#women's torture

[saddayfordemocracy]

Sujata Setia, "A Thousand Cuts," 2024,

For centuries in southeast Asia, lingchi was employed as a particularly brutal form of torture in which a knife was used to methodically remove parts of the body over long periods.

Translated as “death by a thousand cuts,” the ancient practice provides the metaphorical groundwork for London-based Indian artist.

For the past two years, Setia has collaborated with SHEWISE, a charity that empowers marginalized women to overcome trauma and cultivate lives free from oppression and violence.

Through this connection, she spent two years photographing survivors of abuse in South Asian communities across the U.K. “A Thousand Cuts is an effort to understand abuse from many different frames of reference,” the artist says in a statement.

[dapper-lil-arts]

Can we talk about the kind of woman Applejack attracts.

[queerunpleasantdanger]

Amber Kim's move to a men's prison for a consensual sexual encounter is a crime against humanity. It's a crime against humanity that our culture tries to render unmournable, but it is nonetheless a heinous crime, and a stain upon the legacy of all the officials who abet or tolerate it.

Even when cisgender women rape other cisgender women in prison, they are not transferred to men's prisons. One does not have to believe that consensual sex in prisons is acceptable to acknowledge that this transfer is a double standard. And yet this is the treatment transgender women can expect, apparently: a brutal double standard of violence, wherein our presence in any space is that of, at best, a conditional visitor. Yet when push comes to shove, we are more impoverished, more violated, and more mistreated by our patriarchal society.

The state of Washington must reverse it's decision. If it cannot be compelled to do so, then Kim's sentence must be commuted - even if we accept that prisons can perform justice, surely we all agree that justice is never forwarded by torture; that a day served of a sentence in the form of torturing a minority is not, in fact, a day closer to any kind of justice.

The use of either solitary confinement or sexual violence against a transgender woman as a means of control is so far beyond the pale that it must be opposed under all circumstances.

[1989deluxealbum]

The Tortured Poets Department is a great reminder that women don't owe the world pretty. Taylor Swift doesn't owe anyone an easily digestible pretty pop album wrapped in a bow with short songs you can make TikToks to. She's allowed to present something raw, uncomfortable, and vulnerable to the world.

[girasois]

taylor swift — please, like or reblog ♡

coloring by the lovely @miniepsds ♡

sharpen by the amazing @buntterflies ♡

[cametotheshowinsd]

Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? (2024) written & directed by Taylor Swift

So tell me everything is not about me …but what if it is?

[viviarts-c]

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Ritual Self Torture Masterpost

[aimbutmiss]

TW//SA

I just love the idea of Buggy having more women on his crew than the average pirate captain. We have female captains in the story but other than that it doesn't seem like having women on your crew is the norm in the one piece world (which also makes Luffy's crew a minority, but the strawhats are very unique compared to other crews we see, especially in regards to their size but that's a whole other story).

We (kinda) know that Buggy has a thing for "adopting" weird kids and giving them a home where they can feel normal, like part of a crew, a family. He gives people who don't fit in a place to stay, in exchange for their labour of course. This is especially highlighted by opla where Buggy offers Luffy a place on his crew, not hating him from the start but feeling pity for him.

So would it really be surprising for him to offer women who have been wronged a place as well? Ex-prostitutes, r@pe victims etc. I feel like he'd be really considerate for their struggles.

And it makes everyone in the crew feel safe, men women and everyone in-between, to see that on Buggy's list of crimes crewmates can commit, SA is right on top alongside mutiny.

Maybe that's why Alvida trusted him so easily, because she could see he cared where other men wouldn't. And perhaps, this is one of the things that push Mihawk and Crocodile to start respecting the clown.

[starryvomit]

“If you do not tell your story, someone else will, and they will tell it wrong.”

-Kane Smego, 2014.

[bbygirl-aemond]

okay i won't lie i did giggle a bit when daemon tried to call the brackens on their bluff and they weren't bluffing and then he just LET THEM LEAVE my dude.... you're so bad at this

[hyacinthsgrimoire]

( @womenaremypriority for the text post; aesthetic meme is mine @hyacinthsgrimoire )

[obsessionavecdescouteaux]

Guns don’t stalk and methodically plan your abduction. Guns don’t suffocate you and lock you in my trunk. Guns don’t cover my walls, ceiling, and floor in plastic wrap. Guns don’t set up lights and cameras to record you. Guns don’t chain you to the furnace in my basement. Guns don’t torture you and make you do unspeakable acts. Guns don’t drag your body into the bed of my truck. Guns don’t dig 6-foot-deep graves in the woods at 4 AM, and guns certainly don’t seek comfort in the chase, the kill, or the cleanup. Guns don’t kill people; people do.

[girasois]

taylor swift — please, like or reblog ♡

coloring by the lovely @miniepsds ♡

sharpen by the amazing @buntterflies ♡

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Advanced Interrogation Technique: Dog

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[wavesoutbeingtossed]

anyone else obsessed with the recurring theme in TTPD about how in each instance with the three notable muses referenced, they each made a show in their own way of stepping up to Be Someone for her, only to completely cut and run (whether physically or emotionally or both).

The first love who laid on the charm offensive, "I'm not an organ donor but I'd give you my heart if you needed it," sweeping her up in this great big first serious adult love, inspiring all of the dreams that go with it, making her feel like This Is It and the actions undertaken as a result. But then bailing at the first sign of inconvenience, leaving her distrusting of her own feelings and instincts.

The longtime partner with whom she built a foundation against all odds, the one with whom (or perhaps rather for whom) she meticulously placed those stars on the ceiling. The one who at one point painted dreamscapes on the wall and sparked her darkest nights, the one who chose her mess and said there was nothing that could stop them, the one she believed in so completely she crafted a whole life around, but then accused her of abandoning the ship when he had long since metaphorically and physically left the house on the Heath.

And then of course the final boss level, the infatuation from hell who saw all this and said "I can be the one that none of the others were" and insinuated himself into her life and her consciousness until it felt real, only to vanish after the ploy did its damage.

(Of course, it's all contrasted by a fourth party with whom the trust and dreams come freely and solidly.)

It's just a fascinating study in how patterns keep repeating themselves, not only in a person's choice of partners but in people's behaviours in general. And how so much of the album is not just about specific situations but also globally about the pitfalls of relationships and dynamics and how we choose to believe. TTPD album that you are.

[marzipanandminutiae]

the 1920s: we're going to Liberate Women From Old-Style Corsets!

me: okay. not sure I agree wholeheartedly that that's something one needs to be liberated from, but certainly one can bend at the waist easier and I'm told you want to do more of that in your dancing. also freedom of individual comfort in undergarment choice is best. so no corsets, then?

the 1920s: hahaha no there will still be corsets, obvi

me: wait but-

the 1920s: they're going to be heavy-duty elastic and only cover the lower torso! :)

me: ...won't that be massively sweaty though? and isn't that just pure shapewear without any redeeming qualities like breast support?

the 1920s: ewwwww ew ew ew. breasts are gross. the new brassieres will flatten them actually

me: so, binders. women are going to be wearing binders if they want/need breast support

the 1920s: Sometimes We Will Combine The Binders With The Elastic Tube Corsets! :D :D D:

me:

the 1920s: and we're going to talk about ~liberating women's bodies~ so much that people who've never worn either style, but for whom our clothing looks more comfortingly familiar, will believe it was unilaterally better. and that we didn't wear corsets at all

me: ...I'm just going to be over here in the corner repeating "end of gendered voting restrictions, jazz, Harlem Renaissance" over and over so I don't murder you