8 to 14 Dec 24 QOTW
Image description: I stand on the pavement of an abandoned road in between black skid marks that stop where I stand. I wear a toque, a pink fanny pack, a leopard print cardigan, a brown vest and blue jeans. There is graffiti on the left, and trees on both sides. Apartment building in the background.
Sunday
If I were to believe everything I see, then I would believe that sex only happens between thin people. Only men with abdominal muscles do it. Only women with big tits get to bang. Men and women only do it with each other. Sex is for straight people, and sex only ever happens between two of them, never more or fewer than that. Sex is for white people. Sex is for pretty people. Sex is for able-bodied young people. Sex is spontaneous. Sex involves penetration. Sex lasts approximately 4.2 minutes. Sex happens in bedrooms, at night. Sex is predictable.
How very, deeply boring.
Kaleigh Trace, Hot Wet & Shaking, How I learned to Talk About Sex
Monday
One does not get better, but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Gertrude Stein as quoted in Pocket Queer Wisdom
Tuesday
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
as quoted in Pocket Queer Wisdom
Wednesday
Writing had returned, the stream, the slender silent stream with its singing arms, the blood flow in the veins between the bodies, the wordless dialogue from blood to blood, with no sense of the distances, the magic flux full of silent words flowing from one community to the other, from one life to the other, the strange legend, inaudible except to the heart of one or the other, the narrative weaving itself on high, who will decipher it the throbbing weave of clandestinity.
Hélène Cixous, firstdays of the year, translated with and a preface by Catherine A. F. Macgillivray
Thursday
We need an anti-capitalist feminism—a feminism for the 99 percent.
from Feminism for the 99%, A Manifesto, by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser
Friday
A book is a container: a package that contains matter and is matter, an object that at once holds and is held.
Jenni B. Baker as quoted in The Book: 101 Definitions, edited by Amaranth Borsuk
I was pleased to see Jenni quoted in this book. Jenni was a great writer and publisher who died in 2020. I had the pleasure of taking part in some of the playful publications Jenni and her husband, Douglas Luman created and sustained. She is still very much missed.
Saturday
Leave the door open for the unknown, the door in the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, and where you will go.
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
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