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"anxiety is the core affect of femininity, which operates under an imperative to never stop working on itself” - Lauren Berlant

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Minimal Jeune Fille. Cutting board, 2013

Juliette Bonneviot

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PET Woman. Laundry / Cleaning Tips, 2013

Juliette Bonneviot. Minimal Jeune Fille

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“The truly mad are not content to merely tell stories; they have to act them out.” [Laughter] That’s Fanny Howe.

Chris Kraus interviewed by Sheila Heti

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Men get praised when they do things that women are expected to do thanklessly.

kaitmpayne (via teaandfeminism)

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You can’t really do that with the first person: you can’t turn the I into a clown, particularly if you’re a woman. People will say: “Oh my God, she hates herself, I feel so sorry for her, she should get therapy.” The only way you can turn your female I into a clown is to make her a third person character. The material in Torpor was really more personal—I Love Dick was all shtick, people say it was confession, but it was all shtick, a stand up routine. Torpor was a much more personal book, and in order for it to be personal and psychological to that degree, I needed the freedom to move those characters around, as you can do in the third person.

Chris Kraus

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Adrian Piper, Calling Cards

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Adrian Piper, Catalysis III, 1970 B/W Photodocumentation of a Street Performance in New York, NY

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For The Hunger Strike (1980), which Smith performed together with Faith Wilding and Leslie Labowitz, the artists made white signs that they displayed in a protest against the rejection of an equal opportunity law. During one of their art actions, Smith and Wilding saved Labowitz’s life when she collapsed, dressed fully in black, after an exhausting protest action against the current political situation.

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factum/ mirage

Jennifer Chan

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factum/ mirage II

Jennifer Chan

[erica-scourti]

Travis explains why “recovery” gets blamed for ruining future feminist empowerment this way: In part because it still bears the traces of feminist consciousness- raising, but seems not to push its devotees toward collective action for social change, recovery has become a favorite scapegoat, seen as a narcissistic consumer lifestyle that lured women away from the movement and/or a corrupting virus that undermined it from within. (189)

Feminism’s New Age © 2011 State University of New York Press, Albany (via erica-scourti)

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YOU WILL BE PUNISHED

[erica-scourti]

Producing a reflection of your image in Instagram always involves an awareness of the presence of others, the knowledge that your selfie is flaking and refracting in their phones. Labeling this reflection #selfie tacitly recognizes the horizontal proliferation of reflections, the dissolution of personhood in the network. The real narcissists are the ones who never take selfies. They imagine their self as autonomous, hermetic—too precious to be shared.

Brian Droitcour

(via erica-scourti)

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[tiddly-pom]

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

Warsan Shire (via aurelle)

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love

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Riot grrrl 4ever