#againstpatriarchy

[southasianacademiaesthetics]

When they say a girl is another girl's greatest enemy, they forget to mention the royal wives sitting in the common courtyard of the Zanana Khana on a summer afternoon, adorning each other's hair with small jasmine flowers their handmaidens collected from the royal gardens. They forget to tell you about the unnamed wives who cared not for earning favour from the king rather cared for the family they got in the form of his other wives.

I'd like to imagine these women sending each other a part of the presents sent to them by an envoy of a foreign land. I'd like to imagine them doing last minute checks for each other before one of them leaves to visit her parents for the first time as a bride. I'd like to imagine them sending each other quirky letters in a secret language only they understand. I like to imagine them as sisters, as best friends, as a family rather than rivals in marriage.

[fluidsberlin]

#takebackthenight #againstpatriarchy #1may #1ermai https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc7NWLTMgDW/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[getoutski]

Rise up Women and Men! #internationalwomensday #8mart #8march #womansday #riseup #woman #strugle #againstpatriarchy #bambimolesters #rock #surfrock #photography #getoutski.me (at Caprag, Sisačko-Moslavačka, Croatia)

[estrellita-enojada]

"So much of it comes down to gender and this fear of femininity in our culture. Julia Serano talks about this so brilliantly, even in the history of feminist theory, femininity has been presented as something that's artificial and masculinity is something that's authentic, and even in a lot of feminist discourse until recently, femininity was seen as something that was artificial and fake. So there is this fear of feminine that we see in a lot of different aspects of culture that is punished. That's a part of patriarchy. In a lot of ways we can't talk about homophobia and transphobia, without talking about patriarchy." -Laverne Cox