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The (Mostly Light) Academia Capsule Wardrobe
(disclaimer: These are just ideas and you do not have to dress this way or buy new clothes to be ~academic~. Just made this up for myself, inspired by capsule wardrobe rules, and wanted to share.)
Tops:
• a loose white tee shirt
• 2-3 white, cream, or black blouses (maybe one could be a milkmaid-type blouse)
• a cream cotton turtleneck
• a black or brown cotton turtleneck
• a white or cream sweater
• a white button down
• a university sweatshirt
Bottoms:
• a pair (or two!) of nice jeans
• a pair of plaid or neutral trousers
• a satin or velvet formal skirt
• a flowy white skirt for summer/spring
• a wool skirt
Dresses:
• 2 prairie/sundresses
• a more formal, sleek dress in a neutral color
Shoes:
• black or brown boots, such as Dr. Martens
• oxfords
• nude heels
Outerwear:
• a long/trench coat
• a few cardigans
• a blazer
As someone who is actually from an African country and whose traditional dances involve a lot of butt-shaking, I’m going to need Westerners not to assume women shaking their bodies or winding their waists is inherently sexual/perverted. The only reason y’all put ballet on a pedestal and view African dances and hip-hop dances as savage and/or sexualized is white supremacy.
In academia, people of color and different cultures are often underrepresented. Many people think that reading Donna Tartt, Sylvia Plath, Shakespeare, Aristophanes, etc., studying the ideologies of Nietzsche and Camus, studying Greek art, learning Latin, listening to Bach and Chopin, etc. makes one an academic. That is so untrue because academia, intelligence, music, art, architecture, and literature also exists in cultures outside of Europe and European Americans (yes, I just called white people European Americans) as well.
cultural academia pt. 2
here’s pt. 1
This is a continuation of spreading cultural books to end eurocentrism in academia. There’s definitely more “dark academia” books that fit the aesthetic this time around! Thank you to everyone who added books in the notes of the first post- I just put all those suggestions together in this list so complete credit to everyone who made these suggestions <3
Chinese:
Shen Congwen
Geling Yan
From Emperor to Citizen
Life and Death in Shanghai by Niem Cheng
Jin Ping Mei by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
Japanese:
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Sonezaki Shinju by Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami
Works of Oe
Tosa Nikki by Ki no Tsurayuki
Torikaebaya Monogatari
Ise Monogatari by Ariwara no Narihira
A Fool’s Love by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro
The Golden Death by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro
Hell Scene
I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Edogawa Ranpo
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
The Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima
Flower Tales by Yoshiya Nobuko
Books of Hayashi Fumiko
Books of Enchi Fumiko
The Demon’s Sermon on the Marrial Arts by Issao Chozanshi
Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzo
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki
Fool’s Life by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Thai:
Garin’s Uncanny Files
Irani/Persian:
Disoriental by Negar Djavadi
Mesopotamia:
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Pakistani:
Poetry of Allama Iqbal
Works of Saadat Hassan Manto
My Feudal Lordand Blasphemy by Tehmina Durrani
The Reluctant Fundmamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Raja Gidh by Bano Qudsia
Four Tragic Romances of Punjab (Heer Ranjha, Mirza Sahiba, Sassi Punnun, and Sohni Mahiwal)
The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa
Indian:
Ramayana by Valmiki
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam by Eknath Easwaran
The Wildlings by Nilanjana Roy
Sivagamiyin Sapatham by Kalki Krishnamurthy
Chitralekha
Chandralekha
Rabindranath Tagore’s short stories
Works of Satyajit Rai
Byomkesh Bakshi
Munshi Premchand (Godan, Gaban, Nirmala)
The River Sutra
Mehlua
(comics)
Nagraj
Chacha Choudhary
Lotpot
Champak
Nandan
Vikram Betal
(poets)
The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu
Gitanjali
Works of Ruskin Bond
Mahadevi Verma
Hajari Prasad Divedi
Arabian:
Hayy Ibn Yaqzan by Ibn Tufail (he lived in Al-Andalus but was Arab I believe)
Filipino:
Works of Nick Joaquin
Smaller and Smaller Circles by F.H. Batacan
The Eight Muses of the Fall By Edgar Calabia Samar
Isabelo’s Archive by Resil B. Mojares
Noli Me Tangere by Dr. Jose Rizal
El Filibusterismo by Dr. Jose Rizal
Indonesian:
Buru Quartet by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Saman by Ayu Utami
The Years of the Voiceless
Beauty is Wound by Eka Kurniawan
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
(poets)
Sapardi Djoko Darmono
Chairil Anwar
Sustardji Calzoum Bachri
W.S. Rendra
Taufik Ismail
Wiji Thukul
NH Dini
Dee Lestari
Mira W.
Malaysian:
Garden of Evening Mists
Brazilian:
O Ateneu by Raul Pompeia
Ursula by Maria Firmino
The Hidden Cause; The Alienist by Machado de Assis (short stories)
The Sad End of Policarpo Quaresma by Lima Barreto
Barren Lives by Graciliano Ramos
Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus
Rebellion in the Backlands by Euclides da Cunha
Macunaima by Mario de Andrade
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado
Captain of the Sands by Jorge Amado
Auto da Compadecida by Ariano Suassuna
City of God by Paulo Lins
Budapest by Chico Buarque
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
Poems by Vinicius de Moraes
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Antologia Poetica by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Senhora by Jose de Alencar
Colombian:
Works of William Ospina
Chilean:
Works of Isabelle Allende
Mexican:
Poems by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Laura Esquivel
El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata Quiroz
(authors)
Gerardo Murillo
Ruben M Campos
Maria Enriqueta Camarillo de Pereya
Aura by Carlos Fuentes
El Llano by Juan Rulfo
La Casa Junto Al Rio by Elena Garro
Amparo Davila
Guadalipe Duenas
Ines Arredondo
Fransisco Tario
Max Aub
Bernado Couto Castillo
Amado Nervo
Adriana Diaz Enciso
Emiliano Gonzalez
H. Pascal (poetry of vampires and ghosts)
Tequila Gotico: Literatura Gotica en Mexico (published in magazine/good intro to gothic lit in Mexico)
Argentinian:
The Invention of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares
The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato
Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
Nigerian:
Americanah by Chimamanda Adiche
Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo
Malian:
Fatoumata Keita
Senegalese:
Amadou Kane
Cheik Anta Diop
Sudanese:
Season of Migration to the North
Native American:
Works of Leslie Marmon Silko
Canadian:
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan (Ghanan-Canadian)
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese (Indigenous Canadian-Ojibwe)
Birdie by Tracie Lindberg (Indigenous Canadian-Cree)
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Mexican-Canadian)
British:
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (Jamaican-British)
American:
Works of Gwendolyn Brooks
Works of Langston Hughes
A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava (Colombian-American)
Once again, if your country wasn’t included, that doesn’t mean it’s not important!! Please continue to add more books with their countries in the notes and correct me if I’ve made a mistake!!
Fragments of a Beethovenfest deko I found at a thrift store in Vienna - 2020
Academia style but make it inclusive 🦇✨🥀
You should be outraged. You should be enraged and if you are not, if the senseless killing of the black community at the hands of our police force does not anger you please reevaluate your humanity.
To be unmoved by the current issues of our society is a privilege. To prioritize looting and damage to property over lost black lives and police brutality is to lack humanity.
Please evaluate and educate yourself, this is a major issue and we need serious reform and revolution in this country.
You can’t love the Romantics and academia and remain ignorant and complacent.
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dark academia but it’s online school
- waking up early in the morning to watch the sunrise, even though you don’t actually need to
- staying up late to read or paint because you don’t have to get up early
- handwriting assignments that should be typed and submitted digitally
- having a coffee cup with you, rather than a thermos because you don’t have to take it anywhere
- still getting ready and dressed so that you can feel focused on your work in the mornings
- emailing your teachers to see if they have any extra reading related to the topic
- turning in all of the assignments for the week earlier than the rest of your class because you wanted to finish them early
- not doing any assignments for the week because you were too interested in researching about different planets or the deep sea
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quarantine literature to pass the time
hello lovely people! it’s quarantine time, and, since a lot of us being stuck inside, i think we’re all looking for something to pass the time. so, i figured i should list some books that will not only fill up hours of your time, but will also maybe help you cope with the long hours spent cooped up indoors. these books go over themes of isolation, quarantine, and cabin fever - but also hope, and perseverance. from these books i hope you will gather strength, and know that we will survive this. i’ll also be including pdf links!
the diary of anne frank - the personal writings of anne frank, a jewish teenage girl living in nazi germany. to escape capture, she and her family were forced to hide in an attic apartment with four other people - for two years. this book is absolutely amazing, and so insightful into life during this era in history.
the shining - one of stephen king’s most famous novels. the story follows jack torrance, a recovering alcoholic who takes a job looking after the renowned overlook hotel in the off season. he, his wife wendy, and his clairvoyant “shining” son danny, snowed in, come to learn that the empty hotel has it’s own agenda. this book is absolutely terrifying, but you won’t want to put it down. (watch the movie too!!)
fallout - a novel by todd strausser (sorry i couldn’t find a pdf for this one). strausser envisions a world without the cuban missile crisis - where the bomb actually dropped. in new york in the summer of 1962, scott’s dad built a bomb shelter in preparation for the worst. and when the worst happens, his family is ready - until neighbors scramble into the bunker too, leaving them underprepared, and trapped for two weeks in absolutely abhorrent conditions. it’s just a crazy book to read, imagining what could’ve happened.
bonus - i have no mouth, and i must scream - harlan ellison’s 1967 short story, and a post-apocalyptic nightmare. in his reality, a supercomputer constructed in a time of war became self-aware, and destroyed the world, except for five people. it keeps them immortal and tortures them to amuse itself, and to express its hatred for the beings that created it. the story follows one of these characters, and you really just have to read it and see what happens. fair warning though, it’s really dark. discretion highly advised.
well, i hope you like these books. i’ll be linking some less-dark ones soon. happy coronacation!
Realistic Dark/Light Academia things to do during quarantine to make life a bit lighter:
- Simply choosing things based on a color palette can make a big difference. Stick with muted, dark, earth or natural tones. Instead of drinking your morning coffee out of that pink mug, choose the plain ivory one instead. Instead of curling up with the bright blue blanket, choose the black one instead. It’s nice to look down and notice that everything you are wearing or doing seems to fit together.
- Go outside or sit by an open window with sunlight. Read, write, meditate, draw, do anything that isn’t electronic. This is a great thing to do on a study break or when you start to feel overwhelmed or anxious.
- Find a quiet place in your home to work. Make this your spot. Make it as academically aesthetic as you can. Fill it with books, textbooks, pens, notebooks, candles, blankets (remember - don’t underestimate the power of a color palette!) If you choose your spot to be in your bedroom, pick a specific spot in that room. This is where you will do any school or work. When it comes time to work, turn on your favorite study playlist and make a cup of tea.
- Learn a new skill. Even if you are bad at it! Try learning Latin or French. Memorize a passage of Shakespeare. Learn a song on the piano. Write poetry.
- Get ready for the day, even though you aren’t going anywhere. Dress as if you were going to school! It’s not always encouraging when you come to the end of the day and realize you are still in your pajamas. Getting dressed and ready will motivate you to get things done!
- Journal. Is there a better time to write down your thoughts than during a global pandemic?
- If you live near the woods, find a spot where you can go to escape. Bring blankets and books.
- Take a bath at sunset. Turn off all the lights and light candles. Beethoven or Debussy in the background.
- Have a picnic with your family, or alone, in your backyard. Strawberries, blackberries, bread, wine.
- If you can, sneak onto your roof or balcony at night. Drink and stare at the stars until you start to question your own existence.
- Lay in the middle of the street at night. Feel the pavement against your palms, still warm from the afternoon sun, and remember that life is still beautiful and everything is going to be okay.
Feel free to add more in the comments!
- B
Anyone else ever follow a seemingly cute tradlife/cottagecore/homesteading blog, only to cringe and hit the unfollow button when you’re scrolling through your dash and see them reblog some vitriolic anti-choice post about how evil abortion is, and how consenting to sex is consenting to pregnancy?? Or is it just me that that happens to all the time?
Clearly I need to find more progressive bloggers with an interest in femininity to follow. I know there are more of us, despite the majority of the community being conservative! To me, there are few things more traditionally feminine than the practice of caring for and protecting ones’ own body and choosing what’s best for it (and your family). Women have been making tinctures to prevent pregnancy (carrot seed, anyone?) and brewing teas to end unwanted ones for literally as long as humanity has existed. Midwifery as a folk practice often included mentoring young women in safe sexual practices for the time, and family planning was of paramount seriousness in a world where childbirth was dangerous and children died so young. Where is my representation for that traditional femininity–the kind that cherishes pregnancy and infants, but understands the importance of being able to choose the right time for them?
I invite anyone who disagrees with this to kindly unfollow me. And for those of you who do agree, please reblog and help me find more like-minded, feminist blogs that still enjoy homemaking and traditional interests!
hey guys, just in case my blog style made it unclear
fuck traditional and conservative values fuck all of that racist white supremacist sexist gender role submissive bullshit disguised as aesthetics and fuck anyone who thinks those ideals should be universal
thank you, have a great day
If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
EMMA. (2020), dir. Autumn de Wilde