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Women fighting for healthcare and abortion rights in the 1960s.

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tagged by @northcountrymaid to post my top five songs atm- thank you!! the energy is a very dark wet autumn, all blackberries and plums and bruises.

tagging @persephonethewanderer @athinginmotion @hairtusk @hineinihineini and @artemisinfurs <3

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LES MÉDUSÉS, 2013 — Damien Jalet In French, “être Médusé” means literally to be paralysed by stupefaction. It involves the notion of gaze, and is one of the rare verbs to be directly derived from a myth, and in this case the myth of Medusa. The Gorgone can transform, through her eyes, any living being who crosses her into stone. ► watch the performance on youtube

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Suspiria (2018) // dir. Luca Guadagnino

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Tell me all the fings yew wanna dew

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Anna Karina and Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Le petit soldat

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CHELSEA WOLFE // SALT [SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE REACHES OUT TO SHE, FEB 2024]

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Chelsea Wolfe by Nicolas Sandino Moreno

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walking through my neighborhood in the dark listening to chelsea wolfe

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1993

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Pierre Bonnard. Model taking off her blouse in Bonnard’s Paris studio, c. 1916.

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every time i cut off more of my hair i feel more free

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Cecil Beaton - Margot Fonteyn, 1950, from Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography by Robin Derrick and Robin Muir (2004)

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hi, i just saw your post about lit reviews and just wanted to ask if you have tips? thank you <3

all of this advice will probably not work in a STEM setting outside of, like, social sciences, but i think there's a few consistent essential practices that transcend subject. good literature review begins with good research. read widely. read way more than you think you will. read the bibliography of the works you read and read those cited works too. learn how to read effectively. actively search out work that contradicts your viewpoint. GO TO YOUR LIBRARY AND ASK FOR HELP. i was lucky that my cohort was co-run by the faculty librarian at the host college and i learned so much from him about how to do effective research- ask for what databases would be helpful for your field and how to maximize your search engine results through libraries and other catalogues. i cant stress enough how much help librarians can give you for research, which is the best and most important thing in doing effective literature review.

try to identify how trends in your topic change. (like everything, academia is extremely prone to fads and trends.) for instance, can you piece together similar trends in work on the topic from the 80s to the 90s? and how has this trend shifted towards contemporary scholarship? look at journal databases and see what's being focused on by contemporary authors and connect those current trends together. the other thing is that i limit my reviews to one or two paragraphs maximum, unless asked for more by the professor, and i don't go into tons of detail: i summarize main ideas from papers and see where my viewpoint fits in. you'll learn how to identify gaps in scholarship or lost ideas quite quickly i think, especially as you specialize more. literature review was VERY hard for me on an undergraduate level because papers were much more general and less specialized in topic and scope. as your research because more individualized this whole process will become easier.

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I just had a meeting with a thesis supervisor who reassured me I’d probably be able to easily get a doctoral contract and was more than willing to work with me and now I feel like I can’t breathe from fear of being stuck in this field (english literature) forever which is not terrible. I love it. And yet. Is this normal? Is this just academia?

i think this is just academia honestly. you love it and it keeps you trapped in it. i've consistently had very similar feelings around starting my doctorate (which is why ive postponed starting twice, including once after accepting a place in the program). i would honestly talk to your supervisor about how you feel and start looking at what other people with doctorates in your field do once they have their doctorate- orient yourself to a sense of direction you feel happy with, and don't neglect your sense of enjoyment and happiness. academia is work; it's a job in and of itself. as such we need to have lives outside of it and hobbies that aren't oriented to it no matter how much we love it. and maybe, if you have the possibility to do so, you could take a year off to work or explore another field via a postgraduate certificate or something similar (i know this is not possible in many places like the us, but could be an option). there is no hard and fast timeline to academia. there is no handbook we have to stick to. its your life, your education. but don't let yourself forget what you love about it.

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thinking about very excitedly telling the middle aged gay men i queued for pj harvey with how i inside the old year dying is sung in the traditional dialect of dorset