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i hope my absence gives you the peace my love apparently never could

- nick <3

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Essential Feminist Texts Booklist

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

A Vindication of The Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by Bell Hooks

Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution by  Shulamith Firestone 

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti

Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner 

Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape by Jessica Valenti

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez 

Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit

The Female Gaze: Essential Movies Made by Women by Alicia Malone

Girlhood by Melissa Febos

The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel

Is This Normal?: Judgment-Free Straight Talk about Your Body by  Dr. Jolene Brighten

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism by Dr. Jennifer Gunter

The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women by Anushay Hossain 

Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn 

The Turnaway Study: The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D

Regretting Motherhood: A Study by Orna Donath

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“A noble soul is not that which is capable of the highest flights but that which rises little and falls little but dwells permanently in a free, translucent atmosphere and elevation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 397

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“A noble soul is not that which is capable of the highest flights but that which rises little and falls little but dwells permanently in a free, translucent atmosphere and elevation.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 397

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“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

— John Irving, The Cider House Rules

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Let people be who they are, without interference. They will reveal themselves—always.

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“He who has a why in life can bear almost any how.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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Johann Theodor Daugs (German, 1870-1948).

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“For the world did not change, this violence had always existed and would never be eradicated, men would die under the boot and fists and horror of other men until the end of time, and all human history was a history of violence.”

— Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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Illustrations of insects on plants from Shunkei Mori’s 19th century book Chūka senzen.

Full text here.

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Virgil Finlay (American,1914-1971)

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House Manhufe, 1913, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso

https://www.wikiart.org/en/amadeo-de-souza-cardoso/house-manhufe-1913

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Paysage colore aux oiseaux aquatique, 1907, Jean Metzinger

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Happiness is a choice to move forward, despite the feelings that can slow you down. I think I understand that my emotions exist for me to take pause, allowing me to grow and understand myself, by moving through them - no matter how fast, no matter how slow. To understand exactly how I’m not monochromatic.

Sadness is a choice to not move forward, also necessary, in order to even know what happiness is. Never beat yourself up for this (even when others do), embrace your whole self. Humility, courage, and kindness - start within you, and only then can you truly extend it to others.

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Danielle Mckinney (American,b. 1981)

Chrysalis, 2023

oil on linen

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… and sometimes there is a scar on your thigh, and you’re not sure why.

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"Menagerie" - acrylic on vintage card, applied with palette knife