WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY PERSONAL LIFE? BUT WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY PERSONAL?  things i have been asking in public since at least 1996 (when i participated in this roundtable for my college alumni magazine). 

WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY PERSONAL LIFE? BUT WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY PERSONAL? 

things i have been asking in public since at least 1996 (when i participated in this roundtable for my college alumni magazine). 

rgr-pop: Would go there tho, not above it a boyfriend once bought me shalimar as a christmas gift. “my mom wears it,” he told me. and that was absolutely the end of that. (i still have it. i kind of love it. i never wear it. omg, lying, now wearing it, it’s amazing, maybe i should start wearing it again, or at least i will spritz it on rgr when she comes to new york.) 

rgr-pop:

Would go there tho, not above it

a boyfriend once bought me shalimar as a christmas gift. “my mom wears it,” he told me. and that was absolutely the end of that. (i still have it. i kind of love it. i never wear it. omg, lying, now wearing it, it’s amazing, maybe i should start wearing it again, or at least i will spritz it on rgr when she comes to new york.) 

26 May 2012 / Reblogged from rgr-pop with 9 notes / 90swoman juvenilia oldloves fuck twitter 

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whitechocolateraspberrylatte:

“Sugarcoated” - Aimee Mann

It wasn’t nice though
I came back twice so
now I’m the antichrist

there was a dead barbie on the street last night and no one seemed to care. 

there was a dead barbie on the street last night and no one seemed to care. 

cuntext:

Aaliyah, you too. Why are you perfect.

also. redux.

23 May 2012 / Reblogged from cuntext with 3 notes / 90swoman 

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andoutcamethewolf:

Aaliyah
Are you that Somebody


i literally can’t keep this in my drafts folder for another second, it’s already been several hours. 

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23 May 2012 / Reblogged from nickminichino with 424 notes / 90swoman 

rgr-pop: Summer reading. Maybe I should finally fill my prescription. it seems like meaning to read it and actually reading it might be the same thing. elizabeth wurtzel came to my college when i was in college and i totally staged an irrelevant one-woman protest and refused to go see her because i was like: no. 

rgr-pop:

Summer reading. Maybe I should finally fill my prescription.

it seems like meaning to read it and actually reading it might be the same thing.

elizabeth wurtzel came to my college when i was in college and i totally staged an irrelevant one-woman protest and refused to go see her because i was like: no. 

22 May 2012 / Reblogged from rgr-pop with 17 notes / 90swoman 

leonineantiheroine: Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (1997), p. 188. practically everything i said in the last week, not even that differently:  there were a lot of trauma studies people in my various classes but trauma theory creeps me out because of aesthetics (“indestructible inner life”) and assumptions about subjectivity. although i kind of like the 90swoman familiarity in a sort of “my mom would have this book next to her bed” kind of way. i’m used to talking about radical vulnerability, not bodily integrity, although i am interested in reassembling—or maybe just assembling—a body. tumblr and photo booth are crucial.  “generations,” i know, see: queer theory.  i don’t know if the telling of the trauma story inevitably plunges the survivor into profound grief. (though all the therapists wanted to note that the end of the relationship didn’t happen until i started talking about phil’s death in therapy. but.)  which trauma is the trauma and how many survivors are there?  i am in no danger of resisting mourning out of pride, it’s possible i take pride in mourning, though pride is so gross, i prefer the commitment to being casual. anyway, that idea is really good, i can see its allure, and i don’t know if any of the literary trauma theory i’ve read accounts for it. luckily there are heavily aestheticized mourning practices. we could call “reframing” “misreading” and i would like this better.  i am still not into that new fiona apple song because i do not, in fact, want to feel everything, i already did and it sucked. however: feeling as an act of resistance, including revolutionary hysteria 

leonineantiheroine:

Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery (1997), p. 188.

practically everything i said in the last week, not even that differently: 

  1. there were a lot of trauma studies people in my various classes but trauma theory creeps me out because of aesthetics (“indestructible inner life”) and assumptions about subjectivity.
  2. although i kind of like the 90swoman familiarity in a sort of “my mom would have this book next to her bed” kind of way.
  3. i’m used to talking about radical vulnerability, not bodily integrity, although i am interested in reassembling—or maybe just assembling—a body. tumblr and photo booth are crucial. 
  4. “generations,” i know, see: queer theory. 
  5. i don’t know if the telling of the trauma story inevitably plunges the survivor into profound grief. (though all the therapists wanted to note that the end of the relationship didn’t happen until i started talking about phil’s death in therapy. but.) 
  6. which trauma is the trauma and how many survivors are there? 
  7. i am in no danger of resisting mourning out of pride, it’s possible i take pride in mourning, though pride is so gross, i prefer the commitment to being casual. anyway, that idea is really good, i can see its allure, and i don’t know if any of the literary trauma theory i’ve read accounts for it. luckily there are heavily aestheticized mourning practices.
  8. we could call “reframing” “misreading” and i would like this better. 
  9. i am still not into that new fiona apple song because i do not, in fact, want to feel everything, i already did and it sucked. however: feeling as an act of resistance, including revolutionary hysteria 
roadsidelions: hysteriarama: claudia’s my fave babysitter but sometimes mallory’s moping makes her really appealing to me. PS: If anyone ever wants to discuss the bsc I never get bored of it. my roommate and I were lamenting last night that stoneybrook isn’t real and we can never go there. also relevant: mallory may hate boys, but she also gets hella action for an eleven-year-old. ben from australia’s, like, dibbly fresh. I really liked the vacation specials with the white covers. Logan is boring! I thought the movie adaptation was actually totally brilliant. Also, I assumed growing up that diabetes was the most dangerous disease a person could possibly have - judging by Stacey’s fifty near death experiences. STACEY’S SECRET. reblogging out of team loyalty and because one of the main reasons i went to an all-girls high school is because i didn’t want to have to take gym with boys. 

roadsidelions:

hysteriarama:

claudia’s my fave babysitter but sometimes mallory’s moping makes her really appealing to me. PS: If anyone ever wants to discuss the bsc I never get bored of it. my roommate and I were lamenting last night that stoneybrook isn’t real and we can never go there.

also relevant: mallory may hate boys, but she also gets hella action for an eleven-year-old. ben from australia’s, like, dibbly fresh.

I really liked the vacation specials with the white covers. Logan is boring! I thought the movie adaptation was actually totally brilliant. Also, I assumed growing up that diabetes was the most dangerous disease a person could possibly have - judging by Stacey’s fifty near death experiences. STACEY’S SECRET.

reblogging out of team loyalty and because one of the main reasons i went to an all-girls high school is because i didn’t want to have to take gym with boys. 

15 May 2012 / Reblogged from roadsidelions with 1,634 notes / 90swoman 

room-arrest:

CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT THIS SONG AND MUSIC VIDEO IS

CAN WE WATCH IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND THEN WATCH IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH ONE MORE TIME

1. this shit dropped in 1999.

2. this was jlo’s debut music video from her debut studio album.

3. this music video is totally like “wassup laura mulvey + ya btw, i’m gazin back at the males that r gazin at me, AND WHAT?” totally webcam/vlog praxis shifting theories of the gaze (i just typo’d ‘teh gaze’ and i want to note its significance. also mentioning typos for sous rature) and the object’s awareness + relocation into ~subject territory~ through the lens of the webcam

everything i want to think about. webcams. 

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