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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Pussy & Poetry: Day 9: Found Lacking



"It's okay to want to leave.
You don't have to explain it to anyone." --Gina Myers

"Every living being...is expected to contain all others" --Claude Cahun

"I fall into their net of dust" --Megan Kaminski



"In war, we have the leisure to remember anything" --Leslie Scalapino

"her story is political, not magical" --Andrea Dworkin

"desire is always a desire of a desire" --Tracey McTague




"and we're entitled to have everything now" --Bernadette Mayer

"It's easy to use someone's body" --Farrah Field 



"I let myself fall apart" --Lee Ann Brown

"The geography of feminine pleasure is not worth listening to" --Luce Irigaray


"you have to be careful who you tell
because you tell and tell
you never stop telling" --Kathyrn Pringle

"It takes eternal war to hold the border tight" --Rachel Levitsky



"I have gone wandering but I always hear a call." --Alice Notley

"One does not always stay intact" --Judith Butler

"Hope lies in the possibility of a resistance that's based on being able to face our reality as it is."
 --bell hooks




Sometimes it's hard to hear over the noise.
 For all the women who keep speaking in the face of absurdity. 



2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi, just wondering why my name is in your blog juxtaposed with this image. Do we know each other? Kind regards, Tracey McTague, San Jose

Solid Quarter said...

Well... you aren't the only person with this name, so why you would assume it's referencing you is quite a feat of narcissism.