February 2012
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psychotropicpolitics:
that awkward moment where you can’t find the opinion data you want and you say aloud, alone in your room, “i’d like to see that poll.”
boringcore. it’s an art.
Seriously you guys something is happening.
January 2012
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“Her voice is not agile and overwhelming like Florence Welch’s; nor is it...”
– I’ve purposely not read what “professionals” write about LDR because music writing is almost always awful, and music writing about women is definitely about 99.9% awful. And writing about women, also awful.*
But the above paragraph, in an otherwise excreable piece in Esquire by...
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“As we have so recently and publicly discussed, girls and women have “anger...”
– Soraya L. Chemaly, Stop Telling Girls They’re Hysterical (via sparkamovement)
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“Because I mistrust my head & hands, because I know salt
tinctures my...”
– Yusef Komunyakaa, Canticle (via yesyes)
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psychotropicpolitics:
Classmate: I think [other classmate, not present] is gay. Classmate #2: Oh definitely. Me: Has he said this? Classmate: You can tell. Classmate #2: He’s so effeminate. Me: Not to break your hearts guys, but I’m kinda an expert on not-gay effeminate men.
Upon your return to America, we will open a consulting firm.
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“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via ederlezi)
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“So I have arrived at what for me is at the heart of what’s the matter. Much of...”
– Ann duCille (1994) ‘The Occult of True Black Womanhood: Critical Demeanor and Black Feminist Studies.’ Signs 19.3. p. 603. (via james-bliss)
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To all the little queens, do you know what you’re worth?
I’ll tell you every day till you get it, girl
It’s all going to happen
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Not Me: I heard you are really getting into Lana Del Rey.
Me: OMG YES. [gives enthusiastic precis covering the past week, with occasional stops to display videos.]
Not Me: Mikki! You are aware of something in contemporary pop culture! Something that is happening now! I'm so proud.
Me: I know. And she's not British. Or dead. I even pre-ordered the record! On the iTunes!
Not Me: You...what?
Me: So I get it first! That's what you do right?
Not Me: Well yes but it is digital. They aren't going to run out.
Me: I need to rest now.
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YOU DON'T TRY TO RAPE A GODDESS: anotherhookerblog... →
sl33pcr33p:
anotherhookerblog replied to your post: not gonna lie i want big fake lips like lana del…
I’m spending the money Ive been saving for a house deposit or investment property on a nose job and maybe a boob lift. I Am The Worst Feminist. LDR is so perfect.
no you know what i…
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“VIVIAN GIRLS DECIDE-AN-ADVENTURE-THAT-IS-ALL-YOUR-OWN-FUN-TIME-GAME !!
By...”
– This is the most awesome thing ever. (Sorry, not apologizing for a) being excited about prominent women encouraging people to take up coding, and b) their doing so for IF even in a meta-enabling way. Pulitzer that.)
BEYOND BEYOND BEYOND.
I’ll just say it. Caprica is coming true....
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here are all my feelings about lana del rey
negationparty:
she has great lips
i basically already have her lips (i’ve been informed they are DSLs) but they still make me wanna get injections
the cover to “born to die” is fantastic
her voice (and whole aesthetic) sounds like urban outfitters
i really like this early demo of hers and i’m sad all her music isn’t like this http://youtu.be/H8ld11ShaD8
Yes.
THinking about Ellen James...
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Once Upon A Time...
cocothinkshefancy:
When life was much simpler and even more difficult, I found myself as a Missed Connection.
The story begins when I was trying to get back to my house in Bed Stuy. Of course, this is New York and the trains here just do whatever the hell they want to and I ended up having to go completely out of my way to get back home.
I did not plan for this journey to be long, so I left...
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“I know I’m drunk because I can’t pronounce ‘feminine mystique’”
– Andy (via emilysyrja)
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“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares...”
– Banana Yoshimoto (via durianquotes)
#eventually keeping people out becomes the norm
unfortunately true
(via rubyvroom)
I forgot how much I love Banana Yoshimoto.
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negationparty:
This is Ulrike Meinhof speaking to the inhabitants of Earth. You must make your death public. As the rope was tightening around my neck, an Alien made love with me … How does anybody ever figure out their lives? There is a painting in the Frick of St. Francios of Assisi stricken to the ground after being visited by God. He is no longer the gentle saint of birds and animals. The...
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“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via interruptions)
Might as well inaugurate a poser tag. Will also work for models, HAHAH.
xoJane: How To Move Beyond Beauty →
It took me a long time to learn that personal style can be a mode of gender presentation and performance, but it doesn’t mean you have to allow your clothing to gender you. You can wear a dress and not be a woman, for example, and you can play with that and create jarring visuals by changing the way you style your hair or which accessories you wear. You can wear combat boots with a tutu or you...
The revolution will not be led by acoustic guitar
cocothinkshefancy:
I was at a feminist oriented event recently where a baby Ani DiFranco the third was playing and singing about her long, long hair and getting lost in the way while her spirit whipped wild.
Sorry, I do not feel like strumming out to spoken word meets Sunday. Can we get some Nicki Minaj up in the feminist revolution or something?
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“It strikes me that an outré costume is one very effective way of twisting the...”
– - Becca Klaver (via hysteriarama)
This is good because I noticed yesterday that my cape count is back up to 5.
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feminist boredom was big this weekend
karaj:
shoulders:
can one of y’all psyched on the ‘feminist boredom’ tip explain to me how it doesn’t fall back into a dull rewriting of prioritizing those processes central to the creation and maintenance of the subjectivity ‘women’?
this is not an answer to your question, but preliminary context while i do the dishes in a dress and heels, which feels appropriate.
so: i first got the...
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SHOULDERS: okay maybe here’s what i can think of:... →
hysteriarama:
shoulders:
okay maybe here’s what i can think of:
feminine boredom is to the detriment of everything that is not the one true love, i.e., being-desired and a perfect fairytale are the sole antidotes to the condition of being a bored woman. emphasizing and prioritizing the boredom is against its panacea,…
I’m into this. I’m also not sure if the conversations around...
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FY Lesbian Literature!: Six different times people... →
fuckyeahlesbianliterature:
So in answer to your question: she has awesome taste.
Longer answer: Maybe you should talk to her about it? Possibly she’s curious. Or she could be straight and just expanding her reading horizons. Or she could be straight and still have f/f fantasies. Or she could be gay and still be attracted…
This is funnier than possibly anything ever.
SNAKES ON A PLANE
alithea:
i forgot i wrote this parody of sweet child of mine:
samuel l jackson is special to me he reminds me of menace 2 society when all our planes flew snake-free in the bright blue sky kenan thompson, what have you done with kel? we thought you’d both be doomed for movie hell. but i guess lucky for you somebodys gotta help make these fuckin’ snakes fry
whoa-oh-oh-oh snakes on a plane...
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“Anti-femme culture (and feminists aren’t immune to this) thinks the effort put...”
– The Rotund by Marianne Kirby (via ellielamothe)
You have to like Alanis but you can’t love Lana. T-Rex is ok but not Taylor Swift. I think anti-femme-inism also ties into some of the pearl-clutching (HAD TO) over Nicki Minaj as well but other folks have written to that and beyond already.
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I have permission to go back to the gym “lightly” from the neurologist and rheumatologist and etc., so was there this afternoon. As exciting as it was—and it really was exciting, not kiddin— had a total out-of-body Lifetime movie/Afterschool Special moment where I was the person grabbing her palsied limb and grimacing. I’m not sure if I am getting this across but I...
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“The deep and total joy of randomly coming across someone who is already the...”
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Resume-building versus Community-building : which... →
“Just because there is one black man in the White House, doesn’t make up for the...”
– Angela Davis, speaking at Appalachian State University, January 24, 2012. (via douglass-forgot-the-chitterlings)
well, shit. go on, angie!
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werk angie
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