This looks like a good zine to be aware of friends.
Upcoming zine.
“Children who are constantly shamed, humiliated, terrorized, or rejected suffer just as much if not more than children who are physically assaulted.”
— Healing the Emotional Self by Beverly Engel
life in community: and I travel on
A new update from Wren, who is taking a leave of absence from Twin Oaks to explore other intentional communities.
On Being the Ideal Beauty Standard
Last Friday night, I had the pleasure of stumbling into birthday festivities for a nice young lady turning 30. And amongst the celebrations, I found out how ideal beauty standards hurt someone that meets the ideal beauty standards. Bridget is tiny, beautiful, and could easily pass as a model or pin-up girl. She gets hit on by men almost every where she goes, which is why she doesn’t go out very often. She gets sick of the game, sick of being approached just for being thin and model-like.
Bridget told me that she purposely makes herself appear ugly sometimes, because she doesn’t want other women to feel uncomfortable. And she’s sick of being approached. She doesn’t want to look hot because shes afraid other women will hate her for it. She has had to deal with “catty” women in the past, due to her looks. I thought it was interesting to hear things from the perspective of a woman who does fit the ideal beauty standard, and contemplate on how beauty standards affect those people as well.
very true! although i sometimes think we need a break from being responsible for our own successes and failures. Sometimes circumstantial forces create situations of self-hate. It takes time to learn to love and respect ourselves and to value who we are.
(Source: cowgirlbychoice)
Funny how the voice of pain ends up being the key to deliverance.
Lack of funds means taking time to think bigger
I didn’t get any of the jobs I applied for and we also did not get any grant funding for Undercurrent Zine.
I continue to apply for jobs. Due to my car accidents, I have run into some money to help me make it by. Riding the bus and walking is a good option for me right now. I still have my part-time job at the library as well.
The best thing that came out of the job application process was being reminded that I am a highly qualified candidate, and I do stand a chance. The only problem is that someone else has a bit more experience!
The open ended job search has put me in touch with the reality of how difficult it is to get employment and how everything is so fragile and risky. Our homes, our jobs and income sources, our resources, our supportive relationships can change at any moment. Understanding the fragility of things, has made me think more time and energy might be served going for what I really want as opposed to just trying to preserve those potentially unstable resources that may or may not be there in the future. It’s given me time to pause and reflect about what I really want out of life. To take a step back, breathe, and think big. In a future blog post, I will share the process used to think about these things and ask myself what I really want.
Fortunately, Undercurrent zine has funding for the first issue printing. We are focusing on putting the first issue together, and after it comes out in June/July 2013 we will put more efforts towards fundraising again. This time we are looking at crowdsourcing.
My house went on the market last week!
not sure what to think about the artist statement, but I find the photos very interesting to look at because of the colors and framing.
” After taking LSD. I lighting up a candle in the middle of the wood and during the 30 secondes of exposure, i make a meditation about the holism of nature surrounding me. Feeling the crystal vibration irradiating from the center of the Gaia mother earth. So in this picture i try to show you the magic,sacred metaphysical quality of the nature and new age bullshiting you. “
(via oxane)
