April 2012
30 posts
“Femme is defiance. Femme ignores the male gaze & tells patriarchy to fuck off. Femme is a refusal of the pressure to be thinner, whiter, pimple-free, wrinkle-free, smaller, quieter. Femme says that we’ll take the short skirts but you can keep the catcalls to yourself.”
—BOSSY FEMME (via whitedrunkgirls)
“What important adaptive advantage could the depressive position be conferring? Just as physical pain has evolved to signal injury and to prevent further injury, so the depressive position may have evolved to remove us from distressing, damaging, or futile situations. The time and space and solitude that the adoption of the depressive position affords prevents us from making rash decisions, enables us to see the bigger picture, and - in the context of being a social animal - to reassess our social relationships, think about those who are significant to us, and relate to them more meaningfully and with greater compassion. In other words, the depressive position may have evolved as a signal that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing or, at least, processing and understanding. Sometimes we can become so immersed in the humdrum of our everyday lives that we no longer have time to think and feel about ourselves, and so lose sight of our bigger picture. The adoption of the depressive position can force us to cast off the Polyannish optimism and rose-tinted spectacles that shield us from reality, stand back at a distance, re-evaluate and prioritise our needs, and formulate a modest but realistic plan for fulfilling them.”
—The Anatomy of Melancholy: Can Depression be Good for You? | Psychology Today (via somethingchanged)
Spencer Tweedy: An invisible ink →
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The ‘best’ art comes from adults not because they can play a guitar with finer motor skills, write with greater vocabulary or draw more dexterously, but because their walk from ‘chunk of feeling’ to ‘chunk of art’ is longer and windier than it is for a kid, and along the way, it picks up…