WHATEVER JEANNE

What’s my connection to Donna Jeanne Haraway, besides an unpopular 1970s name that rhymes with mean, queen, spleen, social hygiene?

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She was one of the popularizers of the drag king.

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It’s like being a fish on a hook dangling And the thought of being back in the water free is even worse than being on the hook

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, "Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive, then returns to its dark source. As for me, I don’t care where it’s been, or what bitter road it’s traveled to come so far, to taste so good."

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(Here it must be said that Kanye West’s “Erewhon drip” involves wearing only one slide to the store.) 

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Renee Gladman, Calamities

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Continue reading “Cher Accused of Hiring Men to Abduct her Son in 2022”

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Oprah is evidently a postmodernist for whom objective truth is an illusion of bourgeois society;

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The past is such a retreat for me. I go there eagerly, shaking off the cold present and the colder future."

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MONOGAMY  MONOPOLY MONOTONY

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“I would never write any ‘ist.’ I don’t write ‘ist’ novels. . . . I can’t take positions that are closed. Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book—leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity. I detest and loathe [those categories].”

-Toni Morrison, on the word feminist 

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, the owner of Gay4U, a vegan restaurant in West Oakland, Calif., offers free meals to transgender people of color.

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Kathe Burkhart

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