Etiyene Eshett
@neotokyo
Etiyene Eshett
Second wave feminism strikes the author as overly simplistic. “To those of us who remain committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism” (113). Meanwhile, these “social idealists” have a long list of hyperbolic complaints but no solid... See more
Close Reading: Joan Didion’s “The Women’s Movement” |
Trying to understand feminism through the lens of a black male.
This entire notion of “the perfect mom/wife/homemaker,” of the “nostalgic siren call for a return to Fifties-style homemaking,” is a considerable misunderstanding of what Martha Stewart actually transmits, the promise she makes her readers and viewers, which is that know-how in the house will translate to can-do outside it.
Joan Didion • Let Me Tell You What I Mean
the creative ‘gestation period’ is long, but labor is short.
once the raw material is there, the process is surprisingly easier.
PKM tools tend to prioritize the consumption of information over active engagement with it. While they may facilitate the collection and organization of a wide range of resources, they may not encourage users to critically analyze or synthesize that information into new insights or ideas.
Even the reason why women gravitate towards certain features that at first seem entirely independent of an alleged male influence can be attributed to the cultural context of the gaze , and the socialization of being a woman within this cultural framework. The reason why women often aesthetically gravitate towards thinner frames whilst men prefer... See more
Why The Female Gaze Does Not Exist
The opposite of communion is also useful to me. When I am with others, when I read books, when I look at Twitter—I feel like a dam filling with water, with potential energy. But it is usually not until I spend a long time alone in my head that it turns into kinetic energy.
Henrik Karlsson • On Having More Interesting Ideas
Sometimes the process of thinking looks like needless chaos from the outside
But thats what creatives should be doing.
Banging on random objects just to see what it might shake out.
Creatives need to make a mess in order to arrive at clarity.