As a woman who grew up in Iran, I understand why many Iranian women react so vehemently and viscerally to this gesture of solidarity. Encounters with the morality police were (and probably still are) an all-consuming part of women’s everyday lives in Iran. I completely understand their experience of the hijab as an instrument of state coercion and gendered restriction.
But as an anthropologist of the United States, I also understand the danger of importing that experience into Western contexts uncritically; without reckoning with what the same sign signifies in a different context. In the West, the hijab often indexes membership in marginalized Muslim minorities. Therefore, uncritical, universal anti-hijab critiques can easily reinforce Islamophobic and racist discourses.
The problem is not that Iranian women’s experience of the hijab is false. It is that the hijab’s meaning is neither portable nor universal: its social and political meaning changes with context.
As for this particular gesture of solidarity, these French women are correctly recognizing that the policing of women’s bodies takes different forms. Forcing a woman to wear the hijab and forcing her to remove it are different expressions of the same underlying claim: that others may decide what she can or cannot do with her body. A woman’s attire is hers to choose and so are all her other decisions concerning her bodily autonomy.
Zooey Deschanel says she discussed her character in '500 Days of Summer' with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and how people are pissed about it
"I got a lot of like hate... A lot of people were like, 'Fuck you, Summer.'”
"the original film was strictly from Tom's narcissistic perspective.
“It was really weird. People were pissed that Summer didn't want to go out with Tom forever.
“We always thought it was unfairly in Tom's point of view...
“There's a part in the movie... where she starts telling him something that's really important to her... her voice trails out and it's replaced by his narrator going, 'And I was the one she wanted to tell it to.'”
“He's listening to his own narrator; he's not listening to her. He's not even interested in what's in her heart; he's interested in the fact that she chose him to tell it to.”
não falam o suficiente sobre o impacto que a rowan causou numa geração de crianças fãs do disney channel… ela aos 14-16 anos era abertamente pró-palestina e falava sobre feminismo e identidades queer enquanto ainda estava sob contrato da disney. princesa do povo
wrong.
she's honouring the fact that one of the earliest records of a successful C-section was performed in Uganda in 1879.
this is an homage to the brilliance of pre-colonial indigenous African medicinal practice, not a celebration of motherhood.
the library scene is so pivotal. Micki enjoys toying w/ Fran but she kinda realizes her impact. The way she soften & shook her head w/ sadness after Fran’s rant. Her trying to make light of the situation but her sadness bc she personally knows the feelings Fran is describing.
Li um comentário sobre como é trágico eles morrerem jovens, deve ser muito ruim mesmo hein, história trágica demais. Imagina que ruim viver tão pouco e ser brutalmente assassinado, sorte que não tem nenhuma autora financiando discurso de ódio contra minorias que sofrem disso, né?
Half-Greek, half-Filipino, his mom is a lesbian, and he's a huge LGBTQIA+ ally.
I love this casting decision; and I hope Ryan Hurst is recovering well.
Each time halsey performs older hits, I am floored at how her confidence, voice, and overall artistry has evolved so immensely, and shows no bounds. The raw passion she pours into her art never fails her. I hope she feels the same pride that we feel witnessing her growth.
I never want to hear y’all defending that billionaire blonde lady for not speaking up because it would “affect her ability to make money” and “puts her at risk.”
Olivia Rodrigo has a quarter of the fame, resources, contacts, and money, and she’s STILL showing up.
You see shit like this & you get that cohabitation *of some degree* is possible, it’s just too inconvenient & inefficient for capitalism so instead we have to kick the wildlife out of the areas we live & pretend that all wildlife is lethally hostile