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And so the cracks reveal themselves for nature is such that thesis and antithesis are quantumly entangled.
Dec 8, 2024
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my first thoughts arepartly echoing / building off what elmimiloco said!! the primary basis for second wave feminism was the need to address women's treatment in the home both through unrecognized/unpaid labor (+ "the second shift" for working women) and domestic violence so the home is certainly a source of many real-life horrors for women
in terms of gothic — i think of stories like the yellow wallpaper that are inspired by the horror of being trapped, controlled even within what are supposed to be safe four walls, which is unfortunately what far too many women deal with in the real world too. also worth noting that female hysteria as a concept was really made popular in Victorian times and it was one of the top medical “conditions” reported in women in that era, and it wasn’t fully removed from the DSM until 1980…!
the haunting of hill house has a woman supposedly losing touch w reality (faced with being haunted, which again comes up in another female-focused gothic horror story i was thinking of (recently read) that mostly takes place in a home, carmilla - which follows a young girl slowly falling into the trap of a (heavily queer-coded) vampire who was invited to stay with them. carmilla has anti lesbian themes related to the ”dangers” of that sort of behavior/closeness btwn women. in goth horror most of what i’ve read has felt like: women’s autonomy = portrayed as dangerous by men; women’s lack of autonomy = portrayed as dangerous by women authors, which i think relates closely to the ways hysteria was constructed back then
Dec 28, 2024
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One of my favourite reads in my studies so far (I'm a soc and women's and gender studies major).
It's an interesting read: part story, part social critique, part poem, part journal entry, part really dense analytical piece. Amazing writing style too.
Stryker is basically saying why trans people have so much in common with Frankenstein's monster and how this is based actually and cis people should wonder about their monstrosity to find out we are all, in fact, so incredibly socially constructed.
Oct 15, 2024
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beautiful nightmare poetry for our putrid age
Feb 6, 2024
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Oct 13, 2024
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So vulnerable, I have to be sincere. European and American art galleries historically are not only promoters of great art, they are creators of markets. That may be where you could shift focus.
Your worth is that you are young, eating rat, living a life of passion, filth, messiness, body horror (per my comment on such) unique and unknown to those with money. They crave you, not for your art. That's worthless to them. The art, as photographs per Sontag in my other rec, is simply a receipt that they owned a piece of your lifestyle for a moment. No one who will buy your art will likely give a fuck about your art. Stop seeking those. Find the Glengarry Glen Ross customers seeking life, escape from drudgery, a need to prove something to themselves. Let your art be that for them.
Enough bs theory, now for implementation. You won't sell your art, but you can sell the frustration, bloodsweattears, dedication, sacrifice that drips from your post. You can do so by simultaneously reminding yourself you are not creating ART but CREATING art. Your work and worth is not on a canvas. It's not the art. It's in you, the artist.
May 11, 2024
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A model friend/client and I stepped out from dinner for a smoke and were having a tipsy discussion about an issue with her company. Some doorman came up to tell us to move because we were blocking the entrance, which we weren't. I was irked, but my friend guessed he likely stereotyped her being in a lover's quarrel. Irked for a different reason, I called out, "Dude, we're discussing business! She's my boss!" In hindsight, I appreciated how he handled what he mistook as a domestic dispute by creating a false diversion to redirect our attention.
Most people get involved in others' drama because they think they know better. Most people don't because they're insecure they're misunderstanding. He was appropriately in between.
Jun 5, 2024