by Liz Heather in

“Hillary Clinton swallowed slander and humiliation and irrational hatred for three decades and she didn’t quit, and here she was, just a hair’s breadth from the presidency of the United States — the first woman ever to be trusted with the rudder of the world. It made me cry.

I cried because I want my daughters to feel that blazing pride, that affirmation of their boundless capacity — not from their husbands, but from their world, from the atmosphere, from inviolable wells of certainty inside themselves. I cried because it’s not fair, and I’m so tired, and every woman I know is so tired. I cried because I don’t even know what it feels like to be taken seriously — not fully, not in that whole, unequivocal, confident way that’s native to handshakes between men. I cried because it does things to you to always come second.

Whatever your personal opinion of the Clintons, as politicians or as human beings, that dynamic is real. We, as a culture, do not take women seriously on a profound level. We do not believe women. We do not trust women. We do not like women.

I understand that many men cannot see it, and plenty more do not care. I know that many men will read this and laugh, or become defensive, or call me hysterical, or worse, and that’s fine. I am used to it. It doesn’t make me wrong.”
— Lindy West

Martin Creed Exhibit at the Park Avenue Armory

by Liz Heather in

I finally made my way to the Park Avenue Armory - AND I'M SO GLAD I WENT! Here's what's on display there right now.

Yeah, it's literally a room full of white balloons that you get to walk through. Why? For art, I'm assuming. In any case, it was a well spent afternoon. And the rest of the exhibits on display were actually pretty neat, too. Go, go, go! Definitely the most fun you'll have at any museum in NYC right now.