In anonymity, it's easier to be real,
to face the emotion instead of fighting it,
and to express it, in all its vibrance,
not some pastel print of what's really underneath.
Well, we'll see.
One of the world’s most legendary architects, Zaha Hadid, has passed away today. Her influence on aspiring architects and the architecture discipline is unparalleled. Here’s a small tribute to her work, you can view more of her projects that were featured on designismymuse: here.
What I didn’t know at the time was that this is what time is like for most women: fragmented, interrupted by child care and housework. Whatever leisure time they have is often devoted to what others want to do – particularly the kids – and making sure everyone else is happy doing it. Often women are so preoccupied by all the other stuff that needs doing – worrying about the carpool, whether there’s anything in the fridge to cook for dinner – that the time itself is what sociologists call “contaminated.”
I came to learn that women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art, philosophy, literature, they made scientific discoveries and sank into what psychologists call the peak human experience of flow.
Women aren’t expected to flow.
Brigid Schulte: Why time is a feminist issue (via myszko)
“time confetti” is a good descriptor of how most women get a break - in tiny, unpredictable increments that may be interrupted at any moment. Which is not genuine “leisure” at all.
(via drst)
If a man ever hits me with that “women never invented anything great” bullshit again, I’m gonna remind him that men never gave us the free time to do it. And even under those conditions, some women still did it.