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“If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together”
- Lilla Watson, Aboriginal activist and artist.
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if u want a good queer romance (the genre) novel then i’d recommend futbolista. i found it to be fairly grounded in reality and that usually matters for my enjoyment of a book. however the love interest is pretty two dimensional when all is said and done
If age and disability teach us anything, it is that investing in beauty will never set us free. Beauty has always been hurled as a weapon. It has always taken the form of an exclusive club; and supposed protection against violence, isolation and pain, but this is a myth. It is not true, even for those accepted in to the club.
Mia Mingus, from "Moving Toward the Ugly: A Politic Beyond Desirability"
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Cartoon by John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.
Anyway, a lotta ink has been spilled about the lie of Ballerina Farm/Hannah Neeleman and her JetBlue-heir husband pretending that a small farm is financially viable without significant outside income. She sells that pioneer myth by actually selling something called bone broth hot cocoa at $46 a bag. (Gross.)
But in all the outrage about Neeleman, I haven't seen anyone compare her to the original tradwife liar, Laura Ingalls Wilder.
I'm not referring to the Little House on the Prairie children's book series, which were actually pretty open about how poor the Ingalls family was and how many times they almost died through illness/extreme weather/starvation on that homestead stolen from Native Americans. Those novels include plenty of nostalgia and manifest destiny and libertarianism, but Ma Ingalls clearly hates being out on the homestead isolated from their neighbors. That's not trad-wife content. Maybe trad-child content.
No, long before Wilder published her first children's book in 1932, she had a regular column in papers like the Missouri Ruralist and Farmer's Week in the 1910s/20s, where she would write 500-word pieces such as:
"The March of Progress"
"Classed as Illiterates"
"The Wanton Destruction of Trees"
"Kinfolks or Mere Relations?"
"Let's Not Depend on Experts"
"When Proverbs Quarrel"
"The Hidden Cost of Getting What We Want"
"Don't Call on The Government All of the Time"
"The Armor of a Smile"
Those are all real essay titles -- I've read them; you can too -- and the content is exactly what you'd expect: folksy, gently humorous, self-effacing, lite-Christian inspirational, suspicious of city life, glorifying backbreaking physical labor, full of housekeeping tips. Any single one of them could be easily repurposed into a Ballerina Farm IG caption or a TikTok voiceover with a quick edit: nothing new under the sun.
And just like Neeleman lies by omission about how their farm books are balanced, Wilder lied by omission about her own account books. Her husband Almanzo Wilder was partially paralyzed by diphtheria after their marriage and couldn't physically manage a farm alone. Caroline Fraser notes that Almanzo's parents (themselves wealthy farmers) had to pay off the mortgage on the Missouri farm or Laura and Almanzo would not have kept the property. Even with that financial help, they had a lot of rough years and it was Laura's side hustles -- selling eggs, clerking, writing columns lying about the rewarding joy of farming -- that kept them afloat. Eventually she started publishing full-length novels and their success finally put them in the black.
I don't expect every modern cottagecore critic to memorize the biographies of historical farmfluencers like Wilder. I do want an acknowledgement that social media is a new vehicle for a very old phenomenon. Tradwife farming content is part of the foundational myth of USAmerican culture, not late-stage capitalism brainrot or whatever. We have always been like this, and canceling Ballerina Farm or deleting TikTok off your phone won't solve it. We've got to address Christian patriarchal settler-colonialism at the root.
equally important is the fact that Wilder co-wrote most of her books with her daughter, even MORE ardent libertarian Rose Wilder Lane. Who had not experienced the pioneer life firsthand as her mother did, and who is believed to have heavily fictionalized Wilder's experiences in the Little House books
(Lane did some interesting and unexpected things, I will say, like being a staunch anti-racist and refusing a ration card during WWII...so she and her neighbors could start a cooperative farm to support themselves instead. the irony of this was apparently lost on her
another place to look for the origins of the tradwife myth in history is the idea of the Perfect Colonial Farm Wife. first appearing in disapproving "women today, honestly" pop culture of the 19th century, this image of the pre-Revolution or Revolutionary American wife ran a totally self-sustaining farm- something only a VERY small minority of extremely poor and extremely rural women actually did, at any point in colonial North American history
this is why the spinning wheel is ubiquitous in later images of Colonial households. and the idea that housewives in the Olden Days did everything on their own has lately been given a progressive coat of paint with things like that post about how wanting well-fitting clothing is Bad because that only existed when housewives made all their family's clothes 100% of the time (spoiler: very seldom a reality in the US or North American colonies; most women didn't know HOW to make fitted adult clothes)
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Workers posing with the stator of a hydroelectric generator, 1915, Sweden.
one time I was lucid dreaming and I asked the Jennifer Coolidge figure in my dream how do i tell if something in a dream is real or not and she said. It’s only real if they charge your card. best answer ever
Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.
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My one boring tip to anyone in their 20s is to resist the temptation to rot in your room every time you get a free moment. Dismiss any neuroses you have about going outside and "being perceived". Be a dictator about it, plan your hangouts like they are binding commitments. No excuses! Go to the bar with your friends. Be kinda hungover at work. Socializing is like exercise; even if you don't feel like you want to, you should still do it because it's good for you.
“Entwined” at New Orleans Botanical Garden ☀ Lovers frozen in stone while plants plot their gentle takeover
“Swimming in Crimson” - Two boys contrast against the surreal red of Lake Retba, a natural marvel in Senegal known for its vivid hue.
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