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i've only seen 2.5 episodes of the mentalist but he's competing in the 'characters of all time' category already

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rape is a famously used means of subjugation of colonised people by imperialist armed forces, especially as a weapon of war, which makes depoliticising it a futile exercise. it's not apolitical when the bjp protects rapists in their party, it's not apolitical when upper caste men abuse dalit women to "keep them in their place" and it certainly wasn't apolitical when the indian army raped kashmiri and eelam tamil women. bjp officials supported the convicted in the rape of asifa bano by hindu nationalists! what do you get from defanging and toning down gender justice to a cute social justice that anyone can participate in regardless of politics? what use is it, disconnecting it from caste liberation, when dalit and muslim women are the most communalised women in india?

sexual assault is not some abstract "horrifying crime" done by *some* bad people among a sea of good, it is enacted, enabled and protected by both the state and populations. you can't keep insisting that the personal is in no way political after some point! they are not completely divorced from each other! have some shame for fuck's sake

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I love you samosas. I love you empanadas. I love you pasties. I love you dumplings. I love you pirozhkis. I love you savory food in a convenient little carb purse.

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everyone's talking about the America Ferrera monologue and yes it was cool and all (she ate that delivery and she deserves her flowers!) but really the most powerful part of the film is the Ruth x Barbie scene in the final act with that Billie Eilish song in the background. THAT was what moved me. and my friends. and the sweet old lady behind me who was watching with her husband (overheard her say it was the first time in 3 years they went to the cinema!). and the mom of two boys and one girl beside us who kept apologizing to me because one of her sons almost blinded me with his phone's flashlight just before the movie started. and the full row of high school girls below us who were trying so hard to hide their sniffling from each other.

it was just after the last part of the credits rolled in that I realized how meta that experience was. watching an entire sequence that celebrates the joys of girlhood and womanhood along with this intergenerational group of women, mostly strangers to me but to whom I shared an unspoken bond with just because we're all the same gender trying not to lose who we are, discovering all the various things we're made for, and rejoicing in all the unique sorrows and triumphs of being a woman in a world that makes it difficult for us to just...BE.

I didn't think I came out of the theatre with an abrupt raging desire to crush the patriarchy asap, nor did it suddenly embolden me with radical ideas of feminism. but I could feel all of those women who watched it with me walk out of there with a certain power, one that the film reminded us we've always had. to simply...exist. unapologetically. as we are. without the need for permission from anyone but ourselves.

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behind the scenes of 10 Things I Hate About You

1999

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“got snap?” i have an address where you can send me roses and love letters mf act grown

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I JUST learned that this shirt cost them $10,000 to put into this movie… but they refused to compromise because they were like: he’s the hugest Golden Girls fan… this has to make the movie… so they paid $10,000 to use Bea Arthur’s likeness on this shirt…  Ryan Reynolds, you’re doing Deadpool so right.

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oh to be at the season 2 of "the mentalist" wrap party

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Extra large Playpen sofas of the 1970s.

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TDOR poster I made! The dandelion thing is inspired by myself and something a social worker said to us talking about trans people: it needs many dandelions to break the concrete of our society <3

Black Lino cut on rainbow paper. The colors of the paper are a transition from pink to blue to green. It says trans day of remembrance on the left side, then there's a dandelion in all stages breaking through concrete then the letters TDOR as a graphic element with the o being a trans symbol. The date 20.11.2023 is written on it. Below it says "uns gibt es für immer" eng: "we will exist forever" a white star is overlayed at the top right corner.

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René Magritte, L'État De Veille (1958) Philipp Igumnov, Cloudhouse (2013)

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300 Fox Way

This crazy house with infinity number of women

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S06E01 outtake

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY (2021- ) Season 3 | Episode 2 "Career Day Part 2"

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Cute cakes appreciation post