May 2013
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April 2013
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Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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“After learning my flight was detained 4 hours,
I heard the announcement:
If...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (b. 1952), “Wandering Around an Albuquerque Airport Terminal.” I think this poem may be making the rounds, this week, but that’s as it should be. (via oliviacirce)
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March 2013
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February 2013
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January 2013
10 posts
super queer artsy blog: About 9gag, sexism and my... →
kateordie:
superqueerartsyblog:
A few days has passed since I hurriedly made my last post. I still feel the urge to write a bloody essay a few lines about what happened to one of my comics and elaborating how I feel about that.
For you who don’t know what happened…
I made a comic a while back. It was intended to…
I hate when people think it’s okay to edit my comics for their own purposes...
Hellboy in Hell: Print vs. Digital →
jimrugg:
Interesting rebuttal to the kneejerk “print is better than digital” party line, from a great cartoonist who also appreciated good book design.
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