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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 8h

It is not a Riddari! It's a Lausavisa ♥️

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 9h

You've not seen my new hair cut 😵

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 9h

I also want to add that this is what white cis privilege looks like. I have the privilege to choose this for myself. Others do not possess this privilege to reject.

If you enjoy my thread, I want you to think about what it means not being able to choose but having that choice thrust upon you.

Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I am someone with blue hair and a rose ring. This is empowering on a daily basis.

It is the power to reject societal expectations of what "pretty femininity" looks like; it is power to sit in my own Self without catering to the male gaze.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 13h

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 9h

My friends, a gift.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 10h

You know what, let's do the Annual Mister Global National Costume thread tonight after all. Usual rules apply - this is all in fun, this isn't about the contestants looks or making fun of them, it's about the costumes and appreciating them (or, you know, making fun of them...)

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 10h

I AM DARKNESS

AlTheColorsOfTheDark💀🦇🪦 @afizgig.bsky.social · 16h

#DailyBat 🖤🦇🖤

A photo of a tiny bat on someone's finger.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly this.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 10h

Diane Keaton, 'First Wives Club' and 'Annie Hall' Star, Dies at 79 share.google/JVz38bNFoqUP...

Diane Keaton, 'First Wives Club' and 'Annie Hall' Star, Dies at 79

The actress' family confirmed the news to People

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

So.

My outward presentation is carefully calibrated to be a mix of confusing signals.

If you follow me, you know that I think hard about clothes and design.

Blue hair and nose ring? Never intended to be cool or pretty. Just me trying to exist in a world that wants to control women's bodies.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I will add that in the last week I've had experienced two separate counts of verbal harassment based entirely on my appearance.

Not leaning into traditional pretty femininity? It does seem to trigger some *people because they feel entitled to a certain gender presentation on my part.

*men.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I always know it is time to refresh my hair colour when I start being approached in public (when I'm not at work).

And if you are someone who doesn't understand why I'm so affronted by being approached: it is genuinely exhausting.

SO exhausting.

INCREDIBLY EXHAUSTING.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I am naturally quite assertive. When I looked conventionally "pretty and feminine" I often got indulgent chuckles back as a response.

Now *people listen to my words without verbally tickling me under my chin.

*men

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

Going from "pretty femininity" to blue hair & nose ring? The biggest difference is that I get left the fuck alone.

I don't have *strangers coming up to me, touching my shoulder and telling me to remove my headphones because they need to talk to me.

*men.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote a whole blog post about that back in 2018 if you want to read about my initial thoughts about blue hair etc.

www.kariebookish.net/blog/its-a-n...

Clothes Make The Woman - Thoughts on Self-Expression, Making & Wardrobe Choices — Karie Westermann

While I was at Edinburgh Yarn Festival, I met a number of people who exclaimed "I love your new look!" and "it's a new you!" or a variation upon it. So, maybe this is a good time to write about some c...

www.kariebookish.net

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I used to wear 1950s-style dresses with cardigans and have long dark hair I'd style prettily. I saw political parties take that aesthetic & turn it into what I called "cupcake fascism".

I did not want to embody what is now known as tradwife aesthetics.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I am someone with blue hair and a rose ring. This is empowering on a daily basis.

It is the power to reject societal expectations of what "pretty femininity" looks like; it is power to sit in my own Self without catering to the male gaze.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 13h

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 11h

I am someone with blue hair and a nose ring. I feel it is empowering on a daily basis.

It is the power to reject societal expectations of what "pretty femininity" looks like; it is the power to sit in my own Self without catering to the male gaze.

And it doesn't matter if you can see it.

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Spooky Scary Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 13h

I hope H from Steps is breathing a sigh of relief today

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · 12h

PSA for Jean Rhys fans!

If you’re in London, get yourself along to the POSTURES: JEAN RHYS IN THE MODERN WORLD exhibition at the Michael Werner Gallery in Mayfair, which includes various artworks in conversation with Rhys’ books.

I especially loved these pieces by Celia Paul & Gwen John. 💙📚

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 15h

Beautiful, strange, and oddly affecting.

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917) — The Public Domain Review share.google/gTNGbF7itAcI...

A Family Tree: Hippolyte Hodeau’s Trench Art (ca. 1917)

A form of WWI trench art in which soldiers carved names and images into leaves.

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AAAAH-riadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 16h

"He even went for a carvery on the third day, before finishing the bag for dessert.

The next day - Monday - the HGV driver was sweating profusely and "did not feel right", but put it down to the pork he ate."

I love him, just the most diabolical himbo energy.

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Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 16h

People say that James Joyce is difficult to read. Sure.

But you should still read his short story The Dead which is accessible as heck. It's also some of the most beautiful and devastating prose ever written in English.

Just read The Dead by James Joyce. Do it.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 17h

‘His soul swooned slowly as he heard the
snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the
living and the dead.’ ~
James Joyce , The Dead. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Winter landscape, Pekka Halonen.

Winter Landscape of snow and trees, painting.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 19h

okay who did this?

A display of wild swimming books. At the bottom of the display, under all the other books is a copy of JAWS by Peter Benchley.

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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 3d

Today we take a look at one of our favorites - and the oldest codex in Philadelphia! LJS 101 is a 9th and 11th century translation of Aristotle's De interpretatione (by Boethius) with some additional texts. #medievalsky

🔗: https://bit.ly/43ayh61

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