Rayann Pavichevich

Pudd’nhead feat. Joyce.

My uncle brought home 2 puppies yesterday. I better watch what I say before I’m dubbed the Pudd’nhead of the village.

No, thank you.

The first paragraph of “Passing” by Nella Larsen reminds me of the blackmailing issue I’ve had for 3 solid years 😬

• it’s a fantastic read

• I’m going to reread it anyway, so it’d be cool if I could be graded while I do so (also, I’ll catch so many things I missed the first time)

• it sparked an invigorating class discussion

• I felt truly connected to my classmates for the first time this semester when we discussed this book

• (selfish, but...) I missed the class that discussed the part where Edna takes off her wedding ring and slips it back on. I WANTED TO DISCUSS THAT SO BAD.

• there’s so much to unpack in that book, we’ll never run out of things to talk about

Motherhood in Herland absolutely dominated everything else. To its residents, nothing was more important than the children; although when it first began— all the males had died off and suddenly a woman fell pregnant. It was a miracle! Then, that same miracle happened 4 more times to the same woman, so she had 5 children miraculously and they were all female. It turned out that only those 5 girls would fall pregnant, all at the age of 25, all giving birth 5 times— then the cycle repeats until suddenly there’s a ton of women all stemming from one legendary female.

The mothers are treated like goddesses because that’s what they were.

“As I learned more and more to appreciate what these women had accomplished, the less proud I was of what we, with all our manhood, had done.”