Home of a herbalist in Prague, Czech Republic, August 2016

here’s a newsflash, men: we don’t carry pepper spray around because we’re afraid of being attacked by other women. that’s for damn sure.

A woman afraid is far more likely to smile and nod and be pleasant and quiet, to give them our numbers, to peck their cheeks, to try and stay on that high pedestal they put us on. Men love for us to afraid of them. They just don’t want us self-aware and talking to one another about it.

here’s a newsflash, men: we don’t carry pepper spray around because we’re afraid of being attacked by other women. that’s for damn sure.

My edit.

National Geographic, 1973

Photograph by Mary T. S. Schaffer in 1907.

If you’re interested in learning more about female photographers and how they aided in representing native peoples through positive representation and ethical photography, I would suggest reading “Trading Gazes.” Mary T.S. Schaffer and other influential female photographers, and friends, of native peoples are given some much-needed recognition in this book while also discussing the white woman’s place in our genocide and colonization. 

«This is Toni Morrison’s line edits of a draft — one of the final drafts — of Angela Davis’s autobiography and at the time, Toni Morrison was an editor at Random House and she also went on to edit Angela’s classic, now-classic text in feminist studies, women’s studies, Women, Race, and Class. In these pages, Angela is writing about what it’s like to be incarcerated and we really see the care and detail and love that Toni Morrison put into her editing process, and we get a sense of not only both of their writing processes, but also the relationship between the two women.» – in Angela Davis in black and white and gray, by Manisha Aggarwal-Schifellite, «Harvard Gazette», November 27, 2019. From: Angela Davis: Freed by the People, Organized by Elizabeth Hinton (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the departments of history and of African and African American studies at Harvard University) and and the exhibition committee of the Schlesinger Library, The Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library, Cambridge, MA, September 20, 2019 – March 9, 2020

it’s a dream of mine to have a beautiful farm

[Text ID: “Rot is also a heart rot is also childhood rot is also what love is.”]

Edward Steichen was taken by the beauty of delphiniums and hybridized many new varieties at his Connecticut farm. This photo is from the 1940s.