Go underground, Chris Forsyth
Americans recoil at the glorification of Japanese kamikaze pilots during World War II or of suicide bombers in the Middle East; Rogue One has the uncomfortable effect of making us sympathize with zealots willing to martyr themselves for the cause.
Ian Doescher, The Empire is us: the politics of ‘Rogue One’, Politico
Romina Ressia
“Portrait with Bubble Gum”
The religious right turns out to be the people the religious right warned us about.
Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptists’ Convention Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Everyone loves rainbow highlighters. They make you look like a beautiful pixie who fronts a glam-rock band. Also, white nationalism is a cancer on our democracy. Women are capable of holding both of these truths in their minds, and prioritizing them accordingly.
Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. Detail from
Portrait of Anne Catherine Le Preudhomme de Chatenoy, Comtesse de Verdun, as fine gardener, 1780.
The writers of these sites—nearly all women, and nearly all amateurs—annihilated the boundaries of traditional women’s media. Not only was their writing “political” by definition, the subculture rewarded an assertive, opinionated style and the ability to tackle a wide variety of topics. Essays about abortion rights belonged on a feminist blog, but so did posts about wage discrimination, Ben Roethlisberger’s rape charges, and the latest Judd Apatow movie. […] The only real criteria when it came to determining coverage was that the subject had to affect women—which, upon close examination, turned out to be true of literally everything.
In the absence of ultimate power, I will settle for a happy life.
secretive dreams 