February 2012
60 posts
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“woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing,...”
– helene cixous, the laugh of the medusa, 1975 (via karaj)
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“I am what is called a sex-positive feminist. Or maybe a radical feminist, or,...”
– Liz Phair forever
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Tumblr Highlights
katespencer:
Remember four years ago when we all bought each other “gifts” on Facebook and then quickly realized it was dumb and a total waste of money?
Apparently Tumblr does not.
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“I used my last drops of Whole Foods dental insurance on wisdom teeth removal,...”
– Emily Books: More Than Most by Arianna Stern
on mentors and post-college disillusionment
thematically related to Sempre Susan, which, buy it already
(we’ll also have print books available at the event on the 12th if you haven’t gotten into ereading for whatever reason)
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January 2012
39 posts
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“I am not sure whether, even if I had welcomed it, these women would have wanted...”
– Emily Books: Almost-Mentors
by Megan Marz. More on this mentoring thing soon … we have a very weird and cool event in the works
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Ladies, Women and Girls
I found Molly Fischer’s essay about Jezebel, The Hairpin, xojane.com and Rookie interesting, provocative, and deeply frustrating. Her dissection of these blogs’ aesthetics and the rhetorical styles they’ve bred in their commenter-bases is skillful, but what is its point? There are a lot of filler posts and overt invitations to commenter sycophancy on blogs. This is a little...
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Sippin’ On The Stock Of The Bay
americastestkitchen:
Cook’s Illustrated executive editor Amanda Agee ladles herself a tray full of samples of water in which bay leaves had been steeped for various amounts of time during a taste test for an upcoming Kitchen Notes entry. See more behind-the-scenes photos at: http://bit.ly/o0qi36
PSA: this is a great tumblr to follow if you love taste tests, recherché cooking tips and dumb...
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