sailorfish [she/her]

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Cake day: July 30th, 2020

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  • sailorfish [she/her]toem_poc*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Jason Brown is a fucking genius!!

    Watching men's figure skating is slightly less intense for me because my only real fave is Jason and he's never gonna win anything lol... I'm so nervous about the women's free programme tomorrow!!


  • sailorfish [she/her]tonews*Permanently Deleted*
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    4 years ago

    Woooooh world figure skating championships on!!!!

    Women's and pair's short program was on today. My fave failed miserably but what can you do :') Tomorrow - men's and ice dancing. Be there or be square :D










  • I moved out at 18 for uni - moved country actually, and then moved again for my Master's and then my PhD. Then the pandemic hit a few months into my PhD and tbh the thought of staying in a city where I barely know anyone, doing home office the whole time because we're heavily discouraged to come in, while freaking out about the border between me and my family potentially/partially closing, was dreadful to me. So I'm at my parents' right now and while we get on each others nerves, it's actually really nice altogether. I missed them! Plus I can hang out with my siblings, who live only 20 minutes away by bus. Missed them too. I'll move back to my uni city in autumn, but for now and especially during the pandemic, I'm happy to be where I am. Being expected to make it alone is a very Anglo thing to me lol. (Though ofc it's different if the family is bigoted etc.)




  • I read Rowbotham's Resistance, Women, and Revolution a few years ago and can't vouch for it completely, but her chapter on women pre and post Russian revolution rang very true to me when I look at my female relatives and gender norms in our family (we're all Soviet/post-Soviet). This chapter is available online here, though I don't remember if it's in any way abridged.

    I assume Kristin Ghodsee's Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism goes into it at least a bit too, as she's a professor of Russian and Eastern European studies, but I haven't read it yet, so can't promise anything.

    While it's highly specific, I would recommend checking out Svetlana Alexievich's The Unwomanly Face of War, which is an oral history of Soviet women fighting on the Eastern Front. It implicitly shows the mentality of Soviet women, as well as how they were treated by their comrades, the higher-ups, and the population when they returned during peace.

    My own very brief observations: no housewives here, most women worked full-time. It's just that then they went home to a "second shift" - to cook and clean and take care of the children.

    What did your friends not believe?