This post is really hitting me, in the best ways. I keep selecting lines to highlight and then have to copy new lines. This is so so beautiful: “It is labor that is intuitive, emotional, feeling work—to ask questions, create safe intimacy, share concerns, alleviate fears, soothe, and heal. Labor that should not be devalued, and is sorely needed in marginalized communities” I would say it’s needed in *all* communities. Finally, totally here for tarot! & Magic eight ball forevva (takes me back to childhood)
thanks so much--love it when people find it as fascinating as I do. And you're right--ALL communities need it, those networks of intimacy and safety and healing. We need more of it, to allow the off script to have validity. And yes to magic eightballs forevva--the best! :)
I love tarot as a tool of reflection. I've fallen out of practice recently but I need to pick it up again. It's a practice I enjoy even if only as an excuse to look at cool art every day. So many decks are simply beautiful! That's a good enough reason for me.
They are so beautiful. A while ago at the museum I went down the rabbit hole of their history, and became obsessed with trying to make different decks, but it didn't pan out. I have a handful and I love to kind of pick a deck from time to time, to just be reminded of certain scenes and think on them.
What an in depth writing of what is not working in our countries, cultures and daily lives. The woman’s network often got together in quilting, spinning and knitting where the wisdom was often needed as much as a community to be safe in together. Now separated by screens do we ever know another to that intimate degree when it would be so welcome. Thank you so much for your depth of exploring this fascinating history.
thanks so much for reading--it is crazy how 'alternative' gets defined, by whom, etc. So many marginalized communities, including women, need that type of networked support.
This is fascinating to read. I can’t help but think of the number of conversations I’ve had over the last decade or so with other women about lack medical care for what are deemed “women’s problems,” and even lack of knowledge--problems that feel almost common at this point, and yet are still overlooked and dismissed, with women suffering and often dying from them.
A friend sent me an interesting article last year about how common abortion once was in the U.S., most often with married mothers, before pregnancy became medicalized. It was focused on historical archives in the author’s hometown in the midwest. I should find it again; it was really interesting, how abortion was coded and who sought it.
That's fascinating about the medicalization of abortion--and not surprising, it was something that was an indication of health, rather than anything so-called sinister. I thought about how women's pain and diseases and bodies are pathologized a lot writing through this too--how little is still acknowledged and gets dismissed. We need those networks still.
This post is really hitting me, in the best ways. I keep selecting lines to highlight and then have to copy new lines. This is so so beautiful: “It is labor that is intuitive, emotional, feeling work—to ask questions, create safe intimacy, share concerns, alleviate fears, soothe, and heal. Labor that should not be devalued, and is sorely needed in marginalized communities” I would say it’s needed in *all* communities. Finally, totally here for tarot! & Magic eight ball forevva (takes me back to childhood)
thanks so much--love it when people find it as fascinating as I do. And you're right--ALL communities need it, those networks of intimacy and safety and healing. We need more of it, to allow the off script to have validity. And yes to magic eightballs forevva--the best! :)
I love tarot as a tool of reflection. I've fallen out of practice recently but I need to pick it up again. It's a practice I enjoy even if only as an excuse to look at cool art every day. So many decks are simply beautiful! That's a good enough reason for me.
They are so beautiful. A while ago at the museum I went down the rabbit hole of their history, and became obsessed with trying to make different decks, but it didn't pan out. I have a handful and I love to kind of pick a deck from time to time, to just be reminded of certain scenes and think on them.
What an in depth writing of what is not working in our countries, cultures and daily lives. The woman’s network often got together in quilting, spinning and knitting where the wisdom was often needed as much as a community to be safe in together. Now separated by screens do we ever know another to that intimate degree when it would be so welcome. Thank you so much for your depth of exploring this fascinating history.
thanks so much for reading--it is crazy how 'alternative' gets defined, by whom, etc. So many marginalized communities, including women, need that type of networked support.
This is fascinating to read. I can’t help but think of the number of conversations I’ve had over the last decade or so with other women about lack medical care for what are deemed “women’s problems,” and even lack of knowledge--problems that feel almost common at this point, and yet are still overlooked and dismissed, with women suffering and often dying from them.
A friend sent me an interesting article last year about how common abortion once was in the U.S., most often with married mothers, before pregnancy became medicalized. It was focused on historical archives in the author’s hometown in the midwest. I should find it again; it was really interesting, how abortion was coded and who sought it.
That's fascinating about the medicalization of abortion--and not surprising, it was something that was an indication of health, rather than anything so-called sinister. I thought about how women's pain and diseases and bodies are pathologized a lot writing through this too--how little is still acknowledged and gets dismissed. We need those networks still.