Jasmine
@jasminedanielle
strategist. writer. tinkerer. hobby hobbyist.
Jasmine
insidethefold.substack.com
Misogyny isn’t about hating or discriminating against women because they are women and thus attract suspicion and consternation. Misogyny is about exposing women to harm because our gender makes us beneath full consideration. Misogyny is primarily something we face, not something people feel in their hearts.
Kate Manne • Broken Bones: America’s Violent Indifference toward Women
It’s allowed me to cultivate the soil to suit my purposes—rather than having to adapt my garden to the soil I was given.
Mandy Brown • Coming Home
Art has a social purpose [and] art belongs to the people. It’s not something that is hanging out there that has no connection with the needs of man. And art is unashamedly, unembarrassingly, if there is such a word, social. It is political; it is economic. The total life of man is reflected in his art.
The personal is political
Regardless of what happens, our six weeks taught me that the deepest connections don’t come from trying to prove our worth, but from having the courage to be exactly who we are while trusting that we can be loved for it. They come from sharing pieces of our lives with someone without obligation, simply because we want to.
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... See moreAmerica needs to radically rethink what it means to be old - The Atlantic
Jonathan Rauch • America Needs to Radically Rethink What It Means to Be Old — The Atlantic
music is what language would love to be, if it could
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
There are two kinds of writing; alive writing and dead writing. Alive writing invokes sensuousness, expansion, and insight. It transforms and enlarges its reader. It is a kind of disclosure; simultaneously immanent and transcendent. Dead writing is passive, sentimental and afraid of telling the truth. It discloses nothing except its own performance... See more
Hannah Close • Art, AI, and the Courage to Create
maintains avant-garde pretensions despite being entirely milquetoast.
