FAUTE DE MIEUX

“A child who’s told she has to do more housework than her brother because she’s a girl, or that she can’t be an astronaut when she grows up because she’s a girl, is likely to say “that’s not fair!” A boy who is told he cannot play with dolls because he’s a boy, or that he cannot be a secretary when he grows up, may find that unfair as well. But the boy who is told he can’t be a nurse is being told that he is too good to be a nurse. The girl, on the other hand, is essentially being told that she is not good enough to be a doctor.”

So actually these photos were taken by the kid’s uncle, Alphonse Bertillon, who was a French police officer and inventor of the mug shot. These photos were just taken as a joke, probably when Bertillon was developing his mugshot technique and needed someone to practice on.

An emotion: *pokes its head through the mountain of suppression I've buried it under*

As adult women we feel this inherent need to stop girls from experiencing the pain and trauma of being raised as a woman in this culture, we want all the lessons we learned first hand to become stories and not experiences for others, but this society has a way of tricking girls into seeking out self-harm under the guise of self-empowerment and it breaks my heart to watch versions of myself falling for it again and again and again and again.

due to personal reasons i’ll be