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Thomas Grünfeld, from Misfits series
I know we live in this disgosting patriarchal world that assigns value on people’s bodies according to arbitrary beauty standards and people who slip through the cracks can experience the most debilitating alienation you can experience as a human being, BUT you can find love as long as you are gentle with yourself, assert your personhood with confidence, and learn how to have love and empathy for others who may share your alienation. It’s hard, but possible if you harbor hope and give yourself time. ONE DAY UGLY PEOPLE WILL LIVE IN PEACE AND I SPEAK IT INTO EXISTENCE AND I WILL SEE THE HARVEST.
I’m the one that’s constantly changing it’s position
“Pap”
From the series “Menonos” by Jordi Ruiz Cirera
house plants, 1964
Whale Skeleton
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That profile of Rupi Kuar in The Cut is really something… The subtext of the article being “Rupi Kuar doesn’t read or engage critically with any other writers or poets.” Though more than any other profile I’ve read of her, this one sets a trap and lets Kuar fall into it herself through her own admission. The article portrays her as having a laser like focus on aesthetics and the marketability of her own work, rather than any interest at all in the actual writing itself (or in other writers). I actually don’t think this is so terrible honestly, if Rupi Kuar can make a living off of her poems and be number one on the NYT Bestsellers list, then good for her. But her poetry isn’t sacred because of its popularity. It’s objectively Bad, which is what I think really irks other writers. There has been a backlash to the backlash of her work, accusing critics of gatekeeping and holding her success against her, but I think at the heart of the criticism is the fact that her work is on its face so artless that a lot of people, writers in particular, just assume that her work serves no other purpose than to market its writer, rather than say anything profound or do anything interesting with language at all. Lets be real, her poetry is mostly hackneyed aphorisms with line breaks, and even if it moves you that fact remains true. It reminds me of the recent NYT profile of Dan Brown where it was revealed that his massive library holds only various issues of his own books and where he said “I write the kind of fiction I would read if I read any fiction,” I think the frustration with both of those authors comes from the same place. Rupi Kuar doesn’t need to be bashed because she’s found a way to connect with a huge audience, but also her poetry is Terrible and those things aren’t mutually exclusive.
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- Learning & Unlearning Part 1 Smart Girl Club Radio (May 1, 2017) w/ Princess Nokia
- Chance nd Daniel Caesar spinning poetry on live T.V.
- when Paloma Elsessor says in her GRWM vid, “So, if you know me, you know I’m well moisturized…I would like to consider myself soft.”
- this nosaj and zuri gem
- “can i ask the elders in the house if i can speak freely?”
- Ann Moody’s soft sculptures
- Lisa Robertson’s “Occasional Work and Seven Walks From the Office for Soft Architecture”
- Olivia’s genuine curiosity about everything and everyone that exists
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I love the style of these collection pics
women and girl’s experiences don’t always mirror each other but we can all attest to the feeling of drying oneself out and having nothing left - cover image josh castillo waiting for the last train after the rave by mar citlali
julie vu phone call with dad 01. actress + inga copeland - advice to young girls 02. huerco s - promises of fertility 03. roger goula - pale blue dot [ kaitlyn aurelia smith mix ] 04. elysia crampton - elysian dream [ unedited ] 05. hvad + pan daijing - zhao hua 06. tamia - stranger in my house [ acapella ] 07. swan meat - blood echo 08. pelada - ten cuidado 09. selena - no me queda mas [ acapella ] 10. wendy carlos - the rock mountains
here is a tip—scream
Kathleen Rowe, The Unruly Woman: Gender & The Genres of Laughter
…voices in any culture that are not meant to be heard are perceived as loud when they do speak, regardless of their decibel level.
“The Gender of Sound,” Glass, Irony and God, Anne Carson
Aristotle tells us that the high-pitched voice of the female is one evidence of her evil disposition, for creatures who are brave or just (like lions, bulls, roosters and the human male) have large deep voices…. High vocal pitch goes together with talkativeness to characterize a person who is deviant from or deficient in the masculine ideal of self-control. Women, catamites, eunuchs and androgynes fall into this category. Their sounds are bad to hear and make men uncomfortable…. Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death…. Woman is that creature who puts the inside on the outside. By projections and leakages of all kinds—somatic, vocal, emotional, sexual—females expose or expend what should be kept in…. [As Plutarch comments,] “…she should as modestly guard against exposing her voice to outsiders as she would guard against stripping off her clothes. For in her voice as she is blabbering away can be read her emotions, her character and her physical condition.”… Every sound we make is a bit of autobiography. It has a totally private interior yet its trajectory is public. A piece of inside projected to the outside. The censorship of such projections is a task of patriarchal culture that (as we have seen) divides humanity into two species: those who can censor themselves and those who cannot…. It is an axiom of ancient Greek and Roman medical theory and anatomical discussion that a woman has two mouths. The orifice through which vocal activity takes place and the orifice through which sexual activity takes place are both denoted by the word stoma in Greek (os in Latin) with the addition of adverbs ano and kato to differentiate upper mouth from lower mouth. Both the vocal and the genital mouth are connected to the body by the neck (auchen in Greek, cervix in Latin). Both mouths provide access to a hollow cavity which is guarded by lips that are best kept closed.
“Introduction: A Tarantella of Theory,” Sandra M. Gilbert in The Newly Born Woman, Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément
There is a voice crying in the wilderness, Catherine Clément and Hélène Cixous say—the voice of a body dancing, laughing, shrieking, crying. Whose is it? It is, they say, the voice of a woman, newborn and yet archaic, a voice of milk and blood, a voice silenced but savage.
“New World Order: The Scream’s a Good Weapon,” Sarah Nicole Prickett
The scream’s a good weapon—fast, concealed. Sometimes the only one we’ve got. When babes imperiled are furthermore mute, like Helen in The Spiral Staircase (1949), Madeline in the Swedish Thriller (1973), and Thana in Ms. 45 (1981), or speechless, like Catherine Deneuve in Repulsion (1965), the situation feels irremediable. A girl without tongue is a eunuch.
“Medea Gives Advice to a Young Girl with a Broken Heart,” Letters From Medea, Salma Deera
you will rise. and are you less of a woman for this? no what is woman? woman is this—enduring. listen girl, you will survive this–you will. but what fool said you had to do it silently? here is a tip—scream
For my last ask about monstrosity these are good 2
Analog Diary : November 2016, Outtake of a series of 35mm film photographs of French Sèvres Japonisme vases for Oscar Humphries. Flowers by dear Simone Gooch (Fjura).