July 2010
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“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
—Judy Garland (via cgracemo)
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The Feminist Summer Reading List →
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Want some guidance on what to read this summer? Here’s a nifty reading list sure to please all you dyke-lovin’, vegan, pinko, commie, hairy-pitted manhaters out there.
(I kid!)
I particularly recommend Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism and Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics - bell hooks, The World Split Open - Ruth Rosen (and it’s not on here, but also Cunt by Inga Muscio). And though I haven’t read it yet (hello, cabin weekend), The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti.
Enjoy.
why poverty is not the opposite of wealth
“[Charles] Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn’t apply to the poor. When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the world around us not in terms of goods to be consumed but as problems to be alleviated. This is where the bee stings come in: A person with one bee sting is highly motivated to get it treated. But a person with multiple bee stings does not have much incentive to get one sting treated, because the others will still throb. The more of a painful or undesirable thing one has (i.e. the poorer one is) the less likely one is to do anything about any one problem. Poverty is less a matter of having few goods than having lots of problems.
Poverty and wealth, by this logic, don’t just fall along a continuum the way hot and cold or short and tall do. They are instead fundamentally different experiences, each working on the human psyche in its own way. At some point between the two, people stop thinking in terms of goods and start thinking in terms of problems, and that shift has enormous consequences. Perhaps because economists, by and large, are well-off, he suggests, they’ve failed to see the shift at all.”
(emphasis mine)
From Drake Bennett, “The sting of poverty,”at The Boston Globe, March 30, 2008.
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“Don’t wait to be sure - move, move, move.”
—Miranda July
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If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time.
But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
” —Lila Watson
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Why this smart chick posted the previous quote...
It’s just a little food for thought for those other smart chicks with whom I was discussing the problematic nature of the physical/spiritual duality. I am entranced with the story of Arjuna- especially when it is told through music. I hate the idea of just warfare but find the idea of karma comforting somehow…
“Faith becomes concrete, a necessity in order to reconcile oneself to the vicissitudes of life. It illustrates the struggle between body and soul, the struggle of coming to terms with one’s mortality and impermanence within a greater permanence. Says Krishna to the despondent Arjuna: ‘There was never a time when I, you, or these kings did not exist; nor shall we ever cease to exist in the future (Bhagavad-Gita 2.12).’”
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http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sunrise/54-04-5/as-bandy.htm
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“Lilac Wine” by Nina Simone off of After Hours, 1995.
This is for Catherine.
I lost myself on a cool damp night
Gave myself in that misty light
Was hypnotized by a strange delight
Under a lilac tree
I made wine from the lilac tree
Put my heart in its recipe
It makes me see what I want to see…
And be what I want to be
When I think more than I want to think
Do things I never should do
I drink much more than I ought to drink
Because It brings me back you…
Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love
Listen to me… I cannot see clearly
Isn’t that he coming to me nearly here?
Lilac wine is sweet and heady where’s my love?
Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where’s my love?
Listen to me, why is everything so hazy?
Isn’t that he, or am I just going crazy, dear?
Lilac Wine, I feel unready for my love…
“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything”
—Tsunetomo Yamamoto
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me: uh. you’re coming here tomorrow.
Catherine: uhhh fuckyeah :D” —
me: uh. you’re coming here tomorrow.
Catherine: uhhh fuckyeah :D” —
“Nothing is better than best friends.”
—emo
nothing can replace mountain day
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“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
—Albert Einstein
i am what i am
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Marion Donovan and the "Boater" →
blog.americanhistory.si.edu
One of these here Smart Chicks who are bringing you this site is a Public History grad student specializing in modern U.S. women’s/PoC/queer history. Which means she is a GIANT. HISTORY. DORK. She is fine with this. (And she is me.)
I worked on a project for the Lemelson Center and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History to interpret the lives and experiences of women inventors. Our project was to research the lives of these women, and then write a museum theater script so that actors can embody these women and interpret these stories to museum audiences.
If you want to know more about museum theater (which none of my cohort had any background in), check out this site that we created that explains what the H this “museum theater” thing is: History on Stage.
My historical woman extraordinaire - Marion O’Brien Donovan, inventor of the disposable diaper prototype. Lots of poop humor ensued. My awesome partner James and I are, like, 4. Maybe. Combined. Between the many pints of beer and the maturity of the scriptwriters, we knocked that shit (woah!) out of the park. Seriously. This is one Smart Funny Chick.
Anyway, here’s an article written by our fabulous project manager, Amanda.
Enjoy. Viva la Clioheads!
FEMINIST HULK SMASH EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MS.! →
msmagazine.com
IN BEGINNING, HULK SMASH FOR LOVE OF SMASH. LATER, HULK REALIZE CRAVING FOR SMASH CAUSED BY HEGEMONIC FORCES WHICH DISCONNECTED HULK FROM SELF. HULK QUESTION SYSTEMS OF PRIVILEGE. SOON HULK SMASH WITH GREATER PURPOSE. CULTURAL MINDFULNESS GIVE HULK SUPERPOWERS OF ANTI-PATRIARCHAL SMASH!
Seriously. Check it.
