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09/26/2026

09/20/2026

Even the most repressed woman has a secret life, with secret thoughts and secret feelings which are lush and wild, that is, natural.

Even the most captured woman guards the place of the wildish self, for she knows intuitively that someday there will be a loophole, an aperture, a chance, and she will hightail it to escape.

~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from Women Who Run With the Wolves

Art by Annelie Solis, “Wild Woman”

09/16/2026

Funny how patr!archy calls daughters the “end” of a family line, while biology tells a different story. A daughter carries and passes on mitochondrial DNA through generations. Sometimes the “family line” was never as simple as they made it sound. 🧬✨

09/14/2026

Alanis Morissette 🌹

09/07/2026

At Miss World 2026, Uganda’s Trivia Elle Muhoza walked the stage wearing “Layers of Life” — a gown inspired by the seven layers involved in a C-section.
Designed by Keesha Abdallah, the gown transformed the anatomy of childbirth into couture.
It wasn’t just fashion.
It was a tribute to motherhood, childbirth, and everything a woman’s body goes through to bring life into the world. ❤️

05/28/2026

“Muscle and Milk" captures a powerful truth about modern motherhood: strength and caregiving are not opposites, they coexist.

Photographed by husband-and-wife duo Anita Clark and Paul Wenham-Clarke and shortlisted for both the 2025 AOP Open Awards and the Sony World Photography Awards, the image features three rugby players breastfeeding their babies moments after finishing a match. The result is both striking and deeply human. A portrait of women refusing to choose between ambition, athleticism, and motherhood.

05/27/2026

At first glance, Victor Marais-Milton’s L’intrigant (“The Plotter”) seems playful and almost comedic, but the longer I look at it, the more unsettling it becomes.

The scattered objects on the floor, especially the overturned knitting basket and the single red heel, make the scene feel less like harmless flirtation and more like the aftermath of a frantic struggle.

What I find especially disturbing is how the intruder is reduced to little more than a ring covered hand forcing its way into the room. It almost feels symbolic, as if wealth and social status are being used to bypass consent.

The woman pouring the water is the most ambiguous part of the painting. She appears to be smiling, but it is impossible to tell whether the act is playful, mocking, or done out of desperation to ward the intruder off. Even the water itself feels uncertain, whether it is harmless or boiling.

What makes the painting so effective to me is that it never fully commits to either comedy or menace. It constantly shifts between the two, which makes the entire scene feel psychologically uncomfortable in a way that lingers long after looking at it.