February 2012
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The Feminine Tension
I follow a bunch of rad feminist tumblrs, so forgive me if this topic is tapped, but here you go: one thing that’s very interesting to me as of late is the sort of performative femininity pushed in pop-culture. I think that gulf between the “ideal lady” and the awkwardness of trying to be that lady is what makes Anna Faris pretty consistently funny, and there’s a similar...
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My Debt to Ireland →
John Jeremiah Sullivan inspires envy, admiration, drive. Reading his work makes me want to quit writing, and it also makes me want to keep going, because how awesome is it, to be a writer while John Jeremiah Sullivan is out there, taunting you with verbal elegance that you can only dream of? It’s pretty great.
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