you aint nuffin but a squonk

girly kitsch

a really fucken interesting article about gurlesque, a term Arielle Greenberg came up with to talk about the poetic works of contemporary female poets who are all working on lush, kitschy, tacky, poems concerned with sex, glitter, and the juvenile.

clearly, i am researching some shit to talk about for my mfa thesis which is due in 2 weeks–anyway, greenberg lumps matthea harvey, chelsey minnis, and others into this category and basically talks about how it a response to growing up in the 1970s and 1980s and the poetic “possibilities” females have since it is now sociallyacceptable to broach such matters

and excerpt:

And I should say here that the term Gurlesque came from three socio-historical strands that I see unite in this poetry: Mikhal Bakhtin’s theory of the carnivalesque,[6] in which commonly accepted roles and ideologies are turned on their heads for pleasure and humor; the teasing glamour and self-conscious parodies of sexuality in burlesque performance (which is itself enjoying a revival among young feminist artists right now[7]); and the riot grrrl punk/political movement of the early 1990s,[8] in which young women reclaimed both misogynist language—writing “brat” or “cunt,” on their bodies with markers—as well as “girly” costuming—knee-high socks and plastic barrettes—to call attention to the ways in which the mainstream and punk cultures dismiss girls.

Billy the Kid

I’m watching this right now. It’s painful and fascinating. Eep.

cant resist

o dood mad work to be done

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self portrait

[does not resist]

in january its so nice