Hilma's Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray) — "Shake off your chains! You are attracted to the dark side, but channel The Devil to push you to greater heights. If you seek clarity, cut the etheric cords with anything that is not serving you in this moment. A golden passage lies on the other side of your self-doubt. Raise your sword up and retreat from the palace of illusion." (acrylic, flashe, and ink on canvas, 2023)
God I’m reading “check and mate” by Ali Hazelwood, and I know that this is her first YA novel…..but like, I’m in love? There’s this scene where the main girl’s mentor gives her a lecture about not quitting chess, and tells her about her past…where she was discriminated against by her peers. Where Kasparov, one of the biggest chess players of all time…..said that “WoMeN ArE ToO STupID fOr ChEsS” , and how discouraging it was for girls everywhere. The boys in her class wore shirts saying “a female chess player is an oxymoron”. That is so disrespectful, it would have ended me. I hate it so much.
And I’m like, crying…sobbing , because that’s the case for girls in almost every male dominated field. I’m currently pursuing an engineering degree….and all throughout my schooling I was made to feel like an outsider, like I was imposing my self on this “old boys club”, like I was never good enough. Us girlies would always be left out in group projects, because guys didn’t want to associate themselves with girls. Like we were the plague somehow. It happened so much that my performance started going down and I started believing that I didn’t belong here. But no more. I won’t let them bully me into quitting. 40% of women in STEM leave their careers after 10-15 years because of a hostile work environment. I don’t want to be in that statistic. I’ll do everything I can to encourage girls my age to take up math and science. I’m so tired of this patriarchal bullshit.
Me, a survivor of rape/incest, disabled, formerly impoverished, advocating for every reproductive right except abortion, accessible sterilization, comprehensive sex ed, harsh punishment for rapists, spreading awareness of the risks and dangers of abortion, wanting better for women etc etc etc.
Literally half of the prochoicers I interact with: “retarded sexist bitch.”
Chatty AF: Ace/Aro Representation in Anime and Manga
It's Ace Awareness Week, making it the perfect time to plug the two-part aspec rep podcast I did with Cy and Alex for Chatty AF! Because what better way to learn than through geekery? 💜🖤
✨️ Transcripts Included ✨️
Ace/Aro Representation in Anime and Manga - Part 1: General Discussion and Animanga Grab Bag
Ace/Aro Representation in Anime and Manga - Part 2: The Isaki Uta Appreciation Hour
Hilma's Ghost (Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray) — "Jump through the violet portal! The Queen and Page are here to ferry you to the other side. There are signs and symbols to transform your relationship with the material plane. Attract abundance and throw your pentacles into the golden light. The prosperity fire in the realm of the inner square awaits you." (acrylic and flashe on canvas, 2023)
radfem discourse (and other extreme/simplified radical discourse) infesting the internet did so much damage to modern conversation. the terf-y 'hierarchies of oppression' concept that holds that some people are more oppressed than others and you can get rankings or levels like it's some sort of global pvp contest.
what we've got now isn't that combatatitve on the surface but there's still this underlying principle that oppression is like a scoresheet you can tick off and add points up for to redeem on your carrd or whatever, rather a complex interweaving of factors of everything from race, sex, class, religion, upbringing, global location, etc etc.
forgot my professor identified as nonbinary and i turned in a paper with a whole paragraph on how anne fausto-sterling’s intersex “research” was debunked 22 years ago :P
Spotify recommended Bari Weiss's podcast to me so I spent some time today hate-reading the episode descriptions. And obviously this doesn't matter at all in the larger picture, but the phrasing of this one is killing me. Why did they write it as though 14 is bigger than 33. It feels so transparent that they had to do this because if they phrased it in a natural way they might possibly have appeared to be ceding ground to the "girls have it worse" crowd.