Virgin, Mother, Whore: The Impossible Triangle of Modern Femininity

So in the last 15 years the relationship between femininity and sexuality (never straight-forward) has become increasingly problematic. While I was busy watching cartoons and playing with action figures with my kids, the role of women and girls within the narrative of twenty-first-century American identity became publicly sexualized in a way that makes me feel [...]

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Virgin, Mother, Whore: The Impossible Triangle of Modern Femininity

So in the last 15 years the relationship between femininity and sexuality (never straight-forward) has become increasingly problematic. While I was busy watching cartoons and playing with action figures with my kids, the role of women and girls within the narrative of twenty-first-century American identity became publicly sexualized in a way that makes me feel [...]

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Is 13 Code for VAGINA?

So I was sitting in a landscape architecture design class a few years ago, when the Professor asked us to reflect on the deeper aesthetic, and perhaps collectively human, significance of the number twelve. At his invitation students began to offer up examples – twelve months in a year and twelve signs of the Zodiac [...]

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