I'm shannon, I'm 20, I live in newcastle australia and study social science with a major in gender studies. I mostly post political stuff, some fashion stuff, some art stuff, a lot of unnecessary bullet point lists and recounts of the behaviour that I regrettably subject others to when I've been drinking. try not to fall in love with me.
trigger warning for discussion of rape culture, sexual violence, racism, cissexism, heterosexism, etc.
"Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yet, God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night…"