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[iheartfailure]

Reading Announcement - Thursday, March 13

Poetry Reading at City College of San Francisco - Featuring Matthew Siegel, J. Bradley and KMA Sullivan. Thursday, March 13th in the Library, Room R305 from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm. Don't miss it!

[velocipedestrienne]

What is up with all this dehumanizing language? Honestly, I have no idea. But I do know this. If “good guys” feel perfectly at ease using degrading language that objectifies women when talking not only to one another but also to women they purportedly respect, then the bullshit that came out of the GOP this past election cycle (vaginas that can tell the difference between consensual sex and rape, for example) can be explained. A big pile of reasonably aware and well-intentioned people doing thoughtless shit creates a solid set of stairs for unreasonable, ignorant assholes to say and do what most of us (men and women alike) would deem shockingly destructive.

"Women are Bitches" - KMA Sullivan, via The Rumpus

[dialecstatic]

Get interesting (and perhaps help shift our cultural consciousness at the same time), or get out of the way.

wanna take "women are bitches" and kma sullivan out for a nice steak dinner, for which i'll expect nothing but good will and human connection in return. 

[therumpus]

“Women are bitches,” says a young man as he sits down. Apparently a woman at the bar wouldn’t give him her number. He’s talking to the man sitting on his left in spite of the fact that I am sitting two feet to his right and at the same table.

I’ve spent the last couple months in the company of writers, mostly poets, mostly men. I am growing weary. The group I hang with is large and fluid—I’m not naming names, not pointing fingers, I like these people—and yet an issue I cannot ignore has begun to emerge: when it comes to many of the men in the company, mid-thirties and younger, making conversation, even with women present (older, younger, students, professionals, I’m a grandmother for Christ’s sake), the topics frequently revolve around who is sleeping with whom, which female is more fuckable, which poop or dog-cum reference is the funniest, and what is the latest text from “the Korean girlfriend.”

KMA Sullivan's Women are Bitches, up today on The Rumpus.

[theoryoflostthings]

I burn for boys’ wishes poetry, that wild beast could take what is left epoxy resin and marble dust mix the paste start again

KMA Sullivan, excerpt from Expressionist Interior

[theoryoflostthings]

I go to museums stand in front of paintings mostly breasts and virgins and wonder if you’ve gotten out of bed I sleep rough these days

KMA Sullivan, excerpt from Almost Ekphrastic