Arts & Culture
The Art of Imperfection
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If I rid myself of such high standards, I am free to be disgruntled. Failure is inevitable yet freeing.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/feminism/page/2/)
If I rid myself of such high standards, I am free to be disgruntled. Failure is inevitable yet freeing.
When it comes to feminism and Angela Merkel, it seems that actions speak louder than words.
In honesty, while I will be the first to say that Womansplaining is (definitely!) my favorite part of being a Cornell student, it doesn’t actually take me a lot to write my columns. I write most of them in an hour or two the Friday before they’re due to my editor. I prioritize my own experiences and thoughts (key my apt title: Womanplaining) and most of those experiences happened the week that I write: e.g. this week I went to a talk and now I’m writing about my thoughts from that talk, the week of the 2020 election I wrote about the election, when I ran for Student Assembly I wrote about Student Assembly. Obviously my opinion writing is different from writing my thesis or a class paper, but a lot of times they come from the same space. And the crux of the question is whether or not a writing about feminism is feminist activism.
With only three cast members, “Shape” paints a colorful, easy story about femininity, age and body.
As Women’s History Month kicks off, the Sun sat down with Prof. Jane Juffer, director of Cornell’s feminist, gender and sexuality studies program, to ask about women’s history, intersectionality and activism.
Mamma Mia! resists the seriousness and responsibility that women are expected to have in their caregiving and emotional roles.
The male characters are still driving the conflict and story development, while the female characters are silenced in a way that’s not even easily perceivable anymore.
The things I feel, learn and notice while watching a show teach me about my own interests and biases; whether I am furious, ambivalent or in agreement with characters often illuminates my morals and politics.
The dialogue is free flowing and so wonderfully executed by the play’s leading ladies that I felt like a voyeur, witnessing the highs and lows of these women’s lives transpire before my eyes.
The Sunday event — which coincided with Ada Lovelace Day, which celebrates the contributions of one of history’s first computer programmers — was organized by librarians Selena Bryant of Mann Library, and Wendy Wilcox of Olin Library.