“…to write poetry and be a poet is to get bombarded with stupidity like you’re invited to be on panels with titles like does poetry matter. […] And of course as a poet you have to react. It’s like being female and listening forever to people say dumb things about who women are and you wonder if you will ever get to simply be.” – Eileen Myles on Dorothea Lasky for Rookie’s Hero Status feature.
“The consistently old Cartesian dichotomy that “some” writers are engaged with the process of ideas (and therefore abstraction and therefore elevated) while “others” are fixated to the realm of the earthly crass and contingently precise: these are clearly marked racialized and gendered divisions” – The Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo critiques “White Conceptualism” over at Montevidayo.
Jennifer Tamayo is planning a public cry-in for Ana Mendieta on the last day of Carl Andre’s Dia Beacon retrospective.
In her acceptance speech at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Viola Davis thanks the creators of How to Get Away with Murder for “thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old, dark-skinned, African-American woman who looks like me.”
Gawker reminds outraged dudes that nobody is putting women in their beloved Ghostbusters movie.
The unholy and inevitable marriage of bell hooks and Saved by the Bell has arrived.
Two upcoming NYC events that look amazing: Barnard’s The Scholar & Feminist XL: Action on Education, and Endangered by the Moving Image: The Criminalization of Black and Brown Bodies at the Museum of the Moving Image.
The NFL will be airing a new PSA addressing domestic violence during the Super Bowl tomorrow—a step in the right direction for sure, but I appreciate this piece critiquing the ad’s overall message.
