August 2011
44 posts
July 2011
56 posts
Hey Baby
Chia Pet
Hey Baby - Chia Pet
OMG I thought this was familiar:
Sassy’s in-house band was named after the Chia Pet, with various members from the editorial staff, including Jane Pratt on violin, Christina Kelly on vocals, her then-husband Robert Weeks on guitar, her then-sister-in-law (and Sassy writer) Jessica Vitkus Weeks on bass guitar, Mary Ann Marshall (also a Sassy scribe) on drums. Karen Catchpole also lent co-lead vocals to some songs.
LOOK WHAT I FOUND YOU GUYS.
Women's studies is extra boring this week
Marriage: did you know that it is a patriarchal construct??
My first reblog impulse was FUCK YES don’t be “that” women’s studies teacher. My second thought was, nobody even fucking gets that marriage is a patriarchal construct. I.e. marriage equality just passed in NY. The night of the vote I was at Nowhere, a gay bar in the city, with my friend who is dating a lesbian politician. I was all “get off your blackberry / who cares about marriage.” And she was all “examine your privilege” and “are you wearing designer birkenstocks?” I mean, white birkenstocks are hardly designer. So I was all Men, Women & Rape CLASSIC FUCKING TEXT CHECK IT OUT. And she was all “you’re a self loathing hipster lesbian.” And I was all let’s get pizza.
it is true that white birkenstocks are hardly designer and also that this level of marriage rage/tevs is why jeanne is going to be the best and most appropriate bridesmaid, besides alex, who asked “do i have to wear a dress? i will.” if only i had known them during my prime marriage-hating years, when the only person who agreed with me was marisa.
“she gave sexuality the tevs. ‘fuck it, i’m getting married.’”
—ap
“who ever said academic writing should be easy or entertaining? it can be. but not necessarily. (i rather like to be confused and lost in reading.) for those like me who read and write about this stuff, it is labor. i expend time and care and life into reading difficult books and thinking difficult thoughts. i often hate it. i often don’t understand what i’m reading or thinking.”
—no eggplant, with whom i totally agree. if i want easy and entertaining, i can read the fashion copy i spent the morning writing. deliciously difficult, circuitous theory that almost hurts to think, please, or wtf’s the point? plus “the master’s tools will never dismantle…” and all that.
“love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
— this is for everyone, but especially my favorite ursula-k.-le-guin-loving, sci-fi-book-clubbing feminist (boy) friends.
“collective doesn’t mean unanimous. it means we talk about it a lot and then make a decision.”
—julia
A Sorta Fairytale
Tori Amos
30 Days Tori Amos Song Challenge - Day 01: The song that introduced you to Tori Amos
A Sorta Fairytale
sort of moving that this is someone’s first tori amos song. i have feelings about this song.
“TEVS ASPIRATIONAL IS NOT A THING. NOT A MOTHERFUCKING THING.”
—jeanne
actually from a week ago
- ap: i'm secretly not tevs. maybe not so secretly.
- kj: right we are actually not so secretly not tevs.
- ap: yeah.
- kj: lol. thats todays hungover epiphany. #nottevs
