public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist strategy. Writing is tough work, I don’t see how anyone can really write from a position of weakness. Sometimes I may start out in that position, but the act of commandeering words flips me into a position of power.

Dodie Bellamy

Tag: writing feminism

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I suppose that words equal sex, or at least enough words, six and a half hours' worth.

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We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.

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It's such a burden to have to pull off smart...

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All of this occurs in the past, except this sentence.

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I couldn't stand to be alone, yet I didn't want anyone to witness my dailiness, an indiscriminate collage of fragments, random encounters.

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