What I should have said

Reblogged from Yarnandlace’s Blog:

Oh, man

I knew I was never really supposed

to understand you

I was never allowed the viewpoint

upon which

your glass eyes were splayed;

the well is dug

because she is deeper

you can’t wet weeds in the soil

& watch them…

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Old masters and old mistresses: the BBC’S ‘Great Artists in Their Own Words- The Future is Now’

The HIS-tory of art, as a discipline, adheres to a strict theoretical canon based on a process of constant innovation, progress and avant-garde advancement. Movement follows movement, -isms spiral into –isms. As time unfolds, so does the reduction of the…

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Thrush: A Feminist Issue by Aimee Bea

Recently I have been watching a LOT of bad television. Top of my list this week was channel 4’s 40 year old virgins, a bizarre journey following a couple of mid-to-late thirtysomethings over to the States to throw money at hippies in Portland to hug them…

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Acrimony between women sucks, let’s stop it.

Acrimony between women sucks, let’s stop it.

So, the other day I was in that lingering unmotivated lull of a mood where I didn’t even want to leave the confines of my comfy bed, let alone do anything productive like pick up a book or go outside. I decided to switch on I-player and watch something…

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Acrimony between women sucks, let’s stop it.

So, the other day I was in that lingering unmotivated lull of a mood where I didn’t even want to leave the confines of my comfy bed, let alone do anything productive like pick up a book or go outside. I decided to switch on I-player and watch something…

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Sex Symbols?

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Just opened my facebook page to get a link to Robin Thickle’s new music video “Blurred Lines” featuring Pharrell Williams and T.I.
I have a secret addiction to music videos so I didn’t stutter to press the…

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Complacent Women 1918- Max Ehrmann

Complacent women, sitting idly by,
Bestirring not a hand for freedom’s sake,
Hear you no voices calling you to rise?
Hear you no bitter cries of women slaves,
Scar-marked and cuffed through all the ages past,
The sea dirge of a sea of women’s tears?

Compl…

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Hollie McNish – A Poem About Flo Rida’s Blow My Whistle

Have you ever sat and wondered what the hell is going on in Flo Rida’s Blow My Whistle video? Is it keeping you up at night even? That imagery is pretty cryptic, impossible even. Jokes aside, Hollie McNish is a super cool poet and we absolutely love her…

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TED women; two videos worth sharing.

TED have had some cracking talks from some amazing women recently.

If you have a spare half an hour, treat yourself to a couple of thought-provoking videos.

First up, we have Caroline Heldman. A leading advocate for spotlighting how the mainstream media…

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Dirty Girls Documentary

If you’re a VICE reader then you might have seen recently their articlewith the original “Dirty Girls” Amber and Harper has gathered a lot of attention. I’d never heard about these girls before so I checked out the documentary on Youtube, which you can…

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If Men Could Menstruate by Gloria Steinem

Living in India made me understand that a white minority of the world has spent centuries conning us into thinking a white skin makes people superior, even though the only thing it really does is make them more subject to ultraviolet rays and wrinkles.

Re…

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