July 2010
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okay, this totally doesnt come up on a search of “summer funeral,” but it should.
The Truth the Dead Know
BY ANNE SEXTON
Gone, I say and walk from church,
refusing the stiff procession to the grave,
letting the dead ride alone in the hearse.
It is June. I am tired of being brave.
We drive to the Cape. I cultivate
myself where the sun gutters from the sky,
where...
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“Meet the squad, each with specialized skills and a code name: there’s Ace, performance studies scholar and an ex-Marni fiend turned American Apparel fanatic; Fleur, an unconflictedly modern hippie who, for her last birthday party, wore a custom-made tiara of thistle and pink jasmine; and Bolt, a keenly observant fashion blogger and frequent buyer of custom No. 6 clogs.”
from...
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fuck yeah dorothy allison →
summer highlight.
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counting down the days til school starts
the fall 2010 course catalog for nyu performance studies is up and i am so excited.
advanced readings and confessional culture obviously. after that it gets really hard to choose.
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johncagecale:
every boy should own this book.
this is the truest thing ive read all day.
also, i am kind of obsessed with pointing out to people that valerie solanas did not actually say that “SCUM” stood for “Society for Cutting Up Men.” her (male) publisher was the one who said this. she did say women should annihilate most men and overthrow capitalism, however....
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meltzer:
I was on Soundcheck on WNYC today discussing my devotion to Lilith Fair. If you listen to the very end, I have a classic moment where I call a commenter “patriarchal,” defend my age, and sort of go off about how people have a problem with women making noise. In the words of my sophomore English teacher, I have passion.
MM told me later “I was feeling weird about going off but then...
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carl wilson on david antin's 'what it means to be... →
i did my english thesis on david antin’s talk poetry in 1997 and saw antin speak for the first time last year. so awesome.
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“just give them a menorah and a book about golda meir and tell them ‘you figure it out.’”
this is what unobservant half-jews think constitutes adequate religious education for children.
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“you do not know beforehand what a body or mind can do, in a given encounter, a...”
– oh, deleuze. miss you.
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“…the primary responsibility of feminism is to name. But once something has...”
– miriams blog post is a must-read. its like a third wave update of adrienne rich.
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reimagining the archive conference at UCLA →
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i dreamt about tracey emin last night
so its appropriate to post an image of “everyone i have ever slept with” (1995). which literally names everyone she has ever slept with. it was big news in england when it turned out that emin had not actually had sex with all of these people. (“tracey emin has revealed…she is not as promiscuous as previously assumed,” said one newspaper.)
last winter i wrote a paper...
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“I have never made a zine. I did not read Sassy. I have never written words on my...”
– realchild on her 90swoman experience. i could read posts like this and this all day. radically vulnerable confession: despite a book and blog about the 90s and feminism, i listened to le tigre first, too.
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