{"id":23397,"date":"2013-10-19T00:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T00:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/19\/but-natasha-is-the-only-one-who-mines-her-own\/"},"modified":"2013-10-19T00:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-19T00:04:35","slug":"but-natasha-is-the-only-one-who-mines-her-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/19\/but-natasha-is-the-only-one-who-mines-her-own\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But Natasha is the only one who mines her own vulnerability. She\u2019s the only one who makes it into a performance. And there\u2019s something radical in acknowledging that feminine vulnerability as a performative, as something fake we are taught to expect and to mimic. That can be our superpower. We can be strong in ways men never will be because we face bullshit they will never have to face. That\u2019s not justice, but it is power. It is strength. It\u2019s control.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/fuckyeahblackwidow.tumblr.com\/post\/23280543974\/control-or-do-you-really-think-im-pretty\">this super great essay about black widow and feminism<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/helio-phile.tumblr.com\/\">helio-phile<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Natasha is the only one who mines her own vulnerability. She\u2019s the only one who makes it into a performance. And there\u2019s something radical in acknowledging that feminine vulnerability as a performative, as something fake we are taught to expect and to mimic. That can be our superpower. We can be strong in ways &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/10\/19\/but-natasha-is-the-only-one-who-mines-her-own\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2805,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}