"I once said I would shave my head if anyone tried to turn me into a sex symbol, and I did it. It was more for emotional reasons, too, but I really felt strongly about not prostituting myself in order to be heard.” – Poly Styrene
Tag: feminism
Wild woman quote: Strength
Clarissa Pinkola Estes is a Jungian analyst and a Doctor of Ethno-clinical psychology. Her book Women Who Run with the Wolves is a dense and fascinating foray into the myths and wonders of oral storytelling throughout history. It's a book that makes you more playful, affectionate, joyful and more authentically joyful in every way. Pinkola-Estes…
Gemma Correll’s spirit animal is a pug and her cartoons are all kinds of charming wonderful
Gemma Correll is the high priestess of wry, cute and amusing cartoons that are compassionate to women's bodily woes and emotional complexities. Her cartoons are sweet, sassy and charming and I'm totally in love with them. Also she's an aquarius, an INFJ and pretty much loves all the same things I do, so I have a…
Who makes the perfect body?
34x25x36 is an off-beat film that looks at who creates the ideal body as a commodity. Norman Glaser of the Patina-V Mannequin Factory in California, has created the perfect woman: she’s tall, slender, and made of plastic. Glaser has the vaguely creepy job of being a mannequin maker, here he candidly talks about manufacturing what he calls…
A pep talk for babes who are on fire
This pep talk is brought to you by the PEP TALK GENERATOR. You are a ball of fire. You are a flaming, feisty, bold ball of fire. You may feel like you get extinguished a lot, but you are set ablaze more times than you are drowned. You are smart, you are unique, you are…
A pep talk for babes who feel small
This pep talk is brought to you by the PEP TALK GENERATOR and written by a wise woman named Celeste. Don't keep yourself too hidden. Embrace feeling small — let it open up the world before you, then watch it change with your touch. From the way you move oceans to the breaths you unknowingly take. The…
A Pep talk for babes with anxiety
This is a pep talk for babes with anxiety. Close your eyes and sit with that feeling. Research shows that anxiety takes 20 minutes to pass when approached with mindfulness. This is not going to last forever. Recognize that your anxiety is part of who you are, but not all of who you are. Discomfort…
Phoenix Rising: How Clothes Transform Women Inside
As the world of fast fashion attests - fashion is important. However cost and consumerism are besides the point. Although the dominant narrative suggests that we women should buy more, consume more in order to be fashionable - it's rather a state of being and artful expression. Clothes can make the woman and have a transformative…
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Philosophical Friday: Should I be a housewife or a career woman?
This questionnaire comes from The Girlfriend and The Boyfriend, a magazine for young women that came out in the early 1950's. If only finding out the answer to that question was as simple as filling out a questionnaire!
The Defence Ministers of Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Germany
Enough said 🙂
This Photoshopped Image Is Red Hot Provocative and Powerful
A cheap shot? Maybe. Provocative? Without a doubt. Here's what somebody on the internet photoshopped into a image of Holocaust survivors. This comes from the deepest part of the internet, via 4CHAN directly to you. What are your thoughts? Now whether or not the curator of this image intended it to have a feminist reading, it's…
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