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Ruqing Z

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  • The strongest writing isn’t born from striving to flawlessly record something the “right” way, but from readiness to expose your real attitude and feelings towards the subject with all their flaws and contradictions. Honesty with readers begins with honesty with yourself.
    Writing Hack: Write It Just Like That
  • My biggest takeaway from The Invisible Sex, was not that our understanding of history needs to be completely re-written. It just needs to be re-gendered, somewhat. Both men and women played essential roles in creating culture, procuring food, and preserving our species. Third gender and other gender identities have also existed in ancient history, and are not a unique phenomena of our modern world (but that’s a topic for another article)! The issue with our interpretation of the past is that since women’s work has been undervalued in the present, so has women’s work been undervalued in the arc…
    What's on the "Venus" of Willendorf's Head? | Hannah, Substack