“Feministing writer Jos Truitt puts it, “trans women are disrespected and treated terribly when they don’t pass, but if they do pass they’re called out for upholding the gender binary and cis standards of beauty. It is an impossible bind.”13” — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“The poor and people of color are yoked to the abject; white people use its exploration as a path toward self-liberation. It’s a valid… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“Hence, the policing of the female athlete, who faces the daunting task of maintaining a body strong enough to excel at her sport of… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“To be an unruly woman today is to oscillate between the postures of fearlessness and self-doubt, between listening to the voices that tell a… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when a woman speaks out, some people think it’s shouting”—a” — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“...the difference between cute, acceptable unruliness and unruliness that results in ire is often as simple as the color of a woman's skin, whom… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“She should be assertive but not bossy, feminine but not prissy, experienced but not condescending, fashionable but not superficial, forceful but not shrill. Put… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“Feministing writer Jos Truitt puts it, “trans women are disrespected and treated terribly when they don’t pass, but if they do pass they’re called… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“...a far more palatable - and, in many cases, more successful - form of femininity: the lifestyle supermom...they've built tremendously successful brands by embracing… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“Femininity cloaked power and strength, made it more palatable, less threatening.” — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
“It’s a tendency that reflects the age-old understanding that (white) men can contain multitudes, while members of every other group are pitted against themselves,… — Anne Helen Petersen Copy Share Image
