Jun 6, 2018
The Guerilla Girls, an anonymous group of over 55 female artists fighting sexism and racism in the art world since 1985. That’s #postpatriarchy
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The Guerilla Girls, an anonymous group of over 55 female artists fighting sexism and racism in the art world since 1985. That’s #postpatriarchy
Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate Homer's Odyssey. Her perspective infuses new vitality into the ancient text, where she tells the story of a man's journey from a woman's perspective. In the epic's first line, its hero Odysseus is called polytropos, a word that cannot definitively be translated from Greek. Stanley Lombardo went with "the cunning hero" and Robert Fagles chose "the man of twists and turns." Wilson verbally winks: "Tell me about a complicated man." It is a distinctly feminine choice, and a subtle laugh at the literary trope of the brooding, complex male protagonist. She does away with euphemisms, referring to the handmaidens in the poem much more directly; she calls them, accurately, "slaves." ⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ According to E.V. Rieu's translation, Odysseus' father cries out, "What a day this is to warm my heart! My son and grandson competing in valor!" Wilson goes with "Ah gods!/ A happy day for me! My son and grandson/ are arguing about how tough they are!" Her female perspective enlivens the text, using comedy to shed light on the human condition, and a man's writing provides the framework. I wonder what our world would look like if this sense of cooperation and harmony between man and woman didn't stop with ancient translations. Well, it's a start. ⠀⠀⠀⠀
Thank you @debmalamud for sharing your vision of the #postpatriarchy
‘In a post-patriarchy world, I would think about what was behind the picture and not how I’m displayed in front.’ ‘In a post-patriarchy world, I would think about way more when I see these pictures than “back when I was beautiful”. ‘I can only imagine what all women, all beings, could do in a post-patriarchal world.’
- Jessie Duke - click here for the full story
Repost @debbiemillman // thank you for sharing @aminatou brilliance:
"It is just not helpful to point out disparities and also be complicit in creating them... If you're around horizontally and you look at your peers you can put your resources together... If you don't accept the mentality of scarcity and you don't accept when you are a marginalized person or a minority, that anyone who looks like you in the workplace is your competition... you're actually gonna get very far... These are messages that capitalism and patriarchy tell you over and over again, there's only room for one of you, you're supposed to compete with each other and while you're competing for the scraps other people are building wealth, they're building the future, they're doing amazing things and if you just look around and just say actually we hunt in a pack, we are stronger, which I think is so true for women, you will get to where you're trying to get to so much faster.”
In ancient pre-Judeo/Christian civilizations temples were built to honor the goddesses. The bulls head represented the female reproductive system, the source from which human life flows. There’s so much to learn of our future by understanding the past.
We asked @pocomaspepe how he envisions a post-patriarchal world. He responded with this photo and an anecdote from that same day in Morocco:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
“So there’s this 6yr old girl here and her 8yr old brother. She took the chips away as he tried to eat, so he expressed his urgent disapproval, to which she scornfully imitated his words and added that the chips were to wait to be shared once everybody came to the table ..
She then walked away fearlessly and with full authority over these chips. Just the day before she was hiding behind me in fear of him coming after her angrily. I appreciated her stepping into her power, and that in her reasoning over taking the chips, she was on ready ground to fight back. I don’t believe she even conceived of any idea / assumed role or dynamic between them that should discourage her from doing as she wanted.”
#PostPatriarchy is teens telling adults to shut up and listen.
This is the post-patriarchal world envisioned by the brilliant poet, teacher and writer Caroline Rothstein