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forever grateful.

[electricraccoonincident-deactiv]

“Hung on my bedroom wall is the quote attributed to Joan of Arc: “I am not afraid. I was born to do this.” However my life unfolds, goes my thinking, is how I am meant to live it; however my life unspools itself, I was created to bear it.”

— Esmé Weijun Wang, The Collected Schizophrenias  

[dyingenigma]

Cane River [1982]

[yohjimuse]

alexander mcqueen fall 1998 rtw

[gacliso]

this new life will cost me my old one

[mahoganymamii]

Beyoncé wears a knit micro mini dress by Dolce & Gabbana for the September 2002 issue of Honey magazine.

Photographed by Andrew Macpherson

[shutinthenutouse]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Don't worry the audience extrapolated it back out. You zip the file and communicate it, they unzip it.

[bishopsprodigal]

thinking about this

[idleminds]

[zegalba]

Junji Ito: Layers Of Fear (2017)

[silverstarr7]

[fossil0000]

Dancers, Salvador, Brazil 2002 from Divided Souls by David Alan Harvey

[0912408179182]

Romanticizing your own loneliness and turning it into a cool girl thing only works for like a few months and then it just becomes a throbbing black hole i think. Not that ive ever experienced anything like that

[snoopy-dyke]

love is attained through embarrassing yourself by asking for it instead

[thisiszahraa]

فلسطين - غزة | ١٩٩٧

[earththings]

[recomvery]

Some scary things are worth doing. Going outside, talking to people, public speaking, trying out something new, getting a job even tho you're unsure how it will go. You're a scared little plant but you can blossom into a beautiful, self assured tulip if you try being brave.

[daily-spooky]

Them >>>> 🖤

[byjove]

Women throughout (American and English) history worked. The idea that in the past the sole responsibility of women was domestic labor and childrearing is largely inaccurate for the majority of women in these societies. Women were expected to do domestic labor like cooking and cleaning and raising children AND work to bring income to their family, this was true for the average woman, excluding the upper middle class/wealthy. If a woman’s husband owned a tavern or restaurant, she also cooked and kept bar and did the duties associated with the business. If a woman’s husband was a (small scale/subsistence/tenant) farmer, the woman did farm labor. Often a woman was expected to do labor related to her husband’s job.

Women also had vocations and forms of income unrelated to their husband. The nature of these jobs changed over time but many women did things like weaving, embroidery, crafting, beer brewing, chicken tending and laundress work to bring income. Women with skills were seen as better marriage candidates because they’d make money for their husband.

My great-great-great-great grandmother told fortunes and did farm labor, my great-great-great grandmother was a midwife, my great-great grandmother worked in a textile factory for most of her adult life and my great grandmother was a school lunch lady.

This is why it makes me irate when women on the right say things like “feminism forced me to get a job instead of being allowed to stay home with my children” before feminism you would have had to tend house, raise your children and bring income to your husband. Now, at the very least, the money is hopefully your own. Women were always in the workforce, their work was not recognized.