About: I'm Alex.
Die-hard policy wonk and culture snob. President of the Society for Girls Who Like Girls and Also Jon Hamm.™
An American expat in the UK majoring in International Relations and Modern History-- University of St Andrews '17
Die-hard policy wonk and culture snob. President of the Society for Girls Who Like Girls and Also Jon Hamm.™
An American expat in the UK majoring in International Relations and Modern History-- University of St Andrews '17
“It will not be time to speak of postfeminism until we can legitimately speak of postpatriarchy.”
—“Against Symbolicism: The Uses and Abuses of Lacanianism for Feminist Politics,” Nancy Fraser.
(Source: mirrortheories)
More from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, page 193.
“According to the new insights of behavioral epigenetics, traumatic experiences in our past, or in our recent ancestors’ past, leave molecular scars adhering to our DNA. Jews whose great-grandparents were chased from their Russian shtetls; Chinese whose grandparents lived through the ravages of the Cultural Revolution; young immigrants from Africa whose parents survived massacres; adults of every ethnicity who grew up with alcoholic or abusive parents — all carry with them more than just memories.”
—Grandma’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes
(Source: cornelstressed, via prosaicas)
(Source: whyiamtellingyouaboutit)
(Source: mcqueenadillo)
“Maids not to you my mind doth change;
Men I defy, allure, estrange,
Prostrate, make bond or free:
Soft as the stream beneath the plane
To you I sing my love’s refrain;
Between us is no thought of pain,
Peril, satiety.” —from ‘Sapphic Ode XXXIII’, Michael Field (Katherine Bradley & Edith Cooper)
Men I defy, allure, estrange,
Prostrate, make bond or free:
Soft as the stream beneath the plane
To you I sing my love’s refrain;
Between us is no thought of pain,
Peril, satiety.” —from ‘Sapphic Ode XXXIII’, Michael Field (Katherine Bradley & Edith Cooper)
(Source: poesizing)
please, please send me passionate love letters because i’m vita sackville-west and i need something to think about in my garden besides my eyebrows
