not to flex but i never saw la la land
emma, 20 years
after weeks upon weeks of doing nothing productive, within the span of a few hours i’ve completely redone my linkedin and created an online portfolio complete with my cv. i feel soulless now
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there is no emotion/logic dichotomy and the real misogyny is in the idea that there is a lack of logical continuity behind emotions [of women in particular (since the argument that comes up around this dichotomy asserts that the tendency for women to be more “emotionally involved” is in opposition to a more “logical” response and is therefore belittled for that reason)]. the reason that emotions are often divorced from languages of logic is based on the assumption that emotions dont follow their own logic
Ingrid Silva of Dance Theater of Harlem, dying her shoes
Photos by An Rong Xu for the New York Times
2019 is so fucked i keep trying to google “feminist quotes on marriage” and “feminist quotes on being a wife” etc and 99.99% of the results are articles titled like “Yes, You Can be a Feminist and Still Love Being a Wife” and “20 Feminist Quotes About Marriage You Need to Read Right Now” and then you click the listicle and no lie it starts off with one audre lorde quote taken completely out of context and is followed by ones by john green, joss whedon, and ian somerhalder. Empowerment culture has given everyone brain worms and the only people who Get It are tween girls on tumblr who say stuff like “i want to shed my skin and eat dirt”
source: SHEILA HICKS: WEAVING AS METAPHOR (The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture / Yale University Press, 2006)
Why My Jordanian Students Thought I Was Lying About Judaism
One student did not believe me when I told her there used to be a Jewish community in Iraq. Being of Iraqi origin, she said she never heard of Jews who came from her homeland. I pushed her: I told her to ask her grandparents if they knew of any Jews growing up in Baghdad. Almost as if she was determined to prove me wrong, she told me she would ask both her grandparents later that night.
When she came back, it was as if she was in disbelief at the words she was speaking. “My grandfather told me his best friend while growing up was Jewish and my grandmother said that her classroom had many Jewish students who were also her friends. They both seemed sad while telling me. They said they miss them very much, and the way Iraq was — welcoming to all people.”
As this student told her story, the whole class listened very intently, taking in her words. I wondered if any of their grandparents had stories that they carry but never reveal, still too heartbroken to remember a time when diversity seemed more acceptable.
Read more at Forward.
“The Jewish Middle East teaches us that the violence we are seeing today is not an inevitable clash of civilizations, or an irreconcilable difference between two religions who both trace their history back to the same region.”
Some of you have never picked up the hit podcast, Welcome To Nightvale written by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor and listened to a whole bunch of episodes in a passion, caught up to the most recent episode, ended up getting tired for waiting for a new episode, stopped listening for around a year and still feel guilty about it and it shows.
Typography Tuesday
This week we present a few choice pages from the Atlas of Punctuation printed by Heidi Neilson in 2004 at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, N. Y. in a limited edition of 100 copies. Neilson mapped out all the end-of-sentence punctuation found in fourteen well-known books as if one were looking directly through each book, consolidated all that punctuation for each book into a single plane, and printed them letterpress.
For Neilson, “the books represented in Atlas of Punctuation are literary classics that convey qualities of space and scale.” What we find most fascinating about the display is that each presentation of punctuation seems to capture the character of the novel itself – the lively children’s book, the ponderous narration, the text of simple declarative statements, etc. Please view each presentation and imagine what kind of text each of these punctuation fields brings to mind, then click on them to see what texts they actually represent.
Atlas of Punctuation was letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine 80 lb. cover paper using Adobe Garamond and Avenir typefaces for informational text. The typefaces used on the punctuation distribution pages match those of the source books as closely as possible.
View our other Typography Tuesday posts.
the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making
ed sheeran songs be like I love you alive girl I will show you with my body and my lips and my eyes very soon