Don’t Know Who This Quote Is By But It’s Been Stuck In My Brain Like A Leech For Days

  The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar

“In an experiment revealing the importance of having friendships, social psychologists have found that perceptions of task difficulty are significantly shaped by the proximity of a friend. In their experimental design, the researchers asked college students to stand at the base of a hill while carrying a weighted backpack and to estimate the steepness of a hill. Some participants stood next to close friends whom they had known a long time, some stood next to friends they had not known for long, and the rest stood alone during the exercise. The students who stood with friends gave significantly lower estimates of the steepness of the hill than those who stood alone. Furthermore, the longer the close friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared to the participants involved in the study. In other words, the world looks less difficult when standing next to a close friend.”

— my new favorite psychological study, done by Schnall, Harber, Stefanucci, and Proffitt and published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Shame is the Shadow of Love

Claire Schwartz, Bound

Pj Harvey, "Shame"

Richard Siken, "Little Beast"

Fanny Howe, Second Childhood: Poems

 From the beginning: 1) from Michelle Lyn King’s Taylor Swift Youtube Videos  2) Sarah Nicole Prickett 3) from “Whistle While You Dixie” by Dodie Bellamy, When The Sick Rule The World4) From “Does Your Daughter Know It’s OK To Be Angry”? by Soraya Chemaly 5) a tumblr user paired this text with this dog image and I can’t refind it…if you see this, please let me know and also maybe where the agression text originated from? sry sry. 6) Dodie Bellamy 7) from Camila De Onis’s “Vengence Be Mine” 8) from Letters from Medea by Salma Deera 9) From Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides by Anne Carson 10 )from Anne Carson’s translation of An Oresteia | Agamemnon by Aiskhylos 11) Mad Men still 12) from Helen or My Hunger by Gale Marie Thomson 13) Alice Notley, from Doctor Williams’ heiresses 14) From The Book of Repulsive Women by Carrie Lorig 15) Stills from Sex In the City

Aloha from Hell - Richard Kadrey / x / I Can Fly - Lana Del Rey / Alejandro Jodorowsky / Cut - Catherine Lacey / How’d Your Parents Die Again? - Fatimah Asghar / Margaret Atwood / Courtney Love Prays To Oregon - Clementine von Radics / The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore - Tennessee Williams / Vesuvius - Amber Sparks

the love club, lorde | sharp objects, gillian flynn | lady bird dir. greta gerwig | class of 2013, mitski | white oleander, janet french | girl in progress dir. patricia riggen | writer in the dark, lorde | little fires everywhere, celeste ng | electrick children dir. rebecca thomas | mythological beauty, big thief

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four adventures of reinette and mirabelle (dir. éric rohmer, 1985)

grey tickles, black pressure by john grant

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lost in the supermarket by the clash

whisper of the heart (dir. yoshifumi kondo, 1995)

hard feelings by lorde

ladybird (dir. greta gerwig, 2018)

bag of bones by mitski

sorry to chime in but thought i’d bring up ada limón’s someplace like montana where she also calls her friend by the name - not as blatantly about friendship, but it is about making plans/dreams with friends even if you end up in different paths. one of my favourite poems ever <3

YES i love this poem too!!! the ending especially made me go ! the first time i read it. to paraphrase ada limón i love the way people love <3

No two women have the same experience. All feminism is founded not on actual essential unity, but on political coalition and affirmation of shared political needs and goals.

Race, culture, class, birth assignment, religion, and countless other factors mean all women experience womanhood differently. Excluding trans women because we have a different life experience misses the point that all women have different life experiences. This idea isn’t even new, its not even specific to trans women, its literally the point Crenshaw and Collins and Mohanty and countless other woc and third world feminists have been making for decades now.