February 2012
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my response to a show listing on nyulocal that...
heidivanderlee:
damn kids. GET OFF MY LAWN! also, come to our show.
here’s the show listing.
here’s my response, which i posted in the comments but hasn’t shown up yet:
first of all, thanks for listing our show. we appreciate that. my name’s heidi and i play cello in amy klein and the blue star band.
however, we do not appreciate the following:
-implying that sliding scale = free. that is...
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Kathy Acker Interviews the Spice Girls for Vogue...
creaturesofcomfort:
All Girls Together by Kathy Acker
The Spice Girls are the biggest, brashest girlie group ever to have hit the British mainstream. Kathy Acker is an avant-garde American writer and academic. They met up in New York to swap notes - on boys, girls, politics. And what they really, really want.
Fifty-second street. West Side, New York City. Hell’s Kitchen - one...
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i mean--that's the difference between white women...
milkeemountainmama:
they have entire organizations working on their visibility and doing research and taking notes on how many of who is getting published.
women of color (and i’m using this as a political term rather than a racial description) get a blog post.
and then get punched in the face for writing the blog post.
so while i strongly support people like champagne candy and emmy doing...
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“Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes (via girlinboyclothes)
Ugg… what happened to my stolen copy of this book? I can’t find it. :(
(via poemsofthedead)
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Standing in front of...
sl33pcr33p: Can the internet take a break from shitting on “posers”* for like, eternity, and instead admire this girl’s makeup?
*The poser is a construct invented by those who are fucking terrified of their “taste” being usurped by the mainstream, but can’t express it in a way that isn’t fucking offensive and reductive.
rgr-pop: Can the internet take a break from shitting on “posers” and...
Existential sorrow and the daily accumulation of regret combined with usual Monday dread all really kicking in right now. I had a boyfriend who would literally pull the covers up over his head when the alarm went off and I never understood it. (I was usually already up! Unfathomable.) Now all I think about all week is going home and turning off the world, or counting the minutes until Friday when...
“We need to look @ the history of the Oscars more closely. My mother was the...”
– Chicana Feliz (via lenxo) (via nezua) (via erespielmorena) (via eggplantavenger) (via isabelthespy) (via jhameia)
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emilysyrja:
we got a feministfilm submission explaining to us why midnight in paris deserved a screenwriting oscar over bridesmaids
which, first of all, nuh-uh
secondly, that is terrible blog etiquette, start your own blog
thirdly, my initial inclination was to be like “we at feministfilm don’t care about which screenplays are good so much as we care about which screenwriters are not rapists”...
Today's Help
During Oscar breaks, watch domestic workers speak about today’s Help on live stream at domesticworkers.org
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Poem in praise of menstruation, Lucille Clifton
kathleenjoy:
if there is a river more beautiful than this bright as the blood red edge of the moon if there is a river more faithful than this returning each month to the same delta if there is a river braver than this coming and coming in a surge of passion, of pain if there is a river more ancient than this daughter of eve mother of cain and of abel if there is in the universe such a river if...
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psychotropicpolitics:
having only the option to “like” or heart something on FB/Tumblr always makes me think about the scene in Donnie Darko where he has to chose between fear and love. it’s like THAT’S NOT ALL THERE IS
DONNIE DARKO IS EVERYTHING
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psychotropicpolitics:
mikkipedia:
psychotropicpolitics:
one time i was really drunk and being seductive* and i started giving a lecture about the components that are needed for a functioning democracy which are 1) authority 2) legitimacy 3) transparency 4) rule of law 5) strong civil society and now whenever i see any of these terms i drift off into a sex reverie
*i do not know how to do...
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psychotropicpolitics:
one time i was really drunk and being seductive* and i started giving a lecture about the components that are needed for a functioning democracy which are 1) authority 2) legitimacy 3) transparency 4) rule of law 5) strong civil society and now whenever i see any of these terms i drift off into a sex reverie
*i do not know how to do sex to people
I have a somewhat...
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bmichael:
Paris Hilton’s “Drunk Text” is the song of the year as far as I’m concerned. It is the weirdest, worst, best, most technologically advanced song I have ever heard. It’s like futuristic robot anthropologists (think about that) tried to document the year 2007, but they did it from the vantage of 2020. This music is the equivalent of the bald-headed/mono-hued jumpsuit future...
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“In a bizarre way, Thatcher’s “feminism” was prescient in that today’s popular...”
– Film Review: The “Feminism” of Maggie Thatcher
welp.
(via so-treu)
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basquecuisine:
i’m very tired and still battling an mdma comedown but i wanted to write a blog about this for my curious friends:
-I’m back from new york city. i didn’t sleep with tao lin and he isn’t sexually attracted to me since he is only sexually attracted to women ages 16-19, he told me. i know that’s what everyone is wondering about so i thought i’d just say that.
pictures of things:
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"Rat Song" by Margaret Atwood
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hateshiploveship:
When you hear me singing you get the rifle down and the flashlight, aiming for my brain, but you always miss
and when you set out the poison I piss on it to warn the others.
You think: That one’s too clever, she’s dangerous, because I don’t stick around to be slaughtered and you think I’m ugly too despite my fur and pretty teeth and my six nipples and snake tail....
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pussytooth:
I guess maybe I’m emotionally stunted or have problems with communication or am hopelessly naive/delusional or whatever but I realized today that at 30 years of age I still genuinely believe that if you simply play the right song/combination of songs in the presence of another human that it Means A Thing and actually has the power to Change A Thing
If you...
Holy shit. →
derasso:
tremblebot:
“Because the museum will be devoted to marathon performance art, it will feature customized chairs complete with wheels, dining tables and lamps. People who fall asleep will be rolled into a special sleeping area — considered part of the performance – and rolled back when they awaken.”
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Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design New Performance Art Center
Two for...
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“Better to be without logic than without feeling.”
– Charlotte Brontë
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anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for all things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
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“So the first forty minutes of our interviews are about who the subject was...”
– Sarah Schulman on the ACT UP Oral History Project from “An Archive of Intimacies,” GLQ vol.17, no.4, 2011. (via militantmaudlinist)
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“Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Elaine Brown, each at different points in their...”
– Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements « INCITE! Blog (via shoulders)
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observe how the men involved in the civil rights movement cared ALL about their racial oppression, but dished out their own...
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“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no...”
– Robert Frost, Desert Places (via buried-denmark)
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“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I...”
– Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (via lydianea)
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“The true artist is every self-confident, healthy female, and in a female society...”
– see you tonight at Small Works for Big Change (via whateverjeanne)
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“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived...”
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green (via m4g3)
love -hours that can never be repaid 