February 2012
35 posts
“It is a fundamental claim of feminism that women are oppressed. The word...”
– From: Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality (Trumansburg, N.Y.,: The Crossing Press, 1983). (via siberia)
celebrate ash wednesday with the smoky eye!!
watching daria because i’m supposed to write a lesson plan for a “self-esteem” class for work
“I know you can be overwhelmed, and you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever...”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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all i want
is for the word “vagina” to crawl in the grave of the dude who invented it bring him back to life and then re-kill him (twice) like in practical magic
my sister
saying “fuck my god” instead of “oh my god”
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2 hours actually not sad enough to listen to waxahatchee
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pain management
doctor: Look at your body like a bank. You can make investments, take out withdrawals, make deposits and try not to overdraft.
me: [Noooooooooooo].
"crone vision"
-dodie bellamy
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If our conception of what it means to be a worker relies on having a bargaining place at the table with the boss — that is, with certain classical notion of workers’ power — then Lucy isn’t a worker. She isn’t a worker, even though all she ever does is work, as in the four stills from the film above. She’s not going to unionize her coffee shop, nor her fellow sex workers, nor the assistants at...
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“Her willingness to keep treading water without the promise of anything better to...”
– http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/working-beauty/
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TW: gynecology
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most cyborgly event of my life since texting in the bathtub: my treatment for vulvodynia now includes “electrical stimulation therapy” which is like this plastic/metal tampon thing hooked up to a machine that administers mild internal electrical shocks for ten minutes. i don’t know if it’s gonna work but ifucking not-infomercial and i’m into it
romantic comedies, the stockholm syndrome of late industrial capitalism
pussy-strut:
2012 is the year i stop thanking dudes for being halfway fucking decent
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margaret atwood, the j.k. rowling of second-wave feminist realism
Fake Non-Fiction Best Sellers - Magical Wasteland →
isabelthespy:
tomewing:
Elbow: The Mysterious Pattern Inside Everything and How It Will Change the Way We Think About the Economy, Health Care, and the Internet
What is an “Elbow”? As best-selling science journalist Jonathan Brainer explains, it’s a ubiquitous pattern that looks much like its namesake anatomy: a line moves in one direction and then– suddenly– in another. Brainer ingeniously...
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karaj: feminist boredom, capitalist control... →
winnet:
“The psychoanalyst Susie Orbach tells me that there’s an “epidemic of celibacy” in the UK and the United States. So I wonder: is everyone beyond sex (not just the queer scholars who might have, you know, been there and done that, aged out, made art, bought property, endured AIDS,…
January 2012
47 posts
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why are all the convertible roller skate shoes on ebay for children, “am i missing something”
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on boredom with men's privileged suffering →
karaj:
“this is not to deny the misogyny of flaubert’s text or the way in which flaubert fetishized his own sense of loss (through an imaginary identification with femininity) while simultaneously sharing his own period’s hostility toward women. nevertheless, if melancholy and boredom are both defined by a certain self-consciousness, in melancholy, self-consciousness is painful precisely...
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my job
agricultural metaphors for relationships delusions of grandiosity dad-substitutes new age eileen myles dogs with attachment disorders sidekicks dictators white luddites vietnam suicide nutritional yeast editing other people’s online dating profiles buzzwords bad advice mediocre advice pop psychology vegans death vegans dads cultivating delusions cultivating united states of needs and...
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p.s. to feminist boredom
yeah like “evil is banal and pain is boring.” someone asked a woman whose name i can’t remember what was the worst part of working with rape survivors as a rape survivor herself and she said, it’s boring. it’s boring how it never gets better. i’m bored right now. you know?
“i love dutch models, but i think casual sex is beneath me.”
– courtney love on a relationship that was “such a bore,” being deeply romantic, looking for a boyfriend who is “more settled and older,” hating adderall, and more. the interview is, as naomi said when she emailed it to me, “delicious.” (via karaj)
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TeenageDrivers
My friend and I are starting a casual music blog, and my first entry was unsurprisingly about Waxahatchee. I am probably not gonna write about “music” so much as analyze lyrics and try to understand where Lilith Fair came from. He’s probably gonna write about post-punk and shoegaze a lot. Absolutely get at me if you wanna spend some time writing about any of these things or have...
i used to say i didn't get bored but that was just... →
karaj:
hysteriarama:
I’m always being chastised for finding things boring. I can’t count the number of partners who have criticized me for that, everyone likes to think that what they love is so fascinating, nobody wants to see your boredom but these boys are so masturbatory and…
“Why did the apple cross the river? …So it could drown.”
– funny joke time took an unexpectedly morbid turn today. (via isabelthespy)
My friends and I are now talking about doing a...
suzy-x:
Forget the rev, this remake is going to be my #1 priority. Who’s in?
i will cry on demand for any role haha #feministcrying
