Miranda July

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I used to think I was the only one

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Emily Wells

Frederick Film Festival Friday night <3
This surpassed Sunday as best night of my life.

Emily Wells

Sunday night at Ace Hotel NYC <3 <3 <3
Arguably the best night of my life.

S&M

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Sara

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Stoya

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Sex is a

much bigger part of what we want than most of us will admit.

Dolly Parton

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I want to be sexual. I am sexual. I love being sexual.

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Emily Wells

Black Cat Saturday night <3

Elana

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La Roux

from November 7 at Rams Head Live <3

Minzy

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Angelina Jolie

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Marnie Stern

Don’t you hate

it when you get all dolled up, you do your hair, with hairspray and everything, and you even used some of that make-up you have so much of but never use, and you think maybe you’ll take pictures, and you try and you try, but it all looks and feels so stupid and so wrong but then you realize that you are almost 27 years old and you aren’t that girl from 7, 5, even 2 years ago, and these are not the sort of pictures you take anymore. You realize it’s hard to play dress up, it’s hard to be anyone but yourself anymore; as if you’ve settled into your mold and grown into all the different parts of you that always existed waiting for you to fill them out. You are not the girl who wears make-up, uses hairspray, and tries on all the clothes she never wears anymore; you are the woman who lets her hair be itself, (though now she uses very expensive shampoo), you are the woman who puts on mascara when she remembers it, you are the woman who is most comfortable wearing nothing at all. Like right now. Because after all that frustration, disappointment, Solomon Burke on repeat, realization, and then reassurance, you needed to take a shower. Don’t you just love that?
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I just deleted your number from my phone

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Florence Welch

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We also discussed

the possibility of my testifying to the reasons I make these kinds of films. I think this imagery is important as a contrast to the majority of mainstream representation of women's sexuality. The prevailing message women receive is that sexual aggression is unfeminine, that a woman's primary sexual role is as regulator of male desire — to say yes or no, but not to pursue desires of our own. Women are still often taught that sexy is the same as "pretty," that it means dressing a certain way and then waiting to be approached. These films show women being sexually aggressive and powerful in a way that sometimes isn't pretty, but is definitely sexy.

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I also don't think you can take imagery out of context and say that it has inherent meaning — any interpretation of an image has to do with the social and cultural context in which it's viewed. If we lived in a society in which women's sexuality was celebrated, and was seen as usually proactive rather than usually passive, I don't think people would jump so quickly to the concepts of exploitation and dehumanization when they thought of female performers.

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Ellen Page

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