cautiously optimistic

RETURN THE GAYZE: a breakup letter to stanford university

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:26:28 -0500

RETURN THE GAYZE: a breakup letter to stanford university:

you are eighteen — give or take a few

shots of espresso and one night stands —

and you are sandwiched in the backseat

of the car with the six suitcases you somehow convinced your mother

to let you pack for college — let’s call it,

being upfront to your roommate that you are

coming…

deriver: college is in the details

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:09:34 -0500

deriver:

college is in the details

sophiawallace: CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws © Sophia...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:50:23 -0500

Installation detail of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace

Installation detail of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws by Sophia Wallace

CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws in Scenes A Faire at Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn, NY

Sophia Wallace in front of CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws in her Brooklyn Studio, October 2012.

sophiawallace:

CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws © Sophia Wallace 2012. Currently on view at Dumbo Art Center, details below.

CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws is mixed media project that explores a paradox; the global obsession with sexualizing female bodies in a world that is illiterate when it comes to female sexuality. CLITERACY is a new way of talking about citizenship, sexuality, human rights, and bodies. The project reveals the – phallic as neutral – bias in science, law, philosophy, politics, mainstream and even feminist discussion, and the art world - which is so saturated with the female body as subject. Using text as form, CLITERACY explores the construction of female sexual bodies as passive vehicles of reception defined by lack. It confronts a false body of knowledge by scientists who have resisted the idea of a unique, autonomous female body and rather studied what confirmed their assumption that women’s anatomy was the inverse of male anatomy, and that reproduction was worthy of study, while female sexuality was most certainly not. In the last ten years there have been tremendous scientific breakthroughs in the understanding of the clitoris. The clitoris is exponentially larger and more complex than commonly thought. What we think of as the clitoris, is only the tip of the iceberg. While this discovery is shocking in its late arrival, the problem of global ILLCITERACY is a salient allegory into the bigger problem of a female body, both cis and trans female, constructed by men, with false information, the goal of control and a culture that defines femaleness as inferior and female sexual organs as taboo. CLITERACY builds upon my photographic practice and ongoing exploration of how power shapes knowledge, often through use of the visual, for the purpose of social control.

CLITERACY is monumental in scope and scale with 100 Natural Laws that span 10 by 13 feet and a 6 foot neon piece suspended from the ceiling. CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws was completed during my Van Lier Fellowship in the Art Law Residency.

CLITERACY 100 Natural Laws Scenes a Faire Art & Law Residency Exhibition
On View: Oct. 5-21 at Dumbo Art Center
POSTPONED!! Artist Talk: Sophia Wallace ~~Oct. 16, 7-8:30pm at Dumbo Art Center~~
111 Front Street, Suite 212, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel 718-694-0831 Email gallery@dumboartscenter.org
Gallery Hours: 12 - 6pm Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 5PM Sunday

Info & Press Photos:
CLITERACY 100 Natural Laws
Sophia Wallace’s Studio: studio( )sophiawallace.com

weepling: A lonely Fitzgerald wrote this card to himself.

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:37:00 -0600

weepling:

A lonely Fitzgerald wrote this card to himself.

everyone who knows me knows that the quickest way into my...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:35:12 -0600

everyone who knows me knows that the quickest way into my heart/pants is a mixed cd.

sosuperawesome: Louise McNaught, on Tumblr Shop

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:32:10 -0600

sosuperawesome:

Louise McNaught, on Tumblr

Shop

talesfromthecreeps: i just want to be created at 21 and then i...

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:28:23 -0600

talesfromthecreeps:

i just want to be created at 21 and then i won’t have these dumb teenage mistakes that i have to be haunted by

When a guy asks me to smile for him

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:54:22 -0600

whatshouldbetchescallme:

"No, I’m not running."

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:45:35 -0600

“No, I’m not running.”

- U.S. vice president JOE BIDEN, when asked by a reporter to react to news of Pope Benedict resigning.

Heh.

(Reporter Tara Murtha via The New York Times)

THIS IS WHY I LOVE YOU JOE BIDEN.

i love it when places i’ve been show up on my feed (aka i...

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:44:58 -0600

i love it when places i’ve been show up on my feed

(aka i miss japan a lot)

hydeparkromances: “I know you and Iare not about poems orother sentimental bullshitbut I have to...

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:33:49 -0600

hydeparkromances:

“I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.”

Clementine von Radics

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Photo

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 22:36:33 -0600

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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:33:44 -0600

just shut up.

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:12:56 -0600

gyzym:

First, a story.

So, my first semester of my freshman year of college, I took this Intro to Women’s Studies class. The class met for five hours a week, one two hour session and one three hour session, and the breakdown of students was what I eventually discovered to be the typical sampling in any Women’s Studies class with no pre-recs at my mid-sized, southern Ohio state school. There were a number of girls who would become, or were already part of, the feminist advocacy groups on campus; there were a number of girls who would prove themselves to be opposed to feminism in both concept and practice, one of whom I distinctly recall giving a presentation on the merits of the “Mrs. Degree,” while my professor’s eye twitched in muted horror; there were a handful of girls and at least one guy I’d come to know later through assorted campus queer groups; and there were, of course, the three to six dudebros, self-admittedly there to “meet chicks,” all but one or two of whom would drop the class after the first midterm. At eighteen, I was myself a feminist in name but not in practice—I believed in the idea behind feminism (which is, for the record, that people should be on equal footing regardless of gender, not that we should CRUSH ALL MEN BENEATH THE VICIOUS HEELS OF OUR DOC MARTENS GLORY HALLELUJAH), but I didn’t actually know anything about it. I could not identify the waves of feminism. Intersectionality and how the movement is crap at it were not things of which I was aware. Never had I ever encountered the writings of bell hooks. In a lucky break, you do not need to know about the waves of feminism, or know what intersectionality is, or have read bell hooks to read this essay! (But you should read bell hooks. Everyone should read bell hooks. bell hooks is FUCKING AWESOME.)

The first couple of weeks of this class were about what you’d expect. The professor was fun and engaging, but she was not exactly pulling out the eye-opening stops on our wide-eyed freshman asses. There were handouts. There were selections of the textbook for reading. There was a very depressing class about domestic violence, abuse, and rape that was the typical rattling off of terms and horrific statistics that everyone winced at, but that nobody really internalized. The dudebros snickered in the back corner, grouped together like they would be infested by cooties if they spread out, occasionally chiming in with helpful comments like, “Dude, the lady on the back of this book is smoking,” and getting turned down by each girl in the class, on whom they were hitting in what I can only assume was a pre-determined descending order of hotness. The queer kids, myself included, huddled in the other corner making pithy comments. The up-and-coming active feminists glared at the bros, who leered back, and the Mrs. Degree-friendly crowd mostly texted under their desks and made it very clear that they were only there for humanities credit. Again, it was a fairly typical southern Ohio state school class full of fairly typical southern Ohio state school freshmen. Nobody was super engaged, is what I am saying here. Nobody, myself included, was really eating it up with a spoon.

And then one day, my professor opened the class with, “So, who here has seen Beauty and the Beast?”

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"Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on..."

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:42:53 -0600

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”

- Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via superpussy)

okcgoldmine: “why don’t women respond to me!!! fucking cunts!!”...

Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:19:41 -0600

okcgoldmine:

“why don’t women respond to me!!! fucking cunts!!” it is a mystery

ruineshumaines: The White Deer

Thu, 27 Dec 2012 22:50:36 -0600

ruineshumaines:

The White Deer

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: Toy combs from the early...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:41:53 -0600

thingsorganizedneatly:

SUBMISSION: Toy combs from the early 90’s. // md

skinks: why can’t feminism be spread like vampirism and zombies and shit like you bite someone and...

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 17:40:07 -0600

skinks:

why can’t feminism be spread like vampirism and zombies and shit like you bite someone and they stop being a misogynistic fucktrumpet

istillshootfilm: Film Photography Submission By: whythedarkdays...

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:55:14 -0600

istillshootfilm:

Film Photography Submission By: whythedarkdays

moscow / red square

camera: yashica fx-3 super
film: kodak kodacolor gold 400 gc

http://whythedarkdays.tumblr.com

cautiously optimistic

RETURN THE GAYZE: a breakup letter to stanford university

deriver: college is in the details

sophiawallace: CLITERACY, 100 Natural Laws © Sophia...

weepling: A lonely Fitzgerald wrote this card to himself.

everyone who knows me knows that the quickest way into my...

sosuperawesome: Louise McNaught, on Tumblr Shop

talesfromthecreeps: i just want to be created at 21 and then i...

When a guy asks me to smile for him

"No, I’m not running."

i love it when places i’ve been show up on my feed (aka i...

hydeparkromances: “I know you and Iare not about poems orother sentimental bullshitbut I have to...

“I know you and Iare not about poems orother sentimental bullshitbut I have to tell youeven the way you drink your coffeeknocks me the fuck out.”

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just shut up.

"Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on..."

okcgoldmine: “why don’t women respond to me!!! fucking cunts!!”...

ruineshumaines: The White Deer

thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: Toy combs from the early...

skinks: why can’t feminism be spread like vampirism and zombies and shit like you bite someone and...

istillshootfilm: Film Photography Submission By: whythedarkdays...

“I know
you and I
are not about poems or
other sentimental bullshit
but I have to tell you
even the way
you drink your coffee
knocks me the fuck out.”