beatriz

It is a system designed to keep women trapped in an eternal hamster wheel of low self-worth and misery; to starve them spiritually while keeping them fat and fed on a diet of beauty gunk, Shein junk, PopSlop, and TikTok. It is a system designed to prevent us from rising above the sea of shit we are born into. From becoming thought leaders. From... See more

Polymath and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe reminds us to live and work with a calm persistence:

"Without haste, yet without rest."

Note: Goethe's original example was a star orbiting the sun: steady and unhurried, but always in motion.

I’ve spoken with one of my favorite professors about this. He cautions heavily against placing the pressure of publication on your first novel. He says that in any other career, we wouldn’t expect our first attempt to be worthy of anything—recognition, publication, etc. Think of most musician’s first songs, most painter’s first paintings, or most... See more

Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

By

Jason Marc Harris

The Melancholy of Resistance

Satantango

Childlessness, fertili ty and infertility still defines women and their achievements In Britain -whether after higher education in 1913, as a Cabinet Minister in the 1960s or to be Prime Minister in 2016. Researching eugenics and its co nsequences, including enforced sterilisati on, shortly after I found that I was infertile made me vividly... See more

17 Pamela Gerrish Nunn (1987), Victorian W omen A rtists. London: The Women's Press, 45. 18 Deborah Cherry (1993), Painting Women. Victorian Women Artists, London: Routledge, 21 & 103

The group’s unanimity is simply an echo of my selection criterion. It’s easy to forget how carefully pre-screened the members are, how epistemically groomed social media circles might be.