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Please slow down this year. Please don’t live another year in fastforward. I don’t think any of us can take another year of that. Let’s learn to slow down, learn to brush our teeth slower, learn to eat slower, learn to look around more, learn to unclench our jaws and drop our shoulders, learn that this is not a rush, no matter how much society wants us to believe it is. I absolutely refuse to live another day under the palm of urgency, like my worth is measured in how quickly I can move, how efficiently I can exist, how much of myself I can compress into something easily digestible. I will take up space, I will need things and want things, I will be a human being this year, not just a ghost passing through, not just something that makes sense to everyone else. I’ll be as much of me I need and want to be.

naldibutnice

Mae Murray featured in The Green Book Magazine, 1917

belladonnaenymphe

as much as demolishing capitalism is a part of feminism too, i think modern liberals preaching it and blaming women for wanting money/security/etc is a part of getting women into communities just so they could put them into unpaid labour. because no way men are actually ever gonna give up their privilege and resources, they'll just rotate them differently, and nothing threatens any community in this world then women demanding any payback for their labour.

radiant-spirit-guardians

the backlash to "girlboss" feminism was insane. sure you should be careful climbing the corporate ladder, your job will never love you and protecting your health & peace should come first. but women being as financially independent as we are now is damn near unprecedented. so get the bag. girlboss to the moon and back. jesus.

loser-void

But there's also this thing: with money and climbing the ladder comes power.

Telling women that power is inherently unethical means women will self-exclude from it and no political progress will be made on their behalf because no one will be able to implement the change needed to progress.

The truth is you can't change the system from screaming outside of it that "someone please do this thing for me!". Sometimes we have to wear big woman pants and so something about it ourselves, which involves getting our hands dirty and be an example or invest ourselves enough to sit at the decision making table and promote the changes we want to have.