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woundgallery · 3 months
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Egon Schiele, Self Portrait as St. Sebastian, 1914
Gina Pane, Etude pour le martyr de Saint Sébastien, 1983
Louise Bourgeois, Sainte Sébastienne, Version 1 of 2, state VI of XII, variant, 1990, drypoint
Leonardo da Vinci, Drawing of the martyred Saint Sebastian
Albrecht Durer, St. Sebastian At The Tree, 1501
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notabittamedsblog · 3 months
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—Anne Carson, “Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings”, Plainwater
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lavenderfeminist · 3 months
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Do you ever worry about doing more harm than good? Feminism is one of the most important things for our society. However your viewpoints on feminism are quite different than a lot of people’s, including a handful of your friends. Do you ever feel like you’ll have any chance someday that your thoughts will change and you will be able to at least partially recognize MtF people as women, FtM people as men, etc., especially considering the medical studies on gender dysphoria? I’m curious. I am a non-binary individual (and because I just know there’s going to be assumptions otherwise, I was assigned female at birth), and I can genuinely empathize with the feminist aspects (not the trans exclusionary ones) of the TERF movement: women need more rights and protections, abortion is a human right, men oppress women (and people like me who don’t identify as women but still present fully as such for acceptance reasons) and this needs to change, etc. I just wish people in these circles would focus on that rather than painting trans women as this huge problem. I’ve met a trans woman when she was still identifying as a man, her dysphoria was extremely hard for her. She’s started transitioning now and has always been respectful and supportive of the other women in her life. I guess I’m just ever the optimist, that y’all will realize, yes there are a handful of shitty men out there who want to use the trans identity for something harmful, but there are shitty people from all walks of life, and overall even if our experiences with our birth sex are different, trans women shouldn’t be shunned more than they already are. I can’t believe I wrote this whole thing on a terf blog because ik it won’t change your mind but respond as you wish I guess lol
Yeah, I used to be what some would refer to as a "transmed"/"truscum". In other words, I viewed transgenderism/transexualism as a medical issue resulting from a discrepancy between someone's brain and their outward sex. I have not and will never consider being "nonbinary" a legitimate identity; there is no third sex. And before someone says "what about intersex people!", intersex conditions are sex specific and more accurately called disorders of sexual development (DSDs). Stop using them as pawns in your invalid arguments.
There is no chance of me ever reverting to that set of beliefs again in the case of today's evidence. If presented with evidence that it is physically possible for someone to have a female brain in a male body or vice-versa, and medically possible to verify this in a given individual, my beliefs would change again. But not only is the "brainsex" argument nonsensical when taken to its conclusion (a "female" brain in an otherwise-male body is simply a variation of a male brain...), but modern science very clearly demonstrates that there really are not significant enough biological differences between male and female brains for us to even make a distinction wide enough to sort tran people.
I once passionately believed what you do (to an extent), but I cannot anymore, for these reasons:
The modern trans movement is lying to you. They're telling you that the "transwomen in bathrooms" arguments are a lie, right? That transwomen just want to pee like everyone else? I believed them too, until I was confronted with undeniable evidence that trans women are just as predatory in women's bathrooms as men dressed as women (shocking, because there's no actual distinction being offered to allow the former while barring the latter from women's bathrooms). If anybody who says they're a woman is allowed in women's bathrooms, actual gender feelings are irrelevant, because any man can enter a female space so long as he says the right things.
"Woman" to me holds no more meaning than being a adult human being of the female sex. I have no other associations beyond that. So "trans women are women" is as false to me as "gingerbread women are women". If you say "trans women identify with the gender associated with women", I will agree with you, because femininity, the sex role (gender) assigned to women, is something a man can want to perform. But trans women are not women, because they are not female, and to claim that half of the population calls themself the word for "woman" in their language for any reason other than being female is to assert that half the population identifies with femininity, and that is regressive. I have nothing in common with a trans woman other than us both claiming the word "woman", and that is an absolutely meaningless similarity. I literally have more in common with every trans man on the planet by virtue of inhabiting a female body.
I still believe in sex dysphoria. I still believe that ADULTS with sex dysphoria are entitled to make decisions to modify their bodies, even if they are decisions I find confusing/dangerous/odd, so long as they are adequately informed about the medical risks and consequences of their decisions. I simply do not believe that this necessitates me remaining uncritical of the social and capitalistic factors that may motivate transition for reasons not covered by innate sex dysphoria.
I do not believe in gender identity, and I never will. I do not believe in gendered souls, gendered feelings, etc. I do not believe any sense of gender is innate. A man who feels like a woman is, to me, simply a man making assumptions about the way women feel. A man who wishes he was female is, to me, someone with the rights to make body modifications that mimic a female body, but not someone who will ever be female. I do not believe there is anything inherently different between men and women save for our sexes. Thus, there is no avenue through my worldview in which a transwoman could ever be a woman.
I support your right to believe in gender identity, the same way I support a Christian's right to believe in souls. But I am not obligated to participate in or validate your beliefs, the same way I do not need to participate in or validate a Christian belief in souls. That does not make me transphobic, in the same way that it does not make me Christianphobic. Stop reducing the actual, real hatred that some people have for gender nonconformity to a lack of religious beliefs.
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hilarymantels · 2 years
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secrets save me from dissolving
anne carson • “the interviews (2)” from mimneros: the brainsex paintings
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literaturha · 6 years
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It is true he likes to get the sun into every poem. But the poet's task, Kafka says, is to lead the isolated human being into the infinite life, the contingent into the lawful.
Anne Carson, Plainwater
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antigonick · 3 years
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I didn’t know mary oliver and anne carson are queer omg
Mary Oliver very much. Her long-time partner was Mary Malone Cook. For Anne Carson I'll add a disclaimer: she won't touch labels with a ten-foot-pole, but gender-non-conformity (see Autobiography of Red, Antigonick, and Elektra or Bakkhai's translation notes), demi/asexuality (see AoR, The Anthropology of Water, Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings, The Glass Essay) and bisexuality (see AoR, Red Doc>, Canicula di Anna, Sappho If Not Winter, or Beauty of the Husband) are an elemental part of all her works. The way she tackles the concept of Eros as well as her constant effort towards genre-bending is tied to queerness too, in my opinion. Her works are about queerness, but they are also full of deflections and blur the line between confession and autofiction. I personally read her as queer, but that's in the largest sense of the word.
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elizabethanism · 3 years
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—all I could hear was your pulse and the wind combing along your earbone like antimatter.
Anne Carson, excerpt of Betwixt Thee and Me Let There be Truth (Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings)
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xshayarsha · 4 years
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Half moon through the pines at dawn as a girl’s ribcage.
Anne Carson, from Plainwater; Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings.
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oh-bonerline · 6 years
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M: Secrets save me from dissolving
I: What do you mean
M: My separate existence down behind the world
“Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings,” Anne Carson
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hybridsignals · 4 years
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fr. 14: None Such as Him
           He looks to memory.
None such:      amid the butting bulls none such on the death flanks of  Hermos.      None. Those elders who saw him saw the source points.      It stung God. They say his spinal cord ran straight out of the sun.
Mimnermos tr. Anne Carson, Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings
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gainsayer · 6 years
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Who is Afraid of Joy? Anne Carson and Leslie McGrath's New Collections.
Who is Afraid of Joy? Anne Carson and Leslie McGrath’s New Collections.
The newness of Anne Carson cannot cease—every book of hers envisions humankind distinctly. It is for this same reason Plainwater is fresh. Anne Carson has successfully archived with this collection of essays and poems an ocean of surprises. Divided into five (5) parts: Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings, Short Talks, Canicula di Anna, The Life of Towns, and, The Anthropology of Water; Plainwater…
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woundgallery · 1 year
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Tracey Emin-Terrebly Wrong (1999)
Frida Kahlo-My Birth or Bed (1932)
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woundgallery · 1 year
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Anne Carson
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Kiki Smith, Untitled, 1987-90
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woundgallery · 9 months
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Isamu Noguchi, Leda, 1942, alabaster
Cy Twombly,  Leda and the Swan (part i), 1980. / acrylic and oil on paper, 47 ¾ x 29 ½ in., 1
Francesca Woodman, Providence, Rhode Island, 1975-78
Fernando Botero, Leda the Swan, 1932, bronze with black patina 
Reuben Nakian, Leda and the Swan, 1970, etching and Chine Colle, 63.5 x 68.6 cm
Cy Twombly, Leda and the Swan (Part V), 1980
Reuben Nakian, Leda and the Swan, 1981, black litho crayon on paper, 49.9 x 67
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woundgallery · 1 year
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Dorothea Tanning, Tragic Table, 1970-73, Wood, fabric, and wool, 43 3/8 x 48 1/8 x 33 1/2 in.
Berlinde de Bruyckere, Romeu my deer, 2011
Berlinde de Bruyckere – Aaneén genaaid (Sew together) 2002 Cover, wool, wood, wax, iron Private collection, Belgium
Louise Bourgeois, Child devoured by kisses, 1999, fabric, thread, stainless steel, wood and glass, 99.1 x 153.7 x 100.3 cm, 39 x 60 1⁄2 x 39 3⁄8 in.
Louise Bourgeois, Cell XXII (portrait), 2000
Berlinde De Bruyckere, Aanéén-genaaid, 2002, blankets, wax, Jesmonite, wood; 166 x 48 x 50 cm,
Sarah Lucas, Nud Cycladic 3, 2010, nylon tights, synthetic fibre, breeze blocks & steel wire
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woundgallery · 10 months
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Rebecca Horn, Black Bath, 1985
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Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen. Oil Installation (waste oil, aluminium pool, electric pump and steel tube). 2003.
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