June 2011
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“the difference between a gift and every other operation of pure and simple...”
– derrida, given time I: counterfeit money
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“x once told me that love had protected him against worldliness: coteries,...”
– -roland barthes, a lover’s discourse (via hannah).
yesterday alex said that jose told him this is the perfect book to read when you are miserable and breaking up with someone and i was like “really? i gave it to jon for valentine’s day.”
i love this book and, also, social...
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we need a complete taxonomy
ultramaricon:
Sufjan Stevens reminds me of that bohemian white boy in college who was so accustomed and addicted to adoration that he started equating it with world peace.
Perhaps it’s an important skill we should all learn.
Makes me think (again) of Eileen Myles’s beloved boys.
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“i sort of backed into performance. it wasn’t something that i intended to...”
– janine antoni in a really good interview
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“these films have nothing to do with me now. their exhibition comes too late to...”
– chris kraus, whose films barbara and i went to see today. afterward, we agreed we liked the idea of refusing to identify with one’s former self even while refusing to repudiate what she did.
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thefalsecontender:
“Re-vision—the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction—is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part...
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XX That conversation we were always on the edge of having, runs on in my head, at night the Hudson trembles in New Jersey light polluted water yet reflecting even sometimes the moon and I discern a woman I loved, drowning in secrets, fear wound round her throat and choking her like hair. And this is she with whom I tried to speak, whose hurt, expressive head turning aside from pain, is dragged...
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it is all about evidence, really
Evidence of life:
that we could meet for the first time,
open our scars & stitches to each other,
weave our legs around
each other's patchwork dreams
& try to salve each other's wounds
wth love~~
if it was love
(I am not sure at all
if love is salve
or just
a deeper kind of wound...
I do not think it matters)
If it was lust or hunger
& not love,
if it was all that they accused us...
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The Truth The Dead Know
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 the sea swings in like an iron gate and we touch. In another country people die. My darling, the wind falls in like...
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bad feminist family planning
ap: these might indicate the susan faludi-informed "generational divide" that will surely play itself in our little family. they'll be bad feminists, which means that they'll kick it w/ me. i'll be like, "yeah your mom, wow, we're like five waves past her politics right now," then we'll all roll our eyes and drink our chocolate milk from straws.
kj: also i think your kids will like aunt kara the best
jv: AUNT KARA IS A HETEROSEXUAL. i will poison them against you both
kj: NOT REALLY!!!!!!! THAT IS SO UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!
jv: i have to do what i have to do
kj: my womens studies thesis in college was all about how sexual identity categories are bullshit, okay?
ap: these kids are going to be smart as shit and well adjusted, emotionally, and they will see through your nefarious games, jeanne
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(via dorightwoman)
“so far 2011 is reminding me alot of 1991…
…it was too much that for a brief moment women got over their deep and abiding distrust and dislike of each other that is the residue of sexism, of deep misogyny throughout our culture; so sickening that it prevents us from doing anything about our own situation because we despise the members of our class, and yes, i...
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“more so than most male singers, vernon, who minored in women’s studies in...”
– from jc’s bon iver profile. no, i know. pretty glad he got that kanye concert i fainted at on my birthday in there too.
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oh no. someone keep us away from post-game,...
JV: i'm trying to explain what "tevs" means and he is like, um shut up.
AP: oh man that's pretty tevs of him. sounds like he "gets it."
JV: totally he is play actin. he says "it's just stupid." he is the hardest tevs of all of us.
KJ: we should aspire to his tevs. thats actually pretty awesome. i respect a tevs that hard.
AP: there's a point at which it becomes an ethic and logan clearly has passed into a higher plane of being. he's like a tevs yogi or something. everything is like "get on my level."
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“I wrote about proms, designer dress hysteria, teenage girls, pop culture, etc. I...”
– marisa on her nyt story. i am now having flashbacks that involve zima, hotel rooms in canada, and various forms of sexual brinkmanship. 