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Top photo: Artist Betye Saar in her Los Angeles studio, 1970. She is pictured holding Black Girl's Window (1969), an autobiographical collage shown below in more detail.

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R.I.P Betye Saar

I am soooo honored to have met you not just once but twice, I hold you in such high regard, today is a sad day but 99 yrs of you is remarkable 🤲🏿

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Curve Magazine 2006

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Pam Hughes

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Feminists might kill joy simply by not finding the objects that promise happiness to be quite so promising. The word feminism is thus saturated with unhappiness. Feminists by declaring themselves as feminists are already read as destroying something that is thought of by others not only as being good but as the cause of happiness. The feminist killjoy “spoils” the happiness of others; she is a spoilsport because she refuses to convene, to assemble, or to meet up over happiness.

Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy?

Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?

Feminists do kill joy in a certain sense: they disturb the very fantasy that happiness can be found in certain places. To kill a fantasy can still kill a feeling. It is not just that feminists might not be happily affected by the objects that are supposed to cause happiness but that their failure to be happy is read as sabotaging the happiness of others.

The Promise of Happiness by Sara Ahmed

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trying this again; black trans and disabled, trying to get on disability while unemployed but needs help on back rent and utilities. donate if you’re able, please share if you can’t 🤍

https://cash.app/$Avibb

https://venmo.com/u/avibb

https://www.paypal.me/avibbk

pls ask for z*lle if needed

0/400

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First pic is my landlords, second is my bank account, i could really use a miracle right now bc i fully owe utilities now too

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140/400

Thank you so so much 🥺

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