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daughter – peter

“Peter” from Daughter (Elena Tonra). Tales From Shop Session, filmed in Bristol by Tom Swindell, 2010.Filed under: dream, freedom, gender, love, music Tagged: daughter, elena tonra, fantasy,...

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poor unfortunate souls

“It won’t cost much… Just your voice.” From Disney’s The Little Mermaid (1989)Filed under: film, gender Tagged: fairy tale, mythology

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mowgli and raksha

are the stories told by grandma on a moonless night less true than those told in the moonlight? are stories spun with hunger-sour spit less sweet than those spat by a fat belly grandma? how much does...

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william butler yeats – a coat

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For...

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the rape of persephone (homeric hymn)

The Rape of Proserpina – Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1622) I) HAIDES ABDUCTS PERSEPHONE Homeric Hymn ii to Demeter (abridged) (trans. Evelyn White) (Greek epic circa 7th or 6th B.C.) “[Demeter’s] trim-ankled...

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barthes on the other-ache

  Painting by Francine van Hove compassion/compassion The subject experiences a sentiment of violent compassion with regard to the loved object each time he sees, feels, or knows the loved object is...

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hélène cixous – castration or decapitation?

Hélène Cixous’ essay “Castration or Decapitation?” discusses the binary construction of sexuality and how the feminine is defined by the negative: a woman is not a man because she lacks a penis. This...

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anne carson – the gender of sound

William Etty – “The Siren and Ulysses”, 1837. Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public, in ancient as well as modern...

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flower power

Something wonderful I came across HERE this week while trying to find Rock Rose essential oil online.  Echo and Narcissus. Helen Stratton, 1915. The daffodil has been adopted by both the American...

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einstürzende neubauten – the garden (1996)

From the album Ende Neu (Mute Records,1996).Filed under: music Tagged: Einstürzende Neubauten, garden, mythology

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julia holter – goddess eyes i (2012)

This track comes from her brilliant 2012 album, Ekstasis, which you can listen to HERE. Video directed by Jose Wolff. “The first thing that came to mind was an image that gradually deteriorates with...

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martha wainwright – proserpina (2012)

The last song written by her mother, Kate McGarrigle. Filed under: love, music Tagged: Kate McGarrigle, loss, Martha Wainwright, mythology, persephone, Proserpina, seasons

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