bodies – Bookmarks

“Autogenous visual information of the upper body. Top, photographic simulation of what a six-months-pregnant 26-year-old Caucasian female of average weight sees when looking down while standing erect; bottom, same view of Willendorf no. 1”

There is an obvious relationship to be seen between the stylistic attributes of Upper Paleolithic representations of the female body in general and PKG-style images in particular and the structural regularities of form and content contained in those minimal viewpoints needed by a woman to see her own body.

— LeRoy McDermott.

In other words, what if these are sculptures that represent how women saw their own bodies without mirrors?

A Black Crip’s Perspective on Fashion and Embodied Resistance | The Feminist Wire

A Black Crip’s Perspective on Fashion and Embodied Resistance.

Looking fierce may not transform systems that actively work against my body, but it has and continues to help me reconfigure space through self-definition.

The time to start thinking about older people being sexy is right now

The time to start thinking about older people being sexy is right now…

I’ve spoken with quite a few people who are convinced that nobody will want to have sex with them because they have grey hair, or wrinkles, or scars, or stretch marks, or health concerns, or any of the other effects of age. I feel sadness that they’re so sure that they’re unattractive to others because they’re unattractive to themselves. I wonder how much of that comes from never having thought of people over a certain age as desirable. […] The time to start thinking about older people being sexy is right now. This is the time to stop shaming elders who express desire or who want to have sex. This is the time to stop mocking their bodies or describing them negatively. When you get older, you’ll be struggling with a lot of cultural momentum and the longer you go along with it, the harder it’ll be when you finally get around to resisting (if you do).