Queer, Female, Feminine

the principal at my school made an announcement yesterday that the girls need to start covering up and then i found this in the hallway

The project will offer a “multi-character exploration of the complex, ever-evolving landscape of sexuality, monogamy, and intimacy in relationships.”

How can a moment of the world be rendered durable or made to exist by itself? Virginia Woolf provides an answer that is as valid for painting and music as it is for writing. ‘Saturate every atom,’ ‘eliminate all waste, deadness, superfluity,’ everything that adheres to our current and lived...

Also- can we talk about Kate McKinnon and Femme representation, as well as her camp use of Ellen’s identity as a way of projecting lesbian identity without sacrificing femme articulation, and how that relates to “playing dress up” as constitutive and constructive of identity?

SCUM Manifesto, Valerie Solanas (via dorightwoman)

Would you be surprised if I told you that, according to the Bechdel Test website, only 5 of IMDB’s Top 250 passed all three Bechdel criteria in 2010? Are we really asking too much of the film industry to include two women, who talk to eachother, about something besides a man? Surely this is the bare minimum of female representation we should expect from films. Women populate more than half of the world and yet we are still so often consigned to being the ‘love interest’ whose lives centre wholly around the male protagonist even to the point where the majority of mainstream films in our cinemas seem to find it impossible, in their entire run-time, to imagine a world in which a woman conducts a conversation that is not about a man.

Try it out, and prepare to be dismayed.