#Made in New York

[cantstayawaycani]

If You Care to Know Me?

And … 

If you’re looking for some inspiration as you work towards your goals, I have something to share with you.

I recently sat down for an interview with my best friend and colleague of twenty years, Ellen Browning-Lafferty, to talk about how I define success, and how I’ve created it on my own terms. In her new podcast, The Beauty We Love, Ellen interviews professionals from various disciplines who have infused what they love into what they do. In this very first episode of the podcast, I share stories about how I became a post-production specialist, from growing up a little girl in Arkansas to finding success in NYC and LA.  I talk about how my love of music, film, and family have supported me throughout this process.  If you’re forging your own path forward and looking for inspiration, why not give this, as well as her other series of episodes, a listen?

Here’s a snippet:

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[cozycozywool]

How to Be Seen As More Unique: Everyone has a sense of style–even if you don’t know it yet. I think that our clothing is a fun and easy way to stand out. All you have to do is be more experimental. For unique clothes, DON’T go with any typical brands. Shop in boutiques go vintage or just click on my website. Prints and patterns are an excellent way to stand out as long as they are appropriate for the occasion. Made in New York #felting #wearableart #fashion #handmade #style #stylish #cozy #vest #uniquestyle #nystyle #merino #prints #elegant #fashionista #nunofelting #felting #printedsilk #designersilk #streetstyle #supportsmallbusiness #smallbusiness #oneofakind #cozycozywool #wearableart #fashion #coolstyle #streetstyle

[communistkenobi]

I believe it was the work of legal scholar Florence Ashley where I first encountered this term (it might have also been Serano), but I’m becoming more and more committed to saying “degender” as opposed to “misgender.” like I think the term ‘misgender’ fails to properly identify the mechanism behind the process it describes: misgendering is not an act of attributing the wrong gender characteristics to a trans person, it is an act of dehumanisation. I think the term ‘misgender’ especially gives people much easier rhetorical cover to argue that trans women are hurt by misandry by being ‘mislabeled as men,’ or that they are in fact ‘actually men’ and benefit from male privilege, because the (incorrect) assumption underlying this is that when trans women are ‘misgendered’ they are being treated like men - to follow this line of thinking to its natural conclusion, this denies the existence of transmisogyny altogether, because any ‘misgendering’ of trans women is done only with the intent, conscious or otherwise, to inscribe the social position (and the privileges this position affords) of men onto them, as opposed to stripping them of their womanhood (and thus, their humanity).

The term degendering, however, I think more accurately describes this dehumanising process. Pulling from the work of both Judith Butler and Maria Lugones, gender mediates access to personhood - Lugones says in the Coloniality of Gender that in the colonial imaginary, animals have no gender, they only have (a) sex, and so who gets ‘sexed’ and who gets ‘gendered’ is a matter of who counts as human. She describes this gendering process as fundamentally colonial and emerging as a colonial technology of power - who is gendered is who gets to be considered human, and so the construction of binary sex is a way of ‘speciating’ or rendering non-human the Indigenous and African people of colonized America, justifying and systematising the brutal use of their land and/or their labour until their death by equating them to animals. Sylvia Wynter likewise describes in 1492: A New World View that a popular term used by Spanish colonizers to describe the indigenous people was “heads of Indian men and women,” as in heads of cattle. By the same token, white men are granted the high status of human, worthy of governance, wealth, and knowledge production, and white women are afforded the subordinate though still very high responsibility of reproducing these men by raising and educating children. Appeals to a person’s sex as something more real, more obvious, or ‘poorly concealed’ by their gender is to deny them their gender outright, and therefore is a mechanism to render them non-human. Likewise, for Butler, gender produces the human subject - to be outside gender is to be considered “unthinkable” as a human being, a being in “unliveable” space.

Therefore the process of trans women going from women -> “male” is not “being gendered as a man,” it is being positioned as non-human. when people deny the gender of trans women, most especially trans women of colour, they invariably do this through reference to their genitals, to their ‘sex,’ as something inescapable, incapable of being concealed - again, this is not a process of rendering them as men, it is the exact opposite: it is a process of rendering them as non-human. there is not a misidentification process happening, they are not being “misgendered as men,” there is a de-identification of them as human beings. Hence, they are not misgendered, they are degendered, stripped of gender, stripped of their humanity

[zoe-oneesama]

Some "Special" Girls! And the late girls.

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[deadpoets]

GILMORE GIRLS 02.21 | Lorelai's Graduation Day

[nyc-looks]

Mikael, 20

“I’m wearing a thrifted shirt, some pants I made, and my lion. His name is Bombo. I thrifted him in Chicago and ended up putting a strap on him so I could take him everywhere. I was in love with the fact that he didn't have a function other than being a stuffed animal and decided not to make him into a bag until recently when I needed him as a carry-on for a flight. What inspires my style is lots of patterns and colors and anthropomorphism. I started making my own clothes when I couldn't find much of what I wanted to wear in stores or what I did find was super expensive. I just want to create something beautiful and sentimental.”

Aug 17, 2023 ∙ Greenwich Village

[th3finalboy]

KYLE GALLNER as REED GARRETT in CSI: NY (S4EP20)

( thank you @mlentertainment for the high quality clip! )

[lunareel]

Prologue: Page 13

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So I initially had the first few cave panels done, but for some reason I decided that no. I did not like how they were drawn and I felt like I could draw the inside of a cave much better and next thing I know I had redrawn and repainted those caves an embarrassing amount of times.

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[israelcastillophoto]

Under the Manhattan Bridge, Chinatown.

[posalis]

Armand and Daniel's adventures in 'The story of Daniel, the Devil's Minion or the Boy from Interview with the Vampire.'

[ironinkpen]

The interpretation of Rise Raph as a 'perfect responsible soft boy uwu' is so BORING I'm sorry, Raph is a rowdy adrenaline junkie with anxiety and I won't take this slander any longer

Raph secretly kept an enemy soldier in their actual literal house as a sparring partner. Raph glued his brothers together and dragged them out to fight crime. Raph once asked Leo to punch him in the face to prove he 'takes damage like a boss.' Raph tried to lift a school bus, twice. Raph offered to help his favorite wrestler beat his little brother up. When Leo suggests evacuating Bullhop, Raph says no bc the best defense is a good offense babey. Raph's idea of a 'friendly chat' with April's upstairs neighbor is to put on a black ski mask and go stand menacingly at their door. It takes Raph 10 episodes to conclude that they should MAYBE start training. Raph's plan to get a potentially priceless (and potentially FRAGILE) museum artifact is to punch a car in the middle of a busy street and also cut it in half with his brother still inside.

Raph's never met a problem he wouldn't try to punch in the face and does not know the meaning of the words 'excessive force.' He roughhouses with his bros and drags them out to fight villains and thinks any plan that doesn't involve an all-out brawl is boring and lame. He'll do anything to protect his family from harm and be a hero, but also he eats wet salami off the floor and once single-handedly destroyed a library.

I just adore how, at his core, Rise Raph is such a classic Raph—impulsive and stubborn and caring and passionate. He is a very sweet, strong, honorable guy who has a very powerful sense of personal responsibility... and he is also the exact kind of jock who throws you in the pool at a party without checking if you have your phone in your pocket first.

[constelationprize]

So when Neil Josten wants to keep a binder full of news clippings and pictures as a shrine to Kevin Day in a way to hold on to a good but tainted memory of his childhood and a life he can never have, no one complains. But when I, Riko Moriyama-

[turtleblogatlast]

Man “Battle Nexus: New York” was a great episode but I do have one major gripe with it.

Like. Raph being paired up with Ghostbear? Makes sense. Works great. Works amazing, even.

Mikey being paired up with Meatsweats? Yeah that checks out!!

Donnie getting…Hypno…? I mean. I guess Donnie doesn’t like magic so it kindaaa works but Kendra would have been a much better choice to me personally. Maybe Big Mama didn’t wanna include a human or something…

And Leo getting…uh…one of the Sando Brothers???? Of all villains? Nah let’s be real, his main villain is more Big Mama herself (or Leo could be considered his own worst enemy lmao-). Hell Hypno would have probably worked better here considering their shared love for magic tricks and stuff, but Carl Sando????

[nyc-looks]

Andrew, 47

“The vibe for this outfit was godly and renewed. I made the hakama pants. I’m also a big fan of taking it easy on the environment therefore I do a lot of thrifting. The shirt and lace shawl (curtain) were both thrift finds. The hat is something a crafted using peals and paper flowers. Since I knew I was attending a music festival I knew that comfort was a must so opted for my bone color Balenciaga’s. My style is inspired by a strong sense of self, thrift finds, and phenomenal people on TikTok.”

Aug 26, 2023 ∙ Greenpoint

[musette22]

"Should we swap?"