Odette Carotte

Perverse fascinations. Quote-blogging what I'm reading over breakfast, with inquiry and commentary. 39-year old walking witch.

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"But don’t get me wrong. I like Madonna. Compared to her bastard spawn - the Britneys and the Christinas - she’s an Einstein. At what I consider her best - the “SEX” book and concurrent “Erotica” album in the early nineties - she pushed boundaries of popular female sexual representation and fantasy to previously unexplored limits with a sly intelligence that has rarely been surpassed. But her real genius lies in the way that she has somehow balanced a healthy pornographic imagination with what has emerged as her greatest strength: a highly developed, almost orthodox feminist impulse, the simple formula that women can be sexy and cerebral at the same time. Mae West had it, Monroe and Mansfield had it, and Madonna admirably carries on the tradition. Transcending what Mick Jagger termed the “central dumbness” of her early songs and videos, her work lately, particularly her videos for “Music” and “What It’s Like to be a Girl”, function as simple feminist critiques of patriarchy and its concomitant sexual exploitation of women, a message in stark opposition to the damaged masochism of our poor lost Mousketeer, Britney Spears."

Bruce La Bruce on Madonna

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Mark Seliger, The Sopranos, 2001

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the watermelon woman by cheryl dunye

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older lesbian outside the bar: *lighting a cigarette* when I was graduating high school you were just a baby. isn't that crazy

me, understanding the passage of time: not really

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August 6: House of Balls

I visited the House of Balls—the studio of artist Allen Christian—once before, at its old location, in 1997, and had been dreaming of it for basically thirty years since. It was even weirder and cooler than I remembered, like an even more surreal version of Pee Wee’s Playhouse mixed with kitsch and punk sensibilities.

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Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

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Do you want to go to the library and then take a walk?

August 15, 1926 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

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Toni Cade Bambara.

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Is there a word for occupying the space where normies think you're a freak and freaks think you're a normie?

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Child-Free MILF

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Emily Lipson, Dykes Vol. 1, 2026

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Shadi Alzaqzouq (Palestine, b. 1981) The Pardon, 2017

Henri Neuendorf Aug 27, 2015 A Palestinian artist taking part in Banksy’s Dismaland exhibition was thrown out of the site after launching a protest against the Israeli artists whose work was also on display at the faux-amusement park. Shadi Alzaqzouq covered his artworks with a bed sheet on which he wrote “RIP Gaza: Boycott Israel,” and lay down in front of the message “like a corpse.” “I found out when I arrived at the show that three Israeli artists were taking part, one of whom served in the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). I decided I had to protest in some way so I went and got a bed sheet from my hotel room and wrote ‘R.I.P. Gaza: Boycott Israel’ on it in coal and hung it over my artwork and laid down like a corpse in front of my two paintings on display,” he explained. Following the protest, Alzaqzouq was removed from the park by security guards. The artist was reportedly told that his protest was too “ugly.”

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tumblr users yearn for the much-maligned genre of "iowa writers workshop divorce litfic"

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