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Fiction! Fiction! Canadian-American author of Exquisite Mariposa ( @softskull ) Organizing host of Hard to Read
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10 years ago I wrote the viral article that introduced
#normcore
to the world. The experience was beautiful and awful, I was dogpiled and de-authored, a thread…
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This isn’t an oral history, it’s 3 people telling their side of a much larger story. My oral history—26 notable voices telling the true secret history of normcore—will be published in
@InterviewMag
in print and online next week
the oral history of K-Hole's Normcore, an actual decade later, by
@delia_cai
. Probably one of the more salient cultural ideas of the past decade
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@IBJIYONGI
@LizzieBordenLA
I did a lot of
#MeToo
follow-up talks and UBI came up a lot as a real material thing that would reduce sexual violence and coercion, get ppl out of abusive relationships, make sex work more safe.. here Liara Roux @
@thekiranoir
talk about this..
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Clarice Lispector, Ingeborg Bachmann, & Eve Babitz each accidentally set themselves on fire
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sux the only way u can discredit power elites is with a sex scandal
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I’m always thinking about how normcore as meme was the result of my having a crush on a bookstore coworker who dressed like that while experiencing the misfortune of sleeping with Brad Troemel.
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loves, our next will be on 05.15 in Hollywood w/
@durgapolashi
@snpsnpsnp
Grace Dunham &
@lol_prosciutto
more soon
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p much every fuck up i've been ashamed of & had to make amends for from my last 5 years has had to do with rushing things cause felt survivalist pressure to (e.g. need rent ahh! &/or editors/superiors pressuring..). faster & more ≠ better, often harmful + traumatizing in fact
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reminded today of this Paz feature that my wild friend Anna pulled together with writing by Durga + images from Bianca.. no date.. and I can't remember when, blurry years
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Love LA cause nowhere else am I introduced as "an intellectual."
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In a typical move, in order to save the $7 cost of an Uber pool, she walked herself and her maybe-fake maybe-not Galliano-era Dior baguette 2.5 hours across East Los Angeles.
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Hard to Read in NYC at
@bkdnyc
on 03/07
Mirror show
@NAVEL___LA
on 03/16
Celebrating women + the Internet with
@TheUniverse
@artwerk6666
@sougwen
@thistimeitsmimi
@mckenziewark
@martinesyms
@nnHirsch
&more ("Lovelace" by
@livingcurrency
for Ada + the predominance of porn online;)
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it's thunderstorm season in oaxaca so no stars but wet fecund air and whistling birds and taps on fronds and tequila
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For the last 5 months, I've been filming notable readers in my life reading favorite passages from favorite books, for this -- -- my first solo show / concept bookshop, as Hard to Read. Come buy a book; art; lie with me on a book bed made by Matt
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kindness curiosity kindness curiosity kindness curiosity kindness curiosity kindness curiosity kindness curiosity
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I’m still listening and the true full story of normcore has still yet to be told. It’s a huge story. This oral history is just the beginning:
@InterviewMag
@HUObrist
@dis
@amaliaulman
@venusxgg
@harinef
@khole_dena
@kholetrends
@ryanestrada
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from
@veeveeveeveevee
's amazing novel O.K. out this month from
@sorryhouse
. come to the party
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how many geniuses in a thread does it take to save the world
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US border guard: "You moved from one big city to the next, what dream you chasing?"
Me: "A revolution of consciousness."
He: stamps me thru.
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Sum1 give me resources to put together a conference on Millennial Astrology plz; focussing on the slow moving planets & asteroids; generational trends; what juicy energetic youth tipping into adulthood might collectively accomplish if we realize our collectivity
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"Let me assure you: the world is full of mediocre men who are stunning successes."
— Fran Lebowitz
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a BFF (b. 1950) brilliantly proposed this premise for The Purge franchise: one day a year every Millennial gets to kill one Boomer
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“To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.” ― Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
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aaaand an excerpt from
@veeveeveeveevee
's excellent novel O.K. forthcoming from
@sorryhouse
http://t.co/OlD2mD9MLk
via
@sex_magazine
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Not surprisingly, the 2 pubs that've called the shop asking after T. Swift's purchases: Jezebel & Cosmo
#samedifference
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Sorry.
Where Are Ü Now.
Love Yourself.
What Do You Mean?
I’ll Show You.
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I'm video chatting with Donna Haraway on Thurs 08/30 after a screening of Story Telling for Earthly Survival, Fabrizio Terranova's doc about her. Navel is hosting 2 screenings of the film, it's the LA premiere!, details + tix here:
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i will absolutely bite the hand that feeds me if it feeds me shit
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advanced reader copies are here for you reviewers, event bookers & book buyers 👋 one can also preorder - oct 1st release 🔥🦋🦋🦋🦋
cc
@softskull
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started writing about sex & tech, ended up writing about anxiety. conclusion: don’t fuck like u scroll
http://t.co/f7kBJAUrW1
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"like I think desire isn't lack. It's surplus energy ― a claustrophobia inside your skin"
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in which we start the only way we could with Fanny Howe
this pic too tho 😝
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ovulation: 2K words a day, consecutive sentences
pms: manic notes, poetry; all the knowing, the debilitating knowing
menses: read, edit, cry
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Exquisite Tour co-starring (in Hard to Read style)
@deankissick
@ArielaFreedman
@scarylovestory
@nightcoregirl
@fandangowu
@jamiesonwebster
(legends)
@PamelaDesBarres
@mkla11
& more
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100% of all proceeds from book sales will go to
@PPact
.
@veeveeveeveevee
launches O.K. at the Standard DTLA, Tues:
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Going viral with
#normcore
was the best education that money can’t buy. I got paid $400, got no work from it, was maligned by some of my sources & erased from a history I catalyzed; I learned the secrets of the universe
People get vile when things go viral. I went mute…
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Translating passages from Exquisite Mariposa so a French skater can read it at our Paris launch for the book (notes welcome, my French is as mature as the last time I was fluent) (dec 14th at After 8 books)
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a body recognition algorithm tries to detect "pornography" which it then censors. via Steyerl:
http://t.co/CRMW7m1Lhj
http://t.co/8TC6LeoTvf
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#Normcore
and “quiet luxury” can actually be traced back to the 18th century & "the Great Male Renunciation" when white ruling class men started dawning underclass drag so as to not get their heads cut off like the kings of the past
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I'D BE MORE BEAUTIFUL BUT I RAN OUT OF MONEY
Pippa Garner archive shirt
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Happy Canada Day! Exquisite Mariposa -- my subtextually very Canadian novel -- is excerpted on the
@TheWhiteReview
today -- "Episode 02, in which we meet Noo" (it's out Oct 1, we'll party-launch it at Primo's in Tribeca, pre-order a copy via
@softskull
)
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HARD TO READ at Bridget Donahue Gallery. Sunday Sept 12, 5:30pm doors. 99 Bowery, 2nd Floor. With
@brentdavidfr
@girlscallmurder
@ShailahE
#FernandoCerezoIII
#MarthaOatis
&
@martinesyms
&
@rocketcaleshu
on vide-o. HAPPY
#NYFW
cc
@nightboatbooks
@walkingaroun
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.
@LambdaLiterary
wants all LAMMY finalists - over 150 of us - to prerecord acceptance speech videos. Mariposa was nominated for Bisexual Fiction not BDSM jk/notacategory.. anyway I'll only do it if they change the hyperlinks on their site from Amazon to independent booksellers
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"It’s like the un-Trump... As things get worse, poetry gets better, because it becomes more necessary." —EILEEN
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Listening to/reading Camille Paglia is like playing a game of intellectual duck duck goose. I'm like prophet, prophet, bigot, run! So so fun
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the inverse of most cults — mine will lure individuals with the promise of sex and pleasure and instead deliver teachings on respect, solidarity, justice, transcendence, and communication with the gods in you and me and the trees (plotting my next year ;)
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"It’s a young female thing, that you’re just everybody’s property somehow. Like a dandelion seed." —C. Kraus extras
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tomorrow night come to our revolutionary letter reading party, 9-11PM, 46 Canal St
#2
, chinatown, NY
@montezpress
@walkingaroun
@sickboytheory
@lrsphm
@ChezDeep
@nadiadvv
or listen
flyer art by
@dishonestwork
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me on normcore in nymag:
http://t.co/f66BmeFhZN
my notes on normcore:
http://t.co/IFbNJEqvSl
i apologize for lurking everyone's instas :)
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excerpt! very Full thing in print. it goes places. what an honour
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CHASE BELL
@walkingaroun
curated&hosted HARD to READ on this month ft author&educator SIMONE BROWNE
@wewatchwatchers
+ artist ROSA AIELLO reading from&discussing their books on surveillance&violence. listen LIVE 2morrow Sat 06/27 2-3PM EST (archived after)
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good morning! this morning I'm interviewing Sarah McNally of
@mcnallyjackson
+ writer
@deankissick
as part of a 2 week Hard to Read radio residency. tune in 10AM - noon EST: 🌹
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To this day, in the KnowYourMeme entry for
#normcore
, 2 articles are referenced as causing the spread. Both are by me for different magazines: BULLETT 2013 + NYMAG 2014. I’m not listed by name for either 🧐 but I was there, pushing this thing forward…
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Hard to re-Read with
@sarahschulman3
@Muna_Mire
@thorasiemsen
& co, celebrating Sylvere Lotringer, bell hooks, Greg Tate, SOPHIE & more, cc
@jaxxonhoward
@nightboatbooks
@SemiotextePress
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the best style compliment: a reciprocated head-turn/double-take from a perfectly-dressed stranger
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novel launch party at Primo's in Tribeca this Tuesday October 1st 7pm to ? 🍸🐛🍸🐛🍸🐛🍸🐛 ? ?
w/
@softskull
@deankissick
@mcnallyjackson
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SO MUCH GOODNESS, like ca$h chat$ w/
@nanpansky
@SusanElizabeth
@literalporn
@SapphicStripper
http://t.co/tZ71UAVuhM
http://t.co/b1zBAAhZQ3
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pretty much all of my fashion writing is me just applying Barthes + Bourdieu + Baudrillard + Butler + my body (perverted) to the now
#simple
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