Sublime

her value, as though her body belongs to a male gaze before it belongs to her.

Women are still taught too often to be submissive, diminutive, obedient, and later nagging and caregiving—not to be peers, emotionally complex powerhouses, loving other women and trans bodies. These mistruths in gender norms are self-perpetuating, affirmed

The understanding that different groups have different experiences, beliefs, and values was largely influenced by some black feminists, who criticized second-wave feminism for not recognizing that black women faced different prejudices and stereotypes than white women. bell hooks’ 1982 book, Ain’t I a Woman?, which carries a title that seeks to pla

Like wolves, women are sometimes discussed as though only a certain temperament, only a certain restrained appetite, is acceptable. And too often added to that is an attribution of moral goodness or badness according to whether a woman’s size, height, gait, and shape conform to a singular or exclusionary ideal. When women are relegated to moods, ma

It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.

a ideologia da beleza é a última remanescente das antigas ideologias do feminino que ainda tem o poder de controlar aquelas mulheres que a segunda onda do feminismo teria tornado relativamente incontroláveis. Ela se fortaleceu para assumir a função de coerção social que os mitos da maternidade, domesticidade, castidade e passividade já não consegue

our stories will stand in stark contrast to the ideas of womanhood that are imposed upon us by the patriarchal world we live in – and it’s important to critically examine those cultural myths of femininity

it is absolutely crucial that parenting adults learn how to offer loving discipline.