I keep coming back to this video essay
The simulacrum of feminine performance | explored through The Substance
Especially the concept of a simulacrum. This idea of hyper-reality.
Of course of how it pertains to gender but also how it seeps our way into so much of our culture. We're so separated from our inherent existence and instead who we are is filtered through several layers of society
I haven't spent enough time considering this in the depth I would like to write a full analysis of these concepts and how they apply to me and others but I've got so many seeds of thoughts around this topic.
I think eventually I might write a personal essay on how the simulacrum of womanhood affects me as a nonbinary person, especially one who's autistic and struggles with a social identity. I think there's so much to explore on this topic
I feel like my entire existence is defined by the things I am not instead of the things I am
There is no one thing that I am, simply things I am not
Everytime I try to lock in but can't I say I'm locked out
I've been very inspired by @claypigeonpottery recently and their clay guardians so I've been making a room guardian for my dorm
She still needs to be glazed but I painted her last night and I think she looks awesome so far!
The idea is you give her a quarter offering to gain favor and when you need a little luck you can take the quarter. You could also put any little trinkets or charms there as well
Thank you Clay Pigeon for the inspiration!
I wonder if my cat sees me dancing around my room by myself and thinks it's like when he gets the zoomies and runs around
Got myself a sweet treat. Going to eat it in ritual fashion like I am a god of old and it was placed on my altar
Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we're dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.
If politicians can take or distribute them, then they're not "inalienable" and they're not "rights."
We don't have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.
And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.
flamboyant
Sometimes I forget I'm autistic but then I remember that not everyone has a deep and crushing loneliness inside them from being "other" their whole lives without a clear reason for why
Not aroace not alloace but a secret third thing (being ace impacts how I experience romantic attraction in a way I cannot define)
I like bugs and the incomprehensible nature of the universe: Genderqueer adult: studying environmental science (Xe/Xer/Xeirs /any)
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