today i read

{nikki lee for medium.com}

* ride like a girl

maybe this is why my blood boils when I talk about bike vs car infrastructure etc... maybe it is a little too much of the same... well. yes maybe.

saved my life

do you know how hard this has been? DO YOU? waiting till MONDAY with a new ROBYN video?!

so hard, guys. but i did it. and here we are. tiny-boy-robyn is the bomb. (old song, new video.)



happy monday, dancing childrens!

ff

BODY BREAK!

with the mudder and all, i'm feeling big time physical-fit, and so i thought this would be a good week to think about bodies and how we women are told to use them. we've talked about it before, surely. strength vs size vs function and so on. i don't want to get all repetitive up in here. but! there's a new resource out there in internet-land talking to women about fitness!

"We, the Ms. Fits, believe that living consciously includes being conscious of the world outside of the yoga or Pilates studio and that our wellness also depends on the wellness of the earth and everyone on the earth;  We believe that reproductive rights are human rights, and all girls and women deserve access to healthy food and active play, and that strong women kick ass."

{a bit of the ms. fit manifesto}

I haven't gotten through a tonne of ms. fit magazine's content yet, but i'm excited about what i've seen so far.  they cover a lot of ground, from sports news to ask-a-feminist-sex-questions to recipes to running and yoga and martial arts annnnnd... how 'bout an article about the post-baby-body that isn't just about how you can lose the baby weight?

so that is great.

and!

we have a feminist of the week today. my boss. my boss has a son who turned 4 this week. my boss was super-excitedly telling us about the celebrations he had planned. and how he had spent a night putting together the brand new, all pink, tasseled bike that his son had asked for. it has belle on it. from beauty and the beast. my boss didn't try to convince his son to pick a different bike. a red or blue or black or yellow bike. a spiderman or prince charming bike or even a beast-from-beauty-and-the-beast bike. he didn't teach his son that there was something wrong with wanting that pink belle bike. he got him that bike and it is just the best thing i've heard in ages. i maybe got just a little teary when he told us.

go to the woods

fairytales are dark shit, and this vivienne westwood certainly works for that. and with all the shows about fairytales happening in the 'real world' these days, it's very timely.

i love love love the makeup. so rosy and bright, but eerie. flushed. and the vibrant but somehow dark colours. maybe it's the lighting. good lighting.

and. yes, let's put a bike on the runway! yes let's! that's for readers of thisishooper who stumble over here accidentally.  you're welcome! (the face that model is making is absolute perfection. maybe that's a weird thing to say. but. i love it. love it. love her.)

finally. DRAW ON YOUR KNEE SOCKS!

{fall vivienne westwood 2012, photos by alessandro viero at gorunway.com by way of style.com}