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The newly renovated Bibliothèque Nationale de France

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Anne Carson, Plainwater

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In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

Aldous Huxley (via petrichour)

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The Fendi Set: From Bloomsbury to Borghese

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Marie-Agnès Gillot in “Étoile” by Jacob Sutton for Numéro #173, May 2016

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists (2014)

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I would to learn more about feminism, do you have any book recommendations ?

I suppose you might be expecting a thoughtfully curated list of essential reading material, essays, etc, but the truth is if you want to learn more about feminism - the struggles faced by women and the road to liberation - just go out and talk to them. No academic tome or pithy blog article will ever compare to listening to the life experience of a woman.

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Pina Bausch's Orphée et Eurydice (l’Opéra de Paris, 2014)

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Yana Wernicke’s new book Weggefährten (Companions) examines the connection between two women and the farm animals they care for after saving from death (x)

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Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Persona Ingrata" (from From the Cables of Genocide: Poems of Love and Hunger)

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King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Chicago (1923)

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The cross at the Louise Bourgeois Church