olivia colman on gender
“I've always felt sort of nonbinary…I’ve never felt massively feminine in my being female. I’ve always described myself to my husband as a gay man.”
(source)
who’s a threat?
“The US justice department has scrubbed a study from its website concluding that far-right extremists have killed far more Americans than any other domestic terrorist group.”
gender expansiveness
“There is no such thing as trans enough. The identities that fall under the umbrella of being trans are wide and varied, and there's as many different kinds as there are different kinds of people…Take two or three non-binary people, put them next to each other in a room, and their ideas of their own gender will be completely different.”
debunking detransition myths
“The largest-ever survey of trans Americans reaffirms what the trans community has been saying for ages: trans people who go back to living as their sex assigned at birth do so because of transphobia, not because of doubts about gender or transition.” [emphasis mine]
[The study says,] “‘Only 4% of people who went back to living in their sex assigned at birth for a while cited that their reason was because they realized that gender transition was not for them. When considering all respondents who had transitioned, this number equates to only 0.36%.’”
beauty ≠ morality
“By framing beauty as a moral achievement rather than what it often is—a combination of genetics, resources and medical intervention—we create an impossible standard. Women are expected to meet increasingly demanding beauty standards while maintaining the fiction that their appearance is entirely ‘natural’. The pressure to be beautiful becomes entangled with the pressure to be ‘good’.”
—Ellen Atlanta, “Why Are Celebrities So Keen to Deny Cosmetic Work?” in Dazed
LOST TIME
“There are days where I feel such crippling sadness, thinking of the years lost in that ridiculous palace. I wonder who I could have been otherwise.”
—Rebecca Thorne, Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea
Rick Owens on beauty and intolerance
“My personal effort has been to oppose intolerance in any way that I can by proposing aesthetics that are not the accepted standards or not the enforced standards. I talk about airport beauty: we’re forced to march through this gauntlet of beauty—the beauty ads, the beauty goods, perfume things—that is exactly the same globally…and it’s narrow, and it can be a little bit cruel…I want to offer something that is not exactly that…
“I want to balance out intolerance by promoting alternatives to what are the standards of beauty. When you can blur the standards of beauty, you can open up minds to think of other things, too.”
Louise Nevelson on raisins
“When I put a raisin in my mouth, I know what I'm doing.”
—Louise Nevelson, on eating them one at a time instead of in handfuls
from Dawns + Dusks: Taped Conversations With Diana MacKown
Rick Owens on cake
“I have plenty of addictions. I mean, I smoke, I drink coffee, I have to have a certain amount of cake a day. So I have my addictions, and I’ve learned to accept them.”
—Rick Owens, when asked about his sobriety
quote of the day
“Listen, I’m a pretty good judge of people. If I wasn’t, I couldn’t sell extension cords.”
—extension cord salesman, Monk, S1E13