PRYNNETTE AS IN PRYNNE AS IN HESTER

Hi, I'm Juliet! I write about women and comics and women in comics.

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Rosa Luxemburg, Simone de Beauvoir, and Emma Goldman on the beach, smoking pipes (1930’s.) Source: Women’s right news

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from beginning: Caroline Knapp, Beyonce’s Lemonade, Survey athttp://rolereboot.org/…/det…/2016-05-daughter-know-ok-angry/, Janine Antoni, interview from Chain with Dodie Bellamy and Andrea Juno, Kiki Smith, Carrie Lorig’s “The Book of Repulsive Women”, “Hunger Makes Me” by Jess Zimmerman, Alice Notley, Carrie Lorig again

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tes lacets sont des fées

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not my quote

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revolutionize the world

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Diana / La boîte de Pandore (details) Jules Joseph Lefebvre

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RPGs, or relentlessly persistent girls by cassandrha

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Frank Craig (1874 - 1918)

1. La Pucelle, Joan of Arc

2. The Heretic

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Yentl fans protest Barbra Streisand’s exclusion from the Best Director category.

[jon-snow]

“hey, what are the top five movies that should have been about women falling in love with women that instead have het romances that make no sense?” thanks, me, i’m glad you asked

[frithia]

and the end is unknown but i think im ready as long as youre with me

[inkskinned]

how terrifying, to be aging and girl. at 18 i was told by men that i was “the perfect age,” and i still thought it was a compliment. is it because at 20 i figured out how sharp those words were. i felt old at 21, felt like if grey hairs came and my spine cracked i was done for. how scary. i am reminded constantly by “realistic” ideas in fantasy novels that i should have five kids.

my life feels short. like it is squeezed into my twenties. like at 30 i become ghost, just another mother or hard worker or both, just another background character. like if i am not settled and making a difference by 27 i should just give up already. is this something men feel? like a clock is painted on their back, one hand warning: your beauty is something you are valued for and it is something you cannot get back.

and why was i only beautiful, i wonder, at 18 on a riverbank. i’m told often my childish face is a blessing. that i shouldn’t want to look older. one told me i was a trap falling: “you look young but you’re not” he said to me, “it kind of led me on”. am i not young? 

maybe i am wrong. maybe it’s just how we all feel, getting old, like time is slipping from us. maybe men do worry that they will be alone forever if they don’t settle by thirty, maybe it’s even because they think they’ll turn ugly. maybe we all squish our lives into that incredibly young decade. what do i know. i’m still learning.

[dearwassily]

Adolescence, for a woman, is the slow realization that you are not considered as fully human as you hoped. You are a body first, and your body is not yours alone: whether or not you are attracted to men, men and boys will believe they have a claim on your body, and the state gets to decide what you’re allowed to do with it afterwards.

Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things (via dearwassily)