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Dior dollhouse dress, 2022

#fashion

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“A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face in the earth, smelling the wild smell. She might have to drive into the wind. She may have to plant something, pull things out of the ground or put them into the ground. She may have to knead and bake, rapt in dough up to her elbows. She may have to trek into the hills, leaping from rock to rock trying out her voice against the mountain. She may need hours of starry nights where the stars are like face powder spilt on a black marble floor. She may feel she will die if she doesn’t dance naked in a thunderstorm, sit in perfect silence, return home ink-stained, paint-stained, tear-stained, moon-stained.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes 

#quote

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"There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle."

—Janet Fitch, White Oleander

#white oleander #janet fitch #quote

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"I was surprised at the scent, not at all like Ma Griffe, it smelled like small flowers that grew in leafy English woods, like a girl who would wear pinafores and pantaloons and make chains of wild daisies, a fairy-tale girl from the Victorian age. A nursery-rhyme girl in a blue dress holding a pet lamb in a cottage garden."

—Janet Fitch, White Oleander

#white oleander #janet fitch #quote

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"A jewel is forming inside my body. No, it's not my heart. This is harder, cold and clean. I wrap myself around this new jewel, cradle it within me."

—Janet Fitch, White Oleander

#white oleander #janet fitch #quote

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#j.k. rowling #victoria smith

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Lesbian feminist Julie Bindel being attacked by a bearded man in June 2019 would, under normal circumstances, have been seen as an occurrence of men's violence against women, as well as a hate crime against homosexuals. Yet when the attacker claimed that he was a woman, this analysis was entirely nullified. The attacker turned out to be a rabid Twitterer, who on top of all things called himself Cathy Brennan after a famous feminist. Progressive commentators came out in support of the perpetrator and claimed that Bindel was the actual perpetrator of violence due to her views. What we see here is a symbolic reversal, eerily similar to that which occurs in abusive relationships, where the perpetrator assumes the role of victim. This generally referred to as DARVO: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Men assuming the role of women and then perpetuating violence against women is an extremely advanced form of gaslighting which presumably has very little to do with wanting to be trans or a woman. What we are dealing with is a neo-patriarchal political movement whose purpose is to silence and intimidate women. By sporting a beard and behaving violently, “Brennan” sends clear signals to women that he is a dominant male, while simultaneously claiming that he is oppressed both as a woman and as a trans woman and thus deserves sympathy. But both personas in the same body are not possible: a bearded biological man who does not pass as a woman cannot be treated like, nor oppressed like, a woman by society nor be the object of transphobia. Claiming otherwise is an advanced form of manipulation, in which both the role of the oppressor and the oppressed are occupied by “Brennan” himself, leaving the woman without a position. The underlying message is all too familiar: the woman spoke, and thus provoked the man to hit. Indeed, it is possible to analyse the violence and boycott campaigns around “terf”-accusations as patriarchy entering into DARVO-mode. While the patriarch of old would proudly state that he is the one in charge and no disobedience is tolerated, the trans-era brotherhood achieves the same by claiming victim status, and declaring that any female who disobeys us in fact dictator.

– Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2023) On the Meaning of Sex: Thoughts on the New Definition of Woman, pp. 290-1.

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Girl with a dog, ca. 1885

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#the little mermaid

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"She shut her eyes hard, and pretended that she could glide out of hell. She knew there was a Passage of Brightness right outside Hell, and that the elves had left a large pitcher of fresh dew, just for her. So, she pretended that she was out in the Passage, out drinking dew, out of Hell."

Radha Bharadwaj, Closet Land (1991)

#closet land #quote

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@harrypotternetwork creation event: ghosts

‘i sought to make myself cleverer, more important than my mother.’

- helena ravenclaw

#harry potter

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"far below the roots of trees, a maiden trapped in a somnambulistic state."

—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype’

#quote

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#j.k. rowling

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#j.k. rowling

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"The red shoes shone like burnished apples, like hearts, like red-washed plums."

—Clarissa Pinkola Estés, ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype’

#quote #the red shoes

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René Lalique, 1860-1945

Ophelia, n/d, plaque patinated bronze, 4 ⅜x9 ¼x0 ¾ in

Private Collection

#ophelia

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Anchoress | Chris Newby | 1993

#anchoress