from Kathy Acker’s In Memoriam to Identity
(Source: postapathy)
holy shit yes, a documentary about Death. one of the earliest punk bands. broke up a year before Bad brains were even a band.
m”for henry flynt” by ha-yang kim.
this is beautiful and ugly. my favorite thing about life.
A Minor Forest live in Indiana 1996
"It would please me to be wrong about this, but I get the impression that most anti-censorship feminists are just relieved that it’s “only” S/M material, which they never approved of anyway, which is being threatened. When they attacked the Meese Commission or criticized obscenity legislation authored by anti-porn activists, these women were repeatedly characterized by their opponents as sadomasochists, supporters of child abuse, advocates of rape, pimps, fascists, etc. They resented being associated with what they think of as the sexual lunatic fringe. I don’t think many of them will have the guts to risk getting smeared again by trying to arouse some public indignation over gross violations of S/M people’s First Amendment rights and right to privacy. But somebody needs to say that this is censorship, that it is not okay, that we cannot afford to ignore it. It seems that the sex debate in the women’s movement is right back where it started - the only people who dare criticize anti-porn crusades are perverts, because we are the ones most at risk and we are the ones who have nothing to lose. Meanwhile, it’s business as usual back in Women’s Studies and the ACLU."
— introduction to Macho Sluts by Pat Califia
Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)
rest in power jason
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I would like to see a community in which tops could gain status by having the guts to put their asses on the line and take a little of what they dish out. How can someone who has no idea what it feels like to be physically restrained or hurt know the value of what the bottom is giving them or calculate how much “punishment” to dole out?
Thanks to the women’s movement, we no longer believe that biology is destiny. But I sometimes wonder if we have not transferred many of our old gender patterns to the top/bottom dynamic. We sometimes forget that we assume S/M roles to gratify our fantasies. We still assume that being penetrated is a submissive act and sticking it in is dominant. Pleasure is still assumed to degrade and disenfranchise women. This sounds too much like the values of the New Christian Right to me. We’ve made a major improvement on heterosexist mores by insisting that the bottom can be a man or a woman, has control, has the right to consent or refuse, and should always get off. But I think we should be very challenging the very meanings that we assign all sexual acts. This is the truly radical potential of S/M. Are we frightened by the idea of having that much freedom?
"— The limits of the S/M relationship or Mr. Benson doesn’t live here anymore by Pat Califia
Been listening to this track a lot today.
I’ve been busy with this story I’ve been writing. Every time I write, the pen seems to run out of ink as soon as I try to finish the ending. By the time I find a pen, the paper is unwilling to accept the new ink so I have to start over. The cute old man at the stationary store told me this would happen. I thought he was just trying to be silly and inspire me. I told him I had been working on a short story but wasn’t able to finish the ending becau
“police” by chokebore
