May252012
“That’s the scary thing about theatre—it doesn’t live on. But that’s actually the most beautiful thing about it, too. That’s why it’s more beautiful than film and certainly more beautiful than television, because it’s like life. Real life. Any picture that you take or any video that you make of yourself is not really you, it’s only an image that represents the experience you had. In theater, the process of it is the experience. Everyone goes through the process, and everyone has the experience together. It doesn’t last—only in people’s memories and in their hearts. That’s the beauty and sadness of it. But that’s life—beauty and the sadness. And that is why theatre is life.”
Sherie Rene Scott (via norbertleosbutt)
I think I have posted this before, but it is worth remembering.
(Source: american-whore-story, via thebackstagebadger)
10PM
My high-school freshman self was actually really smart.
I am figuring out a genderqueer wardrobe I feel comfortable in, and a lot of the shirts I got freshman year which are baggier now work perfectly.
Yay intuition! Well, insecurity followed by trying to fit in and now figuring things out.
April302012
“Look how your children grow up. Taught from their earliest infancy to curb their love natures — restrained at every turn! Your blasting lies would even blacken a child’s kiss. Little girls must not be tomboyish, must not go barefoot, must not climb trees, must not learn to swim, must not do anything they desire to do which Madame Grundy has decreed “improper.” Little boys are laughed at as effeminate, silly girl-boys if they want to make patchwork or play with a doll. Then when they grow up, “Oh! Men don’t care for home or children as women do!” Why should they, when the deliberate effort of your life has been to crush that nature out of them. “Women can’t rough it like men.” Train any animal, or any plant, as you train your girls, and it won’t be able to rough it either.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (via petitefeministe)
The best part of this essay is when she advocates for children to be brought up with no gender-role stereotyping, and gets in some not-so-subtle digs at heterocentricism and heterosexism in the process.
Did I mention this was written over a hundred years ago? Because it totally was.
(via missvoltairine)
(Source: liberationfrequency, via natural-energy)
April282012
I just need to make it through the next two and a half weeks.
Then I am home. Then NYC.
I am worried about coming back here, especially if I change during the summer.
