Thank goodness it is a new day after yesterday. UGH. Yesterday was one of those days where you want to just go back to sleep and let the day pass thru without you. Probably one of the worst I’ve had in awhile. My thoughts and emotions were soo outta whack and trying to convince me that all my worsts fears and thoughts about myself are authentic and true. I truly hate how much I can beat myself up and how it can just pile one with more and more until it is incredibly overwhelming. UGH. Well new day and new week.
It’s really vitally important to me the way women are portrayed. As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity and what it is to be a woman. It’s still something that I don’t have all the answers for but I would like to make a bit of a difference; do something, anything, that causes people to have more sense of equality….
Imagine; I used to have really long blonde hair, always wearing heels, lots of make-up. I had been someone who was highly feminised and had chosen to look that way, partly because I was 6ft 3in but also I was into that aesthetic. I knew it had to be stripped away. I knew this would be an important part not just for my work but in terms of my own development, because I would be confronting elements of myself that I didn’t want to confront. It was actor’s vanity and personal vanity. To see yourself displayed as unattractive, large, masculine, it’s quite tough… But I know it’s just perspective. A social conditioning that causes us to view these traits in a woman in a negative way, but it’s still hard to watch myself even now. (x)
QUEEN BABE BRIENNE.
She really is fantastic, isn’t she?
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[photo: the back of someone’s read shirt reads a quote of Assata Shakur, political exile in cuba, “it is our duty to fight for our freedom. it is our duty to win. we must love each other and protect each other. we’ve got nothing to lose but our chains.”]
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