December 2009
New Zeroes: A Decade's Work
On December 31, 1999, I was living in Amherst, Massachusetts, had just returned from two weeks in South Africa, was sunburned and soft from spending my first week back in the States spacing out on my futon, listening to Seattle Indymedia stream audio updates from the WTO protests (and internet radio over a 56K modem, never forget), and making a new website for my online diary and photography. I...
Watchwheniwas16:
ASCII Love, by {{ ClinicEscort }}}
Make your own video for Scarleteen: you give love, and I give my money.
“So why would someone pretend to be a sex worker?… Even more puzzling: Why,...”
– Beyond the “Faux Hos” – What about the Faux Academics? « Kittywampus (via Kat)
“Beginning on Oct. 23, 1932, and ending on Nov. 10, 1934, Incest offers Nin’s...”
– George Elliott Clarke
“My theory is that making out with someone will cost you one star on their...”
– Stephen Elliott
pandering
mariadiaz:
sick all day, slept all day, naturally can’t sleep now that it is night time. seem to have eliminated this weird little bug for the most part, which you know, thank God, since i leave for SF in two days. read this hilarious book megan allison bought me called mayflower madam, that i think was the plot for one of the very first law and order episodes.
it is a about a lady who ran an...
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WatchDance-off, you guys. Enjoy ten tracks from my actual tackygothstripper playlists, c. 1999 - 2004 (and, yes, Mary — that too).
“The future of sex, if you went looking for it inside of computers, was probably...”
– Here’s Your Fucking Jetpack: The 00’s & the Sex Future That Wasn’t (or, my decade wrap-up post)
Watchwheniwas16:
Taylor Lindsay: “My contribution to @melissagira’s ‘When I was 16’. (crossposting from yfrog, thx, T.)
First video is in, in less than 6 hours!
“I was thinking about sex. About the woman I helped from her boots and into her...”
– Stephen Elliott, The Daily Rumpus, 22 Dec 2009
Watchvia me at wheniwas16:
When I was 16, there was no Scarleteen (which is the best place on the internet to learn about sex, by and for young people of all genders & orientations).
So for every video you make in response to this one, about what sex ed was like on the internet when you were 16, I’ll give $5 to Scarleteen.
(You have to make it and submit it by December 30, and I’m pledging...
“You know what I’m tired of? The “how does the female orgasm fit into...”
– Do it like they do on the Discovery Channel - early to bed: sex toys, sex advice, vibes, and dildos (via tissie)
“I feel the real criminals in this situation aren’t even the men who kill sex...”
– Amanda Brooks (via amberlrhea)
Then sometimes I don't take pictures
W 22nd St with no one on it is my morning meditation: when the F train aligns with the C, when I can slip across the platform and catch sleepy commuter eyefuls and wonder if they are blinking back at whatever is pouring out of my headphones.
I come up from underground and my coat covers my skirt so I’m all legs and heeled ankle boots in a New England silhouette. I look at them in every...
“…by “feminism,” she apparently means the blog Jezebel, or perhaps this one...”
– Meta-enabling just got feminist-er. (Sady, Feministe, via lindsayism)
Feminism: you can't take that away from me (was:...
amberlrhea:
No time to reply at length now (gotta get back to work) but Melissa, I have to say, I really dislike this argument: “most of the stuff we fight over being “feminist” or not is really a distraction enjoyed by people with enough privilege to fight about it.” I get what you mean by it, and I get that most people who use it have only the best intentions. But to me it rings too much of,...
Sex Wars
If you guys were all in the same room, you’d probably agree with each other. And without making this worse, a few things:
amberlrhea:
sexartandpolitics:
jgh:
sexartandpolitics:
It’s noon on Monday and we’re already rehashing the sex wars?
Fuck the third wave is a new one. Really, JGH? That seems… overly broad for a dislike of the selling back to women the idea of sexual agency.
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“But the most potent eye imagery is only in the video for a few brief seconds,...”
– From Oscar Moralde’s exhaustive study of the music videos of Lady Gaga, at The House Next Door. (via karinalongworth)
“Some find the edges of the world and creation by making their best effort to...”
– from the Diary, 13 Dec 2009, G train
A recording of a letter from Henry Miller to Anaïs...
