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Another Kate Bush mood. Been bad but this is my magic song

#coming out of my tumblr hiatus to reblog this and say #MOOD #the Hounds of Love album fuelled my morning writing session and I am fucking ALIVE right now #rubyetc #well here I go

theorynotebook

Tomboyism is punished, however, when it appears to be the sign of extreme male identification (takings a boy’s name or refusing to wear girl clothing of any type) and when it threatens to extend beyond childhood and into adolescence. Teenage tomboyism presents a problem and tends to be subject to the most severe efforts to reorient. We could say that tomboyism is tolerated as long as the child remains prepubescent; as soon as puberty begins, however, the full force of gender conformity descends on the girl. Gender conformity is pressed onto all girls, not just tomboys, and this is where it becomes hard to uphold the notion that male femininity presents a greater threat to social and familial stability than female masculinity. Female adolescence represents the crisis of coming of age as a girl in a male-dominated society. If adolescence for boys represents a rite of passage (much celebrated in Western literature in the form of the bildungsroman), and an ascension to some version (however attenuated) of social power, for girls, adolescence is a lesson in restraint, punishment, and repression. It is in the context of female adolescence that the tomboy instincts of millions of girls are remodeled into compliant forms of femininity. That any girls do emerge at the end of adolescence as masculine women is quite amazing.

Jack Halberstam. Female Masculinity. 1998. (via sullengirlalmlghty)

#about to read this #phd life #jj halberstam #female masculinity

witchmachine

“As goes popular imagination, so goes belief, and so goes behavior. Which fictions we choose to elevate matters. I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI some distant day, I’m worried about how we treat other humans, now, today, all over the world, far worse than anything that’s depicted in AI movies. It matters that still, the vast majority of science fiction narratives that appear in popular culture are imagined by, written by, directed by, and funded by white men who interpret the crumbling of their world as the crumbling of the world.”

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Instructions for the Age of Emergency, Monica Byrne. (via kuanios)

trying to find that ann leckie tweet about how AI revolt narratives are universally about trying to make an oppressed slave class into the bad guys.

(via gutterowl)

#AI #science fiction #feminism

linehostrup

My graphic novel “The Matter We’re made of” will be published this autumn by Centrala and Forlaget Forlæns.

The Story Ellen is a young, ambitious woman who is just about to fulfil her dream of building her own house, when she is diagnosed with a paralytic terminal illness. As she desperately tries to keep her dream alive, house, dream and disease slowly blends together and draws Ellen into an enticing fantasy. But can a dream give you the things life denies you? Ellen needs to find out what makes life worth living.

Trough quirky, colourful artwork, and touching upon subjects such as mortality, family, and heritage, the story takes the reader on an emotional ride of highs and lows to explore the essence of human life and the matter we’re made of.

charlottejohanne

Line is GREAT and I am EXCITED!

#comics #linehostrup #to read

themyscrian

when a woman designs an outfit for women VS when men are allowed to do it

jin-broadshoulders

frostbackcat-deactivated2021031

Stop letting men do things 2k18

#superheroes #feminism

bigjazzboy

boopinbabbit

#My excuse for not doing things

i like how all three miguels pop into the frame at the same time

#MOOD #had to book flights for two separate trips today and none of them worked our how i wanted them to #anxiety #personal

Anxiety triggers I wish I didn’t have: booking flights, planning travel, make plans more than a month in advance.

Things required for both my personal and professional life: all of the above.

#personal #anxiety #phd life #dual citizenship life #ffs brain

saoirseronanswife

“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

prismatic-bell

In this essay, this writer will explore the implications of pretending that one’s own personal view is not part of one’s essay, and the inaccessibility of academia related to established custom of artificial detachment.

shredsandpatches

In this essay, I will demonstrate that the blanket ban on first-person pronouns in high-school and some university English classes is poorly understood and hastily adopted as a result. I will further illustrate that it is a mere substitute for explaining to inexperienced writers that excessive use of phrases like “I think” or “I believe” is unnecessary and rhetorically weakens academic writing, and that opinions expressed in an essay are already assumed to be those of the author. Finally, I will address strategies for effectively conveying that information to students, who often find it difficult to grasp.

thepioden

In this essay, passive voice will be used throughout in order to distance the work done from any researchers, or, in reality, kind of imply all experiments were done by magical lab gremlins and the results were simply recorded.

jumpingjacktrash

in this essay, enlightenment will descend upon you without the agency of any living being. you will know things, yet know not how you know.

prepare yourself. it begins.

#THESIS STATEMENT #well sort of #academia #i feel very strongly about using the first person pronoun in academic writing

wilwheaton

(via Stubborn jar [OC] : comics)

#comics #for reference #meta

cartoons-asfuk-blog

crimsonclad

nothing in the WORLD has ever been as funny to me as J’onn looking at these two super-nerds and being like “how can I put these alien creatures at ease??? hmmmmmm, okay, man-panties, cape, big old pecs, mid-calf boots, NAILED IT”

Batman is backing up in alarm because it is frightening to be known and seen so accurately

#thesis statement #for reference #superhero