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derspatchel just came upstairs with the latest issue of The New Yorker and its excellent cover.
I like that there's a real, practical link for artist Abigail Gray Swartz between the women's marches and the idea of Rosie the Riveter, not just an obvious update on a cultural icon:
I started thinking how there was this effort on the part of women to create a symbol for the march. It felt reminiscent of World War II when women rationed silk stockings in order to have enough material for the soldiers' parachutes. How women knit for the soldiers and filled in at the factories while the men were away at war. Just like how we are reclaiming the word "pussy," the hat is also a symbol of our history in our country—we are knitting something for the new "war effort" to fight for our rights as women. We are knitting for ourselves.
I also like that the idea of Rosie as a woman of color was, for her, a "no brainer―I want to paint Rosie as a symbol of the Women's March and she should look like this." So many of the real Rosies did.
More of this sort of thing, please. Much, much, much less of this.
derspatchel just came upstairs with the latest issue of The New Yorker and its excellent cover.
I like that there's a real, practical link for artist Abigail Gray Swartz between the women's marches and the idea of Rosie the Riveter, not just an obvious update on a cultural icon:
I started thinking how there was this effort on the part of women to create a symbol for the march. It felt reminiscent of World War II when women rationed silk stockings in order to have enough material for the soldiers' parachutes. How women knit for the soldiers and filled in at the factories while the men were away at war. Just like how we are reclaiming the word "pussy," the hat is also a symbol of our history in our country—we are knitting something for the new "war effort" to fight for our rights as women. We are knitting for ourselves.
I also like that the idea of Rosie as a woman of color was, for her, a "no brainer―I want to paint Rosie as a symbol of the Women's March and she should look like this." So many of the real Rosies did.
More of this sort of thing, please. Much, much, much less of this.
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I really like that this sort of thing has gotten off the internet and onto The New Yorker.
And that last thing. The barrenness of that man's everything.
I want him gone. I want him gone in a way that will keep this kind of self-satisfied, idiot cruelty from rising again. The trouble is that I want to survive that process and I want the people I love to survive that process and I want all the people I've never met who will also be/have already been hurt by his regime to survive that process. Like, I'd prefer not to be ground zero of melted glass and radiation for the next two centuries, or the equivalent image for chemical or biological weapons or the ordinary, fire-and-lead aftermath of a shooting war. I just want people to remember the last time someone tried to govern like Trump and Bannon and all their bankrupt gang of bullies, there's a reason it didn't work out; there are reasons (beyond human decency, that appears to have no currency anymore) we don't try it.