#caitlin morgan

[shibuyatokyo]

CAITLIN MORGAN

[six-costume-refs]

Looks like Dionne did todays evening show in the reveal look because of the heat! Bet the other queens were jealous she got to take a layer off! And the LIWs in short sleeved tees too

Ha, I was just coming to write up a post! Love how quick y’all are!

L-R: Alice Angliss as Maria, Emma Jemima as Maggie, Kelly Morris as Bessie, Caitlin Morgan as Joan. @/thekellymorris.

They recently switched to wearing shorts for the summer months, but to my knowledge this is the first time to my knowledge that they’ve worn plain t-shirts since opening on the West End. I have a more in depth post about their costumes here.

@/danielle.rosee_

For the matinee today Dionne Ward-Anderson wore her full costume. But for the evening she only wore it up until the reveal - only her shorts were back on after.

[savethelinoleum]

At 19, I read a sentence that re-terraformed my head: “The level of matter in the universe has been constant since the Big Bang.” In all the aeons we have lost nothing, we have gained nothing - not a speck, not a grain, not a breath. The universe is simply a sealed, twisting kaleidoscope that has reordered itself a trillion trillion trillion times over. Each baby, then, is a unique collision - a cocktail, a remix - of all that has come before: made from molecules of Napoleon and stardust and comets and whale tooth; colloidal mercury and Cleopatra’s breath: and with the same darkness that is between the stars between, and inside, our own atoms. When you know this, you suddenly see the crowded top deck of the bus, in the rain, as a miracle: this collection of people is by way of a starburst constellation. Families are bright, irregular-shaped nebulae. Finding a person you love is like galaxies colliding. We are all peculiar, unrepeatable, perambulating micro-universes - we have never been before and we will never be again.

Caitlin Morgan

[shibuyatokyo]

CAITLIN MORGAN

[thepompandthepagentry]

I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on Earth - every day I have ever had- was, secretly sunny, after all. However shitty and rainy it is in Wolverhampton - on days where the clouds feel low, like a lid, and the swarf bubbles and the gutters churn to digest- it's always been sunny up here. I feel like I've just flown 600mph head-on into the most beautiful metaphor of my life: if you fly high enough, if you get above the clouds, it's a never-ending summer.

'How to build a girl' by Caitlin Morgan (p142) I don't know why, but this just resonated with me so much

[tamaraldelvalle-blog]

You are a midwife to yourself and will give birth to yourself, over and over in dark rooms, alone.

Caitlin Morgan

[multifandomtrash94]

Idk if Caitlin Moran wanted to insult the entire fandom or she just intended to joke around, but...making the actors read out loud a pornography was extremely rude and cheap.

[stmontilla]

About Twitter Silence, and why you might want to look into it

Today is Twitter Silence, and here’s why I’m all for it: It’s one way of sending a message. It is not the only way, but it is one way. I agree with the positions about how choosing silence, on twitter of all places, is different from being systematically silenced, but I think that’s precisely why this has some potential. Here me out, and I know this will be hard to swallow, and might leave you with and icky after taste: It’s placing focus on how people are silenced everyday by lack of support. We’re not claiming it to be the same as being silenced because of constant and real abuse. We’re presenting some questions: What if we all experienced abuse with little or no support? What if we were all silenced by it? Is that a place we want to be in? I know twitter might not have the same effect as a physical vigil or a peaceful protest “out there” in the “real world”, but it is a movement that places focus where it is needed.  

It is important for anyone experiencing abuse to speak up for themselves. It’s also important that they not have to scream and wave to be heard; support should be easier than that and not an extra battle for those already in pain. When we make it easier for people to choose silence rather than help, that’s a problem. What if not everyone was strong enough to speak out and demand the support they rightfully deserve? Support should still be there, systematically and easily accessible. For me, that’s the message that #TwitterSilence is bringing.

EDIT: I've learned some things about Caitlin Morgan, who initiated #TwitterSilence , that I simply do not agree with. I believe being a woman or benefiting from feminism does not make you a feminist. I believe that "woman" does not hold a strict or simple definition. 

Though conflicting in basic assumptions about women and feminism with Morgan, my intentions remain the same. The questions still stands about whether it is possible to separate a cause or movement from its primary advocate and their beliefs. This is a muddy subject. People are fluid and changing. Ideas cannot be owned, not really. So when I could more readily separate art from the artist, why is this so different?

Here some links: (tw: transphobia)

http://jawdust.tumblr.com/post/28877149055/why-dont-you-like-caitlin-moran

http://shadowscrescent.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/an-open-letter-to-caitlin-moran/