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Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. To make a good job of The Waves. To stop irritation by the assurance that nothing is worth irritation [referring to Nelly]. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes—but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, to buy good ones.

Virginia Woolf’s New Year Resolutions, 1931

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Frida Kahlo by Leo Matiz, 1941

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If anybody would like to invest in a cab company with all female drivers so we can all just get home without getting hit on, get at me. This is a seriously untapped market.

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Evening Post: August 12, 1899. “She immediately alighted, caught hold of the astonished youth, and gave him a sound thrashing, using her fists in a scientific fashion…” I would love to know what this means.

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I think that might be code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”.

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it is absolutely code for “punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy”

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As is the case with boxing, it most likely means that she was precise and methodical. So, yes. She punched him in the balls with devastating accuracy.

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“to the delight of several colliers who were passing” just imagining these coal miner bros standing around all WHOO YOU GO GURL

I GOT UR HUGE FLOWER HAT BB KICK HIS ASS

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It’s really hard to choose a favorite part of this story.

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Women are less likely to orgasm than men – but is it really more difficult for women?

There’s still ambiguity about what the female orgasm even is, let alone how to have one. In episode three of Vagina Dispatches, we (Mona and Mae) go into the lab with a neuroscientist who measures orgasms. Then we speak to a psychologist, a sex educator and a pelvic floor therapist to find out how we can increase our sexual pleasure, and our chances of coming

Watch episode one: the vulva

Watch episode two: periods

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I often remember what you were wearing when I first met a you…I certainly remember what I was wearing at great and horrible moments in my life…so I LOVE this.

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An Evening with Ann Magnuson | MoMA

Join us October 17 for an evening with Ann Magnuson, fixture of New York’s 1980s downtown scene. Her longtime friend performance artist Joey Arias, members of the psycho-psychedelic band Bongwater (1985–92), and other special guests will share the stage. This event—Magnuson’s first appearance as a performer in New York since 2010—serves as a preview of MoMA’s fall 2017 exhibition about Manhattan’s famed Club 57 (1978–83).

[Photograph: Rocky Schenck]

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The 13th, a new documentary by Selma director Ava DuVernay, is now streaming on Netflix. It’s about the loophole in the 13th amendment, which outlawed slavery and involuntary servitude, "except as a punishment for crime.” In the film we hear from activist Angela Davis, Sen. Cory Booker, The New Jim Crow author Michelle Alexander and Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson, on the subject of mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex.

Bryan Stevenson spoke to Fresh Air in 2014 about justice in the 21st century:

“The new statistic from the Justice [Department] is really disheartening: The Justice Department is now reporting that 1 in 3 black male babies born in the 21st century is expected to go to jail or prison. The statistic for Latino boys is 1 in 6. That statistic was not true in the 20th century. It was not true in the 19th century. It didn’t become true until the 21st century. That means we have enormous work to do to improve our commitment to [a] society that is not haunted and undermined and corrupted by our legacy of racial inequality.

The same is true for poverty. We’ve got a bigger population of poor people in this country than we’ve had in a generation, and we’ve got to take on the challenges of poverty. … For me, that means taking it on in a different way. I’m not persuaded that the opposite of poverty is wealth — I’ve come to believe … that the opposite of poverty is justice.”