“Subjectivity and subjectification don’t cease to exist because they say it’s what they “want”. If that’s what they want we say: boycott the self and divest from your whiteness: Divest, Divest DIVEST.” — the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo in an interview with Molly McArdle for Brooklyn Magazine.
ray(nise) cange wrote for Black Girl Dangerous about why they haven’t yet ruled out the possibility that Sandra Bland committed suicide: “We must hold nuanced discussions that address the implications of state violence while removing the stigma around mental health and suicide, recognizing that state-sanctioned violence can produce suicide as a response.”
In an op-ed for the New York Times, “On the Death of Sandra Bland and Our Vulnerable Bodies,” Roxane Gay takes Ta-Nehisi Coates’s thesis on the American tradition of destroying black bodies a step further: “It is also traditional to try and destroy the black spirit.”
Planned Parenthood’s website was shut down by hackers this past Wednesday. You can donate to Planned Parenthood here.
Sarah Mirk reviewed The Mask You Live In, a documentary film about modern (toxic) masculinity, for Bitch: “The documentary is wide-ranging, touching on everything from superheroes to domestic violence to the school-to-prison pipeline. While it’s sweeping in scope, the documentary does an admirable job explaining how our culture creates masculinity. It makes a point, too, to frame the conversation at the outset by differentiating sex and gender.”
Last week’s roundup also touched on Clarice Lispector, but anyone whose writing can be described as “telegraphs from the flames of hell” deserves at least several thousand mentions.
Poet Trace Peterson is teaching the first-ever course on transgender poetry at Hunter College this fall!
If you’re in New York, check out the Small Press Flea this Saturday at the Brooklyn Public Library.
The editors of Apogee Journal on the fundamental failure of blind submission policies: “Trying to strip a piece of literature from the identity of the person who wrote it is pretending that it exists outside of the culture in which it was created.”
“IF YOU CAN’T CRY YOU’RE A LIABILITY.” — Jill Soloway reinvents The Rules, but for women directors
Finally, Alexandra Petri has some excellent tips on how to speak while female: “Remember, be confident. You are woman. Hear you roar. It is the only vocalization you can freely make lest you be hounded off the airwaves and out of the workforce.”
What did we miss this week? Let us know in the comments <3
