Aliciaavram

“We know that morality does actually need remote and general standards, and must sometimes demand actions which no reasonable person at the time would consider. We know that a morality which never shocks anybody dwindles into etiquette. … All the same, ideals which nobody can translate into action are wasted.”

— Mary Midgley, Animals and Why They Matter, 9

“You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am”

— Immanuel Kant

Abbas Kiarostami, from “A Wolf Lying in Wait; Poems,” published c. 2015

“When someone doesn’t love you, it makes you think, ‘why?’… Your brain goes to all these different places”

“It’s painful to love somebody who doesn’t love you back.”

bury a friend

when i was a little girl i wanted to be harry potter. not hermione, i did loved her, but i wanted to be harry. the hero, the chosen one, the special one. when i saw star wars, i wanted to be luke skywalker. the gentle hero, the beacon of hope. when i saw iron man, i wanted to be tony stark. the one that learns from his mistakes and works on being a better version of himself.

i didn’t need to be a boy to be able to feel powerful and inspired by their stories. when i saw wonder woman, and when i now see captain marvel, i feel capable, powerful. i feel like kindness, empathy, wit, perseverance, all traditionally feminine traits, are all qualities that define a hero. i love that they’re women. but that’s only a part of what makes them powerful.

when men say they can’t relate to ww or cm, they are the problem. i see heroes. i see role models. if i see steve rogers and i see a hero, but they can only see carol danvers from a distance and as a pair of boobs, they are the problem.

let’s not pretend otherwise. they need to learn that heroes come in all genders, shapes and sizes. it’s time to tell their stories. it’s time to teach little boys to love heroes like captain marvel, the same way i loved harry potter.

//More eqaulity. More hope. More humanity. More pride. More acceptance. More love.//

Stand with humanity