Woman's Work - Tumblr Posts

Honestly, its kinda hard to find anything beyond the skills themselves appealing for me. Like, while the conflation of domestic tasks with femininity is common historically, in my experience its not what those around me actually concerned themselves with, as far as adequate (or inadequate) gender expression as a child. It really, and sadly was a case of the performance I wasn't doing rather then skills I might fail to obtain, and its kinda strange that the media language around these roles hasn't changed even though the attitudes around it have shifted in some pretty incomprehensible ways.

Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

Maxwell- This Woman’s Work (Live)

this is literally the voice of an angel.