appreciate this and you. I am reminded that all tyrants fall, someday. lets make it sooner rather than later this time...and if there are sparkles and queer power mixed in, so be it.
Really love this! People who call fashion and art 'frivolous' in these times forget that creativity has always been how we make statements of our humanity. They're as needed now as ever, and you explain why so beautifully.
Thank you! When I need this reminder, I also like to visit Isa Segalovich's (InterstellarIsabellar) gorgeous TikTok series on German tracht, and how erasing cultural identities through traditional clothing across Germany to present a "unified" nation under the most Aryan form of the Bavarian Dirndl WAS A FACIST STRATEGY. Not only do I find joy in my clothes, I have political power with them. Lately, as I've reached out to join various mending communities, I've also found hyper local community. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Well said! Thank you for the much needed pep talk! I will continue to resist by thrifting and making my own clothing and by finding personal joy putting together my daily outfits. I’ve made a pledge this week to call my representatives every day and I have honored that, but the strength to do this (I was super nervous!) has come from the confidence that I’ve given myself by taking the time to find my authenticity through dress.
Thanks for writing this. Fashion, like any art form, has the capacity to “comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. I know I can dress myself in ways that signal resistance to some and a potential safe space to others, and that is what I strive to do.
It's like you live in my brain!!! Your posts never not amaze me with the way you think and write!! This is what's been on my, and likely many others, mind lately. Thank you for writing about it.
this was so good! i wrote something too in a similar vein because this is so top of mind. i really love the direction you took with this in connecting conservatism's influence on style -- def seeing that with tradwives and momtok being at the forefront of culture.
loved this:
"They want you to be quiet. Shut the fuck up and stop thinking. Stop learning. Stop thinking for yourself and CERTAINLY stop dressing for yourself.
I won’t comply."
hell yes to fighting back in small ways like thrifting and buying secondhand. i'm going to be thinking about these lines and this essay for a while.
appreciate this and you. I am reminded that all tyrants fall, someday. lets make it sooner rather than later this time...and if there are sparkles and queer power mixed in, so be it.
reject fascism, reject the aesthetics of fascism, make it clear how ridiculous they really are at their core.
Really love this! People who call fashion and art 'frivolous' in these times forget that creativity has always been how we make statements of our humanity. They're as needed now as ever, and you explain why so beautifully.
SAY THIS AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK!
Thank you! When I need this reminder, I also like to visit Isa Segalovich's (InterstellarIsabellar) gorgeous TikTok series on German tracht, and how erasing cultural identities through traditional clothing across Germany to present a "unified" nation under the most Aryan form of the Bavarian Dirndl WAS A FACIST STRATEGY. Not only do I find joy in my clothes, I have political power with them. Lately, as I've reached out to join various mending communities, I've also found hyper local community. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Well said! Thank you for the much needed pep talk! I will continue to resist by thrifting and making my own clothing and by finding personal joy putting together my daily outfits. I’ve made a pledge this week to call my representatives every day and I have honored that, but the strength to do this (I was super nervous!) has come from the confidence that I’ve given myself by taking the time to find my authenticity through dress.
This is so well said, thank you 🙏
Thank you for this
Mandy, your vulnerability is a gift. Thank you for sharing; unedited and all. I feel scared too.
I love you !!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful and necessary
Thanks for writing this. Fashion, like any art form, has the capacity to “comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. I know I can dress myself in ways that signal resistance to some and a potential safe space to others, and that is what I strive to do.
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It's like you live in my brain!!! Your posts never not amaze me with the way you think and write!! This is what's been on my, and likely many others, mind lately. Thank you for writing about it.
This was the first article I’ve read of yours. I immediately subscribed. Thank you for this.
this was so good! i wrote something too in a similar vein because this is so top of mind. i really love the direction you took with this in connecting conservatism's influence on style -- def seeing that with tradwives and momtok being at the forefront of culture.
loved this:
"They want you to be quiet. Shut the fuck up and stop thinking. Stop learning. Stop thinking for yourself and CERTAINLY stop dressing for yourself.
I won’t comply."
hell yes to fighting back in small ways like thrifting and buying secondhand. i'm going to be thinking about these lines and this essay for a while.
Beautiful writing and honest writing. Keep it coming please.