ON MENTORSHIP: John Cage
This comes from derek beaulieu. He notes "i think it's worth noting that cage didn't write this piece himself, he adopted it from Sister Corita Kent."
Daphne Marlatt: On Theory, A Sunday
Reading Theory, A Sunday, the recently released Belladonna English edition, of that 1988 Quebecoise feminist classic, La Theorie, un dimanche, was for me a curiously double experience. Energizing, heartening, both pertinent and at the same time nostalgia-inducing for what seems a simpler time, now that we teeter on the brink of looming global climate crisis...
How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Joanna Russ
Bad Faith Denial of Agency Pollution of Agency The Double Standard of Content False Categorizing Isolation Anomalousness Lack of Models Response Aesthetics I have been gathering found poems such as the one above for several years now. They are, in a sense, too easy and I'm wary of actually doing anything with them, but...
Daphne Marlatt: Of Mini-Ships and Archives
To think about women’s archives is to think about how recently (say, in the last century and a half) women’s lives in the Western world have moved from the private and domestic sphere to the public cultural-political one, becoming “collectable.” This transit from private to public is embedded in the origin (or at least as...
Lisa Robertson & Catriona Strang
Here, we find an archival gem that illuminates the pinnacle of an exceptional moment for women's writing in Canada, in Vancouver in particular. Here, in the thrum of the Giantess (a chapbook series I am trying hard to bring to you) at the birth of Debbie, of Debbie: An Epic, in a moment of Raddle...
Donna Haraway: from “A Cyborg Manifesto”
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181. AN IRONIC DREAM OF A COMMON LANGUAGE FOR WOMEN IN THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism,...
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Gertrude Stein: Poetry & Grammar
What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose. There is no use in telling more than you know, no not even if you do not know it. But do you do you know what prose is and do you know what poetry is. I have said that the words in...
Virginia Woolf: Why?
When the first number of LYSISTRATA appeared, I confess that I was deeply disappointed. It was so well printed, on such good paper. It looked established, prosperous. As I turned the pages it seemed to me that wealth must have descended upon Somerville, and I was about to answer the request of the editor for...
Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial
by hecksinductionhour | August 8, 2012 · 7:40 pm Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial Yekaterina Samutsevich, defendant in the criminal case against the feminist punk group Pussy Riot: In the closing statement, the defendant is expected to repent, express regret for their deeds or enumerate attenuating circumstances. In my case, as...
Feminist Boot Camp #301: Don’t Fear Criticism
The veiled insult. The I can't find anything wrong with this book, but it stinks, so I'll pepper it with backhanded compliments. I'll show those people who can really write (i.e. me, the reviewer, not this lame duck poet). When people speak about negative criticism I am always a little cautious about responding. I'm never...
ON MENTORSHIP: Natalee Caple