> *'Adversity becomes opportunity. All options "turn damage and deficit into surplus value," yet none of them create real resistance against the structures that produced the damage in the first place. "Resilience is the contemporary update of mourning; instead of conquering damage we recycle it." '* Femininity is constructed through mass market empowerment narratives that focus on suffering and overcoming that suffering. To be a woman then, is to only be allowed to suffer and to be resilient through that suffering. >*'What if she were to use that never-healing hole in her heart as evidence that there was something catastrophically wrong in the world in the first place? What if her solo mourning became mourning in common? What if her mourning became, in the critic and activist Douglas Crimp's words, "a form of militancy?"'* - I think we've seen this happen with the character of Scarlett Witch. A women who shows that something is wrong in the world, is still a women, and if she tries to do something about it other than suffer... Well, then she's just a witch.... ## Sources: - [[Wilk, Elvia (2022) Death By Landscape]]