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Beauty in the apertures of pain

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I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.

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I was trying to realize why it annoyed me so much to hear people say that Rowling was ‘for sure’ a terf now and like the general talking point that we didn’t know for sure until she said it herself and I’m realizing a day later that it’s because it reminds me so much of rape apologism in its form

Like trans women have been telling everyone for literal years that Rowling is transmisogynist, has said & written & done transmisogynist things, has followed and supported transmisogynists... but it wasn’t confirmed until Rowling herself says it

It reminds me of when a bunch of survivors accuse a celebrity and it’s not seen as ‘for sure’ sexual violence until the rapist themself admits it.

It makes me so angry when perpetrators of violence are seen as objective and the deciders of Truth in popular discourse and survivors/targets of that violence are seen as... nothing? Because they’re literally ignored and people pretend they literally never said anything??

I hate it.

#jo rowling #she who must not be named #goddd she has gradually revealed herself to be such garbage over the years #mainly proceeding the release of all of her books and most of the movies #just peeling away layer by layer of trash like a rancid onion #terfs #victim blaming #transphobia #transmisogyny #silencing #text #it's beginning to look a lot like queuemas

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Le sang d’un poète - Jean Cocteau

#jean cocteau #le sang d'un poète #monochrome #film #out to tea #silence #silencing

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a good way for goyim to help combat antisemitism right now would be to remind those who exclude jewish people from the charlottesville conversation that jewish people are being explicitly targeted – in chants, in statements, in the adoption of nazi ideology.

please reblog if you’re not jewish.

this is really important considering how many Jewish people speaking out about this have gotten messages saying “it’s not all about the jews,”! we aren’t saying it’s all about us. the riots by white supremacists targeted all people of color, all lgbt folk, jewish people, and muslims. and we get that! we know this. but acting as though antisemitism wasn’t present in charlottesville, as though we don’t have a right to talk about it, is disgusting. silencing us and pretending there werent literal nazis participating in the terrorism that took place, is disgusting. your dismissive responses towards our pain make your feelings towards us very clear.

#current events #charlottesville va #nazism #antisemitism #terrorism #white supremacy #bigotry #silencing #jesus h. jones this should be fecking obvious to anyone with their senses intact #with a basic knowledge of history and their mental faculties #i can't believe i have to reblog this - that it's actually happening #that people are silencing the voices of JEWISH PEOPLE #in a situation directly involving and incited by VIOLENT NAZIS #wtf is wrong with you people #just...#smdh #to see if there's a pub

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This how sexism tends to work. Very rarely does someone just come right out and say that women should shut up and talk less. Instead, they come up with a lot of irrelevant reasons for women to feel self-conscious about their voices. Most people who lodge these complaints likely don’t mean to bully women into shutting up. It’s often a sense of vague irritation, which they pin on the women themselves, instead of wondering if it’s just that they themselves have been trained to resent it when women are the ones holding the floor.

The war on female voices is just another way of telling women to shut up

Source: dailydot.com

#!!!!!#important #sexism #silencing #ex: i was age 14 when my own brother told me he found my voice 'grating and high pitched and annoying' and i've never forgotten it #and it humiliated and silenced me for a good while #goddammit #misogyny #eat the patriarchy #quotes

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

After 87 courageous years on this earth, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928–July 2, 2016) has left us — and left us his timeless, increasingly timely wisdom on our shared responsibility in ending injustice.

#*raises glass to the sky*#silencing #elie wiesel #rip #quotes #remember #to see if there's a pub

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Anne Carson, “The Gender of Sound”

#anne carson #the gender of sound #misogyny #silencing #quotes #to see if there's a pub

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How had no one ever told me about Emilia, who, in only a couple of lines, brings down one of the most conniving, merciless villains in all of Western literature? How had no one told me about this fantastic female character who defies not one but two sword-wielding men in order to make sure Desdemona, her mistress and friend, receives justice? I wanted to rip up my diploma. I wanted to start over as a freshman and devote my entire undergraduate career to the Gospel of Emilia… Part of Emilia’s appeal is her sheer familiarity. Unlike many of Shakespeare’s characters, she needs little translation to come alive to the 21st-century reader. In a modern rom-com, Emilia would be The Best Friend: salty, of good heart but questionable advice, chatty, kind of a mess — but an endearing mess. When Desdemona asks heaven to pardon the hypothetical man who is turning her husband against her, Emilia wastes no time shutting that down: “A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!” In our modern rom-com, she would be standing on a chair in a bar, egging on the heroine while smashing beer bottles on the floor… Emilia demonstrates the potency of female rage in the face of violence. The injustice of Desdemona’s death almost chokes her, yet she still manages to speak. Once she realizes what he’s done, she exposes Iago’s plot to turn Othello against Desdemona, separating herself from her husband and aligning herself with her female friend—a rare move in classic literature. At the same time, she pays the price for this realignment: Before Iago is apprehended (alive, which is in and of itself a rarity in Shakespeare), he stabs and kills Emilia, silencing her by force when he couldn’t do so by threats.

On Othello’s Emilia

#emilia #othello #shakespeare #quotes #lit #rage #silencing #feminism #to see if there's a pub

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Every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak. Her heart racing, at times entirely lost for words, ground and language slipping away-that’s how daring a feat, how great a transgression it is for a woman to speak-even just open her mouth-in public. A double distress, for even if she transgresses, her words fall almost always upon the deaf male ear, which hears in language only that which speaks in the masculine.

Hélène Cixous, The Laugh of The Medusa

#mmHMMM #hélène cixous #the laugh of the medusa #sexism #silencing #patriarchy #oppression #quotes #to see if there's a pub

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We teach females that in relationships, compromise is what women do. We raise girls to see each other as competitors, not for jobs or for accomplishments— which I think can be a good thing— but for the attention of men. We teach girls that they cannot be sexual beings in the way that boys are. If we have sons, we don’t mind knowing about our sons’ girlfriends, but our daughters boyfriends? ‘God forbid!’ But of course when the time is right, we expect those girls to bring back the perfect man to be their husband. We police girls, we praise girls for virginity, but we don’t praise boys for virginity. And it’s always made me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out because *laughs* the loss of virginity is usually a process that involves *laughs*… We teach girls shame. ‘Close your legs!’ ‘Cover yourself!’ We make them feel as though by being born female, they are already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up—and this is the worst thing we do to girls—they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an artform.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, TedxEuston

#THIS #forever and ever amen #chimamanda ngozi adichie #feminism #silencing #shaming #body policing #etc etc ad infinitum #quotes

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YOUR ABUSIVE PARTNER DOESN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HIS ANGER; HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH YOUR ANGER. One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him. No matter how badly he treats you, he believes that your voice shouldn't rise and your blood shouldn't boil. The privilege of rage is reserved for him alone. When your anger does jump out of you—as will happen to any abused woman from time to time—he is likely to try to jam it back down your throat as quickly as he can. Then he uses your anger against you to prove what an irrational person you are. Abuse can make you feel straitjacketed. You may develop physical or emotional reactions to swallowing your anger, such as depression, nightmares, emotional numbing, or eating and sleeping problems, which he may use as an excuse to belittle you further or make you feel crazy.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, Lundy Bancroft

#a-fucking-men #PREACH #abuse #gaslighting #silencing #anger #why does he do that? inside the minds of angry and controlling men #lundy bancroft #quotes #q

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do you ever think about all of the horrible things ppl did to you & got away with because you were shamed into silence :)))) are you filled to the brim with an untamable rage & a need to break things :))))

#oooooooh gods know #yes #a thousand times yes #and i DO #break things and beat things and practice kickboxing and smash various objects that is #my residual anger has largely been exhausted/analysed/neutralised though #but sometimes you just gotta #burn it all down #***#shut up marty #days-of-reading #silencing #MY RAGE IS AN INFINITE RENEWABLE RESOURCE AND I WILL USE IT WANTONLY #i'm sorry that was a prompted tag and i had to use it

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When you feel unable to write, instead of trying some behavioral approach, like forcing yourself to write every day, consider instead trying to figure out who in your past has tried to silence you, and what liberation there might be in telling them to go fuck themselves – which is what the act of writing is. I don’t know a single writer who didn’t feel significantly silenced in their youth, and it’s that early silencing, I’m convinced, that shuts some of us down. Most of us don’t fail to write because we have bad habits. We fail to write because we aren’t sure that we are entitled to. Figuring out if that’s true of you can be a big step. And then getting angry is the next healthy step… Then write something down.

“The ‘Unfinished’ Stuff,” an Interview with Robin Black

#!!!!!!#just carve my heart out with a silver spoon #remember #on writing #silencing #***#quotes

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Madness and witchery… are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public, in ancient as well as modern contexts. Consider how many female celebrities of classical mythology, literature and cult make themselves objectionable by the way they use their voice. For example there is the heartchilling groan of the Gorgon, whose name is derived from a Sanskrit word garg meaning “a guttural animal howl that issues as a great wind from the back of the throat through a hugely distended mouth.” There are the Furies whose highpitched and horrendous voices are compared by Aiskhylos to howling dogs or sounds of people being tortured in hell. There is the deadly voice of the Sirens and the dangerous ventriloquism of Helen and the incredible babbling of Kassandra and the fearsome hullabaloo of Artemis as she charges through the woods. There is the seductive discourse of Aphrodite which is so concrete an aspect of her power that she can wear it on her belt as a physical object or lend it to other women. There is the old woman of Eleusinian legend Iambe who shrieks and throws her skirt up over her head to expose her genitalia. There is the haunting garrulity of the nymph Echo (daughter of Iambe in Athenian legend) who is described by Sophokles as “the girl with no door on her mouth.” Putting a door on the female mouth as been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.

The Gender of Sound, Anne Carson

#*maniacal cackling fades into the distance*#witchery #feminism #silencing #anne carson #the gender of sound #quotes

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do you think calling me “angry” is an insult. every time you call me “angry” i hear your voice salt with guilt and i laugh. look how easy it is to reveal you.

anger is a healthy and natural response to oppression, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

#*maniacal cackling fades into the distance*#***#anger #nayyirah waheed #currently raging #quotes #poetry #i actually want to shoot someone #silencing #sexism #oppression

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You are heard as complaining. And maybe you are making a complaint. Or maybe you are making a critique which is heard as a complaint. But to be heard as complaining is also to be heard as speaking in a certain way: as expressing yourself. Heard thus: you complain because you are being complaining. This is what the figure of the feminist killjoy taught us. You are making that point (pointing of sexism, pointing out racism) because that is your tendency. That is what you are like. How like you! When you are heard as only ever expressing yourself, then you are not heard. Eyes roll as if to say: well she would make a complaint; she is so complaining. And what we learn from those eyes rolling is that they roll before you say anything. You could say anything, you could be talking about anything, and still they roll. To hear you as complaining is not to hear you at all. An anything: quite something. Complaining, moaning, whinging. Anti-feminism is a structure of hearing, a way feminists are eliminated from a conversation; a way certain forms of critique are dismissed in advanced of being made. And we learn: anti-feminism is an extension of sexism. Women are already heard in this way, as complaining, moaning, whinging. If women do not accept the place they have been assigned, they are heard as complaining, moaning, and whinging. These are willful assignments; given to those who are not willing to accept how they are assigned.

Sara Ahmed, Feminist Complaint (via ifveniceissinking)

Source: feministkilljoys.com

#to see if there's a pub #sexism #feminism #sara ahmed #feminist complaint #quotes #eliminationism #silencing

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Today in "Everyday Sexism"

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The story of Cassandra, the woman who told the truth but was not believed, is not nearly as embedded in our culture as that of the Boy Who Cried Wolf—that is, the boy who was believed the first few times he told the same lie. Perhaps it should be.

In her cover essay on silencing women in the October 2014 issue of Harper’s, Rebecca Solnit once again proves that she is one of our era’s greatest essayist – further evidence here and here. (via explore-blog)

#sexism #silencing #quotes #rebecca solnit

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