If you are a feminist it is your job to dismantle the stigma around the movement by calling out bad feminists, like TERFs, TWERFs, misinformation, and blatant lies used to invoke fear into women, men, or just plain people.
Focus not only on women, but on men and non binary people as well. Feminism is an equality movement, which means we need to uplift EVERYONE. Not just women.
Feminism isn’t about female superiority. Don’t act like it is and call it out when people act as if women are better than men.
76/100 days of productivity
Natalie Clifford Barney, from Souvenirs Indiscrets
when healing from a person.. you will have thoughts like “I loved them more than I loved anyone, I never knew I could love someone so much, I’ll never love someone that much again..”
It is important to realize that your ability to love that person didn’t come from them, it came from within you. You were always a lover, already someone who could love deeply. Just because they are gone doesn’t mean that goes away. They didn’t give you the capacity to love, they just gave you a place to express it. Don’t give someone else the credit for how hard you could love, that was you and it still is.
Campbell Gardens by trisharooni
Hey, Dark Academia community: if you’re interested in academic talks and intellectual discussion, I’d really recommend you subscribe to the channel virtual BRLSI on Youtube. BRLSI stands for the ‘Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution”: a respected organization set up 200 years ago as a centre for Enlightenment ideas and intellectual discussion in Bath, England (where Jane Austen lived!)
They organize lectures and interviews every month with leading academics and prominent authors, which are then posted online. My father is very active in BRLSI and would love for the channel to get some exposure - a lot of work goes into it. BRLSI is a respected historical organization and the channel is genuinely filled with lots fascinating stuff, real A+ Dark Academia material. Please do give it a look if you’re interested!