Gah just did deep dive on Sara Peterson blog! So good!!!!! Can’t wait to read her book. Momfluencing is just so maddening. It’s amazing that we have laws on false advertising yet influencers don’t fall under those rules? I truly feel sad for girls growing up with this content, expecting motherhood to be like a perfect insta dream.
FLAwleSS - YIKeS! What I see is you have uncovered another jail with fuzzy pink bars. The bars just change colors and shapes to distract, deter from the real work that women are meant to do. Thank you Jessica - our fearless SCOUT and leader of the glittery evil.
“explores how the depraved past of our beauty products contributes to our present desire for them; how ugly histories have been papered over with pretty promises of empowerment, expression, and autonomy; and how our longing for beauty remains, even after we “know better.””
It’s just, truth. Discovering “beauty history” is like unearthing mass graves underneath perfectly built suburbs... idk, it’s eerie to me... wtf are we doing to ourselves and why.., like everyone dig deep. Please. Because sometimes the internet is so fascist and misogynist, we need to get stronger against this shit. Please think twice before going underneath the knife for a “touch up”. Please, reflect on our collective histories as women, victims of war crimes, genocides, rape, oppression, violence, can we stop renting our faces and bodies to corporations. Can we stop with the digital cartooning of our faces, and get our rights back. Must we continue to peel our skin off, at the whim of every man who degrades us based on our weight, fertility, and aging faces. Why does every picture feel like an auction? Seriously, our bodies go to the highest bidder now?
Or, we can “teehee” and put digital cat ears on. We “cartoon” ourselves and make mockeries of our intellect and education... at the risk of our collective rights.
I love getting book recommendations from you! Looking forward to reading these. (Also, how did I never know that there was a name for what standpoint theory describes???)
IS this contest open to your Canadian subscribers? I would love Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara Petersen
Thank you so much! Giving thanks for your amazing work which is so groundbreaking and brilliant 🙏❤️
Will be adding these to the top of my reading list - thank you Jessica for all your work as usual! 💜
Love seeing so many favorite writers and thinkers on this list. And happy book birthdays today to Virginia and Sara! 🎂 🎂
Jessica! Thank you for reading, recommending and all your work in this space. I know throngs of women across the Pacific stand in solidarity with you.
ahhhhh thank you jessica!!
Gah just did deep dive on Sara Peterson blog! So good!!!!! Can’t wait to read her book. Momfluencing is just so maddening. It’s amazing that we have laws on false advertising yet influencers don’t fall under those rules? I truly feel sad for girls growing up with this content, expecting motherhood to be like a perfect insta dream.
So many familiar (and brilliant) faces here!
Intact - In defence of the unmodified body by Clare Chambers is amazing!
http://www.clarechambers.com/the-body-appearance-norms-cosmetic-procedures-modification/
FLAwleSS - YIKeS! What I see is you have uncovered another jail with fuzzy pink bars. The bars just change colors and shapes to distract, deter from the real work that women are meant to do. Thank you Jessica - our fearless SCOUT and leader of the glittery evil.
“explores how the depraved past of our beauty products contributes to our present desire for them; how ugly histories have been papered over with pretty promises of empowerment, expression, and autonomy; and how our longing for beauty remains, even after we “know better.””
It’s just, truth. Discovering “beauty history” is like unearthing mass graves underneath perfectly built suburbs... idk, it’s eerie to me... wtf are we doing to ourselves and why.., like everyone dig deep. Please. Because sometimes the internet is so fascist and misogynist, we need to get stronger against this shit. Please think twice before going underneath the knife for a “touch up”. Please, reflect on our collective histories as women, victims of war crimes, genocides, rape, oppression, violence, can we stop renting our faces and bodies to corporations. Can we stop with the digital cartooning of our faces, and get our rights back. Must we continue to peel our skin off, at the whim of every man who degrades us based on our weight, fertility, and aging faces. Why does every picture feel like an auction? Seriously, our bodies go to the highest bidder now?
Or, we can “teehee” and put digital cat ears on. We “cartoon” ourselves and make mockeries of our intellect and education... at the risk of our collective rights.
I love getting book recommendations from you! Looking forward to reading these. (Also, how did I never know that there was a name for what standpoint theory describes???)
thanks for the book recs!
🧨Jessica is dynamite and I want to dedicate my GLAMOUR PUSS Musezical song TO HER... 🎧 sit back and give a listen....a little break - fast.
💋 Glamour Puss/Users/laurasottile/Desktop/Glamour Puss (17) m4a.m4a
(5 Minutes)
LYRICS
When you dive so low
Chasing the Status Quo
It's a losing race
and it only awards you with a Jane doe Face
You see
The mainstream boutique
is a thief of your mystic
it will always interfere
With what you hold most dear
And that is YOU
Glamour Puss
To thy own self be true
To they own self be true
If you want to be new
You've got to pull away from the glowing avenue
Where the MASS appeal
Is spewing it's vile spiel
Glamour, Glamour, Glamour Puss
Glamour
Glamour
Glamour Puss.................................................................💫
Laura La Sottile Flying Bra
2017 Copyright
Adding these to my reading list!
Your work as a woman is the most beautiful in all the lands. Oh the irony! Keep it coming and thank you for all the new reading suggestions.
IS this contest open to your Canadian subscribers? I would love Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara Petersen