January 2012
52 posts
“…Even history
implies sequential happenstance—a story—although
we “know” this...”
– An Angel Pricked With Breathing Holes - The Rumpus.net
Albert Goldbarth
“The ruins of his self are the ruins of post-war society. SHE is read as simply...”
– All The Sad Young Pretty Girls « Thought Catalog
IN DEFENSE OF THE HOT MESS / A CALL FOR LADY...
findesiecle:
Lately I’ve been really into weird concepts of something like failed, desperate, self-conscious deliberate performative femininity? Part of this is evidenced by the fact that I’ve been doing my hair in big curls with my kinda-crappy-blonde-dye-job and wearing a ridiculous faux-leopard coat with ripped tights and messy eyeliner, and part of it comes together more in at least 47...
“Those who queer gender raise the issue of not just what kind of sex...”
– McKenna and Kessler, “Transgendering: Blurring the Boundaries of Gender”
Discovering really illuminating stuff in my Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies course. For example, I didn’t realize the hugely problematic origins of the term “transgender.”
Apparently, Virginia Prince proposed that “transgender” replace the term “transsexual” (in 1979) because “people could never change their essential biological sex, no matter...
“In reserving the category of “fashion” exclusively for certain kinds of white...”
– Fraught Intimacies: Fashion & Feminism (The Director’s Cut) | threadbared
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference— those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older— know that survival is not an academic skill.”
—
Audre Lorde; The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.
Rereading this a hefty reminder of my own...
girlgangzine:
heavens to betsy - white girl,...
Yikes, my account was hacked! Sorry to spam...
