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wollstonecraft-ish · 1 year

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"For many centuries, Anonymous was a woman." - Virginia Woolf

#dark academia #feminist academia #chaotic academia #feminist literature #light academia #mary wollstonecraft #classic academia #feminism #cottage academia #bronte

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xoceansx · 1 year

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"She often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions."

— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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cryinginmelodrama · 6 months

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Sylvia Plath

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dark-romantics · 2 years

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Write like the ghosts of all the women in history who weren’t allowed to write are standing right next to you wondering what a laptop is and why you’re still in your pyjamas.

via Lucie Britsch

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shakespear-esque · 4 months

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I need not hate any man; he cannot hurt me. I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me.

From, A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf

#virginia woolf #a room of one's own #literature #classic literature #english literature #classic lit quotes #classic academia #classic academia aesthetic #literature academia #book quote #book quotes #booklr #feminist literature

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rubiscodisco · 5 months

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The poems of long-ago bards shall no more portray us as fickle, untrustworthy friends - bias because lord Apollo forbore to implant his lyrics in feminine minds. Otherwise we could have answered with songs, back to the masculine sex, that long years can easily open up tales of men's wrongs, no less than their narratives all about ours - Medea, Euripides (431 BCE)

#literature #plays #classics #greek plays #feminism #feminist literature

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steelycunt · 9 months

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‘gay retelling of a classic!’ ‘feminist sapphic twist on this greek myth!’ why don’t you write a better book than that. i think we deserve better books than that

#just had ‘jane austen’s mansfield park reimagined as a sapphic murder mystery’ advertised 2 me on IG. and i just think you should write a #better book than that. if you want to write a ‘sapphic murder mystery’ then write it. the fact that you have to lean on existing classics #and advertise yours as a ‘retelling’ or a ‘twist’ or a ‘reimagining’ suggests to me that you are not a very good writer. sorry this is very #hatery but i believe it…just write a new book. a better book. what is the point of writing a gay version of wuthering heights other than it #solves your problem of not being able to come up with a plot because you are not a very good writer. i dont know. i suppose there is space #for anything and should be space for all sorts in the publishing industry but also i hear sapphic murder mystery mansfield park and i think #that’s probably not a very good book. idk. there is excellent queer and feminist original fiction out there without the need to take #existing literature at random and use that as a crutch for some reason…#(ridi's) bigmouth strikes again

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aceofroses-queenofstars · 7 months

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This post will contain discussion of rape and sexual assault

i'm writing a whole essay on this but. I don't know how many people know the opera Don Giovanni who aren't musicians or musical scholars. But I have Many Thoughts and need to share them.

Number one: HOW in the HELL do people think Donna Anna is in love with Don Giovanni? She explicitly states how terrified she was when he broke into her room and assaulted her. Her driving force through the opera is rage and a need for revenge for both her attempted rape and the murder of her father. She is actively invested in ensuring that no one else is a victim of his crimes, and is pleased at his death. Donna Anna is a victim, and an incredibly strong character.

Number two: How in the WORLD have we gotten to a point where Don Giovanni is idolized as a heroic character? People forget or aren't told that the full title of the opera is (roughly translated) "The Dissolute Man Punished, or Don Giovanni". The Point of the Opera is that he is a terrible man who has commited Literally thousands of sexual crimes, as well as murder, and he gets what he deserves. He gets dragged down into hell for it, and he refuses to repent.

I am starting to understand how it came to be that the public perception of this opera is so far from the text (i am reading some INCREDIBLY interesting papers about this) but the main thing I am seeing is that scholars, when writing papers and textbooks, are either jumping to wild conclusions from the text or being incredibly picky when it comes to the evidence for their claims and straight up ignoring contradicting scenes. Also, many of them view Donna Anna, Donna Elvira and Zerlina as crude stereotypes. Some go as far as claiming that (I genuinely hate this) Donna Anna was better off for being assaulted. Talk about rape culture and victim-blaming!

And that's the real problem with the perception of opera. So much of the literature surrounding it has been written by scholars (predominantly male) who have been influenced by a culture of misogyny and rape that they refuse to see the complexity of any of the three female characters, and turn a blind eye to anything that paints Don Giovanni for what he truly is: a rapist. Every interpretation of anything is influenced by the culture from which it comes, and that is So Incredibly Clear in the literature surrounding Don Giovanni. It pisses me off.

Anyways, if this post manages to reach the dashes of people who have heard of or studied Don Giovanni, I want to know - how was it taught to you? Was Don Giovanni portrayed as a dashing, rascally hero? Did you study the female characters, and if so, in what light? What stood out to you about the opera? I'd love to know!

Also, if anyone would like to read the papers I've been studying, lmk and I'd be happy to post them!

#rose rambles #classical music #mozart #wolfgang amadeus mozart #don giovanni #opera #feminist literature #tagging anything that i think will get this post to the people who get it #music #music school #music history #donna anna #urgh i get so mad about this which is why i need to write a bomb-ass paper #history

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bones-ivy-breath · 2 months

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How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton, from Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems

#typography #anne sexton #quote #maxine kumin #literature #dark academia #aesthetic #light academia #how it was #anne sexton: the complete poems #classic academia #dark things #feminism #feminist literature #womanhood

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florareadsworld · 1 year

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Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all

Emily Dickinson.

#bookblr #books #book quote #booklover #academia #classic books #feminist literature #books & libraries #dark academia #romantic academia #dickinson #emily dickinson #poetry

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wollstonecraft-ish · 1 year

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I'm not reading at work, that's just my emotional support copy of Jane Eyre.

#dark academia #feminist academia #chaotic academia #feminist literature #light academia #mary wollstonecraft #classic academia #feminism #cottage academia #bronte

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xoceansx · 1 year

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"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

— George Eliot, Middlemarch [1871]

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cryinginmelodrama · 6 months

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Sylvia Plath

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sinligh · 2 years

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Am I settling if all that i wish for is peace of mind?

I wish i was more acceptant of life and death. All that comes in between and all that’s lost as well. Of myself, cause I’m tired of not knowing how to love me anymore, or who to love in me we are too many, even for myself.

Sometimes I wonder if any of me is worth love? are we even deserving?

I’ve tried building houses to welcome a little love inside me

It kept on crumbling, and i kept on finding pieces of myself laying lifeless beneath it It felt like the most crucial parts are those that I found

Laying like an anchor holding me together, holding me down.

Maybe I don’t need it ?

Part of me is grateful for everything the rest doesn’t want any of it and I don’t know how to put the pieces together. Are they even meant to be together?

Could we be more than ?

Narcissism?

I feel like I'm too good to be defined as anything but a complex. I’m tired of limiting myself, and restraining all that i can be. I'm tired of life trying to fit me in a mold that's too small, into a design that was made by society for a fetus that is only eighteen month into its existence

barely able to hear and feel...

Women, more often than not have to choose to be one, singular, a body, or a mind they rarely are allowed to be both peacefully.

Whatever she chooses to be

respect will be hold hostage in the other side she could never be enough; if she wants it all She is greedy; if she dares to dream, but he can.

So who is to blame me if I choose to crush them all ? To drip honey like venom

As slow as an intravenous infusion into their bloodstream wrapping around their failing organs Unmercifully.

To swim against an imaginary flow giving my ink the chance to blind them and my wicked tongue the pleasure of tasting their misery.

Cause I can’t stand this oppression, nor can I watch it silently anymore.

A woman, a luscious body, a nefarious mind. More than.

A sharp soul, a free spirit.

More than…

I am more than, i owe no one a definition.

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Quotes: Ernest Hemingway/Harry Styles/Harry Styles/Anne Carson's/ Anne Sexton/ Sylvia Plath

Original context: Sinligh

Art reference:

1. Art by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. 2. Gianni de Conno - Poesie alla Luna. 3. Fairy tale by Lyubov Shipaeva. 4. Art by Slava Fokk, 1976. 5. "The Angel With The Flaming Sword - Edwin Howland Blashfield. 6. Art by Wilhelm Kotarbinski

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libofalilwoman · 11 months

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📖The Color purple by Alice Walker.

A classic bildungsroman.

Adorned with yearning for sweet freedom, a testament of raw desires of the feminine heart, filled with fierce female characters- The Color Purple is a bold and one of a kind feminist novel.

Celie, our main protagonist, writes letters to God describing the major and sometimes minor events taking place in her life. Through her very first letter we learn how her stepfather "Pa" sexually, physically and verbally abuses her.

The sole person she was loved by while growing up was her younger sister Nettie. But to their dismay, their relationship was tore down by Celie's abusive husband Mr______.

After getting separated from Nettie, it was Shug Avery, a fashionable and fiercely independent singer, who brought a new dawn to the perpetual moonless nights of Celie.

Shug is the woman who shows Celie the path to self love and self discovery.

The letters are very sensitive and demonstrates vivid and heart wrenching descriptions of abuse.

Celie's feelings find crystal clear expression in her letters and she acts as a spokesperson for every single woman who are made to feel imprisoned in the cage of their own gender. For every Black woman whose color is seen as a curse.

Sofia is the first female character in the book who boldly forbids the men around her from treating her like an object, as an unequal. Her actions ans words-SHE SLAYS.

When Harpo, her husband, beats her for the first time, she doesn't give in. She fearlessly asserts in front of Celie "But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me."

Nettie, oh I love her personality!

Educated unlike her sister, Nettie eagerly learns about Africa, about the "land for which our mothers and fathers cried-and lived and died-to see again."

After travelling to Africa as a Christian missionary, she leaves no stone unturned to help the people and educate them. To aid the women to live a dignified and equal life. Even after facing constant protests, tackling numerous hurdles, Nettie stays firm on her values and ideals.

The ending was so satisfying!

Celie conquers every battle that came her way.

Breaking her silence, she realised the might of her mortal wings with aid from Shug Avery, the woman she falls head over heels for.

She receives a love-so liberating, a home-she forever longed for, and freedom from every social and emotional barrier holding her back.

In the concluding letters to Nettie, Celie states how she feels "at peace with the world."

I'm so happy for my girls!

Not every book has the power to make the reader feel enraged and content at the same time. My soul needed this book. I'm so hopeful and content.

P.s: The book is written in southern accent, which kinda made it an easy and fast paced read.

✨6/5 stars✨

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reidiot · 1 year

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this is me btw.

when you hurt me this is who you're hurting.

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