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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.

— Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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REAR WINDOW 1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia, photo by Pavel Behun

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DAISIES 1966, dir. Věra Chytilová

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"It is, Mulvey writes, “subject to the law which produces it”—that is, the rules of the surrounding society shape what we watch. So it is no coincidence that cinematic images tend to replicate gender as patriarchy sees it, reinforcing a classic division between passive femininity and active masculinity—the “to-be-looked-at-ness eroticism” of, say, Marlene Dietrich’s famous legs in the 1930 film “Morocco” versus the heroic wanderlust of her co-star, Gary Cooper. As John Berger wrote in his own analysis of the masculine gaze in visual art, from the 1972 book “Ways of Seeing” (adapted from the BBC series of the same name), “One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear.”

The Invention of 'the Male Gaze' by Lauren Michele Jackson

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FOSTA seems to have weakened the natural resistance of fandom and internet culture at large to the US’s broader puritanical, anti-sex culture. The purity movement formally began in the ’90s within evangelical culture as a way of normalizing an abstinence-only approach to sex, especially among teens. In the modern era, the language of this movement has converged with that of trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs), who enact a regressive approach to sex and gender expression.

“If you go into certain radfem forums, you’ll see language mirrored one-to-one,” Aburime told me, describing the way TERF rhetoric overlaps with and sometimes infiltrates fandom spaces. “It’s almost like a game — slipping some ideology secretly” into a fannish experience. “It’s misinformation under the guise of activism.” Like the US’s larger current moral panic over drag shows, LGBTQ people, and “groomers,” fandom’s culture has regressed toward sexual repression, attacks on sexual minorities, and censorship of art made by marginalized people. The shifts happening in fandom and across the internet help exacerbate this larger cultural shift.

Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet by Aja Romana, Vox, 2023.

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

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Soulmates In Starlight

Watercolor On Black Paper

2023, 22"x 30"

White Wild Roses

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Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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Small scene on a shelf, part 189 from ml.books

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St. Dunstan-in-the-East Church, London, England, UK

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I really need to get better at being IN photos at these things, haha, but I had an amazing time at @briswritersfest catching up with old friends and making new ones. There’s something so special about finally doing events in person for The Rabbits and I’m so grateful to everyone who helped me do that this week. She feels like she’s really out there, and getting to see her in reader’s hands and hear her story in their mouths was as close to magic as I’ve ever felt. Thank you! (at State Library of Queensland) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdS0suPhRTf/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Delta of Venus Anais Nin

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Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933) & Ninotchka (1939)

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“WHEN THEY SAY YOU CAN’T GO HOME AGAIN, WHAT THEY MEAN IS YOU WERE NEVER THERE” by Marty Mcconnell

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walking through the streets of melbourne.