here is that i need to surround myself with likeminded people but im Autistic and Very Depressed Right Now and havent had any local friendships that lasted longer than a few months since i dropped out of high school in 2013! so yknow

anyway it might be obvious but this is a desperate attempt at reaching out so if you have any advice or reassurance or similar experience pls reply or send a message or something

#yeah i live with my husband now which is healthier than with my family #but im down to being around one person #and my mom is seven hours and a country border away #nobody cares

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bookgeekgrrl · 2 years

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My media this week (3-9 Jul 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

🥰 The Way I Feel For You (Becassine) - 77K, Stucky, omegaverse fake-dating - reread, forever fave, has every yummy thing I love about these tropes

😊 Cards On The Table (Agatha Christie, author; Hugh Fraser, narrator) - would genuinely love to know if the line in ABC Murders sparked this or if AC already had it planned and slipped that line in as a clever easter egg; love this one for bringing so many of her 'slueuths' together, just like I loved it when HP worked with Mr. Satterthwaite

😊 The Company You Keep (orbingarrow) - post-WS canon divergent, background stucky but really very Bruce focused, really enjoyed these characterizations and seeing Bruce front & center

🥰 Paradise Lost & Found (Jennifer Knightley) - delightful contemp romance set in a tropical wedding resort with a jilted groom & a rebound fling that (obvs) develops feelings.

🥰 To Say Nothing of the Dog: Or How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last (Oxford Time Travel #2) (Connie Willis, author; Stephen Crossley, narrator) - it's been 20 yrs since I read this; a mash up of the vibes of Victorian comic literature, '30s golden age detective fiction and PG Wodehouse into a delightful time travel adventure romp. It does feel a little dated in some of the characterizations, but sadly kotowing to the narcissistic, abusive, imperious, unreasonable, reality-denying billionaire on the off chance she might donate some money and everyone pretending her behavior is 'whimsical' and 'hilarious' and not absolutely toxic feels unfortunately super fucking contemporary (but shout out to naming her Lady Shrapnell - absolute *chef's kiss* to that Wilde allusion)

🥰 Read, White & Blue (JJK) - 99K, shrunkyclunks - canon divergent newly defrosted Steve and librarian Bucky; loved it!

💖💖 +69K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

two more in the fantastic Differently Okay Local Idiots series by One-EyedBossman (desert000rose) & SecretFandomStories, which has no-powers vets Steve & Bucky figuring out how their jagged edges fit together in a D/s relationship: Part 6: Charlie Foxtrot (16K) and Part 7: De Oppresso Liber (12K)

put out this fire (burning in my soul) (liloau, thatsmysecret) - MCU: Stucky, 19K - reunited childhood friends with firefighter Steve, a cat up a tree and a DELIGHTFUL Winnifred Barnes (the audio prompt for this was fucking hilarious and the fic absolutely did it justice)

Lesson One: La Petite Mort (AidaRonan) - OFMD: BlackBonnet, 3K - after an offscreen reunion & reconciliation, Stede and Ed come together

Take Your Time Coming Home (odetteandodile) - MCU: Stucky, 13K - reread, love this prewar 'hot rack' flatshare sorta epistolary romance

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Olivia Colman reads a letter responding to an unsolicited penis photograph

Benedict Cumberbatch reads Nick Cave's letter about grief

Armistead Maupin reads a letter to his 16-year-old self

Shirley Manson reads a powerful feminist letter to her niece

Legends of Tomorrow - s6, e14-15

Our Flag Means Death - s1, e6-7

Murder In Provence - s1, e1

Bringing Up Baby

The Brokenwood Mysteries - s8, e1-2