Good morning,

This week is about identity and clothes and makeup! I hope you enjoy it.

This article is about “made-down” dolls, and circles but I don’t think fully lands the point that: playing is at its most fun when you get to be someone else, whether that's playing with toys or with your own identity:

The idea that we might adopt styles of self-presentation as if in a cultural vacuum, supports the circulation of more insidious gender norms. It presents us with the idea that there is a way to look like a “real” girl.

http://binarythis.com/2015/01/19/the-trouble-with-natural-beauty/

This is an interview with Jill Soloway, creator of “Transparent”. The question highlighted below will never stop being fascinating to me:

Soloway turns to me: "How do you figure out what to wear every day? Do you go through feelings of, like, I don't know how butch to dress, or how femme, or how ladylike, or how much makeup to wear, or how to be fancy?"

http://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a25432/jill-soloway-transparent/

Susan Sontag, one of the finest minds of the 20^th century, enjoying playing with identity:

https://twitter.com/tw_overton/status/556062054713688065

Have a marvellous day,

Alex.