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When you choose to walk, you choose not to pursue immediate gratification or even comfort. But simply to expand the number of things that might happen to you—walking invests in the potentiality of your experience with almost no promise of tangible reward at all.

Wild Geese Podcast Ep. 20: Convenience Culture is Killing our Creative Impulses

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Listening to every new episode Wild Geese by Anna Howard when it comes out is a wild experience because as soon as I learn something new or think a new thought, it’s mentioned in her podcast the next week. And then she puts a whole new spin on it that changes my worldview. What I’m saying is I’m a fan.

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my god, such a powerful video. I need every woman to watch this and understand how we need to be operating in our day to day lives, especially now

simply ALLOWING yourself to be "ugly" (unattractive to the patriarchy), considering friendship and family as an end goal and realising you can live your dream life without a man

Knowing that the end goal is not marriage is not getting the guy

Transwomen this goes for you too as you are women <3

#feminism #4b movement #video essay #Anna Howard #Youtube #trans positivity #trans women are women #intersectional feminism

"I don't need clean hands! I need hands that are capable of helping other people!"

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essay by Anna Howard

"I used to feel extra special because of a pile of white rocks on the front porch of my childhood home. I remember thinking we had the best house in the block because of this pile of rocks, not because it was beautiful but because it was distinct and anything distinct felt extraordinary to me then. When I look at pictures, it’s clear to me now that it was just a garden bed without a garden. The rocks were a placeholder for two tired parents renting the house with no extra time or energy to get to a garden. From an adults perspective it’s actually quite ugly. I look back on the girl that thought something so ugly made her so special and I love her ardently. When strangers told her she had the best Halloween costume they’ve seen all night, she believed them. When her music teacher went out of her way to ask her why she hadn’t joined after school choir yet, she took that to mean she had the most beautiful voice in the world. When her grandparents got her cardboard cut out of Zac Efron for Christmas, she thought her entire family was full of comedic geniuses. When her first crush kept the sock doll, she made him at the bottom of his backpack until the last day of school, it was assumed to be cherished not forgotten. The pile of white rocks was special because they were hers. The compliments were special because they were assumed to be true. The gifts were special because they were given by people that were paying attention. The small embarrassment of infatuation didn’t register as embarrassments at all because she imagined reciprocation was inevitable. She found details that made her feel special effortlessly and she did this without trying every every single day. She had an ego and her attention was finally tuned to her own significance. Anything that violated the feeling that she was one of a kind garnered and intense reaction of indignation. Her family called her firestarter, not because she actually liked to start fires, but because she had a strong sense of justice towards herself. This wasn’t always helpful. In fact, it was often problematic. But I guess the question is, when did I go from special as an assumed state of being to special as an endowment that I should act coy about or special as a notification I need to keep refreshing the feed to find or special as a state of being that a man has any power to take away."