February 2012
28 posts
“My sister and I: How are you?
My brother: The usual things are pecking at my...”
– My brother, my hero
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mongsters-inc:
“Tame” | Pixies
If you’re going...
helloscarecrow:
In light of recent events in Virginia I’d like to turn our attention to the Contagious Diseases Acts.
The CD Acts were passed by the British government in the 1860s as an effort to stop the spread of venereal disease in the Navy. Under the Act, prostitutes in port cities were compelled to submit to vaginal medical examinations. It was extended later in the decade to all women...
WatchTaylor Swifts’s performance was somehow the most emotionally-interesting of the Grammys (Chris Brown was the most interesting performer to talk about but not because of his performance), especially once you hit the three-minute mark.
When I first heard “Mean,” I wrongly assumed it was just another generic You-Are-Special song, universally applicable to all teenagers who feel...
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Valentine's Day
If my job was to successfully identify the caramels in the heartshaped box of See’s chocolates that appeared in the office kitchen this morning, I’d be killing it today.
Buffy is getting an abortion, Joss Whedon is a... →
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SKIRT, MY PRETTY NAME
strangemagnetism:
From: VillainElle. in Queen rat: new and selected poems. Toronto: Anansi, 1998.
and the space between my name and myself grows larger until… —David Demchuk, Rosalie Sings Alone After several Valium and a cup of coffee, I feel sweet and contented. The city is dangerous, prurient, and I am a woman of mystery. I ask the waitress for some napkins and...
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“I think one value of Jezebel and the way its influence lives on was to define...”
– Nika Knight in conversation with Kelly Schmader for Full Stop, capturing a lot of the complicated responses I also had to Molly Fischer’s n+1 Essay about ladyblogs
WatchZambri - ICBYS
