C O L L E C T I O N S

I went to Walmart to buy a tub of cookie dough and a box of tampons and as the seventeen year old boy was ringing up my stuff he just looked at me and said “it’s going to be okay”

and just after that he said, “By the way, I’m seventeen years old. I wanted you to know that so you can describe me in your fake text post on tumblr.”

the distinction between “crafts” and “fine art” is probably driven by misogyny and the devaluation of women’s labor

art forms that have traditionally been practiced by women like embroidery are devalued and called just “crafts” while art forms that women historically were mostly barred from (painting, sculpture) are “fine art”

It’s also driven by racism in Western art appreciation courses in my experience. African art tends to be viewed as crafts rather than fine art, especially when it’s art that can have functional uses in households.