April 2011
Pro-choice rally tonight in Greenpoint/Williamsburg, to counter an anti-choice rally. http://on.fb.me/glXd0i pls RT
“do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. those coincidental people are...”
– maxine hong kingston, tripmaster monkey¸ 1987
(via karaj)
March 2011
RT @BronxZoosCobra: Does anyone know if the Whole Foods in Columbus Circle sells organic mice?
“No one read my “Jersey Shore” article in Playboy except my trainer, because he was banging the centerfold…” is BEE getting plaintive?
“[W]hile I certainly believe that there shouldn’t be hierarchies of oppression,...”
– Merf. Thinking is Hard.: I just love it that most feminists are up in arms against rape apologism
(lots of other good stuff there, just reblogging this for the challenge—mh)
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"... a cutaway Balenciaga top that draped in the... →
…is not how I would have described this outfit (on Vanessa Traina, below center)
(image: three people in front of a mannequin. Left to right, they are Joseph Altuzarra, Vanessa Traina and Alexander Wang. Vanessa Traina, the woman in the middle of the group, is wearing a bra top that has straps across her torso and low-cut pants. I mean, ok theoretically it is a cutaway top but that is...
Beloved @Jinners has organized two great shows to benefit Japan via GlobalGiving 4/5 & 4/15 http://on.fb.me/hjqUPy, http://on.fb.me/hWipOL
more drama, once again
theaveragedayofme:
ok so this girl has taken advantage of me. i am friends with alot of boys so she keeps making me talk to her crush all the time and she is always being really mean to me and i don’t want to start drama so i do it.
any advice?????
How does she make you talk to her crushes? I think you have to be respectful of your friendship with the boys, and tell her that you don’t...
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“what *could* blogging for gender liberation look like? what *could* social media...”
– bunnehears
PURE LIKE A DIAMOND. Of course, perhaps it doesn’t look like blogging at all.
RT @MarisaMeltzer: My essay on Chapter 23, teenage sex fantasies, and doing math in pen for the Jane Eyre zine: http://bit.ly/egKLwQ
Can only not do a few things at a time. Current ban on cigarettes (10 yrs), drugs (10ish), and sugar (3 wks) is making my ex look great.
For some reason felt compelled to read back to 2001 and see if Fred Durst was as disgusting and hateful as I remember him being. Yep.
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Various Eyresses Updates →
Johanna Fateman: Behind the Hysteria of Male... →
johannafateman:
The first run of the Le Tigre EP “From the Desk of Mr Lady” featured Cathy exasperated on the phone, with a sentence that I wrote in her speech bubble. We got a cease and desist letter for it, so she’s gone from most of the EPs in circulation. But sometimes at early Le Tigre shows I would…
RT @seantroversy: Watching countless hours of reruns of Roseanne makes me feel better about being poor, dumpy, and hilarious.
"NO SEAT IN THIS THEATRE IS MORE THAN SIXTY FEET... →
maura:
um… FIELD TRIP TO LONG ISLAND?!
I’ve only been asking to go to LI with you SINCE NINETEEN NINETY FIVE.
“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”
– Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Here I thought it was the opposite.
“The perils and pitfalls of one’s perception of one’s own prominence.”
– Would be a funny self help book.
“A sea pest’s sting turning promptly into the shark’s neat biting off of a leg because the soul wears a magnifying glass.” = Past 48 hrs
“Katie Roiphe—whose first book, You’re Actually Just a Whore: Raping Doesn’t...”
– Katie Roiphe Better Look Out After School by the Bike Racks | The Awl
Choire is the best feminist of all.
(via michelledean)
Cleaning out office, found vinyl of Bleach. Previous occupant denies ownership—perhaps it just manifested via intense late 80s authenticity.
“I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the...”
– The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Tribal”
– I hear this word so much in the news. Tribal areas, tribal leadership, tribal governance. I’ve heard it used in stories about Libya, Yemen, Pakistan, America, and India, just in the past day or two. No one ever stops to define the term. Is it shorthand for “brown people organized in a...
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Ps when we saw the abandoned compound the first thing Lauren said was “Don’t climb the fence.”
Going on a trip with @luxlotus means never wondering if you should pack a cape.
Supermoon, feminist sex worker talk, 19th-century female utopias, Ma’am’s first show, Barbara Hammer manifesto. March ending with a bang.
RT @kellyography: Love @mikkipedia comparing “Jane Eyre” to “Mad Max” in the Washington Post: http://dft.ba/-gTK
You know, in childhood photos I don’t have a big nose. And yet now—there it is. Did it just outpace the rest of my face?
“I just made the mistake of listening to clips from Rush and Glenn Beck on Japan....”
– I just made the mistake of reading this three times before I realized Ms Dean meant the other Rush.
RT @rebeccaodes: RT @babbleeditors Planned Parenthood Defended By GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski http://su.pr/4TMMiu
“Jane doesn’t go shopping or sit around talking with her friends. She’s more like...”
– Bronte-Mania (via housingworksbookstore)
I said that! Reposting because I keep meaning to tell bunnehears that in my piece I also compare Jane to Jason Bourne. BADASS.
