When I was a child, I used to hear people use capable and incapable to describe women a lot.
A capable woman took care of the house, the kids and the husband, how the food tasted (always impeccable and always fresh), how she looked (always impeccable and always fresh) and what the exterior of her life looked like (always impeccable).
An incapable woman struggled at taking care of the house, the kids and the husband, how the food tasted (always off the mark), how she looked (always off the mark) and what the exterior of her life looked like (once again, off the mark. Not perfect.)
In my 30’s, I am beginning to see what an absolutely maddening lie this is, designed to pit women against each other. We’re so busy judging each other, we forget that all of us are still fighting for the same things - a little piece of the sky for ourselves, a little skip in our walk, a little doing and feeling on our own instead of being told what to do.
A capable woman is one who knows exactly what she is, what she wants out of her life and knows how to get there, no matter what it is. An incapable woman is one who is making excuses about herself and others, doesn’t know who she is or where she wants to go and has no idea how to get to a place that she likes being in. That’s all.
If you know me already, you know that I live and breathe the intersection of culture and marketing. This caught my attention today:
Araçuaí is a small city in Jequitinhonha Valley, one of Brazil's most impoverished regions. Jequitinhonha Valley has a long history of hunger and water scarcity, earning it the unfortunate nickname of “the Valley of Misery.” Recently, however, the region has received a new name in political speeches and corporate communiques around the world: Lithium Valley.
A stunning read by NACLA documenting the social, ecological and economic impact of unfettered lithium mining in Brazil.