Roses All Trash

what if world history began in africa - stayed in africa - discussed what non-african people did to africans - and who africans are now?

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references made:

"Mad Men" Season 2, Episode 3: "The Benefactor"

"Mrs Dalloway" (Virginia Woolf)

"A Room of One's Own" (Virginia Woolf)

https://www.instagram.com/lizzobeeating/

"Truth and Power" (Michel Foucault)

Teen Vogue / Vogue China

Bachelor Nation!

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Week 2, April 2021: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Sabrina Strings, "Fearing the Black Body" — Chapter 6: Thinness as American Exceptionalism

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Joy James, "The Womb of Western Theory: Trauma, Time Theft, and the Captive Maternal"

bell hooks, "Overcoming White Supremacy: A Comment"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

"...decolonization is not accountable to settlers, or settler futurity. Decolonization is accountable to Indigenous sovereignty and futurity."

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references made:

"Oprah with Meghan and Harry" (2021)

The Iliad, The Aeneid, The Odyssey

Hera (Juno), Artemis, the Minotaur, Medusa, Perseus, Argus, Io

"Autobiography of Red" (Anne Carson)

"The Song of Achilles" (Madeline Miller)

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Week 1, April 2021: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang, "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor"

Jan C. Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel, "Decolonization: A Short History; Chapter 2: Nationalism, Late Colonialism, World Wars"

Aimé Césaire, "Discourse on Colonialism"

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

when you're angry, you register 7% of what you hear. 7%!!!

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content warnings: slavery, throughout; 3:00 rape; 36:55 eating disorders

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references made:

Fearing the Black Body (Sabrina Strings)

“Race” and Racism: The Development of Modern Racism in America (Richard J. Perry)

Gone with the Wind (dir. Victor Fleming)

#girlboss

twelve-step programs

The Big Book (Bill W.)

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Week 4, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Resmaa Menakem, "My Grandmother's Hands"

Padraig McAuliffe, "Death and the Maiden as a Mirror Reflecting the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice Policy"

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

huge content warning for the episode entire: sexual violence, rape, victim-blaming, pedophilia, kidnapping, forced marriage

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references made:

Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases

Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Brett Kavanaugh

Gone Girl (dir. David Fincher)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl (ed. John Bertram, Yuri Leving)

Gerald's Game (dir. Mike Flanagan)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)

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Week 3, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr, "Counter-storying Rape"

Kim Elsesser, "Cross-Examination Is Brutal—Is It Time To Consider Restorative Justice In Sexual Assault Cases?"

sujatha baliga, "A Different Path for Confronting Sexual Assault"

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

content warnings: 8:40 suicide

restorative justice practices could disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline at several critical points. that's it, that's the bio

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Week 2, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Robert McClure, "Native American Peacemaking Courts Offer a Model for Reform"

Ann Arnett Ferguson, "Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity"

Annalise Acorn, "Restorative Justice Compared to What?"

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

content warnings: romanticization and glorification of physical/mental illness and eating disorders THROUGHOUT, 12:45 sexual assault / domestic violence

fuck it, here's everything we discuss:

romantic agony ~ cult of thinness ~ talk therapy (modality) ~ Sigmund Freud ~ repressed memories ~ romanticizing mental illness ~ white women's tears ~ "i'm not like other girls" ~ audrey hepburn ~ body ideals during the great depression ~ @yourfatfriend ~ fatphobia ~ Penny Dreadful (Showtime) ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) ~ The Queen's Gambit (Netflix) ~ "phoenix from the ashes" abuse narrative ~ Bridgerton (Netflix) ~ colorblind casting ~ Satanic Panic

Week 1, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Susan Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor"

Eva Illouz, "Triumphant Suffering"

Bessel van der Kolk, "The Body Keeps the Score"

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

#champagneproblems except not really, women going unloved and neglected is a pandemic unto itself. anyway, we discuss heterosexuality & how it thrusts gender relations, the orgasm gap, and queer love into harsh detail #menarefrommars #andtheyshouldgoback

Week 4, February 2021: "Love's Truths" #ReadCommunity

Victor Karandashev, "Romantic Love Ideals in Modern America and Europe"

Pantéa Farvid, "Oh It Was Good Sex!"

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Stevi Jackson, "Love, Social Change, and Everyday Heterosexuality"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

what's a policy of LOVE (not just of equity, justice, fairness)? student loan forgiveness, eichler's homes, & planned parenthood, we think.

what seems a policy of love, but really does the bare minimum? public parks & daca, we think.

references made in this episode:

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, "Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire"

Nancy Fraser, integrated theory of justice

Sara Ahmed, feminist killjoy

"Mad Men," Season 7, Episode 14, "Person to Person"

Week 3, February 2021: "Love's Truths" #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Eleanor Wilkinson, "A Feminist Critique of Love as a Political Concept"

bell hooks, "Community: Loving Communion"

Kathleen Lynch, "Why Love, Care, and Solidarity are Political Matters"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

we are v sorry for this weird ass framing and some audio blips 💀 hope you enjoy anyway

references made in this episode:

tikkun.org

Susan Sontag, "As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980"

We're Not Really Strangers

Michel Foucault, the Panopticon

"Legally Blonde" (2001)

"Mad Men," Season 2 Episode 6, "Maidenform"

Week 2, February 2021: "Love's Truths" #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Victor Karandashev, "Romantic Love in Cultural Contexts"

John Matteson, "One Way Greta Gerwig’s ‘Little Women’ Film Is Radical"

Michael Lerner, "To Change a Society, You Must Respect Its People"

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

we talk 

teaching men to love 🙄 

mothering ourselves 🤰 

being intentionally selfless/selfish 💔 

using love languages, but on ourselves 💌  

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Week 1, February 2021: "Love's Truths" #ReadCommunity  

This week, we're reading the following: 

bell hooks: "All About Love" 

Audre Lorde: "A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer" 

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗  

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark