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crochet hat tutorial

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LRB Review: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n11/tom-crewe/my-hands-in-my-face

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The Reader (2008) Stephen Daldry

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Prozac Nation (2001) Erik Skjoldbjærg

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Thomas Ruff, deadpan portraits

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Good Material by Dolly Alderton

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Working Girl by Sophia Giovannitti

said by Lorelei Lee (writer and pornographer): "It happens pretty often that artists, or writers, or documentary filmmakers, will want to make pornography their subject. They'll come to set and they'll frame the same photograph that the production assistant was just framing, or they'll take a shitter photograph behind the cameraperson who is actually creating pornography. It's like our performance is being viewed through the lens of someone who's socially sanctioned as an "artmaker" which gives the general public permission to find meaning in pornography as a subject, but without centering the voices of people who are actually making pornography and losing social credibility for making these performances."

"white writers and artists on the left gain platforms and credibility in leaning on any marginalized aspects of their identities and can opt in and out of these identities at will, enjoying different forms of legibility in different spaces. Writers of color can't opt out and often aren't assigned pieces beyond identity politics, particularly if they do not also have the right socioeconomic or academic background."

"enduring a man's efforts to push my boundaries is commonplace and boring, just like working to live. But taking pains to find such violations interesting, as opposed to alarming or disappointing, gives us a way to live within them more easily, letting them linger in only certain parts of the mind."

generally, a lot of smart references to how we think about sex as a commodity, how it intersects with art as we sell ourselves/as the subject of art itself becomes sex.

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Heroines by Kate Zambrano

"I have two selves too. The me that lectures women on literature where husbands oppress their wives, and the me that secretly lives that life."

"In 1970, at a meeting before the America Psychological Association, a mostly male audience of psychologists, feminist psychologist Phyllis Chesler asked for one million dollars in reparations for women who had been "punitively labeled, overly tranquilized, sexually seduced while in treatment, hospitalized against their wills, given shock therapy, lobotomized, and above all, unnecessarily described as too aggressive, promiscuous, depressed, ugly, old, fat or incurable." The audience sat there in silence. Maybe they thought it was a joke."

"I began to realize the need for another kind of invisible community. Where mostly we suffer alone, in anonymity."

"Genius always excuses ill behavior."

"So much of modernism is myth-making -- who gets to be remembered. Whose writing is preserved and whose it not?"

"Sally Bowles reminds me of girls who are witty and brilliant and stylish characters but not yet authors-- like art-school chiks. They prefer living as opposed to writing, or living while highly conscious of the gaze."

"The femme fatale is self-destructive, the femme fatale is also murdered."

"So many brilliant girls in Surrealism who catalyzed books and artworks - they were the empty lovely receptacles he could fill with his own spirit."

"All my beautiful pieces I keep like in a museum, because I don't want them ruined somehow by the stink or casualness of my body."

"Yet a room of one's own can feel like a prison if there's no reason to leave it."

Foucault: "author-function"when one is considered an author, everything is the work, when one is not, it lacks legitimacy

"Why is self-expression, the relentless self-portrait, not a potentially legitimate form of art? Why do we have this notion that to write the autobiographical (especially if you are a woman), even in the context of a novel, is to not write literature?"

"When you reduce an author or character's torment to a diagnostic category you are not allowing her the existential alienation of a novelist-hero, but the narcissism of a heroine."

"Does literature written by women need to be feminist, or does it need to be honest, to document the cultural reality? Yes, to critique it but also to explore its nuances, and perhaps even to subvert it. For sometimes we are destroyed by love. Or we don't want to get old. These thoughts still haunt many of us."

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Burn the Diaries by Moyra Davey

http://images.xhbtr.com/v2/pdfs/1013/moyra-davey-burn-the-diaries.pdf

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The Problem of Reading — Moyra Davey

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Moyra Davey — Notes on Photography and Accident

https://murrayguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Davey_Notes_on_Photography__Accident.pdf

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Morvern Callar (2002) Lynne Ramsay

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpAeygE4d1A&pp=0gcJCfwAo7VqN5tD

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I'm Not Everything I want To Be (2025) Klára Tasovská

film made from stills about the life of photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková

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Death Becomes Her (1992) Robert Zemeckis

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A Little Life