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| 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...] | ||
| 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...] | ||
| 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...] | ||
| 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...] | ||
| 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...] | ||
| 16 Jan 09 | Musique de jour (10) | (20 Jan 09, 10:26 AM by robotsquid) |
| Panda Bear - Carrots [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...] | ||
| 5 Jan 09 | women who submit: update! (5) | (5 Jan 09, 10:28 PM by verte) |
| The title's writ, the date is set, and thank you so much to everyone who volunteered to be interviewed and sent me back their answers. Some amazing material to work with! [more...] | ||
| 30 Dec 08 | 2008: the year of drama, moping and slutitude (3) | (2 Jan 09, 4:03 AM by tokyoyearzero) |
| 1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? [more...] | ||
