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So I had a Halloween epiphany. I know I want to be BOB from Twin Peaks for actual Halloween but my birthday is October 28th and I am going out the night before to some Halloween parties and I want something cute and awesome to dress as cause I think BOB will be less cute and more terrifying. So today I came to a realization - I have witch hair. It's grey and kinda scraggly, and long and grey. And witches are sexy. And I want an excuse to wear/buy a big witch's hat. So I gathered some inspiration for the costume I have yet to create but I have a good feeling about this!!!  “I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It’s the male chauvinistic society that we’re living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and...

alternate title: CAN I JUST BE YOU?

So far today I have done three expository assignments (one for my class on Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, one for Normative Ethics and one for Gender and Sexuality) and started brainstorming for my essay on Hobbes' Leviathan. Feeling productive but I can't seem to shake the feeling that I am being swallowed whole by the amount of work I have ahead of me. Rococo keeps me sane though.

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EYELINER GOALS

An article I wrote for Base Magazine issue 4 !! I am so grateful for the opportunity to write for such a rad magazine. What Makes a Real Woman? What we’re supposed to think when we see Dove present us with yet another image of able-bodied, symmetrical and curvy women is this: “Wow! This company totally gets me . I’m a real woman and real women have curves!” Without critical assessment these images seem to reassure us ladies with stretch-marks and pudgy bellies that we are worthy of love and adoration. But the message is not so simple or clear-cut. Dove’s advertisements and others like them have added fuel to a fiery battle between women of different sizes to be named a “Real Woman”. As if that title grants you leverage over the rest of the people who have been claiming womanhood (gasp! but they aren’t nearly curvy enough!). Ok, maybe women don’t actually think that the size of their thighs determine their status on the gender-scale, but this phrase has been used to mercilessly b...