As a woman, I’ve been acutely aware of my gender from a very young age. While I’ve tried my best to defy the unspoken rules of womanhood, I’ve found myself constantly falling into the pitfalls that accompany it. I’ve been the first to apologize even when an apology is not needed, the first to worry my tone might come across as rude and the first to shrink myself to not take up the space that is rightfully mine.
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ArtCity: Coming of age at the Woodstock Art Gallery
Summer student Macy LeConte shares her gratitude for what she learned working as a communications assistant at the Woodstock Art Gallery
The head of education, Stephanie Porter, pushed back on everyone’s apologies. As women, we’ve been taught to always apologize, but Stephanie questioned that and encouraged all the students to re-examine why we felt the need to constantly apologize. Jessica Benjak-Waterous, our former head of collections, encouraged me to pursue all my interests, and that you don’t need to be defined by one singular thing. Sara Cuthbert, gallery operations co=ordinator, taught me to trust my instinct — that “Spidey sense” as she called it — that all women have, that we all too often regret not taking seriously.
When I began writing this piece, I was 19 and now, as I finish it, I’ve turned 20. That time between 18 and 20 is tricky. You’re treated like an adult, and expected to take on the challenges that come with being one, but you’ve never felt less prepared for anything. But the more I reflect on my time with the gallery, the more I realize how ready I am for this next chapter in my life.
Even as I head back to school, I know that I will forever carry this summer with me — from learning the ins and outs of a communications job to learning how to take up space in a world that will constantly try to shrink you. I am forever grateful for this job that reaffirmed that I’m on the right career path and for the women at the Woodstock Art Gallery for all that they’ve taught me.
Macy LeConte was the communications assistant for the Woodstock Art Gallery this summer.
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LONDON (AP) — With a few daubs of a paintbrush, the Brontë sisters have got their dots back.
More than eight decades after it was installed, a memorial to the three 19th-century sibling novelists in London’s Westminster Abbey was amended Thursday to restore the diaereses – the two dots over the e in their surname.
The dots — which indicate that the name is pronounced “brontay” rather than “bront” — were omitted when the stone tablet commemorating Charlotte, Emily and Anne was erected in the abbey’s Poets’ Corner in October 1939, just after the outbreak of World War II.
They were restored after Brontë historian Sharon Wright, editor of the Brontë Society Gazette, raised the issue with Dean of Westminster David Hoyle. The abbey asked its stonemason to tap in the dots and its conservator to paint them.
“There’s no paper record for anyone complaining about this or mentioning this, so I just wanted to put it right, really,” Wright said. “These three Yorkshire women deserve their place here, but they also deserve to have their name spelled correctly.”
It’s believed the writers’ Irish father Patrick changed the spelling of his surname from Brunty or Prunty when he went to university in England.
Raised on the wild Yorkshire moors, all three sisters died before they were 40, leaving enduring novels including Charlotte’s “Jane Eyre,” Emily’s “Wuthering Heights” and Anne’s “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.”
Rebecca Yorke, director of the Brontë Society, welcomed the restoration.
“As the Brontës and their work are loved and respected all over the world, it’s entirely appropriate that their name is spelled correctly on their memorial,” she said.
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