October 2011
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“Instead of (and only rarely in addition to) activism, our generation has blog...”
– Emily Books: Is The Personal Blog Post Political? by Nozlee Samadzadeh
This is an interesting one. I’m not sure how I feel about whether truthtelling on its own can set us free …
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it had been a while!
K: How are you?
me: (what must be an incredibly specific facial expression)
K: Oh no. Did something bad happen on the internet?
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No More Nice Girls playlist →
emilybooks
On her tumblr Ruth dedicated this to “all the not-nice girls, the train wrecks, and the revolutionaries out there, the tampon-throwers, the shit-kickers, and all the girls who got the swag pumping out their ovaries.”
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“Treating for-profit bookstores as charities— not to mention making an official...”
– The Bennett Madison Extravaganza
I was talking about exactly this with a bookseller recently. I don’t shop at Word because ordering from Amazon makes me feel guilty, I shop there because the people who work there have a better idea of whether I’ll like something than an algorithm ever...
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“When Willis writes about a “unified erotic impulse”—a convergence of lust,...”
– Emily Books: I Like Fucking/I Hate Danger by Arianna Stern
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“I hardly need to describe the joy of reading a jeremiad that doesn’t quite play...”
– Emily Books: Getting It
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“My friend who complained that no one had gone negative on No More Nice Girls...”
– Emily Books: Getting It by me
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“What if we really started taking this seriously—for everyone? Do I hear music?”...”
– Emily Books: The Courage of Someone Else’s Convictions by Elizabeth Gumport
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“Feminism can seem like a terrifying totality, forcing its adherents to see...”
– Emily Books: Not The Border But The Space by Zan Romanoff
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“So long as mothers must depend on the “voluntary commitment” of men who can...”
– Emily Books: Ellen Willis zingers
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“The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it...”
– Ellen Willis, “It’s Later Than You Think”, Out Of The Vinyl Deeps
on being a “survivor” of the sixties. Coincidentally, this is how I feel about “surviving” my twenties!
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“I mean, what would Ellen Willis have made of prom proposals? The royal wedding...”
– Emily Books: Re: The Last Unmarried Person In America by Marisa Meltzer. It’s seriously tragic that we can’t know.
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“These incidents, along with the casual way Willis writes about them,...”
– Emily Books: The Playing Field by Miranda Popkey
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“The anti-choice movement has the fetus posters, the toddlers in the “My Mommy...”
– Emily Books
Nicole Cliffe’s last prepartum book review! Well, one of the last, anyway, she’ll probably write six more today.
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“This company spent thousands of dollars flying Shannon and I to LA, to meet with...”
– “That’s not our demographic.”: If A Tree Falls in the Forest…
Please read this whole thing if you haven’t already. And then get your next pair of leggings somewhere other than American Apparel.
(via emilybooks)
I would never suggest that you steal, but those fancy lululemon leggings have been...
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“The cheap pseudo-redemption of catharsis” is an occupational hazard for anyone...”
– Alice Gregory, writing about “Sins of Confession” (1981) by Ellen Willis
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