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Miranda Lynn Barnes
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poetry & science, writer, researcher. she/her/ they is fine, too.
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Patriarchy perpetuates it to maintain its power and women's powerlessness, but as bell hooks points out (from my book The Mother of All Questions) men pay a price too: 3/3
ii: every Man an iSland: Male Silence Silence is present everywhere under patriarchy, though it requires different silences from men than from women. You can imagine the policing of gender as the creation of reciprocal silences, and you can begin to recognize male silence as a tradeoff for power and membership. No one ever put it better than bell hooks, who said: The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not suc- cessful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriar- chal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. That is, patriarchy requires that men silence themselves first (and perhaps it’s worth noting again that, though patriarchy is a system that privileges men and masculinity, many women are complicit in it, some men rebel against it, and some people are undoing the rules of gender that prop it up). This means learning not only to be silent to others but also to themselves, about aspects of their inner life and self.
August 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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But the statistics demonstrate this is the most pervasive violence on earth, that it has an economic impact (hospitalization and missed work costs alone!), and that it has racial dimensions, including with the MMIW (missing and murdered Indigenous women) pandemic. 2/3
August 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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"In the US, there’s a rape every 68 seconds, a woman is beaten by an intimate partner every nine seconds.... Globally a woman or girl is murdered by her partner or family member every 10 minutes."
August 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I look at this photo of Jupiter and think, yes, beauty still exists.
An exquisite and colorful photo of the surface of Jupiter from the Webb Telescope, with swirls of deep blue and sandy yellow interspersed with white in the closeup of one of the storms.
July 3, 2025 at 10:20 PM