February 2012
32 posts
brb gonna go to chicago and meet a bunch of people...
that thing where someone’s city and IP address shows up in yr stat counter and you know they’re reading your blog on their iphone and sometimes you read their blog on your iphone and it’s like touching but not touching but it is
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The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories... →
“This linkage is literal: For a memory to exist, these scattered cells must become more sensitive to the activity of the others, so that if one cell fires, the rest of the circuit lights up as well. Scientists refer to this process as long-term potentiation, and it involves an intricate cascade of gene activations and protein synthesis that makes it easier for these neurons to pass...
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unthinkable creatures update →
everyone—
response to i love crushes more than real things has been overwhelmingly positive and lovely [THANK YOU!]. i’ve sent out almost half of the 50 that i made, and plan to take what i have left to chicago with me for AWP. so if you want to be sure you get a copy, order today or tomorrow (or if you can’t right now but want one, email me: kristen.e.stone [at] gmail.com and...
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pre-AWP overshare, a list
i get a kick out of classifying something as “business travel” even if it means getting drunk and fangirling and hanging out with dess and going to the american girl place (is that creepy?) and oh yeah the INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF SURGICAL SCIENCE
i planned all my outfits on thursday. know i’m going to be cold and am not taking most practical shoes #whatever
is anybody getting...
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OMG
looking at the tumblr i’m making for Domestication Handbook is really, really thrilling.
when i asked her if it was a good idea, Sawako said: Yes! You look good on tumblr. I love your energy and know you will do something great with it. So yes, go go go - and how that felt like such epic praise, immediate and satisfying.
it’s kind of the poetry feeling which is (among other things)...
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after having relationships that were secret due to not being out, relationships that were quasi-secret due to their being shitty/controlling, feeling like i shouldn’t talk about relationships due to them making people feel uncomfortable and think that i am a freak/being closeted to some members of my family and not others (&&etc) it feels really radical and scary and amazing to talk...
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nic bravo wrote this really beautiful thing... →
this is my favorite part, but you should go read the whole thing.
so happy to call nic bravo my friend. <3
stickupforyourselfson:
How do we build safe spaces without policing bodies and identities along binary terms?…
I think that the safe spaces that feel best to me are built around excluding oppressive behaviors. I want my safe space to be free of misogyny. In my community, that...
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things i liked about twilight: breaking dawn
1.it is all about body fluids
2. i like the part about the werewolf imprinting on the human/vampire baby, that seems pretty queer/donna haraway-ish, and how the werewolves and the vampires have made their own families of affinity
3. basically it is a giant allegory about why privileging heterosexual intercourse (and the legal/religious institution that is supposed to permit it) its a really...
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Maureen responds to seeing I love crushes... for...
farmhaus:
I received “I love crushes more than real things” (unthinkable creatures publishing) via Kristen Stone of queeragripoetics.tumblr.com. It was incredible. Flipping through it, seeing the words I had thumbed through my iPhone delivered thousands of miles back in analog was breathtaking. The winter nights I spent curled under comforter, on the brink of tears from loneliness and confusion...
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don't deconstruct: blonde bobs/daisy dresses →
jumpforsaberteeth:
I used to think that everyone had a foggy, dark even, recollection of their childhood. I’ve always thought of my distant past as being somewhat of a previous life.
… I hate writing about deep shit. I always end up tearing it up/throwing it away/deleting it from my computer. And even after I get rid of it I still feel super weird. I always feel dirty when I talk about my...
CR 1491, saturday, 7:55am
i passed jasmine on her way to town and stopped my car to get out and lean into her window and kiss her. she was wearing my mom’s acid washed jean jacket and blue/green earrings. i was listening to the mountain goats, she was listening to MEN. i could hear them both.
i didn’t put my seatbelt on to drive the last mile home. the feeling of openness across my chest
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hypothetical question
say you wrote a book that had people’s actual names in it? and these people are: like shitty, bad people? like homophobes and creepy teachers? would you keep these people’s real names in your book that’s getting published?
not in a moral sense but, like, is it against the law?
jasmine: yr the foam in my orange juice
kristen: yr an egg fried in butter
jasmine: i sure hope so
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love is the most important project →
[[GLITTER TONGUE: love poems by 30 queer and trans poets! live today! extra special!]]
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domestication handbook on tumblr
In the spirit of Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl tumblr earlier this year, I’m experimenting with curating a space online as I edit my manuscript— mostly it will be weird animal pictures, creepy dolls, suburban kitsch, monster-girl mashups…
follow it?
(if you want)
maybe you will like it
i hope you do
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june 26 2003 myMotherHasBeenDiscussingGAYthingsWithMeAllDay
july 20 2003 my grandfather died
july 26 2003 i bought my first ever magazine that came in a sealed plastic bag.
august 8 2003 bruises are funny to look at
sept 7 2003 dess made me a wallet out of red duct tape. my jeans ripped. the hole looks like a vagina. i’m writing a poem about it
To me, writing is about being a prude: the squeamish pleasure of writing (saying) things
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“At home, we watched each other hump pillows on the floor like we were fucking”
– Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Pulling Taffy, p 61
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“I’m just sort of in the mood to have a crush on someone where it...”
– Delia Fisher, My So Called Life ep. 19
google poetics
I.
think: how do i know if i am gay blog
type: how do i know if i am glad
II.
how much…
how much does a chapbook cost
how much does an abortion cost in florida
song for parking lot, 2/7/2012
tv’s on in the nail studio.
use the bathroom in a restaurant that looks empty. startle the hostesses, tucked in the corner, when you come out. i’m just going to look at your fish tank, okay? they look at each other and then at you. um, okay?
they are silver and gold and black and gray. you are about to tell the hostesses one is dead when you realize it’s a sucker fish....
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menstrual blogger redux
having a lot of feelings re: menstrual politics/poetics
because there’s so much essentialism around talking about periods (yr a woman because yr body does this thing) and there are girls who don’t have periods, and boys who do, and everything that’s About Periods in the world of scholarship uses the language of woman completely unthinkingly. and i don’t want to...
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nic bravo wrote this beautiful thing →
<3
stickupforyourselfson:
Unthinkable Creatures is this busy, hectic workshop filled day and night with the bodies and the work and the sounds of a bunch of intense, tough, dreamy ladies with tattoos and asymmetrical haircuts. It’s housed in an abandoned foundry: writing desks and craft tables and tattoo stations,…
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what do you wish you'd learned in gender studies
/women’s studies/women’s and gender studies?
I’m working on an essay about queer feminist praxis and am interested in the gaps people experience between what they learned in school and what skills/insight they’ve needed/wanted outside of school.
examples: recognizing, naming, and pushing back against transmisogyny; how to negociate boundaries in interpersonal...
i am so immensely excited
by all the things my friends are doing with language
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I found my livejournal
I FOUND MY LIVEJOURNAL
I FOUND MY LIVEJOURAL
I THOUGHT IT WAS GONE FOREVER
i might die.
i can’t even read it yet.
i just read C’s tho and she wrote about coming out to her dad:
“[your mom] had hopes and dreams for her little girl, this is something she may never get used to”
oh baby don’t worry we’ll get out of this town and show...
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v important question
what does the phrase “lady endings” make you think of?
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I love crushes more than real things →
what’s the best way to tell someone you like them? fucking tell them. if you need some help, though, this sweet/creepy little chapbook might be just the prompt you need.
now available, on etsy* the very first unthinkable creatures release, I love crushes more than real things.
drawings by Maureen Murtha! Collages! Mangled photos from my middle/high school years! 26 pages! some of them are...
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vertical interrogation
9. tell me what you know about dismemberment.
[warning for people especially my family there is SEX in this also generalized creepiness]
in the place before sleep there are moving images. the random firings of the neurons as they settle in. as her hand twitches three times on my shoulder, we are like the pigs after they are shot. no, we are not. we are soft and damp after fucking, we are sweet...
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vertical interrogation:
[random order]
5. What is the shape of your body?
at first i hated yoga because everyone loved it. i could feel the ants covering my body as we lay like corpses in the darkened room at the Y, on our blue mats like kindergarten nap time.
what is the shape of your body? it will not do what i want it to.
as a child, i took ballet classes for almost seven years. being small and stretchy, i was...
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: Vertical Interrogation #2 →
terriblegurl:
Second installment in solidarity with poet/friend Jessica Otto answering questions posed in Bhanu Kapil’s The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers.
Question: Where did you come from / how did you arrive?
There is no other way to say this: I’ll never really know.
I imagine where history…
I have a vertical interrogation post in the works, will post tomorrow Jessica Otto and...