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“Where does such tenderness come from?”
1.Marina Tsvetaeva / 2.open house 1998 / 3.Sylvia Plath / 4.Joseph Lorusso / 5.Pablo Neruda / 6.Malcolm T. Liepke / 7.Ocean Vuong / 8.Joseph Lorusso / 9.Richard Siken / 10.Ron Hicks / 11.Mary Ann Samyn / 12.Ron Hicks / 13.May Sarton / 14.Joseph Lorusso / 15.Ivan Malkovych / 16.Ocean Vuong / 17.Breathless, Godard, 1960 / 18.Boris Pasternak / 19.Holly Warburton / 20.Mary Jo Bang / 21.Holly Warburton / 22.Susan Sontag
i think having a little dragon i could carry around in my pockets would fix all my problems
women can not be blamed for having hundreds of screenshots we’ll never use in our camera roll. it’s the gatherer instinct
this is going to piss off both astrology haters and devout enthusiasts but i want to clarify that all my astrology posts are made in semi-jest. i think they’re a cultural inside joke. birth assigned archetypes you needn’t claim unless you want to. symbolic figures in a theory that doesn’t hold up to criticism but is enchanting to view the world through every once in a while. i’m going to let you in on a secret: only let it flatter you, never shame you. astrology is way more fun when you see your sign as a hat to put on when you’re in the mood, earring-archetypes to indulge in, rather than biological. it’s just a poem. it’s not reality, but it can be a beautiful tint to put over reality when you’re in a starry eyed and whimsical mood.
when girls have the ugliest boyfriends…girl stop. i could be your ugly girlfriend instead.
Afghanistan, 1960’s
peeing in the ocean is the best feeling its like im sharing a piece of myself with the world i hope my pee made it to australia i love australia
“The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production. He hears that the instruments of production are to be exploited in common, and, naturally, can come to no other conclusion than that the lot of being common to all will likewise fall to the women. He has not even a suspicion that the real point is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production. For the rest, nothing is more ridiculous than the virtuous indignation of our bourgeois at the community of women which, they pretend, is to be openly and officially established by the Communists. The Communists have no need to introduce the community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial. Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other’s wives. Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common and thus, at the most, what the Communists might possibly be reproached with, is that they desire to introduce, in substitution for a hypocritically concealed, an openly legalised community of women. For the rest, it is self-evident that the abolition of the present system of production must bring with it the abolition of the community of women springing from that system, i.e., of prostitution both public and private.” ― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
incredibly funny considering he cheated on his wife with their housekeeper while Jenny Marx was travelling to another country to beg relatives for money after having all their possessions taken away due to debt, in complete poverty, dealing with incredibly ill (including 2-3 dead children of what would eventually be 4 dead children in childhood). he got the housekeeper pregnant, then because he knew jenny would leave him if she knew, he gave the baby to engels to raise and claim to be the father of, and kept his cheating a secret.
the reason he did this was not because he loved her, but because she not only did all the childcare and housework, but jenny marx is the entire reason we know marx today. she largely introduced him, then a very young man 4 years her junior (marx was likely around 18-19 when they met. they married six years after first meeting, when he was 25 and she was 29), to the ideas of socialism and communism, as well as women’s rights (she is who inspired engels in regards to his views on prostitution and women’s liberation as well, the three of them were in political groups together). the words spoken above almost certainly actually came from his wife that she shared with him. she was a wealthy aristocrat that gave up her life of luxury and wealth to live her ideals, and marry the man she loved.
jenny marx collaborated with marx in his early writing, they wrote the books and essays together and shared ideas. then once jenny had her first child, despite all of marx’s posturing, like any other man, he expected her to become mother first. and yet while doing so, and increasingly raising more and more children, while struggling with extreme poverty and poor health because marx’s books we not selling, and he made no other money, she still contributed ideas, edited all his work ot…actually make sense and be good, and transcripted his completely illegible writing into actual draft books to be published and dispersed. he sat around all day “thinking” and after months to years, just came up with shitty drafts, and she’d turn them into his famous (and less famous) books. she dealt with the entire business side of his philosophy, she made the money. he would sit there and not be able to write anything until she made him so that their family could survive.
even when marx was imprisoned and exiled, she publicly defended him, continued to spread his (aka their) work, and got kicked out of several countries and towns because of it. she did all of the above, joined and supported all of his political groups and worked non stop in activism even with children her entire life, most of her kids died in childhood, and she lived a miserable life, all for him, and he fucking took all the credit, didn’t follow his own claimed ideals, and cheated on her.
near the end of her life, she came to resent marx and how he gave her nothing when she gave him everything. he was yet just another man treating a woman like a thing, a tool.
how many people know the name jenny marx? how many people know that without her, we would know no karl marx (because he was such a terrible writer and unmotivated, lethargic man that he never would have finished nor released a single (good) book, admitting it himself in letters to engels in regards to the affair)? without her, we would have none of this. without her, there would be no lenin, no ho chi minh, communism and socialism would likely look very different, many countries would be unimaginably different, or shockingly frozen in time. the basis of the most popular communist, socialist, and marxist groups and politicians and activists would not exist. she is likely one of the most influential women in political history and no one knows.
here’s one source, where i got the screenshots from
For all the marxists who think the fall of capitalism will resolve male supremacy.
I don’t remember who said this, but whoever she was she hit the nail on the head: “Men are only ever leftist from the waist up.”
Also the saying “behind every great man is a great woman”
I wondered why his writings made sense. I thought it was strange that he had such an innate understanding of class and subordination and now I know WHY…HE didn’t have an innate understanding of anything - his wife did and SHE basically wrote his works.
This Valentine's Day, we remember the revolutionary life of Jenny Marx – a socialist and feminist whose own activity, no less than her relat
Not surprising at all, I always thought Marx and Engels had a surprisingly insightful view of womanhood.
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Portrait of a Young Woman, Jean-Etienne Liotard
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer
#they look like theyve been having a chat about u and u just walked in
I’m on mobile, somebody edit them into this please
Y'all take too long
Same energy
No worries guys, they’re there too
I went to the Brontë Parsonage museum recently, I thought a letter displayed there was interesting.
The Brontë sisters were fans of the poet Laureate Robert Southley, and Charlotte sent him samples of her poetry. This letter from 1837 is his response, in which he writes:
“Literature cannot be the business of a woman’s life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it even as an accomplishment and a recreation.“
Recommended reading
Conceptualizing Resistance: Women’s Leisure as Political Practice
The idea of leisure as resistance focuses attention on the political nature of leisure, and specifically on the potential for leisure to enhance individual empowerment and to bring about positive social change.
Women, Leisure, and Inequality
Women experience inequalities in gaining access to leisure ‘space’ and activities. Based on research in Milton Keynes, UK, this paper points towards a more satisfactory theory of women’s leisure, and shows how aspects of women’s gender-roles constrain their enjoyment and use of free time. Constraints include domestic labour, job attitudes, behaviour and working hours of male partners, child care, lack of independent income and absence of transport. Women with least leisure activities are married, have children under 16, left school at the minimum age and own no transport. The factors contributing to women’s overall subordinate position in society thus contribute to their scant leisure.
Why Time is a Feminist Issue
The time expert looked through the messy time diaries I’d been keeping (one mysteriously went through the dryer) and found 27 hours of what he called leisure, and I called bits and scraps of garbagey time. Five minutes here. Ten minutes there. Listening to the radio, exhausted, trying to get out of bed. Getting some exercise. Waiting by the side of the road for a tow truck. (Yes, he said that counted as leisure.)
The image that came to mind was this: time confetti.
What I didn’t know at the time was that this is what time is like for most women: fragmented, interrupted by child care and housework. Whatever leisure time they have is often devoted to what others want to do – particularly the kids – and making sure everyone else is happy doing it. Often women are so preoccupied by all the other stuff that needs doing – worrying about the carpool, whether there’s anything in the fridge to cook for dinner – that the time itself is what sociologists call “contaminated.”
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What are your takes on shipping and the discourses that surround it?
personally i think postal workers should be paid more
my problem with the skincare trend is now signs of aging are now seen as proof someone was “lazy” and “didn’t care of their skin” instead of being a side effect of just Being Alive
