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How To Respond When Your Emotions Are Invalidated ✨

Keep Your Cool: Before you respond, make sure you're feeling calm and collected. It helps you talk things out better.

Use "I" Statements: Share your feelings using phrases that start with "I" to avoid sounding like you're blaming them. Example: "I felt hurt when you said that my feelings don't matter."

Explain the Situation: Tell them what exactly happened or what they said that made you feel invalidated. Example: "When you brushed off my concerns, it felt like you didn't care about what I think."

Share Your Emotions: Describe how their actions or words made you feel. Example: "It left me feeling frustrated and like you weren't listening."

Ask for Understanding: Request that they try to see things from your perspective and acknowledge how you're feeling. Example: "Could you try to understand where I'm coming from and why I'm upset?"

Set Boundaries: If needed, let them know how you want to be treated in the future. Example: "Moving forward, I'd appreciate it if you could take my feelings more seriously."

Stay Calm: Avoid making things worse by staying focused on the issue and not getting into a heated argument. Example: "I don't want to fight; I just want you to understand how your comments affect me."

Encourage a Conversation: Ask them to talk openly and respectfully. Be open to hearing their side as well. Example: "Let's chat about this and try to understand each other better."

Be Patient: Give them time to process what you've said and don't expect an instant change in their behavior. Example: "I know it might take time to make things better, but I hope we can work on this together."

You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must do is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.

Audre Lorde - Sister Outsider: Essays and speeches

Just finished an exam a bit ago, I hope I did well 🩷

"Imagen de Yagul" by Ana Mendieta

"Ecofeminism to save us all (f)", Madrid 2022

The Chipko Movement

“ When their appeals were denied, Bhatt led a group of villagers into the forest and embraced the trees to prevent logging. After many days of agitation, the government canceled the company’s logging permit. The Chipko movement can essentially be called a women’s movement. Women, being solely in charge of cultivation, livestock and children, suffered the most due to floods and landslides, caused due to rise in deforestation in the face of urbanisation. ”

SOURCE :

The Indian Express

What is the Chipko movement?

The Chipko movement can essentially be called a women's movement. Women, being solely in charge of cultivation, livestock and children, lost

"...you can’t solve the problem apart from the problem. You can’t be liberated from male chauvinism if you don’t even deal with it--if you run away from it. And I think forming any separate organization with that in mind is negating or contradicting what you’re setting out to do...simply because of the fact that we are members of the Black Panther Party and are therefore in the vanguard, does not necessarily mean that we can deem ourselves champions of women’s liberation. We believe that male chauvinism must be stomped out, because we have come to realize that it is bourgeois... whether or not we will become champions of women’s liberation, whether or not we’ll be able to provide the example to lead other organizations towards women’s liberation will come thru our practice."

The Complex Jewstory Of Barbie

Barbie, the doll we all know and love. The icon that changed the way girls viewed themselves, an icon to be for many generations including having a HUGE box office! Ain't that something? She was the gift young girls would absolutely BEG their parents to get for them whether it be the holidays or birthdays.

But did you know the doll has very interesting origins? The history of Barbie is one to behold, but is she Jewish? That's the burning question everyone's been asking and the answer is, it's complicated.

Hello tigers and doves on my blog! My name is Aphrodite and today, I will be discussing the complex jewstory of Barbie and answering if Barbie is TRULY the Jewish icon we all need.

But first, let's start alllll the way to the beginning:

Ruth Handler was first born as Ruth Moskowicz on November 4th, 1916.

Ruth was born to a Polish Jewish immigrants in Colorado.

At a young age, age 16 to be exact, Ruth met her future husband, Elliot Handler. They had met at a Jewish youth dance.

Elliot was a artist, he went to art school to pursue his passion. At 22 years old, the pair were married.

Elliot as well as being the creator of Mattel, created Hot Wheels! But I'll get into that another time.

Years passed, the influence from Barbie, came from when Ruth was watching her daughter, Barbara Handler, playing with paper dolls. Noticing how her daughter found most interest in the adult paper dolls instead of the young or baby paper dolls.

Barbara, however, needed inspiration, in 1956, her and her family went on a family trip to Switzerland. A German, adult toy, named Bild Lilli.

There she had it. The perfect inspiration!

3 years later, the year was 1959—

The iconic hips and body shape was presented with her platinum blonde hair.

Barbie was born!

Barbie quickly became an icon for all the young girls across the world, for her body shape and signature face became most iconic.

Now the question still burns :

Is Barbie Jewish ?

The verdict is, it depends! Barbie can be anything or anybody, including Jewish! While Barbie is based on a Jewish woman, it's never explicitly confirmed that she is Jewish (she also has films whereas she's celebrating Christmas)

If you want your Barbie to be Jewish, then she's Jewish!

Barbie can be anyone.

Barbie has the most interesting history I've seen and she'll forever, I say, be iconic.

Thank you so much for reading! I hope you liked this little rant, I've been waiting to make this for so long!

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