February 2011
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cabaret →
who wants to go to this show (kathe burkhart, laurie simmons, etc.) with me?
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almost
whateverjeanne:
My only addition is (as always) personal. In 2004 I drove across country with Tracy and the Plastics (a low-fi lesbian feminist band of cyber projections). So very imaginary; so very real. Wynne and I had a lot of time to talk, and scheme, and dream. My favorite project - which, dude, still needs to happen - was called “I was almost a love letter.” The idea is to collect almost...
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"She liked people who were physical, who liked to...
meltzer:
From Sigrid Nunez’s Sempre Susan, which is SO GOOD.
i cant wait. cant wait.
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(aquickgraph)
I say I never repeat while I am writing because while I am writing I am most completely, and this is if you like being a genius, I am most entirely and completely listening and talking, the two in one and the one in two and that is having completely its own time and it has in it no element of remembering. Therefore there is in it no element of confusion, therefore there is in it no...
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on intellectual loitering
“everything i write lately is from the position of depressive realism, in which the world’s hard scenes ride the wave of the optimism inscribed in ambivalence, but without taking on optimism’s conventional tones. i do not have the aim of moving beyond x but the aim of setting there awhile, dedramatizing the performance of critical and political judgment so as to slow down the encounter with the...
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on being the cool girl
“I mean and there’s just always a danger if you’re a feminist that you’re also a lesbian (I am) and the only way to really make it clear that you are not that (or that “it” means nothing) is to firmly vote with the guys, kid with them, and be willing to laugh at other women (to demonstrate that you have “a sense of humor”) and not push too hard to include women in anything.”
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you know whats better than the grammys?
the nyt grammys liveblog.
even better than that: me and mm’s 2009 liveblog of the liveblog.
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circes grief
In the end, I made myself Known to your wife as A god would, in her own house, in Ithaca, a voice Without a body: she Paused in her weaving, her head turning First to the right, then left Though it was hopeless of course To trace that sound to any Objective source: I doubt She will return to her loom With what she knows now. When You see her again, tell her This is how a god says goodbye: If I...
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(via fywomenshistory)
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster, Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to...
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militantmaudlinist:
Tonight I watched an Alice Neel documentary streaming, called Alice Neel and made by her grandson Andrew Neel. But anyway, afterward I was thinking about something: do you know what Alice Neel paintings are like? Alice Neel paintings are like when you’re becoming intimate with another person, you’re getting to know this person in a deep way and it’s happening quite rapidly or...
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Feb 12: Feminist Art Project at the College of Art... →
ummmmm. there is a panel called “the erotics of feminism.” (which could be the name of this tumblr.) jeanne, are we going?
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i feel this. who wants to be stuck in an eternal return of their adolescence and early 20s?
anyway, i want liz phair to move on. i long for a world with more pop music for semi-grown-ups. we cant rely entirely on gwen stefani for (totally underrated) songs like this and especially this.
missworld:
“LP: That’s very insightful, and it’s very true. For years when people were like, “Why can’t...
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Feminist Performativity, Art, and Visual Culture
whateverjeanne:
Feminist art and visual culture is much more than a rebuttal to sexist art markets and male dominated art scenes. The feminist art movement ignited critical shifts in conceptual and practical understandings of labor, value, and circulation. Feminist art, visual culture, performance, and new media (1970s-present) traces, rewrites, and cuts through the lines of representation. ...
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HOLD IT AGAINST ME: DIFFICULTY, EMOTION, AND... →
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“the real question was whether there was anything to become—and how.”
– nancy k. miller in but enough about me, what do you think of my memoir
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“coming of age in the 1950s, roiphe, the granddaughter of jewish immigrants, grew up on park avenue and had an adolescence defined by privilege, petticoats, and social rules. at smith college her classmates wore fraternity pins on their cashmere sweaters and knitted argyle socks for their boyfriends during lectures. young women were expected to give up personal freedom for devotion to home...
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“Slowly, I felt my natural disinclination toward fragrance (I like my own just...”
– this is part of an actual, ongoing conversation.
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