June 2012
1 post
May 2012
26 posts
“Reckless and random the cars race and roar and hunt us to death like blood...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via meredithgraves)
This is my number one favorite book forever and ever. I can’t even communicate.
Occupy “occupy” | Guava Purée →
Apparently, the word “occupy” was used to mean “to have sexual intercourse or relations with” in the 16th century (through the 18th century, even). This fascinating post talks about the implications that history poses…
“This is a kind of astonishing history of this word and immediately poses questions as to how the female body, the geography of sexual desire...
croptopsandlizaminnelli:
don’t you hate it when you have a sudden boost of extreme self-confidence but you’re alone in your apartment at 5am
i just want everyone to see how good my hair looks right now and how sexy my bruised legs are and the cute underwear i have on and my perfect eyebrows
This was my Thursday!!
I’ve been having this problem where I don’t want to leave the...
“We all have ideas about the way the world should be and sometimes, we forget how...”
– Girls Girls Girls - The Rumpus.net
Read Roxanne Gay’s really smart article about HBO’s Girls.
April 2012
28 posts
“Young women’s involvement in online DIY cultures and in social networking...”
– Anita Harris
This addresses a big concern of mine that’s also being discussed really intelligently in the blogosphere- the feminist embrace of the individual fashion blog and the simultaneous frustration over the increasing homogenization/commercialization of that platform
“The enthusiastic take-up of these practices [online DIY culture and...”
– Reading Anita Harris’ “Young women, late modern politics, and the participatory possibilities of online cultures” in which she says smart, exciting things.
