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Films by directors who are women or gay men:The Substance (2024) by Coralie FargeatWith Demi MooreVagabond (1985) by Agnes VardaLe Bonheur (1965) by Agnes VardaQueer (2024) William Burroughs. By Luca Guadagnino (gay)With Daniel Craig"Junk is a cellular equation that teaches the user facts of general validity. I have learned a great deal from using junk: I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonising deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle. Perhaps all pleasure is relief. I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immobile in separate misery. They knew the pointlessness of complaining or moving. They knew that basically no one can help anyone else. There is no key, no secret someone else has that he can give you.I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life." -Junky, Prologue (by William Burroughs)The Nature of Love by Monia Chokri· French-Canadian film about a blue-collar construction guy, and a philosophy professorThis Closeness (2023) by Kit Zauhar· A couple renting an airbnb place where the host is awkwardActual People (2021) by Kit Zauhar· Philosophy college student's last semester· Brita sceneParallel Mothers (2021) by Pedro Almodovar (gay)· Two mothers giving birth the same day· Babies swapped? Or not?Carol (2015) by Todd Haynes (gay)With Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara· based on Patrica Highsmith’s The Price of SaltThings to Come (2016) by Mia Hansen-LoveWith Isabelle Huppert· Middle-aged philosophy professor, husband cheating, ParisShiva Baby (2020) by Emma SeligmanBarbie (2023) by Greta GerwigHonourable mentionsCompartment No.6 (2021) by Juho KuosmanenMothers’ Instinct (2024)by Benoît DelhommePowered by Firstory Hosting

I give a new theory on feminism and my new perspective of it. I explain what is "unfeminist," a "Mario" way of thinking, a "relationship-based" of thinking. I also explain what is my version of feminism and why it's important to live in a feminist matter.Powered by Firstory Hosting

Really triggered recently and started reading the book, Set boundaries, find peace by Nedra Glover TawwabThe quote by Toni Morrison:“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”-Lecture in Portland, Oregon, 1975Powered by Firstory Hosting

I talk about my lowkey conflicting feelings about the election, tourist traps, misogyny, and the VERY FILMY NATURE OF THE SOCIAL FABRIC, or rather, the social hole. Also some (non-)insights on marriage and its meaning, if any.Book mentioned: Kate Manne's Down GirlPowered by Firstory Hosting