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Isabelle's ready for summer 🩷☁️🎀

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Maya Angelou: When you leave your house in France, and come to the United States -- when you leave your adopted home and come to your real home, what kind of response do you have, inside yourself?

James Baldwin: I miss my family. I miss uh...a lot of people, you know, who are part of me. You know?

Angelou: Keep you alive. Yes.

Baldwin: And a certain kind of speed, energy, beat -- which only Americans, only American Black people, have. Y'know? I miss that. When you say my home, it's not exactly my home. It's a kind of asylum. It's a place where I can work. I have a lot of work to do. And...if you are in a situation where you're always resisting and resenting, it's very hard to...

Angelou: Takes too much energy.

Baldwin: Well, you can't write a book.

Angelou: No.

Baldwin: You can't write a sentence. I asked my brother David -- we were driving through, we were driving in Harlem, I was in Harlem, I was living there -- And I said to him, I said, I wonder what would have happened to me if I had stayed? And you know David.

Angelou: I know David.

Baldwin: Cause, y'know, I also wanted to stay. I didn't wanna go. David laughed. That laugh.

Angelou: Terrible, knowing laugh.

Baldwin: He said, You'd be dead, everybody else is.

-- Maya Angelou & James Baldwin in Conversation

pansy-picnics

art block been so bad i rlly don’t want to draw rn but this felt like a canon interaction to me for some reason

this-is-trans-joy

I don’t know if this is an obvious take or a hot take, but I think people need to start re-framing feminism as the fight for body autonomy as opposed to whatever this second wave revival gender essentialist bullshit we have going on right now. Once you reframe it in this way, it’s easier to understand intersectionality and why cis women are not the only people who need feminism. The lack of body autonomy effects cis women, trans people, intersex people, disabled people, poc, homeless people, sex workers, etc. and your feminism needs to include and prioritise all of these groups of people (which will include men btw) because feminism is about autonomy, not about establishing a matriarchy. Body autonomy is the biggest threat to the patriarchy, both with reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and even the right to not be drafted into military services. Once body autonomy is established for everyone, the patriarchy no longer has a leg to stand on.

And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.

Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.

TERFs are some of the biggest opponents to body autonomy, and if you find yourself thinking “oh people can do whatever they want with their bodies as long as it doesn’t harm them or make others uncomfortable” then you are far more susceptible to TERF propaganda than you think.

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erlinblake

Best uncle <3

cossackia

The Timeless Trilogy

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im happy they worked it out

the-rom-man

I need updates on this

are they still bffs?

cossackia

josephbrassey

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.