Kinfolk Issue Sixteen: The Best Medicine
a series of portraits of people expressing themselves through laughter.
How precious
>>Every time men talk to women they should be thinking “am I making her uncomfortable? is she OK with this? What does she think? am i invading on her personal space? Does she want me to leave? Does she want to be bothered? Is she afraid? Am I stopping her from going somewhere or expressing something? Would I want to be bothered at this time?” Based on women’s actual responses to these things. Not just “is she into me? wait I don’t actually care I’m gonna stand this close, ignore what she says and her body language, and keep talking and walking with her anyway”.
I have an arsenal of “what could this man do to me? how could he overpower me? how could he continue to make me uncomfortable? Why is he ignoring my body language and discomfort? what is the worst thing he could say” questions whenever men come up to me, and men are literally just thinking about what they want from me..