Hey Girl. I Know You’re Moving Through Autonomy Toward Interdependence But Even Chickering and Reisser Couldn’t Do That Without Developing Mature Interpersonal Relationships
whatshouldwecallstudentaffairs:
OMG, best Hey Girl Ever.
I Heart Revolution kick ass
Dear Madame Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton:
WE, THE REVOLUTION, are very discerning, and hard to please people. We have the highest level of taste (based on extensive study and practice of culture), and RARELY do we ever “like” something. Much less “love” something. SO - you will find it highly flattering that we have to tell you this: we love you int his moment. Letting your hair grow out was a TOP CHOICE and it is VERY baller that you can deliver a solemn oath while wearing sunglasses from the Elton John Collection. EVEN THOUGH we think you stole some of our ideas (ESP in regards to OPERATION GERONIMO - we have proof), we have decided to tell you that we think you are cool. AND IF you passed a series of tests (physical, mental, etc), we MAY grant you a high position in our egalitarian hierarchy after the coup. SO. We are just putting it out there. You may be contacted by us. BUT. Also maybe not. SO. You will just have to wait and see.
Claim the word, and don’t let people use it to put more shame in the world. Be an ethical, honest slut, and enjoy pleasure and love. Chicago Slutwalk, June 4th!
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The Dreaded ‘Slut’
There is a rich debate going on about this, and a hell of a lot of gentle, thoughtful educating that we feminists have to do about why this is the perfect name and form for the protest - why the Slutwalk is an intellectually rigorous and brilliantly, satirically theatrical attack on a whole system of thought against women and queers and anyone else who can be dismissed with an ugly word like ‘Slut.’ Remember, Slut means whatever the speaker wants it to mean, so let’s take back the word, and take language-power away from those who would have you ‘behave’ in a certain way to avoid the dreaded ‘slut’ label.
The Though Catalog posts an ignorant but weirdly persuasive-in-a-creepy-way essay against the Slutwalk.
‘The Funny Thing About the “Slutwalk” ’ by Chelsea Fagan
Feministing destroys it.
‘The Un-Funny, Unfair, and Un-Feminist Thing About Victim Blaming’ by Chloe Angyal
Thought Catalog apologizes.
‘We’re So Sorry About the Funny Thing About The Slutwalk’ by Ryan O’Connell
It’s not an easy or simple debate, is it? Can you imagine telling your mother that you’re going to the Slutwalk to protest Rape Culture? Maybe it’s easy for you, but it’s a complex conversation for many people I know.
Favorite parts from Vulture's interview with Jennifer Egan.
- “Sometimes there’s a sense of the book being too hot, literally. It just feels hard for me to have a private experience of an artifact that is so spoken of, so much in the culture in a particular moment.”
- “Again, I’m not really a Twitter person so to some degree this maelstrom was not something I experienced firsthand. I also happened to be on kind of an off-the-grid farm in New Hampshire with my kids when the whole thing erupted.”
- “I didn’t feel the pressure that I might have if I had said, “Now I’m going to address the future. What will the future look like?” I just kind of followed the sky and looked around and imagined what was there.”
- “Like if my iPod doesn’t work, I do not run. It is not an option.”
- [Songs she’s been listening to lately]: “”Telephone” and “Let’s Dance,” especially “Telephone.” They’re not good songs, I know that, but it’s not really about quality.”
- “One of the things that’s so fascinating about Adrian Leblanc’s book Random Family is that she never once uses the word “I.” And that’s a very radical extreme, because she was clearly deeply intertwined in these peoples’ lives.”
- “It’s not like I thought it was impossible to do it, but it didn’t seem conceivable I would. I think part of it is, honestly, I think sometimes it’s hard to imagine things that haven’t happened already.”
- “I just want to try and write another book in under five or six years.”
- “I’m really out of it in the world of youngish actresses. I know that when I originally — this will show you how long ago I was writing about [flameout celebrity] Kitty Jackson — I was thinking of Cameron Diaz.”
“It doesn’t have ANY effect on your life.What do you care? People try to talk about it like it’s a social issue. Like when you see someone stand up on a talk show and say “How am I supposed to explain to my child that two men are getting married?” …. I dunno,it’s your shitty kid, you fuckin’ tell ‘em. Why is that anyone else’s problem? Two guys are in LOVE but they can’t get married because YOU don’t want to talk to your ugly child for fuckin’ five minutes?” -Louis C.K.
Always, always, always warrants a reblog.
i just choked i laughed so hard.
Louis C.K. = brilliant.
(Source: thesoapboxschtick)
remarkable things: The MFA Octopus: Four Questions About Creative Writing
Always finding interesting things to read by way of Jenny January! Many thanks.
Mark McGurlFrank Conroy © Bruce Davidson
1. Why do people hate creative writing programs so much?
Well they don’t really, not everyone, or there wouldn’t be so many of them—hundreds. From modest beginnings in Iowa in the 1930’s, MFA programs have spread out across…
(Source: lareviewofbooks)
Jennifer Egan on her Reading Habits
“I usually get into bed with a novel and our Post-it-studded Times. I try to read the Times thoroughly and carefully at the end of the day. I’m fully aware that the news is two days old by then, and of course in certain areas I’ll be way ahead of it, but it’s the depth that I enjoy, and I find that it serves me well when the news isn’t fresh. The depth is twofold; on the one hand, I want to try to understand what’s going on, rather than just know what’s going on. On the other, I’m always trying to feed the unconscious part of me that’s scheming away—often without my conscious knowledge—at fiction writing. I never know what material that fiction writing part will end up needing or using, but I do like to let it chew through the Times on a daily basis. After I’m done with that, I read fiction. Reading fiction is purely fun for me—and luckily it’s also something that feeds the work I do. Yesterday I finished Meg Wolitzer’s The Uncoupling, which I thoroughly enjoyed, and I’m about to start Jessica Hagedorn’s Toxicology, which I’ve heard great things about. I think the last thing I read that got profoundly under my skin was Emma Donohue’s Room, which I read a couple of weeks ago. I thought about it as I read a news story (in the Times, of course!) about the guilty plea by that couple in California who kidnapped an 11-year-old girl, Jaycee Dugard, 20 years ago. They imprisoned her in the backyard and she had two daughters by her captor before she was discovered. Because of Room, I read the news story with a sense of resonant personal knowledge that I’ve never felt about those stories of captivity before. The feeling reminded me of why fiction is critical to me—more than nonfiction, and I say that as a journalist! Nonfiction expands my knowledge, but fiction broadens my experience. Reading the news story, I thought: I’m so glad to have read Room.”—
Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Egan dishes on her media diet. Read the rest at The Atlantic Wire (via theatlantic)
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