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In the story, there is a crane who tricks a man into thinking she is a woman so she can marry him. She loves him, but knows that he will not love her if she is a crane so she spends every night plucking out all of her feathers with her beak. She hopes that he will not see what she really is: a bird who must be cared for, a bird capable of flight, a... See more
CJ Hauser • The Crane Wife - The Paris Review
This, then, is the foundation of democracy. Lament outlawed, the Furies tamed and domesticated. The founding fathers of our current political system saw no way to make this system work without banishing or chaining unruly energies—energies invariably coded as female.
Eleanor Robins • A story about the dawn of democracy, the legal suppression of grief, and why politics without art is death
If the most significant feminine archetypes relate to motherhood, especially in the context of the natural world - Mother Earth being the most obvious of them all - then what do they have to do with me? If my womb-space is “broken” - those dysfunctional, painful periods as well as my failure to put that womb-space to the use for which it was
... See moreAnd by the time I left him, I had learned enough about myself to understand that I would probably have subsumed myself entirely in motherhood, lost myself completely, if ever I’d had a child. I’d spent too much time worrying about my mother during my own childhood, always feeling that I was the one who had to take care of her. I was far too good at
... See moreThe Case for Making Art When the World Is on Fire | Amie McNee | TED
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Real humans are weird and contradictory. They have random obsessions that don't fit their "brand." They go through phases. They abandon hobbies and pick them back up years later.
They contain multitudes, and those multitudes don't need to have a coherent narrative thread.
Projects let you be gloriously non-linear. You don't have to turn every... See more
They contain multitudes, and those multitudes don't need to have a coherent narrative thread.
Projects let you be gloriously non-linear. You don't have to turn every... See more
Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz • be more confusing, actually
Maybe I’m interesting and confusing enough that I can’t be replaced by AI!
For the greater part of human history, and in places in the world today, common resources were the rule. But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything is commodity to be bought and sold. The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world.
... See moreI would love to learn how to live more like this. To think more about what I can give to the community, how I can be a better villager. I’m excited by the idea of living in a community that helps each other out. I want to be someone who hosts events or who people come to for help.
But there is another side of me who is afraid to fall behind. Money is a resource I need to exist in this world and I cannot will that away by telling another story. So I feel like whenever I think of something nice to do for other people I automatically also think about how to monetize it, even thought that was not my immediate intention.