March 2012
43 posts
“I’m not denying that both high and low culture need women’s voices, but maybe...”
– I have been despairing about the VIDA stats on women’s representation in magazines like The Atlantic and Harper’s (among other things), but Emily Gould is entirely fucking right. I open The New Yorker these days and think, “There’s nothing here for me.” So instead of reading it out of duty or to...
February 2012
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i object
“A year ago I was at a family event and a few of my mom’s friends—older women all—were expressing amazement that I would let my hair go gray. One of them—a woman I’ve known since I was born—said, “Men don’t mind it when their hair goes gray, because gray hair makes you look more intimidating. And a woman doesn’t want to look...
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by the way,
If you must google image search any fan art, “H. P. Lovecraft” is a much better choice than “Titanic.”
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Judy Berman: Please submit to my fun/painful... →
judyxberman:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS It’s Complicated: Feminists Write About the Misogynist Art We Love ed. Judy Berman and Niina Pollari “Listening to the Sex Pistols, trying to figure out if ‘Bodies’ was really an antiabortion song, I discovered that it was something even worse. It was an outburst of loathing…
By the way, this project that I’m co-editing with the infinite Judy...
“In August of 1990 I found myself laying on my stomach in the woods with a pair...”
– Kathleen Hanna, Our Hit Parade (via grrrlstudies)
I plan on getting a ‘god is gay’ tattoo
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This is why Nate always buys Canadian Club
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-Anna
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This sums up all the reasons I feel lucky that Kurt Cobain was the first rock star to...
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deep winter deer
google image-searched for deep winter & deer & any combination thereof.
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tori amos fandom and the uncool
Sady Doyle writes for Bitch Magazine on Tori Amos, femininity, fandom, and the uncool. Then, a lot of people comment with remarks that are so beautiful and illustrative.
In rock music, there tends to be two types of women granted the stage: tough girls and nice girls. Tough girls — Polly Jean Harvey, Patti Smith — get respect, albeit grudgingly, because they display traits we honor...
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patti & robert
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe. Skulls, white button-down open and tied at the waist, off-the-shoulder, Keith Richards hair, cherub curls. I love photos of them together.
And at my house I always point my knives up on the knife rack. Maybe my knives should point toward hell, not heaven, maybe that’s why I’m not a rock-n-roll star, yet.
