“…he’s the master at weirdly relatable, normal dirty talk, the kind of dirty talk that doesn’t sound like a hodge podge of nonsensical unrelated curse words and body parts strung together like a popcorn garland.” — Amelia McDonell-Parry
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Kim Boekbinder showers Stoya with Molly money at #shellgame. Photo by Steve Prue
“…within the pink-and-gray-specked Atlantic granite confines of Zuccotti, the physical book had been repurposed. If its interior can be digitized, the pages and spine are even more free to take up space as we do with our bodies, in parks and ports, and in intersections and auction houses, on sidewalks and even on the steps of the New York Public Library, where the mobile library brought out a small reference collection one Sunday, a selection from the few books recovered from the raid, evidence of the destruction that released whiffs of gasoline-scented rot when you flipped the pages. Now that the physical book itself must do less, maybe that’s why now it can be laid on the line.” — Take This Book, which, now that the story has turned its final bend, gets a public release (and if you didn’t get to back it during the original Kickstarter run at the end of 2011, now is your chance, and you can sign up to the Glass Houses newsletter to be alerted when)
“While I was in the process of leaving my abusive ex-partner, I confided in my social worker (after asking at length about her confidentiality policy, which she assured me was full proof) that I had previously worked as a sex worker in a parlor. She agreed to leave this off my notes but informed that had I still been working at that time, she would have informed child protective services. When I asked why, since I was based away from my house and my children were looked after by family while I was at work, she said that “prostitution is usually indicative of other issues.” Later, speaking to a friend of mine at the brothel about this, she told me that her child had been removed from her care because her ex partner told child protective services about her job during a custody dispute. There did not need to be “other issues”; the assumption of other dysfunction and ignorance of the realities of sex work was enough that she lost her child to the state. Another friend of mine from the same parlor was threatened by her soon to be ex-husband with being outed if she obtained legal council during their separation. Rather than take the risk of losing her children and her family, she lost her house, financial stability, all her savings and everything she had worked for up to that point. Her ex-husband took everything.” — The Legends are True: I’m A Whore (and why I will never tell my family) | The Life and Works of Olive Seraphim (via redupnyc)
“Lock-em-up laws, aggressive policing, runaway prosecutions and racist policing have all been about enforcing a new social order on population segments whose labor is no longer needed as it was 50 years ago, and for whom no jobs, training, quality housing or meaningful education will be provided. Prisons are about showing somebody who’s boss, about perceived “public safety”, about enforcing an unjust social order.” — Black Mass Incarceration —— Is It New? Is It Jim Crow? Is the Prison-Industrial Complex Real? And What Difference Does It Make
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“Lilly’s designs seemed to emanate, to borrow a phrase from Tad Friend, “cheerful money.” Now, in a decade where there is a lack of money, or guilty quiet money, Lilly Pulitzer dresses seem like relics–shrouds of Turin in polka dotted lime green. After all, pink and green and paisley all mixed together could really only be worn by people secure enough in their place in the world to not give a damn–people who, if they had problems, discussed them on their sailboats. And when problems take place at the New York Yacht Club, how bad can they really be?” — Remembering Lilly Pulitzer, Jennifer Ashley Wright