Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns.
Audre Lorde, The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House
wish i lived in the Mama Mia Extended Universe where almost everyone’s poor but being poor means you have a single bedroom filled with adorable assorted mismatched furniture that still follows a decorative scheme and you have a great view and a french press
“you can’t say all these female characters are lesbians!”
she’s a lesbian, he’s a lesbian, all these lesbians behind you is lesbians, ya mamas a lesbian, ya grandmas a lesbian, ya daddys a lesbian, and ya goldfish a lesbian.
In 1958, during a conference at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, Mark Rothko listed the seven necessary ingredients for “a recipe of a work of art”:
1. A clear awareness of death. All art is in relation with death
2. Sensuality, necessary to represent the world in a concrete way
3. Tension, that is to say the conflicts or desires that in art are dominated the very moment they are shown
4. Irony, a modern ingredient. A form of self deletion, and at the same time of self analysis, through which man can, at least for a moment, get away from his destiny
5. Wit, humour
6. Some grams of ephemeral and some grams of chance
7. A ten percent of hope… only if you need it; Greek didn’t have