please change beliefs, jenny holzer

now that you’re out, you have to go find the airport

Marie Matiko in The Art of War (2000)

You know those movies that stay with you for a week? This is one of them. Watch it on Netflix and support women of color producing films!

to love someone is firstly to confess: i'm prepared to be devastated by you. by A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

— Linda Jean Shepherd, Lifting the veil: the feminine face of science

One of the things I love most about Mulan, that’s rarely commented on, is just how much of a sacrificial lamb she is for her family before stepping in for her father in the army. Unlike Belle and Jasmine, who are fed up with society and make no attempts to conform for the sake of anyone else, Mulan trained and went to the match maker with the honest attempt at being the best bride she could be. If the match maker chose her that day, she would have willingly sold herself into the role that being a wife entailed to appease her family, at the sake of her own happiness and comfort because that’s how much they meant to her. If she hadn’t been perpendicular to the status quo and actually fit in, she would’ve gone into the marriage set up by the matchmaker and led a life of selflessness in a role that she never would’ve chosen for herself nor enjoyed.

from Tiny Beautiful Things, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos.