Thursday, March 26, 2026

Today will be another educational day!

"Beauty vloggers strip away the layers of artifice shellacked onto any mainstream image of beauty."

Page 62 

"Witches: What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44162881-witches

"While walking to the dentist, I turn onto the Kurilpa Bridge and am confronted with four women in fluorescent pink, ponytails swinging, jogging in step. I immediately prickle. I want to walk in the shade, and they are running on the shady side. I think: I'm not moving for these jogging bimbos. But then I stop. I am taken aback that after months and months of writing about women collaborating and caring for one another, I'm still reflexively anti-woman-- particularly anti-woman in groups. I move to the side and let the joggers pass; I think they might be training for a charity run, from what I glimpse on the pockets of their running shirts. But would it matter if they weren't? They all look very young, and being young and long-haired and wanting to stay fit and doing it with your friends is not a crime, or even something to scoff at. How long is it going to take to unpick this knot that misogyny has tied me in?"

Page 84- 85

"Witches: What Women Do Together by Sam George-Allen"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44162881-witches

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