"You're just dirty looks in a girl body."
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.
This boy I knew in high school had a black and white blog that was rather sad and when he met his girlfriend he started posting in color and I think that’s what love is
ppl w nonbinary genders are not all just “between” male and female. gender isn’t a male/female zero-sum game pls stop
this took me a while to unlearn, until someone basically said “look, colors are a spectrum. if you assign pink to women and blue to men, that doesn’t make every other color a variation of purple”
just so we’re clear there has been more child molesters to win the oscar for best director than there have been women of color to even be nominated
It seems as though my theme is changing to a more minimalistic, nature theme? It still has color though so I’m not sure what to consider it. I believe the warm change of weather may be responsible? I’m not complaining…
Anonymous asked:
Don’t we all? For sure tattoos, glasses, and the color grey. To name a few.
awokes