Pregnant Woman – Louise Bourgeois, 2009.
Chelsea Wolfe // Widow
I saw the widow in the window waving down at me, heal your bones
I saw the bird circling above me, heal your bones
I had a vision of this but so painless, heal your bones
I opened the book to your birth-page and it said, heal your bones
The world is big, and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
John Muir, from John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, ed. Linnie Marsh Wolfe (University of Wisconsin, 1979)
“Women are described in animal terms as pets, cows, sows, foxes, chicks, serpents, bitches, beavers, old bats, old hens, mother hens, pussycats, cats, cheetahs, bird-brains, and hare-brains…‘Mother Nature’ is raped, mastered, conquered, mined; her secrets are ‘penetrated,’ her ‘womb’ is to be put into the service of the ‘man of science.’ Virgin timber is felled, cut down; fertile soil is tilled, and land that lies ‘fallow’ is ‘barren,’ useless. The exploitation of nature and animals is justified by feminizing them; the exploitation of women is justified by naturalizing them.”
— Karen J. Warren Ecological Feminism (via agentmaya)
Frida Kahlo photographed by Florence Arquin, 1951
Frida Kahlo’s prosthetic leg with leather boot (photo by Javier Hinojosa)
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