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| 25 Jul 10 | Reader, he hit me (3) | (25 Jul 10, 1:27 PM by MissTee) |
| It seems extraordinary that I have been waiting nearly ten years for the most prominent sadist in my life to hit me. He has hurt me many times. I have spent countless tears over a relationship that never happened. Beyond anything else, I have realised selfishly, I have cried because I wanted that man to hurt me, and then hurt me again, and because I have known since I was a teenager that if ever there were a person I could and would suffer for, a person to whom submitting would feel more natural than not doing so, it would be him. The realisation that traditionally coupling ourselves would have [more...] | ||
| 27 Jun 10 | Ultraviolence: some thoughts, questions and theory (13) | (29 Jun 10, 12:00 PM by pleasureswitch) |
| I have a question. I decided not to post it on the Ultraviolence boards itself, as I don't see why subscribers to that group would necessarily have much interest in this, but nevertheless I have some queries. And yes, this is in relation to something I'm writing. [more...] | ||
| 4 Apr 10 | In defence of Andrea Dworkin (47) | (13 Apr 10, 2:00 PM by skyfox) |
| So I'm reading Andrea Dworkin's 'Intercourse', which I bought with some trepidation for a quid from a second hand bookshop down the road. I have an uneasy relationship with Andrea Dworkin's work. As the big-name radfems go, she was without doubt the smartest and also the most misread and misunderstood -- by radical feminists as much as outraged men's rights activists, frankly. When I read her book 'Pornography: Men Possessing Women' I was genuinely infuriated by her complete misreading of pornography, but always thought her book 'Right Wing Women' was brilliant and in parts hilarious. [more...] | ||
| 25 Mar 10 | There is someone.. (4) | (25 Mar 10, 10:52 PM by Grownup_Frankie) |
| .. I miss. And am going to miss. It's a strange thing when you make a great friend out of a lover, particularly one with whom you've had a tumultuous sort of bond, so tumultuous that it's caused upset and drama for people other than us over the course of just over a year, to the point where it stopped being worth it, and then we reassessed and were entangled once again: and this time it has mostly been easy as pie. And then he decides to opt for monogamy. He does not think our relationship will alter much. I know this not to be true. There are intimacies that come with a sexual partner beyond sex. [more...] | ||
| 5 Mar 10 | Who says there's no funding to write about kink? (22) | (23 Mar 10, 1:18 PM by pleasureswitch) |
| Several failed attempts, several years. [more...] | ||
| 18 Oct 09 | Single of the year (10) | (20 Oct 09, 8:40 PM by toothbrush) |
| I'm a total sucker for ghostly sounding ethereal females emitting delicate melancholia, and this year's love is the beautiful Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes. [more...] | ||
| 8 May 09 | Neo-burlesque: an essay (7) | (14 Oct 09, 9:25 PM by Morphish) |
| This be an essay I wrote right at the beginning of my MA, fuelled by anger about the state of neo-burlesque today. There's a lot here I'd change. Firstly, the idea that trangression ultimately leads to liberation (I now think that's a hugely simplistic argument). Secondly, that individual empowerment plays a big part in drawing people to grass roots activism (it can (and CAAN!), but doesn't always), and generally it's poorly written in places. [more...] | ||
| 1 Oct 09 | Chivalry (16) | (4 Oct 09, 9:05 AM by verte) |
| Overrated. | ||
| 11 Jun 09 | he-said-she-said | (11 Jun 09, 3:48 PM by verte) |
| He says: [more...] | ||
| 26 May 09 | Maribel: music, love (4) | (27 May 09, 11:40 AM by verte) |
| If you're a fan of droney, dreamy yet thrashy noisy shoegaze, particularly Slowdive, check out this band: [more...] | ||
| 28 Apr 08 | Love is fucked up (41) | (18 Apr 09, 10:26 AM by verte) |
| The older I get, the more I realise that my ideas about love just don't seem to match up with many people's. I've been thinking about this a lot of late. [more...] | ||
| 23 Mar 09 | Caravan (12) | (26 Mar 09, 11:24 AM by verte) |
| You should read this incredible story, by an old friend of mine. [more...] | ||
| 12 Mar 09 | Karen Barad is a fucking genius (26) | (15 Mar 09, 8:04 PM by toothbrush) |
| "Performativity, properly construed, is not an invitation to turn everything (including material bodies) into words, on the contrary, performativity is precisely a contestation of the excessive power granted to language to determine what is real. Hence, in ironic contrast to the misconception that would equate performativity with a form of linguistic monanism that takes language to be the stuff of reality, performativity is actually a contestation of the unexamined habits of the mind that grant language and other forms of representation more power in determining our ontologies than they deserve." [more...] | ||
| 25 Feb 09 | Musique de jour 2 (2) | (25 Feb 09, 5:46 PM by verte) |
| Having T here has set me off on a post-rock kick. Too much getting stoned and letting him tie me up to Mogwai in years gone by, I think. It's brought back old memories. [more...] | ||
| 26 Jan 09 | women who submit: update 2! (4) | (26 Jan 09, 8:47 PM by verte) |
| Yet another thanks to all the women I interviewed about submission for your insightful and thought-provoking contributions. [more...] | ||
| 16 Jan 09 | Musique de jour (10) | (20 Jan 09, 10:26 AM by robotsquid) |
| Panda Bear - Carrots [more...] | ||
| 19 Jan 09 | The mojo (2) | (19 Jan 09, 9:59 PM by verte) |
| I really lost my writing mojo last week, and the weeks preceding. A feeling of needing to write, and just not being able to. I got some kindly memos offering writers' block advice, so many thanks for those, but really the impetus had to come from me. [more...] | ||
| 12 Jan 09 | Cumspots (16) | (13 Jan 09, 7:51 PM by verte) |
| Slightly too dumb for the boards, but I'm just wondering whether anyone else has been party to or involved in unusual ejaculation mishaps... [more...] | ||
| 9 Jan 09 | Hipster irony fail (23) | (9 Jan 09, 10:29 PM by MrTom) |
| Guy in Topshop has obligatory bleached electroclash hair, wears skinny white jeans, a yellow Bananarama t-shirt and Reebok classics. [more...] | ||
| 8 Jan 09 | Rediscovering (2) | (9 Jan 09, 1:17 AM by verte) |
| I was going to write a blog about my BDSM identity crisis of late tonight, but somehow can't muster the energy. My insomnia is bad at the moment. I usually have no problem sleeping initially (it's staying asleep that's the problem), but this week I've tossed and turned and watched the sun come up. [more...] | ||
