January 2012
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Working Beauty
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The disappearing work-life divide and the feminization of abstract labor in SleepingBeauty
By Malcolm Harris
In the opening scene of Julia Leigh’s debut film SleepingBeauty, Lucy (Emily Browning), our beautiful college-student protagonist, serves as a medical test subject. She leans her head back as the doctor slowly threads a tube down her throat, then fills a balloon in her...
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“I think there’s a whole other revolution of l’écriture feminine happening on the...”
– Kate Zambreno, talking to The Rejectionist
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“It is my belief, almost mystical, that things will happen, that things will come...”
– Peter Greenaway
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Enlightened Male resentment
basquecuisine:
I don’t mean this as a self-defense, but just as a response to an Enlightened Male attitude that irritates me.
“Perhaps I am jealous, as a dude, of how their art can be regarded as somehow subversive while male artists who do the same might be somehow creepy or boorish. I’m not complaining. I’m a dude, white, American. I know this.”
Maybe this is true (I don’t think it is) but...
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“Vanity is a drug to me now, and I’ll fuck those mirrors all night long.”
– “The Lusty Lady: Photographs and Texts” by Erika Langley (via strippr)
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totally a thing:
queeragripoetics:
Domestication Handbook* is going to be published by Sawako Nakayasu’s Rogue Factorial
!!!!!!!
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Secret
I had a friend I loved my friend Something happened We aren’t friends anymore When she is heartbroken I feel it I’m sad there isn’t anything I can do
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Passionate for the appropriate
mashatupitsyn:
Who says things like “Passionate for the appropriate?” Robert Bresson does.
Job Hunt
I graduated from college in the spring of 2010 with a degree from a tiny liberal arts college in a pretty competitive discipline. I live in a really out-of-the-way town. Since seeking employment in the metro area I’ve had maybe a dozen job interviews for jobs in my field and, meanwhile, been employed all the time anyway. So that is like a to-die-for job interview every other month. Ish....
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Midnight Party: a Love Shot for Colette Sain Yves →
Hymn to my favorite microblogger.
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“This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with...”
– Dorothy Parker
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“Separated from my house by a row of headstones.
I simply cannot see where there...”
– Sylvia Plath (The Moon And The Yew Tree)
Performative wholesomeness: INVARIABLY (overshare) →
queeragripoetics:
every time i send an email to a writer i admire, or an editor, or someone whose zine i want to submit to or whatever, i begin by using capital letters, proper grammar, and variable sentence length/structure, but rapidly (d)evolve into using mostly i statements littered with overshare and run-ons…
I want this on shirts! I want this on my name-tag at AWP!
