January 2012
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“you’re not depressed anymore. this is big!”
– my therapist said this to me to me yesterday. and it’s sans drugs. although i have nothing against them—at all—it’s just that the wellbutrin didn’t help me feel better, and instead contributed to that grand mal seizure i had on the subway in november, and to my eventual...
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feminist boredom, capitalist control issues, and...
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, forged a couple, taken hormones, had events, reproduced, gotten tenure, had episodes, done new research, said...
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“gender and sexual difference produce ennui.”
– patrice petro, “historical ennui, feminist boredom” in aftershocks of the new: feminism and film history
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on boredom with men's privileged suffering
“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...
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the politics of playing dumb
hysteriarama:
my mom used to write for the school newspaper when she was doing her undergrad, and a couple years ago we found a box filled with maybe a year’s worth of issues. basically every article was student activist-y, earnest, kinda dry “save wherever” sort of stuff.
but my mom’s column was a year’s worth of articles about how the price of diet coke was going up ten cents, written in the...
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“you guys, stop! cyberbullying is only okay when we do it to men.”
– rgr
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ring the alarm
“boredom…is a pretty straightforward emotion. it’s a product of predictability and of unavoidable and unchanging circumstances. and if there’s no break from the boredom, it can easily spill over into anger and even violence. there’s a message here: avoid situations that may produce boredom, or rocks are liable to fly.
in real life it acts as an early warning that certain situations...
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feminist boredom was big this weekend
shoulders:
can one of y’all psyched on the ‘feminist boredom’ tip explain to me how it doesn’t fall back into a dull rewriting of prioritizing those processes central to the creation and maintenance of the subjectivity ‘women’?
this is not an answer to your question, but preliminary context while i do the dishes in a dress and heels, which feels appropriate.
so: i first got the term...
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“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.”
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“it is significant that the word passion and the word passive share the same root...”
– sara ahmed, the cultural politics of emotion (via queersforfeminism)
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on losing control
“…in communicative capitalism, the gaze to which one makes oneself visible is a point hidden in an opaque and heterogeneous network. it is not the gaze of the symbolic Other of our ego ideal but the more disturbing, traumatic gaze of a gap or excess, objet petit a. our disclosures are surveilled, archived, remembered, in ways that exceed our ability to manage or control. on the one...
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so many important additions...
…to the cyberslut rules of engagement/manifesto
(roadsidelions)
- Come as loud as you want. Fuck the neighbours.
- Be a fucking sad woman with too many feelings on the internet.
- No making nice.
- Set fires if you gotta.
(hysteriama)
- dress like a witch
- if you bleed through let it show and tell everyone it’s menstrual chic
- refuse to assimilate into aesthetics that...
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cyberslut rules of engagement/manifesto
bagofshit:
pussy-strut:
sl33pcr33p:
- never compromise yr feelings to make people comfortable - cry in public [cry all the time] - nothing sober is real anyway [sobriety is a bourgeois construct] - violence is the new “being the bigger person” - mellow is not an interesting state of being [relaxed fit jerks wear relaxed fit jeans] - you take up for every girl everywhere - suffer no...
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i am going to feminist bully (permission slip) you...
malarky-shenanigans:
wait, is feminist oversharing a thing? i’m trying to get to the point where i can do this.
ps. i may or may not delete this when im not drinking wine because thats how uncomfortable it makes me!
“reblogging”
xo. you’re going to love it, i promise. save the wine for posting instead of deleting!
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“the duration of an organism’s present, or of its various presents, will...”
– deleuze, difference and repetition
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SELF-IDENTIFY AS A HATER
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 they drone on about their fucking music and they don’t say anything worth listening to and I can not believe that I am always...
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thinking about the rituals of engagement
oxxenfree:
What if it was never about the person, but instead about wanting to feel a rock on the finger? I mean like made of minerals, a thing you’d throw. Some parts of the earth are so hard we can throw them. I would want to wear that around my finger. Or keep it somehow-other close. Not to marry someone, but to do something petrologically interesting.
remember maybe in october when i asked...
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bossy. i don't even know what she is talking about...
(rgr-pop:karaj:rgr-pop:karaj)
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It should be noted, though, that I will always prefer this “Born to Die” to that Born to Die. It should be noted.
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more on lana because i have to
rgr-pop:
karaj:
i was only half-listening to you guys about lana del rey because i only half-listen to everything, it’s my method, and maybe yours, too. and i saw that my ex-boyfriend wrote something about her, because one of you posted it on tumblr; i’m not linking to it because i’m not looking for it, i was serious about not hate reading, i don’t even read the times anymore, ostensibly...
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my determined non-thoughts on lana del rey
i was only half-listening to you guys about lana del rey because i only half-listen to everything, it’s my method, and maybe yours, too. and i saw that my ex-boyfriend wrote something about her, because one of you posted it on tumblr; i’m not linking to it because i’m not looking for it, i was serious about not hate reading, i don’t even read the times anymore, ostensibly...
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“While everyone thought she was attending, she was living through fairy tales in...”
– Breuer & Freud, 1893. (via feeltank)
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Watchmikkipedia:
sydneyreising:
SO AMAZING
So yes.
“did you want to hurt yourself? did you want to hurt him?” “no. the relationship needed to die.” the part in the car. inevitability/performance.
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a preliminary defense of neal medlyn's juggalo...
lookuplookup:
Girls Get Busy: Kathleen Hanna Is Doing Set Design for a Performance Piece Inspired by Insane Clown Posse
rgr-pop:
God, I’m not even a Juggalo. But this is alienating. I get that fuckin’ magnets is funny! That’s universal, that’s sacred. Jokes about fuckin’ magnets are not offensive to me.
But . I am not a Juggalo, but that is very real to me. It makes me feel like I’m in a...
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geographies, mobility, archiving, affect,...
rgr-pop:
I love, love, love my senior seminar in geographies of public memory. I can be like, “well, I’m working through what different linear directions mean in archiving. also I have feels about things. so I am going to be like WHAT ABOUT ~the material~ as what Lisa Lowe calls “sedimented space”—except material things are not geographically-bound but are rather mobile and relational to bodies...
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“historical dust is not simple metaphor. when taken literally, it reveals how...”
– andre lepecki, exhausting dance: performance and the politics of movement
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“the body, in its most visceral activation, is not only a surface of inscription,...”
– andre lepecki, exhausting dance: performance and the politics of movement
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"this project of perpetual agitation"
“…modern subjectivity is predicated on a particularly exhausting and particularly predatory energetic project—one that demands, on one hand, a constant display of the ontological imperative to enter into a permanent agitation; and on the other hand, one that requires plundering whatever resources there might be available to sustain the spectacle of mobility. by constantly...
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“we do not have to put up with the behavior of people who are fake socially...”
– me to a friend
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“my warrior year just got really real.”
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remember like 2 years ago when i still thought i...
hysteriarama:
“The people I follow on tumblr are like, neurotic bitches with complicated feelings who like menstrual imagery, tough theory, Adrienne Rich, and the SCUM manifesto. Or like the sisters in Little Women as rage-filled academics. It’s like my fantasy feminist collective. I wish we could all have a slumber party and braid each other’s hair and perform black castration magic on Hugo...
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