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surrender2000 · 6 months

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"Childbirth is (or may be) one aspect of the entire process of a woman’s life, beginning with her own expulsion from her mother’s body, her own sensual suckling or being held by a woman, through her earliest sensations of clitoral eroticism and of the vulva as a source of pleasure, her growing sense of her own body and its strengths, her masturbation, her menses, her physical relationship to nature and to other human beings, her first and subsequent orgasmic experiences with another’s body, her conception, pregnancy, to the moment of first holding her child."

Of Woman Born, by Adrienne Rich

#adrienne rich #of woman born

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 11 months

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[motherhood]

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“Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.”

― Adrienne Rich, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

#motherhood #Adrienne Rich #Of Woman Born #women #quotes

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wellconstructedsentences · 8 months

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But I recall too each child’s individual body, his slendemess, wiriness, softness, grace, the beauty of little boys who have not been taught that the male body must be rigid.

Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich

#of woman born #adrienne rich

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haruosaki · 1 year

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#adrienne rich #of woman born: motherhood as experience and institution #of woman born #quote #literature #feminism

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valledeliria · 11 months

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uncanny-tranny · 1 year

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I don't care if somebody was "born a man" or "born a woman"

We were fucking born as babies, I frankly don't care what you were "born to be," so long as you are happy in the here and now. That's what matters more, not this bioessentialist "you're born this way, and nothing you do or say matters more than how you were born"

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #bioessentialism #'born a man' or 'born a woman' is in my opinion such awful and hilarious wording like. what???#also it is inherently *nobody's* business what you were 'born as'. that's for you to determine #'are you afab?' 'are you amab?' bro. i was born a baby and the rest is drag.

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kingsmoot · 3 months

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um. can i be honest. with you. i think it's dumb as fuck when people talk about great house genetics in asoiaf as if they're a plot hole or a world building flaw and not like. a very cute and fun and purposeful feature of the world. you fr have no sense of whimsy.

#like yes every great house is INSTANTLY recognizable by their eye and hair color and what of it #yes cat and ned have lady and the tramp genetics #it's CUTE and it's FUN #gul dukat raped an enslaved bajoran woman and ziyal was born with cardassian features set to 89% and also a bajoran nose ridge #this is just like. fun shorthand.#for familial ties.#especially in a setting where your familial ties determine EVERYTHING about your life #IT IS A GOOD WORLD BUILDING DETAIL

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savorycannoli · 10 months

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Can I talk about sugar for a second? Like all of the berzatto children are tragic and doomed by the narrative in their own right, but nat’s story means so such to me idk if I can even fully talk about it all. We see her relationship with her mom is strained at best, it seems like she’s the least favorite child, maybe BECAUSE of her existence as a woman.

And then we find out that her lifelong nickname is based off of a childhood mistake, her being overeager to help her family literally turned into a lifelong reminder of her fuck up. Is there anything more tragic?? A child wanting love but getting scorn?? And then it makes the flashback scene where she tries to add raisins in season 1 all the more upsetting because why did she add them?

“That’s how mom makes it.” she’s the only one that still follows their mom’s recipe. The reason? Could be anything. But I have no doubt in my mind if she DIDN’T add the raisins if Donna had been around she would’ve been ridiculed even more.

I have such a soft spot in my heart for girls and their complex relationships with their moms and motherhood, and it makes her scene with cicero in the car that much more impactful. When cicero says he would let his kids make more mistakes and not been as careful, i almost started crying. Nat has a nickname from her mistakes and it seems like in her mom’s eyes she’s nothing but mistakes. And then her uncle tells her that she’ll be a good mother and that it’s okay for kids to make mistakes, great, even.

I’m so happy nat is in a place where she’s happy and supported. She has a husband who deeply understands her family and doesn’t judge her for it, even making an effort to try and include Donna. I was kind of meh about pete before season 2, but it solidified for me that he’s so so good for nat and a great character. He is so excited to be a dad, he’s patient and kind with her and her family, and he doesn’t call her sugar.

She’s nat. And she’s allowed to make mistakes.

#I have so many fucking feelings about them #maybe it’s me coming off of the high of succession’s equally emotionally damaged sibling trio #but I have nothing but love for natalie berzatto #she means so much to me #she’s joining the ranks of women on tv that are hated by their mothers just for being born a woman #my baby girl #I love her so much #the bear season 2 #the bear #natalie berzatto #pete the bear #carmy berzatto

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lazycranberrydoodles · 5 months

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diversity win! your doomed greek tragedy ship is genderfluid!

#their fem forms are. incredibly self indulgent #hello beef and leaf i get off work at 5 ………#sqx. transgender georg. born a boy raised a girl ascended as a guy worshipped as a woman #my headcanon is that he xuan is identically genderfucked 1) it increases the er #um. the parallels. 2) its funny #not calling these their male and female forms cause i a #m a butch lesbian and that would be hypocritical #actually. you know what. the ones on the left are he/him and the ones on the right are she/her. hope this helps #sqx: COME ONNN MINGXIONG hx: fuck off i dont want to have a ‘girls night’ (spent an hour picking out their outfit and is applying makeup)#thats a faux bob. btw. sqx is very good at them by now #FUCK I FORGOT HE XUANS LIPSTICK. ... if the stars align ill fix it #tgcf #my art #art #tian guan ci fu #hob #heaven official’s blessing #beefleaf #🥩🍃#shi qingxuan #he xuan #ming yi

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pearlsdiamondsandvodka · 29 days

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the sandra lynn / fig conversation is driving me Insane. fig saying that sometimes she doesn’t wanna exist as herself at all…not wanting to ask her friends how they see her (because she’s afraid to hear their response) saying that to someone she is a monster and she Cannot stop thinking about it. sandra lynn starting the conversation saying she needs to step up but is also simultaneously taken aback about what fig expresses and doesn’t know how to responds to it and suggests getting ice cream. sandra lynn saying “convincing people they deserve good things is really tough” talking about herself but how it also reflects fig. insane!!

#if that conversation had kept going I would have started bawling!!#fully believe brennan was like ‘well oh shit this is getting dark and heavy quick let’s uh get some snow cones’#I will say I think Emily does a beautiful job here of showing teenage life #not a universal experience perhaps but definitely a common one #feeling so lost and insecure in who you are and under so much pressure to be a certain way #and her saying she doesn’t wanna exist #vs me resonating with ‘I don’t wanna die sometimes I wish I’d never been born at all’ lyrics #it was hard to watch ngl but it’s also bc Emily does Such a good job w emotional scenes!!#that woman is so emotionally invested you get emotional invested as well #if Emily axford cries I cry with her #and loved to see more of Sandra Lynn again <3 #damn good scene #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #fantasy high junior year #fig faeth #sandra lynn faeth #emily axford #brennan lee mulligan

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mikasasrippedtoenail · 5 days

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A woman would call the most well articulated essay you've ever read a "ramble" while a man would call his shittyreddit post an "intellectual thinkpiece"

#humility is a woman's enemy #So sad that women so often undermine their intellectual capabilities #Be confident in yourself ladies!!!#You are worthy just because you were born #No reason whatsover #You are your own person with so many good qualities #Be positive #Even if your blood group is not #radblr #radical feminists do touch #radical feminist safe #radical feminists please touch #radical feminists do interact #terfsafe #radical feminism #trans exclusionary radical feminist

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doctor-disc0 · 2 months

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"Oh, you're trans? Are you mtf, ftm, mtnb, or ftnb?" Actually, I'm ftmtnbtftnbtmtnbtmtftxtnbtmtqtmftnbtmtfnbtmtxtmtmnbtmtnbtmtxtqtnbtmtfmnbtm-

In other words, I'm genderfluid