December 2011
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marie calloway && the confessional [WORDVOMIT]
i mostly read marie calloway’s adrien brody because it was getting a lot of negative attention, & then tao lin’s response was surprisingly, sweetly earnest, then i was working a graveyard shift on thursday night so i read adrien brody, even though (CONFESSION) i have a really hard time reading things on the internet.
then kate zambreno wrote an AMAZING essay on the whole thing,...
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"an education in electricity and green things" →
up in specter issue 4. lot of good writing there (especially love “My House: Welcome: Go Away” by Jaclyn Watterson!) give it a read!
[potentially disturbing veterinary procedure in my goat essay, FYI]
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I WANNA BE A MENSTRUAL BLOGGER*
[[[[caution periods and the language of clinical depression]]]]
my period was late and i only knew because i have iphone app with big pink flower.
Did Your Period Just Start? Tap Here.
Your Period Is Late. Projected Start Date Was December 17
feel vaguely irritated with phone app making insinuations, its capitalist logic, the march of time forward, menstrual time, its opinion.
(you think you...
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impossible creatures
[A SONG FOR M/an accidental ongoing collaborative text (message) project]
i feel like an impossible creature
yeah me too
electricity
prickliest kind
SHIT IS HARD BUT BEAUTIFUL
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nothin to do but have a broken heart for awhile/forever truth girl
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sad for no good reason
that thing where you realize nothing you’re working on right now you would ever submit for publication anywhere because everyone you love would see you as you really are
that thing where writing is vaguely and persistently traumatizing; why don’t you just stop?
THE GIRL JUST WANTS TO BE LOVED
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towards a queer poetics (maybe)
or, why i have a hard time watching porn
disclaimer #1: if you are someone in, for instance, my nuclear family, i ask that you not read this if material about my sexuality will make you uncomfortable. same goes for people at my work or admissions committee at U********* of *******]
disclaimer #2: been thinking a lot about the difference between a politics and a poetics, especially as per recent...
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“I’m not sure that there is a queer aesthetic. I think aesthetic is personal and...”
– jd samson, revel and riot
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dictionary of feelings
the satisfaction of yelling at someone, you are not listening to me! (or dreaming it)
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giving up being right makes you want to weep. like the first time you understood why people do yoga.
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try to imagine someone having a crush on you
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the sheets are clean and i made the bed nice for you. spread the brown blanket over the white quilt like a pelt. you are warm, a sleeping animal, but you...