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Joy Sullivan, from “Culpable”, Instructions for Traveling West

lowkey we didn’t think about how the conservative probably reproduce a LOT more while ~liberals~ have been waiting or abstaining

omg i missed it here

mournfulroses

Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius, from The Selected Works; “Memoirs of Martynov,”

rneliflua

IDGAF if the women in my fiction are empowering or aspirational, I'm an adult, I don't need role models, I want the women in my fiction to be interesting, and if that involves being pathetic, hypocritical, amoral, or trapped in a delightfully dysfunctional relationship so be it

eccebitch

#'this is so illegal/toxic/unhealthy'#yeah bestie thats why im reading about it instead of doing it

savannahbama

“Flowers only, and the moonlight-coloured May.”

— Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; “The Waves,” published c. 1931 (via violentwavesofemotion)

violentwavesofemotion-deactivat

“It’s raining, but the air is soft, smoky, warm. Big drops patter on the languid leaves, the tobacco flowers lean over. I do not want anything I could not have. Peace, solitude, time to write my books, beautiful external life to watch and ponder—no more.”

— Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry featured in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1914-1922)

megairea

“What can you know about a person? They shift in the light. You can’t light up all sides at once. Add a second light and you get a second darkness,”

— Richard Siken, from Portrait of Fryderyk in Shifting Light; War of the Foxes, 2015

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Beth Kirby | @bethkirby

anditslove

It’s scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?

Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone (via anditslove)

ladyloveandjustice

Ken has accepted that his true destiny and ultimate desire in life is to be a trophy boyfriend and he’s content with that. I’m happy for him.

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ahumanbeena

Did you know that after they switched to blind auditions, major symphony orchestras hired women between 30% to 55% more? Before bringing in “blind auditions” with a screen to conceal the the candidate, women in the top 5 major orchestras made up less than 5% of the musicians performing.

shwetanarayan-deactivated202504

so I believe it was actually more complicated than that, in interesting ways. Because at first, when they did blind auditions, they were STILL hiring more men.

…Then they put down a carpet, so that high heels didn’t clack on the floor, and BOOM women were suddenly getting hired.

The testers didn’t even know that’s what they were picking up on, which just goes to show how tiny of a cue it takes for misogyny to kick in.

isaacsapphire

The case of blind auditions for orchestras and how it dramatically changed the gender makeup of orchestras is a very illuminating example of gender bias, and an interesting possible way of countering it.