September 2010
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“Aesthetic Sister” reminded me of my note on the Carolee Schneeman piece at MoMA, which reads, “Lisa Suckdog.”
JUST SAYING.
Bonus info! Tomorrow I am rejiggering how my Twitter and Tumblr and blog interact with one another. It will be very exciting. Also I am taking my cat to the vet and writing a story about superheroes and launching a fund drive for the Sarah grant....
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“Aesthetic Sister”
– I came across this term today in something whateverjeanne posted about Carolee Schneeman and Ana Mendieta and I am feeling it very strongly. Aesthetic Sisters, Rebel Sisters, Revolutionary Sisters.
“for me, zines are not about creating ‘good literature’ though i do believe they...”
– from Clementine’s excellent post on zine elitism
Two Endless Months
“This is what is meant by a purple twilight. Lamps alight, small round lights, each in place, shedding no radiance, white day lingering on the stone pillars of the great crescent, the park railings distinct, the trees shrouded but looming very large and permanent, the air wide and high and purple, darkness alight and warm. Far, far away beyond the lengths of two endless months is Christmas....
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“Kicking ass should be only where an ass is protecting the System. Ass-kicking...”
– Flo Kennedy, from her essay “Institutionalized Oppression Versus the Female” in Sisterhood Is Powerful
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Fighting the Power on Fire Island
From Flo Kennedy’s obituary in the New York Times:
In 1969, she helped represent 21 Black Panthers on trial in Manhattan for conspiracy to commit bombings, among other things. They were eventually acquitted, but during the trial she used them for another purpose.
She and Ms. Goodman, not then a judge, and others were renting a house on Fire Island. They decided to take the Panthers to...
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“So what I’m saying to you now is use your powers: your body power, your...”
– Flo Kennedy
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“The spending of our tax dollars by the Pentagon represents the greatest social...”
– Flo Kennedy, founder of the Feminist Party.
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Against Essentialism
factory culture has created generational community illness that we believe is *inherently* working class humanity. we snarl and call them idiots and we say they *deserve* what they get and if they don’t like they can find another place to work. —bfp
Think of the other ways we diagnose communities, assuming their characteristics come from within, rather than as a response to the larger...
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I Am Totally Getting Kara This
I just think wearing a clit sweater to lady-art class would be very now.
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“I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian...”
– Coretta Scott King (via queerwatch)
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YOUR INNER PRIZE
Project Envision is a pilot program working to end sexual violence by working with communities to identify their specific issues and address prevention, awareness, and resources for victims of sexual violence.
It is part of a six-year citywide plan from the New York Alliance Against Sexual Assault. The initial phase is focusing on three communities: South Bronx, Lower East Side, and...
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“I would like to get in bed and pretend it isn’t happening, yet I wish...”
– Once again, Christina Kelly is in my head.
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“People claiming Paglia is a feminist is honestly more infuriating than people...”
– Although Palin is more of an immediate threat to feminists and non-feminists alike.
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Representing for the Represented
I was psyched to see that Kathleen liked Sara’s book. (Honestly I can’t think of any book or movie about a scene I was part of that I didn’t have issues with.) I thought it was terrific: carefully researched and beautifully written. Sara came at this as a historian, a participant, a fan, and a musician—a difficult trick to pull off and I think she was successful. As a...
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The New Blinderism
spiers:
Do I believe that sexism exists in modern workplace? Yes. But I don’t worry about it, because if someone actually decides they don’t want to work with me simply because I’m a woman, they’re saving me the trouble of working with an idiot. It’s an automatic moron screener. And in the long run, those people will find that their careers and their lives have suffered for never having worked...
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"why isnt there any vag art?"
karaj:
“is it because most of this work is from the permanent collection?”
mikki asked this smart question last night while contemplating some of the tamer works by hannah wilke and judy chicago at shifting the gaze. maybe the jewish museum is kind of conservative in their acquisitions? sort of like the mother who told her daughter that women needed to excel in painting if they were ever to be...
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I Am in Artist-Love with Mary Walling Blackburn
Above: “Dormitory in June: Iran”
Our Bad Relationship: The Revolutionary + the Policeman
On May 13, 1985, after shooting 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the house, the Philadelphia police force dropped a bomb on 6221 Osage Avenue. Eleven people died in the resulting fire, including five children and many city blocks were subsequently destroyed . MOVE, the targeted community,...
“I think this demonstrates that women have become today’s front soldiers. And as...”
– Margo Wallstrom, special representative on sexual violence and conflict with the United Nations - In Congo, Attitudes About Rape as a Weapon Remain Tough to Change (via headphonesnotrequired)
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