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How not to say the wrong thing, by Susan Silk and Barry Goldman [via Melissa Fuller]. “Draw a circle. This is the center ring. In it, put the name of the person at the center of the current trauma. For Katie’s aneurysm, that’s Katie. Now draw a larger circle around the first one. In thatContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN”

From Two LSAT logic games for writers by Elizabeth L. Silver in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: “Question 2 Twenty-five artists recently graduated from a liberal arts university and are looking for day jobs with flexibility. Five are writers, five are painters, one is a sculptor, two are dancers, two are musicians, and ten are actors. They need toContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN”

From Jack Halberstam, “You are triggering me! The Neo-Liberal Rhetoric of Harm, Danger and Trauma.” “Fifteen to twenty years ago, books like Wendy Brown’s States of Injury(1995) and Anna Cheng’sThe Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief (2001) asked readers to think about how grievances become grief, how politics comes to demand injury and how aContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN”

The internet really loves Paulo Ito’s mural about the World Cup. Below, a less celebrated (maybe more telling) piece on the same.

Leslie Jamieson, from The Empathy Exams: A medical actor writers her own script. “Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries. Sadness becomes a seizure. Empathy demands another kind of porousness in response. My Stephanie script is twelve pages long. I think mainly about what it doesn’tContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN”

From Pictures in Boxes.

With Allies Like These: Reflections on Privilege Reductionism — there is just so much gold here. Not a complete endorsement of the article, but a loud sigh of relief: at least we weren’t the only ones thinking this. Some highlights: “Black Power can be dismissed as anti-feminist and homophobic. Labour struggles are racist, colonialist, and patriarchal. RadicalContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT”

And then I woke up.

Gore Vidal, in an interview largely about how much he hates Hemingway, 1974. “INTERVIEWER Besides the pleasures of living, are there any advantages in terms of perspective for the writer who lives outside the country? VIDAL For me, every advantage. If I lived in America, I would be a politician twenty-four hours a day, minding everybodyContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SIX”

From RRRRRRRROLL: an art collective from Japan that makes art gifs.