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One Nice Bug Per Day
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bee real, my senior thesis
Reblogging this from myself because I need to tell myself this.
From top to bottom: Gabe’s show at Blaffer, three noodles at Collina’s, Big Bird at Art League Houston in Hazel Meyer’s Muscle Panic installation, a drawing of a heart outside the Byzantine Fresco Chapel at the On Belonging reading by Sehba Sarwar, buzzing neon at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, hanging out with Kim K at Samira and Dan’s wedding after party
Snow in Seattle.
This was me today...kind of.
hope you all had a fun nye, let’s try to make 2018 a really good year.
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral New Dome, 2017
James Turrell Skyspace, 2017
Happy Halloween, y’all.
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Oh my God this actually explains so much.
So there’s a known thing in the study of human psychology/sociology/what-have-you where men are known to, on average, rely entirely on their female romantic partner for emotional support. Bonding with other men is done at a more superficial level involving fun group activities and conversations about general subjects but rarely involves actually leaning on other men or being really honest about emotional problems. Men use alcohol to be able to lower their inhibitions enough to expose themselves emotionally to other men, but if you can’t get emotional support unless you’re drunk, you have a problem.
So men need to have a woman in their lives to have anyone they can share their emotional needs and vulnerabilities with. However, since women are not socialized to fear sharing these things, women’s friendships with other women are heavily based on emotional support. If you can’t lean on her when you’re weak, she’s not your friend. To women, what friendship is is someone who listens to all your problems and keeps you company.
So this disconnect men are suffering from is that they think that only a person who is having sex with you will share their emotions and expect support. That’s what a romantic partner does. But women think that’s what a friend does. So women do it for their romantic partners and their friends and expect a male friend to do it for them the same as a female friend would. This fools the male friend into thinking there must be something romantic there when there is not.
This here is an example of patriarchy hurting everyone. Women have a much healthier approach to emotional support – they don’t die when widowed at nearly the rate that widowers die and they don’t suffer emotionally from divorce nearly as much even though they suffer much more financially, and this is because women don’t put all their emotional needs on one person. Women have a support network of other women. But men are trained to never share their emotions except with their wife or girlfriend, because that isn’t manly. So when she dies or leaves them, they have no one to turn to to help with the grief, causing higher rates of death, depression, alcoholism and general awfulness upon losing a romantic partner.
So men suffer terribly from being trained in this way. But women suffer in that they can’t reach out to male friends for basic friendship. I am not sure any man can comprehend how heartbreaking it is to realize that a guy you thought was your friend was really just trying to get into your pants. Friendship is real. It’s emotional, it’s important to us. We lean on our friends. Knowing that your friend was secretly seething with resentment when you were opening up to him and sharing your problems because he felt like he shouldn’t have to do that kind of emotional work for anyone not having sex with him, and he felt used by you for that reason, is horrible. And the fact that men can’t share emotional needs with other men means that lots of men who can’t get a girlfriend end up turning into horrible misogynistic people who think the world owes them the love of a woman, like it’s a commodity… because no one will die without sex. Masturbation exists. But people will die or suffer deep emotional trauma from having no one they can lean on emotionally. And men who are suffering deep emotional trauma, and have been trained to channel their personal trauma into rage because they can’t share it, become mass shooters, or rapists, or simply horrible misogynists.
The only way to fix this is to teach boys it’s okay to love your friends. It’s okay to share your needs and your problems with your friends. It’s okay to lean on your friends, to hug your friends, to be weak with your friends. Only if this is okay for boys to do with their male friends can this problem be resolved… so men, this one’s on you. Women can’t fix this for you; you don’t listen to us about matters of what it means to be a man. Fix your own shit and teach your brothers and sons and friends that this is okay, or everyone suffers.
This makes so much sense omg
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Hurricane Harvey & The Houston Zine Community
It certainly has been a while since my last post. Also, I wish I were updating under better circumstances…anyway, you probably already know about the devastation and destruction that the Gulf Coast suffered this past week due to Hurricane Harvey. If you don’t (maybe you have been avoiding the news?), I highly suggest Googling. There are endless organizations to donate to if you are out-of-state. This site is very thorough and has a lot of resources.
I’m extremely thankful that my family and I did not suffer too much during the storm. Unfortunately, others have not been so lucky. I am here to let you know about two specific people in need from the zine community here in Houston. Please share their stories, or donate if you can.
Sara Cress, a former journalist, now writes poetry inspired by the news. She has a Creative Writing degree from the University of Houston. Check out her poem, “Hurricane prayer,” on Breaking Poems. Her and her husband lost a lot due to the hurricane. You can share and/or donate to Sara and Chad’s Go Fund Me page here.
Sarah Welch is an artist, illustrator, comix-maker and also one of my co-organizers for Zine Fest Houston. Her partner James Beard works as a screen printer. Sarah and James’ home, print shop and art studio received roughly 15 inches of water over the weekend. You can see from the photo on their Go Fund Me page that some of their machines were damaged! :( Again, please share and/or donate if you can!
This past week has been an overwhelming one for many people in Houston and other cities in the Gulf Coast. We will rebuild though. It might take a while, but we will get through it together because that is how we do it here in Texas. <3
P.S. If you know of any other zinesters, comic makers, illustrators, print makers etc. who have suffered damage from Hurricane Harvey, let me know in the comments. Thanks!
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Jawbone Ranch, 2017
Birthday Hair, 2017