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Leslie Kern

  • Natalia Zaitsevaцитирует2 года назад
    World-making means the process of both imagining and creating space(s) where things can unfold otherwise. Practicing female friendship as a way of life is, I think, a world-making activity.
  • Natalia Zaitsevaцитирует2 года назад
    When communities
    advocate for “spaces for youth,” the kinds of spaces they come up with are
    skate parks, basketball courts, and hockey arenas. In other words, spaces that
    have boys in mind as users, and where girls have trouble finding access, acceptance, and safety.
  • Natalia Zaitsevaцитирует2 года назад
    When Swedish architecture firm White Arkitekter actually approached teenage girls to design scale models of public space, the
    girls came up with “places for sitting together face to face, protected from weather and wind, to see without necessary [sic] being seen, a sense of intimacy without being constrictive; and most of all, to be able to leave an imprint on their city.” 1
  • Natalia Zaitsevaцитирует2 года назад
    In my suburban adolescence, that space was the mall.
    Easily accessed, inviting no probing questions from our parents, always
    warm and safe.
  • Natalia Zaitsevaцитирует2 года назад
    Even though those long nights of endless intimate talk are few and far between for my friends and I, we haven’t stopped picturing our futures together. Sensing, perhaps, that most of us will outlive any men in our lives
    or that lifelong partnership may not be in the cards, and that relying on our
    post-millennial children to take care of us is probably not a solid plan, we
    often joke about soon reserving spaces in the same retirement home. Maybe
    our partners will be there, just in a separate wing.

    it's a privilege to have a life-long friend – look at us now during the war

  • Natalia Zaitsevaцитирует2 года назад
    growing old with a lifelong
    romantic partner either seems unrealistic, undesirable, or boring as hell.
  • Natalia Zaitsevaцитирует2 года назад
    Given all of the ways that women rely on one another to provide not just the emotional support of friendship, but the very material support of shared childcare, elder care, transportation, housing, health care, and so many other completely necessary things, would it not make sense for cities to have the infrastructure to support
    such arrangements?
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