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does anyone even use this website anymore? i forgot it existed for a very long time lol idk who is even active on here anymore but!!! some updates on my life if there’s anyone left to read them:

i’ve been in japan a year now which is cool and i don’t see myself leaving in the future. weird how i can feel more at home here than i ever did in the us but i love my life here. my job is great and i’ve been taking lessons for all three of my languages (french, korean, and obv japanese) and its so fulfilling, i love all my teachers so much, they’ve become more like friends to me than teachers. i actually got to meet my korean teacher in seoul two? weeks ago while visiting a friend and she was begging me to move to hongdae it was so cute lol

my goal is to find a job where i can use all four of my languages when my current contract ends in a few years so i’ve still got to work hard to reach the level of fluency i want but i think i’m on the right track

i’ve lost almost 40 pounds and gained 5 ear piercings since i moved. i have a ridiculously cute apartment. i started learning to dance and it’s super fun. i’ve been going to concerts and lives almost every month. i have friends from so many different countries and i’m feeling more and more confident in my japanese every day. dating in japan is impossible but i’m kinda seeing a buff dentist who drives a motorcycle and who thinks i’m a 美人 which is cute. i’m going to turn 28 this year which feels so old but i’m happy and finally feel like my life is nearing what i want it to be

idk who will even see this but i’m hoping everyone i used to talk to on here is doing well!!! i miss some of y’all a lot

distantvoices

Hands holding flowers by @subwayhands on Instagram

#hands

ljegers-deactivated20181129

I’d be annoyed at him snoozing on my desk all day if he wasn’t so damn cute while he did it.

sailor-freddie-mercury

also found the funniest paragraph in Toni Colette’s wikipedia page the other night

softwaring

https://www.instagram.com/p/BfgGXV2jbsY/?

catsbeaversandducks

What’s even cuter than a black cat with a pink nose? A black cat with a pink nose AND pink toes!

(His name is Possum and he is available for pre adoption.)

Via Orphaned Kitten Rescue Auckland

liasangria

@ahiddenkitty

ahiddenkitty

THANKS I JUST BURST INTO TEARS

#paws

powerfulwizard

Here are some frog astrology signs!!

lesbianartandartists

With Fat Chance, a lesbian performing group. We used stories from our lives, we danced, swung on trapezes and moved in ways fat people aren’t often seen moving. (Berkeley, 1979)

Judy in A Lesbian Photo Album, 89

glittertomb

Kaga-Yuzen in Pink & Peach

hannahsdelight

tryna put tights on like

1000drawings

by Schinako

lilyadoreparis

La Sainte-Chapelle, 8 Boulevard du Palais, Paris 1er.

awwww-cute

Mommy (Source: https://ift.tt/2Il0Fat)

peakvirgo

rejectedprincesses

"Bluestockings" was the "Sassy" for young women of Meiji-era Japan.

“I will raise both my paralyzed hands and yell with my last breath, ‘Women! Advance! Advance!’”

canmom

this is fascinating

some things that stand out

the editors were largely middle class, and at some point they went to talk to a sex worker in the Yoshiwara red light district to, in atlasobscura’s words “open their eyes to the problems faced by women of different circumstances”. this apparently led to a big division:

The newspaper reporters weren’t the only ones who thought Otake and Raichō had gone too far, though. The Yoshiwara trip in particular caused divisions among Seitō’s members. The magazine’s subscriber base had been growing, but after this incident, teachers, worried for their jobs, canceled their subscriptions so they couldn’t be associated with this group of wayward women. Mozume’s father forced her to resign (though she kept writing under a pen name). Yasumochi, who had been so important in the founding of the magazine, wrote to Raichō that, “In the earlier stage Seitō was indeed a heartfelt, trustworthy and distinguished magazine, but it has lost these good qualities …. Because of your thoughtless conduct, all these women have gained a bad reputation for doing away with past conventions and attempting things women have never done before.”

obviously a very different circumstance to the conflicts over sex work in modern feminism since the 70s, but still.

another really interesting bit:

They increasingly began to confront controversial questions about the rights of women and the control they should have over their bodies. In a special 1913 issue on women’s rights, Seitō commissioned an essay from Hideko Fukuda, a feminist known as a radical activist, on “The Solution to the Woman Question,” in which she advocated not just for equal rights between genders, but also for a communal system to create equality among classes as well.

“Only under such circumstances will real women’s liberation come about,” she wrote. “Unless this first step is taken, even if women get voting rights, and even if courts, universities, and government offices in general are opened to women, those who enter these, will, of course, only be women from the influential class; the majority of ordinary women will necessarily be excluded from these circles. Thus, just as class warfare breaks out among men, so class warfare will occur among women.”

This was of course heavily censored. So was abortion advocacy:

Censors returned for a 1914 issue containing a fictional story about a woman leaving her husband, and one in 1915 for a fictional story about a woman who did not regret having an abortion. That story, “To My Lover From a Woman in Prison,” was inspired by real-life events, and the main character offers a pro-choice argument that must have seemed incendiary at the time. “As long as a fetus has not matured, it is still just one part of the mother’s body,” she writes to her lover. “There, I believe it is well within the mother’s rights to decide the future of the fetus, based on her own assessment of its best interests.” The government called the story “injurious to public morals.”

It’s striking (and kind of depressing in a way, not that things haven’t changed) how many of these conflicts are familiar a century later.