i know i am putting all my time into grad school and i am sorry and i miss you, too, i so so promise.

BUT.

many of you, like i do, appreciate the severe goodwill involved in the it gets better project.  AND THEN I READ ABOUT THIS JACKASSERY, and i cannot contain my undiluted despair.  are you kidding me.  ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.  how can we even ( Read more... )

i want to say something.  i want to say something perfect.  i want to say something so perfectly that what is done will come undone.

make me magic, universe.  make the impossible not.  pleasepleasepleaseprettyplease.

so unless the entire feminist blogosphere is plugged into your rss reader, you might've missed this crazy hoopla about mo'nique's hairy legs.

here's the thing.  i'm attending an awards show on sunday (i'm performing and i'm up for an award).  i'm wearing a sleeveless dress.  i haven't shaved since approximately august, and now i'm wondering: would ( Read more... )

if you do not watch this and fall into instalove with doug hayko, you and i should probably stop conversing about performance art:

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all right, poets, here is the what’s what.

unless you live in omaha, you probably have not heard of the empty room project.  nebraska poets are sharing the empty room with local furniture sculptors the month of november, and we’re calling it organism: a festival of words & building.  one of the poets’ projects?  we’re wallpapering the empty room ( Read more... )

lcross's final tweet: “That's it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me?”  le. sigh.

o, craig.

an activist apology to remember.

may all my concessions be as contrite--and as sincere.

oh, wow.

yes.

Ghost of a Chance
by Adrienne Rich

You see a man
trying to think.

You want to say
to everything:
Keep off!  Give him room!
But you only watch,
terrified
the old consolations
will get him at last
like a fish
half-dead from flopping
and almost crawling
across the shingle,
almost breathing
the raw, agonizing
air
till a wave
pulls it back blind into the triumphant
sea.