venez me chercher si je m'égare

[venezmechercher]

If you don't know where yr going & it feels bad—that's fear get out quick. But if it feels great— that's love, stick w/ it. I'm a prisoner in this body. I'm alone in here. If you love me—write to me

[venezmechercher]

"I grew up disappearing into a body. Then several. I want to tell you what happened to me." -Natalie Eilbert, "Man Hole" in "Indictus" (Noemi Press 2017)

[venezmechercher]

"Only a self capable of being jolted out of its mundane complacency is up to the task of both hearing what repair demands and helping to invent new responses to harms that no preexisting remedy fully comprehends. That form of listening may also more readily come to understand why the liberal story about culpability--that we are responsible only for acts we author and intend--cannot fix, or even adequately address, the most grievous harms human beings face (and create)." Jill Stauffer

[venezmechercher]

"without wounding myself or you there is enough pain here" Adrienne Rich "Cartographies of Silence"

[venezmechercher]

"Pulled apart, the symbols xin (n. heart) and teng (v. be fond of, adore; n. pain, or ache) spring back to clasp you in a private embrace" -Gillian Sze, "Fricatives"

[venezmechercher]

flaneur, an idler, a dawdler / flaneuse, a kind of lounge chair #walkingwhilefemale

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/08/walking-while-female-how-fl-neuse-encourages-its-reader-take-streets

[venezmechercher]

“each name took up so much space, and might even be its own person, that I myself would eventually disappear”

[venezmechercher]

Suppose you do change your life. & the body is more than a portion of night--sealed with bruises." Ocean Vuong

[venezmechercher]

very few people can watch others endure humiliation without recognizing the part they play in increasing it. "Boy, Snow, Bird" by Helen Oyeyemi

[venezmechercher]

“That’s not to say all writing is political, or maybe it is: I guess either you’re supporting the hegemony or you’re challenging it.” -kari edwards

http://www.raintaxi.com/shifting-the-subject-an-interview-with-kari-edwards/

[venezmechercher]

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. _gertrude stein, the making of americans

[venezmechercher]

Advice from William Faulkner. Brick winter 2005.

[venezmechercher]

Johanna Hedva

https://vimeo.com/144782433

http://sickwomantheory.tumblr.com/post/138519901031/transcript-of-my-body-is-a-prison-of-pain-so-i

[flashesofmagnesium]

Isabella Rossellini by Steven Meisel

[venezmechercher]

“bring your fucking tenderness / here right now” - sonnet l’abbé

[venezmechercher]

i didn’t come to die but to weep

[venezmechercher]

& a sorry mess, but well-framed.

LYN HEJINIAN