#collectivized from ig

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[zindezin]

First day of the leap month

happy black history month. we here to create so ig its time to do that.

I hate giving outlines cause you'll know whats up when its over - but I've heard its necessary n I want to leave a traces of my original intention from the start.

im starting this page to discuss fashion, share thoughts on arts, and maybe society. I'm not interested in centering or decentering on the whole, at least not right now...all Im discussing is what Im up to, what Im learning, and how I see things as of right now.

i started this post watching Aachon Wol's vlog down below. u cant talk fashion without mentioning the Sudanese girls. realest most creative people you might ever meet, if u ever lucky enough to be friends with em, cherish it

I always love Copenhagen fashion week because I think it always has some of the best street wear of any season. I've seen a few good looks here. link not posting but heres the looks.

https://x.com/muglare/status/1753152681894355354?s=20

there's this Chinese saying that roughly goes wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. the idea is that people gather into a variety of streams that intersect and overlap. hopping off from that I realized that there had to be some sort of organization or community of couturiers responsible for protecting and preserving Paris' fashion primacy. I was already reading Valerie Steele's books, Paris, Capital of Fashion, and Paris Fashion, A cultural history. Both books pointed out the existence and importance of fashion organizations in Paris, like the guilds, La Chambre Syndicale etc., and their role in collectivizing and shaping parisienne fashion. from there I've been drawing mainly from Veronique Pouillard's article "Managing fashion creativity". I'm going through the citations now to see what I can find.

and one photographer I just came across is Wanda Wulz. when i look deeper, I'll go deeper.

and i will keep you guys posted on my finds.

[woodfrogs]

hm ok its 3 am and ive read this thing in 4 hours with no breaks but i enjoyed it! the ending wasnt my favourite because its just not what i was looking for from the book (although i think itll grow on me) and i wish the val and peter stuff had amounted to more - i get that they were side characters but i was really enjoying how they were forced to play personas that turned them into each other and vals inner conflict at that and was hoping that the sequel would focus on that. instead it was just "oh peter took advantage of both personas like val always suspected and she just let him even though the lust for power was starting to get to her and peters fine now that he has control of everything. not even killing squirrels anymore. and everyone on earth just listens to him and there are no problems under his rule for the next 60 years." it feels like wasted potential to throw away those developments and have peter magically turn into a semi-decent guy offscreen for a quick and easy resolution just so that val can be there for ender when he already has a bunch of his friends there and its gonna end with sequel-bait anyway. ig the author just didnt want to write it but why not end on ender going back to earth, then start book 2 with him looking forward to seeing val again but shes different. a bit cruel and power-hungry. and then the whole plot is them dealing with earths messed up situation. please i want to learn more about the geopolitics of this universe

i liked enders storyline. if you take into account how all the kids are unrealistically mature i think he behaved pretty accurately for a kid in his situation. i literally knew the big twist but the reveal that it wasnt a game still had me shocked and i like how you think that the title is about that then it turns out to really be about his fantasy game. the way he can only destroy when he understands and can only understand when he loves is. ough. hes only elevennnn

in conclusion: oh i get it now its all about individualism vs collectivism. and community. and how the military sucks. and putting little children through the worst most horrible experiences possible "for the good of humanity"

i love fucked up sci-fi

[radfemblack]

Collectivized from @maleexclusionary (ig is giving me issues with tagging accounts :/) ~ The first post of my new theme 🦀. I had no idea so many people found the small checkered pink/black backgrounds difficult to read on :| ~ I’ve been thinking a lot about this “rEdUcinG wOMen tO vAgiNaS” talking point (my least favorite TRA ‘argument’, even worse than the ones comparing black women to men 💀) and I realized (as other RFs already stated) that in addition to being fallacious and self-defeating, it’s actually very basic, crude misogyny LARPing as rebuking it. I could type an entire essay dissecting this, but imma keep it short and simple. TRA’s + (their) handmaidens try to cast it as “hypocritical” in some reaching-ass way to say that women have vaginas, and women are more than vaginas... they are logically saying that possessing said genitals means someone can’t have anything else in addition to that. Which means they are casting femaleness and humanity as mutually exclusive. Roundabout way to the same old patriarchal narratives, of course 🥱🍵 Idek if TRA’s think shit like this is a real burn, or if they’re just coping and playing dumb. Kindergarteners have superior logic. If these talking points were applied to literally any other group or identity — race, religion, disability, etc — people would rightfully call it bullshit, but when it comes to women, all of a sudden stating group characteristics/criteria is “reductive”. Not fucking falling for it. Ooo, black people put so much importance on our hair and skin, but beg white supremacy to not reduce us to those things (spoof of a post I commented on) 🙄. Get a grip. Imagine if people appropriated “I am not my hair, I am not my skin” in order to erase our identity like this. This is what these mfs sound like. They can see that acknowledging/celebrating the features that distinguish us as black isn’t treating us like skinsuits or “reducing” us to hair. But somehow women are dehumanizing ourselves by saying that an objective set of traits makes us women?? Damn I didn’t mean to ramble, this entire shit is just fucking gross and dumb and it ticks me off. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDKBJMLhFZZ/?igshid=k86aires4v5y

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