Elementally, we are moving from the energetic, passionate fiery energy of summer to the watery energy of autumn. The element of water is associated with introspection, intuition, feelings — and I am always aware of that shift taking place within me at this time of year. Everything feels more… poetic, somehow. More meaningful. I notice the subtler shifts of feeling inside me, and am drawn towards emotional introspection.
Getting to the love at the surface takes a lot longer when that muscle’s caved in like a crater. You have to fill that all up first before you can even start building on top of it again. But you’ll be surprised, in the end, by how much you can still grow there.
She is Sitting in the Night is the tarot book I’ve always wanted to write. It’s a queer tarot guidebook and a celebration of an 80s feminist tarot deck rolled into one; a book of beautiful and radical tarot card meanings, and also an important document, a conversation across generations of feminism and LGBTQ politics.
I’m sorry, but the last time I checked, the only gay people I saw hanging around there were across the street cheering. They were not the ones getting slugged or having stones thrown at them. It’s just aggravating. And hurtful! For all the girls who are no longer here who can’t say anything, this movie just acts like they didn’t exist.
Anonymous asked:
heatherannehogan answered:
+ You don’t understand that two-time Oscar-nominated, three-time Golden-Globe nominated, three-time SAG Award-winning, two-time Tony Award-winning Viola Davis is the first black woman to win an Emmy for Best Lead Actress in a Drama in the 67-YEAR HISTORY of the Academy.
+ You don’t understand how profound it was for Viola Davis to stand on that stage and shine a light on the fact that the struggle black women face in this country is as real today as it was when Harriet Tubman faced it OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
+ You don’t understand that black women in this country have been consistently devalued and dehumanized more than any other minority group, that they are raped and beaten and shot dead in the street by white men without recourse as easily today as they were in the 1960s.
+ You don’t understand that Viola Davis has struggled to find starring roles her entire career, despite the list of esteemed awards she has been nominated for (see above), and that other similarly lauded black actresses — Octavia Spencer, for example — have suffered the same fate.
+ You don’t understand that black women’s bodies have been used for pleasure and profit by white men since this country’s inception, and that those attitudes about black bodies are still disgustingly prevalent. (Look no further than Nicki Minaj’s wax figure Madame Tussauds, if you need a recent and pop culturally relevant example.)
+ You don’t understand the cultural significance of Viola Davis accepting an Emmy in her natural hair in a country where black women are held to ridiculous white beauty standards, and even more oppressively so inside the white Hollywood machine.
+ You don’t understand how empowering it was for young black girls — many of whom will struggle their whole lives to gain access to fair housing, healthcare, and employment — to see Viola Davis make history by accepting that award. (Whoopi Goldberg once said that seeing Uhura, a black woman who wasn’t anyone’s maid, on Star Trek made her understand she could do anything.)
+ You didn’t listen to Viola Davis’ speech or watch the reactions of Taraji P Henson and Kerry Washington in the crowd because you were too busy being another white person talking over a black person, demanding a thing you feel entitled to.
In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me over that line, but I can’t seem to get there no-how. I can’t seem to get over that line.
+ You don’t understand how Viola Davis and Regina King and Uzo Aduba winning those awards on the same night can change the actual world for one of the most oppressed groups of people in the history of the world.
+ You do understand what black women are up against and how Viola Davis winning is a (deserved and symbolic) victory and you just don’t care.
I think Tatiana Maslany is an extraordinarily talented actress who deserves all sorts of mainstream recognition for Orphan Black, which is my favorite show on TV right now. She’s an outspoken ally for LGBTQ equality and a master at explaining the power and necessity of intersectional feminism. She’s sweet and she’s smart and she’s funny and she’s going to have an illustrious career. You know she was up for Star Wars, right? You know she has more movie offers on the table right now than nearly every TV actor in America, yeah? Be disappointed that Tatiana hasn’t won an Emmy, fine, but good grief, have a little bit of perspective, man. Open your eyeballs. Read something. Unfollow me.
