#femininities

[lucidaurelius]

|07-12-2021 // 12:12 p.m|

storm barra did most of his raging last night and left the county windswept with a few blue skies to spare.

i absolutely love writing essays during a storm. it’s the perfect writing weather 🌦

today i have my last lecture before we break for christmas and i’m excited to finish this semester with an essay on how femininities, masculinities and heteronormativity is learned through media.

stay warm everyone 🍂

[dialogue-queered]

Dita Von Teese: ‘Even when I was a bondage model, I had big-time boundaries’

As the star dives into a giant glass of fizz for her first online extravaganza, she talks about this new golden age for burlesque, why the French Strictly gives her costume problems – and how #MeToo has changed her

Excerpt:

How has #MeToo made her look back on her own life? “When I was 14 or 15, I felt very preyed upon,” she says. “I remember working in the lingerie store and some guy comes in and tries to wrestle me to the floor, trying to pull me down behind the counter.” She managed to push him off and chase him out of the shop. Sometimes the question of consent hasn’t been so clear cut. “I have definitely found myself thinking, ‘What did I get myself into?’ Or sometimes, ‘Oh, it’s easier to just go along with it.’

“But there are lots of things I walked away from business-wise because I wasn’t willing to play the game. Even when I was a bondage model in the 90s, I had big-time boundaries. People used to say I wasn’t very fun, ‘She doesn’t have drinks, she just shows up and does the job.’” She’d take her boyfriend along for security, too. “Even back then, I was very business-minded and doing my best to stay in a position of power.” She has long produced and funded her own shows.

[the-styles-attire]

Femme 

[bypetchiensky]

Femininities curated by Natacha Ramsay-Levi

Ph.: Gareth McConnell St.: Camille Bidault-Waddington

[henrifelix]

Guy Bourdin

[thethirdbear]

[dialogue-queered]

[A] man was not necessarily a man: other factors (such as race, class, caste and sexual preference) often determine who were (and are) seen as 'real men'....[T]he categories 'male' and 'female' are not 'natural'. Both categories have histories, and are subject to change

David Birch et al (2001), Asia: Cultural Politics in a Global Age, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, p147.