you go too far, marlowe.

…all incomplete, all abortive because I thought, like all...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:43:26 -0500

…all incomplete, all abortive because I thought, like all abortionists, that what is not perfect had no real right to live.

Things fit together. We knew that—it is the principle of magic. Two inconsequential things can combine together to become a consequence. This is true of poems too. A poem is never to be judged by itself alone. A poem is never by itself alone.

mmmkkaaayyy: loveyourchaos: thingsgohazy: thedisneyvault:(via...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:06:38 -0500

mmmkkaaayyy:

loveyourchaos:

thingsgohazy:

thedisneyvault:(via ahlowhee)

i have made many mistakes like this one.

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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:12:00 -0500

… and again. huh.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:33:33 -0500

… and again. huh.

huh.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:33:18 -0500

huh.

"A proffering, I-love-you is in the side of Expenditure: they spend the word. Those who seek the..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:18:23 -0500

“A proffering, I-love-you is in the side of Expenditure: they spend the word. Those who seek the proffering of the word (lyric poets, liars, wanderers) …spend the word, as if it were impertinent (base) that it be recovered somewhere, they are at the extreme limit of language, where language itself recognizes it is without backing or guarantee, working without a net.”

- Roland Barthes, “A lover’s discourse” (shared with you as I recieved it, slightly intoxicated, in half-light, in the dark) (via melissa)

"So the first of her many lessons wasn’t about spreading the political gospel, it was about romantic..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:22:47 -0500

“So the first of her many lessons wasn’t about spreading the political gospel, it was about romantic love. When I became a sex worker, I found it heroic to be in a profession so at odds with my romantic needs. Mary Magdalene’s message, the one I had absorbed as a kid, was that you might have to be a “player” to appreciate the real thing—and that players, when they do find true love, fall harder and deeper than respectable people. Running every show makes you, in the long run, more susceptible. No matter how much of an expert I became, my ability to treat some men like objects did not make me infallible.”

- Tracy Quan, Mary Magdelene and Me (The Daily Beast) (via melissa)

thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone!

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:32:08 -0500

thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone!

WHAT

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:32:20 -0500

WHAT

thewordunheard: julyshewillfly: (via betternovembers) D: I...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:49:49 -0500

thewordunheard:

julyshewillfly:

(via betternovembers)

D: I PRE-EMPTIVELY MISS YOU, PAUL

mad men, come back soon.

it is better that i am kept away from my youth.

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:04:39 -0500

it is better that i am kept away from my youth.

(via plz-gro)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:50:45 -0500

(via plz-gro)

chainsmoking

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:57:00 -0500

in the midst sits Mrs. Tinckham herself, smoking a cigarette. she is the only person i know who is literally a chain-smoker. she lights each one from the butt of the last; how she lights the first one of the day remains to me a mystery, for she never seems to have any matches in the house when i ask her for one. i once arrived to find her in great distress because her current cigarette had fallen into a cup of coffee and she had no fire to light another. perhaps she smokes all night, or perhaps there is an undying cigarette which burns eternally in her bedroom

- iris murdoch, under the net.

on decriminalising sex work and drug use.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:53:00 -0500

it may surprise you to know that most sex workers in the west nowadays are middle class rather than lower class and that has given rise to a kind of hierarchy, a distancing of the empowered, independent escort from the drug driven, need based prostitution so often depicted on tv. it has, up to now, been my understanding that the the decriminalisation of sex work and the decriminalisation of drugs are two separate, unrelated issues, and that although many sex workers are drug free, educated women, many have been driven into the business by forced addictions. caty simon’s interview at feministe may have changed my mind. i say ‘may have’ because, like many arguments that involve public policy, a certain amount of generalisation is required, and like all feminist arguments, the identity politics involved often overlook the individuals on the margins of a the particular group spoken for, in this case, sex workers.

there is no question that sex worker activism is largely driven by the aforementioned population of white, middle class women and that those lower class street walker prostitutes at the bottom of the hierarchy are often seen as being more connected to movements against human trafficking or against poverty, pimping and drug use.

the fact is this - arguments that criminalise drug use are based in the disease model of addiction, much like the arguments against s & m, homosexuality and other sexual deviances. however, unlike the case against sexual deviance, drugs are considered truly mind-altering in a biological fashion, both temporarily and permanently. of course, there are those who will argue that sexual deviance is the same way - biological, but i am firmly of the opinion that it’s not a choice, but a preferance. you like eating pickles? i don’t like eating pickles. you like fucking boys? i don’t like fucking boys (an example).

So what gives?

simon’s argument is compelling - there shouldn’t be policies based on (supposedly) biological, disease models of addiction, and the stereotype of the cracked-out whore is detrimental to sex worker activism. however, i can’t seem to get my mind to associate the two movements in a practical fashion, while surely, decriminalising drug use will aid the human trafficking business. ‘no really, officer, she took all those drugs, legally, by herself!’. i can’t see that helping sex worker activism either.

note: i’m all for intersectionality though, so perhaps more things good than bad could come of this. it certainly makes sense in terms of sex work rather than human trafficking.

WANT.

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:39:25 -0500

WANT.

mad girl's love song

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:42:53 -0500

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”

"And, I would argue, the point that “some varieties of femininity are more rewarded than others right..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:20:23 -0500

“And, I would argue, the point that “some varieties of femininity are more rewarded than others right now, we should broaden the scope of acceptable femininities” is not one that’s being debated by anyone here. And yet! Somehow! This is different than the point that “women are engaging in a variety of femininity that is totes slutty and destroying feminism, they are the enemy now, GGRAGARRRGH […] Because even if I adopted the appearance and aesthetic of a Maxim model tomorrow, fact is, I would still be subject to misogyny. Possibly more virulent misogyny than ever before. And I’d still need this movement to be advocating for me, not shaming me for “destroying feminism” with my bald vagina. It’s the “women’s movement.” Not the “women who keep their legs together and act like proper ladies” movement. I think we need to get that one straight.”

- Sady Doyle (via sexartandpolitics)

sexartandpolitics: via...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:40:34 -0500

sexartandpolitics:

via omoexplosion:blatino:blue-prince:jonathanclassof99:thecolorsoflove

mmhmm.

i was not sure i had understood. i was naked enough to disappear in the shop windows. your weight on...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:06:51 -0400

i was not sure i had understood. i was naked enough to disappear in the shop windows. your weight on me sank through my bones and i didn’t know where i had lost my body - as if it had no vowels, as if the construction were faulty, the mesh too coarse - when you felt a sneeze coming on and fumbled for your hankerchief. I traced the law of sufficient reason down your spine. your skin was delicate, like a retracted confession.

- Rosmarie Waldrop

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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:34:59 -0400