December 2011
75 posts
Untitled: “The influence of [Calloway’s] Marxist... →
basquecuisine:
“The influence of [Calloway’s] Marxist viewpoint: one of the most astonishing aspects of ‘Adrien Brody,’ and one of the things that is most difficult for people to deal with, is the way in which it does not conform to capitalist notions of sexual currency. As a young pretty girl, Marie has high…
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karaj: on vulnerability as privilege, silence as... →
karaj:
“these representations of butch feeling convey a sense that vulnerability is not a sign of disempowerment but a privilege that is often unavailable and harder to achieve than the conventional stereotype of women as sentimental would have it.”
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We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the...
– Leonora Carrington, The House of Fear, 1988
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Depression, Melancholia, and Me: Lars von Trier's...
occupiedterritories:
I don’t expect every critic to tell his life story (as I am selectively doing here), but I think it is only honest to make clear to readers: “Here I am. I am writing this. I am not infallible. I am just a human being like yourself. What I have to say and the way in which I say it was determined by my own background, my own experience, my own understanding (or lack...
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taking grad school application guidance from my horoscope
– batarde
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I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.
– Andy Warhol (via mauiui)
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The hermaphrodite, or the androgyne, figure of that “ancient unity of which the...
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. (via batarde)
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Performative wholesomeness: I WANNA BE A MENSTRUAL... →
queeragripoetics:
[[[[caution periods and the language of clinical depression]]]]
There is no excuse for not following Kristen Stone all ready. Kick 2012 off with the right decision.
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5. To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am...
– Roland Bathes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments. (via batarde)
Marie Calloway re "Adrian Brody"
basquecuisine:
kind of rambly but
the main “message”/idea i was trying to convey in adrien brody was a criticism of the idea about women having power over men with their sexuality/beauty. not just men who believe this, but showing how women who internalize this myth are wrong/self-objectifying.
it kind of directly talks about this at the end
but the story as a whole is...