#medusablogging

basically anything Medusa-related is gorgoncore

makes me want to vomit. who are we writing these stories for? a category of woman whose lesson to be learned is that she shouldn’t be alive? 

My eyes are up here (threat)

Whose version of Mary am I holding?, Mary Szybist

I find it interesting how, rather than portray her as rage-filled, the sculptor made her appear sorrowful. the most powerful gaze in the world and it is one of grief. these are the eyes of a survivor who only wants to be left alone. a woman determined to live, even if living is a wound. a woman who is a wound, both because of what she is and what was done to her. it's a poignant portrayal of trauma and one I find very powerful. she is grief and she is grim determination to live and she's a woman who will kill for that, for herself, even if she wishes she didn't need to. I'm sorry for this, her eyes say, but I don't regret it.