Entertainment Weekly this week with a piece about costume designer Bob Mackie.
According to him, Beyoncé wore Lynda Carter’s version of the Tina Turner-inspired dress.
Naomi Watts and Lori Petty, “Tank Girl” (Rachel Talalay, 1995).
It’s time for people to stop proclaiming that “feminist”/“intersectional”/“ally” is a thing you can *be* and start recognizing social consciousness as a constant work in progress wherein literally everyone is learning and no one has reached the final tier of Unproblematic Enlightenment and no one ever will
Listen when people talk, apologize when you fuck up and don’t believe for a second that anyone can be perfect including yourself
A consequence of feminism merging with pop culture is that it’s becoming commodified. Teens are buying feminist etsy patches and are putting ‘intersectionality’ into their twitter bios, but are failing to engage or critically think about how the sexism woc face is often racialised (i. e i n t e r s e c t i o n a l i t y) I mean i’m all for visual representations of your feminist praxis, but f e m i n i s m is much more than some cool quirky watered down tumblr aesthetic