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“The Dying Swan” (1917) - Yevgeni Bauer

#an accumulation of shadows #half in love #queue

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Chaenomeles ~ hitotose.flowers.811

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#💜 #bloodborne #spiders / #queue

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abigail liddiard

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Hallmark Teddy Bear Stickers, scanned by me

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Circa 19th Century Tiara With Amethysts, Diamonds, Enamel and Gold

Source: MFA Boston via Pinterest

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THE COMPANY OF WOLVES (1984) dir. Neil Jordan

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Spring-inspired envelope 🌷🕊️

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She

#if i survive this month i'll be done with uni #pray for me #a shade more softhearted #P #important animals #vain post #queue

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Cottage Garden Borders, Bedfordshire, UK by ukgardenphotos

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November 13th, 1982. Photographed by Ron Galella.

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In this book you focus on the idea of gender as a global ‘phantasm’ – this charged, overdetermined, anxiety- and fear-inducing cluster of fantasies that is being weaponised by the right. How did you go about starting to investigate that? Judith Butler: When I was burned in effigy in Brazil in 2017, I could see people screaming about gender, and they understood ‘gender’ to mean ‘paedophilia.’ And then I heard people in France describing gender as a Jewish intellectual movement imported from the US. This book started because I had to figure out what gender had become. I was naïve. I was stupid. I had no idea that it had become this flash point for right-wing movements throughout the world. So I started doing the work to reconstruct why I was being called a paedophile, and why that woman in the airport wanted to kill me with the trolley. I’m not offering a new theory of gender here; I’m tracking this phantasm’s formation and circulation and how it’s linked to emerging authoritarianism, how it stokes fear to expand state powers. Luckily, I was able to contact a lot of people who translated Gender Trouble in different parts of the world, who were often gender activists and scholars in their own right. They told me about what’s happening in Serbia, what’s happening in Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Russia. So I became a student of gender again. I’ve been out of the field for a while. I stay relatively literate, of course, but I’ve written on war, on ethics, on violence, on nonviolence, on the pandemic… I’m not in gender studies all the time. I had to do a lot of reading.  There’s a lot of focus in the book on how the anti-gender movement has moved across the world in the past few decades, and how it’s inextricable from Catholic doctrine. It was clarifying for me; domestic anti-trans movements in the UK mostly self-identify as secular.  Judith Butler: In the UK, and even in the US, people don’t realise that this anti-gender ideology movement has been going on for some time in the Americas, in central Europe, to a certain degree in Africa, and that it’s arrived in the US by different routes, but it’s arrived without announcing its history. It became clear to me that a lot of the trans-exclusionary feminists didn’t realise where their discourse was coming from. Some of them do; some people who call themselves feminists are aligned with right-wing positions, and it’s confusing, but there it is. There’s an uncomfortable history of fascist feminism in movements like British suffragism, for instance. Judith Butler: Yes, and of racism. But when Putin made clear that he agreed with JK Rowling, she was probably surprised, and she rightly said, ‘no, I don’t want your alliance’, but it was an occasion for her to think about who she’s allying herself with, unwittingly or not. The anti-gender movement was first and foremost a defence of Biblical scripture, and of the idea that God created man and woman, and that the human form exists only in this duality and that without it, the human is destroyed – God’s creation is destroyed. So that morphed, as the Vatican’s doctrine moved into Latin America, into the idea that people who advocate ‘gender’ are forces of destruction who seek to destroy man, woman, the human, civilisation and culture. 

#from ​this march!!!!!! #‘’fun’’ fact for native english speakers: #‘gender’ has become a loanword especially in central and eastern europe that means basically anything conservatives don’t like: #gayness abortion et cetera #that’s why one sees insane looking signs like ‘stop gender’ from people who can’t shut up about gender #gender id est women and men’s ‘proper’ places and roles in society #my completely serious suggestion for the english language is to use only the word ‘sex’ #denying ‘sex’ is harder than denying ‘gender’ #this might have nothing to do with butler’s book as I haven’t read it but had to get this out of my chest #(my first language hasn’t adopted ‘gender’ so we have only one word for sex/gender; #reading in english i’m always Very aware of the words used for sex/gender) #gender studies

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anyakonda__

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Rooftops of Paris FRANCE

photo via apartment

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губы у тебя пересохли. иди, я тебя поцелую

Daniil and the Plague

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