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La Bâtarde, Violette Leduc

Jo Shapcott, Of Mutability

“I will have an undergraduate class, let’s say a young white male student, politically-correct, who will say: “I am only a bourgeois white male, I can’t speak.” … I say to them: “Why not develop a certain degree of rage against the history that has written such an abject script for you that you are silenced?” Then you begin to investigate what it is that silences you, rather than take this very determinist position-since my skin colour is this, since my sex is this, I cannot speak… From this position, then, I say you will of course not speak in the same way about the Third World material, but if you make it your task not only to learn what is going on there through language, through specific programmes of study, but also at the same time through a historical critique of your position as the investigating person, then you will have earned the right to criticize, you be heard. When you take the position of not doing your homework- “I will not criticize because of my accident of birth, the historical accident” - that is the much more pernicious position.”

— Gayatri Spivak (via fearandwar)

myfashionburden

blumarine spring 2024 ready-to-wear

lunamonchtuna

— Amal El-Mohtar, from This Is How You Lose the Time War (via lunamonchtuna)

wordsofdespair

[Text ID: I love you and I love you and I love you, on battlefields, in shadows, in fading ink, on cold ice splashed with the blood of seals. In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space. In bubbling water. In bee stings and dragonfly wings, in stars. In the depths of lonely woods where I wandered in my youth, staring up—and even then you watched me. You slid back through my life, [begin pink highlight] and I have known you since before I knew you. [end highlight] END ID]

killyridols

spider web by vija celmins, 2009, screenprint, 17.375 × 19 inches

metamorphesque

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

— @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry