Want to make time to listen to this- Medusa is/has been a guide since I was super young. Some of my first dreams that I can recall are with her, she often sent me on Dreamworld quests. And in my dreams, age 6 or so, she was beautiful and I couldn't understand why people thought she was ugly or vengeful- I could look her in the eyes, loved snakes, and all things underground and labyrinthine; I didn't learn about her rape until well into adulthood. This all lives in my psyche as "of course I love the unloved and unappreciated, Medusa is my homegirl" always believing there's more than meets the eye or coming for dominant paradigms sideways; and I'll save my remaining thoughts for when we get together 😉
kinda connected, but this essay was originally a post on threads and someone (presumably a dude) was really nitpicky about the account of Medusa offered (and said it was ahistorical and ended up dumping reams of text in the comments and I was like 'hon do you approach everyone this way?' and it turns out that this dude loved getting in the comments of women posting feminist takes on Medusa. YES HE DID APPROACH EVERYONE THIS WAY (or at least women)
I was just re-listening to this article and I encourage everyone to read Joey’s article. There’s so much about how *undignified* acts of supplication can be, how grief and morning is unsavory to a buttoned up culture bent on control. In quickly synthesizing all this stuff, there are so many angles and nuances I brush over.
This is making think about how I would probably add some whine emojis to my Taurus III emoji assemblage
Want to make time to listen to this- Medusa is/has been a guide since I was super young. Some of my first dreams that I can recall are with her, she often sent me on Dreamworld quests. And in my dreams, age 6 or so, she was beautiful and I couldn't understand why people thought she was ugly or vengeful- I could look her in the eyes, loved snakes, and all things underground and labyrinthine; I didn't learn about her rape until well into adulthood. This all lives in my psyche as "of course I love the unloved and unappreciated, Medusa is my homegirl" always believing there's more than meets the eye or coming for dominant paradigms sideways; and I'll save my remaining thoughts for when we get together 😉
yes! i'm looking forward to brunch even more!
kinda connected, but this essay was originally a post on threads and someone (presumably a dude) was really nitpicky about the account of Medusa offered (and said it was ahistorical and ended up dumping reams of text in the comments and I was like 'hon do you approach everyone this way?' and it turns out that this dude loved getting in the comments of women posting feminist takes on Medusa. YES HE DID APPROACH EVERYONE THIS WAY (or at least women)
Wow, lemme at that guy 🐍✨😉
head on over to threads! let's turn him to stone
I was just re-listening to this article and I encourage everyone to read Joey’s article. There’s so much about how *undignified* acts of supplication can be, how grief and morning is unsavory to a buttoned up culture bent on control. In quickly synthesizing all this stuff, there are so many angles and nuances I brush over.
This is making think about how I would probably add some whine emojis to my Taurus III emoji assemblage
😫😩