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I wrote about the loneliness epidemic and the fantasy of being more interconnected.. a tender one
Forced isolation is a weapon, but controlled solitude is a luxury. Author, meme lord, and therapist hannah baer (
@malefragility
) metabolizes the loneliness epidemic, and contemplates a cure.
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everyone wants to be a lesbian until it's time to stay up all night processing
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there’s a door in the hallway of my apartment building that doesn’t go to a unit and is always locked. it was ajar this AM and I peeked in and this is what i saw..
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told a friend that i thought releasing anger / forgiving was the great spiritual task; they said for them, trying to stay angry when someone had violated them was much more challenging, that they tend to forgive too easily; now i think not generalizing is the great spiritual task
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I made this diagram; if you’re going too hard in one direction, try the other one..
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i wrote about intelligence as being rooted in fantasies (and realities) of domination and subjugation, and about AI.. and tried to see myself naked, for
@Artforum
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i wrote about how therapy is rooted in religious traditions, and how racial anxiety made us cover it up; my latest in
@JewishCurrents
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i like art and artists OK but when i hang out with a lot of them i often feel aware of how much intense pain everyone seems to have around success, visibility, intellect, etc.
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whatever else is happening in the world right now, i want you to know that a 1200 pound bell was stolen in Old Chatham NY, and the mystery remains unsolved
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twinks vs dolls innovative approaches to nonviolent resolution of inter-group conflict challenge
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sometimes i think having tons of free time is the greatest gift and depriving people of it is the greatest violence, and then i remember that most people i know who have too much of it are depressed
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in a not-so-shocking twist, none of the students who signed up in fact showed to the ‘overcoming procrastination’ workshop 😹
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moderna is more psychedelic, sometimes can make people nauseous, pfizer more body high, nonverbal, good for dancing
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feeling kind of glum about the ongoing apocalypse today, but did you know Freud had two chow-chows (named Jofi and Lün)?
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i explained what 4chan is to a room full
of psychoanalysts, they seemed … interested
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it’s nice to listen to sad country music or sad gospel music in particular when you’re down because it makes you feel like you’re in a long, permissible tradition of melancholy
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i think a lot of what we don’t understand about mental health and mental illness has to do w basic limitations in our science (like that we don’t believe all our bodies are synched like a fungal network)
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if you have a critique of capitalism and you are still openly and non critically invested in all the hierarchies of value that come with capitalism (smartness, coolness, good/bad art, competing to find the best one, etc) you might be .. a poser?
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the winter solstice urge to get rid of all one’s things and leave one’s little life behind
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what most people think is smart: being able to remember a lot of stuff, quickly being able to come up with clever reasoned arguments
what's actually smart: being able to understand the emotional underpinning of your own and others' reasoned arguments, being able to hold both
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reality tv show where gender critical people have to go to the dance music function at 3am w charismatic doll chaperones and do big girl lines w crew of muscle boys and dance around til noon the next day and then see if they still think HRT is wrong
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criticisms of ‘therapy speak’ that don’t talk about..
• therapy-as-consumer-service in capitalism
• whiteness/right-to-comfort stuff
• conflict epistemology
• personality ‘pathology’
… in this economy ?!!
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i can’t believe i’m being pitted against JB *and* Dr. Who .. it’s a wild world
meanwhile, on Instagram the girls were fabricating a little discourse of their own
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what if instead of writing a think piece you went to therapy and did unpaid community organizing
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are sjw millennials obsessed w astrology bc they long for identity categories not defined by histories of violence ?
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one of the only times you’ll ever get to listen to me and McKenzie talk without finding us at 5am ..
@mckenziewark
and
@malefragility
will be in conversation about RAVING on Sunday July 16th at 3pm in the backyard Unnameable Books 615 Vanderbilt Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11238. (Photo Carline Tompkins)
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what’s the point of being a leftist if interpersonally, moment-to-moment, you’re not moving towards just ways of being in relation
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I saw the best minds of my generation waiting in line to go to a corporate fashion party
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if you're dating a human, you're single to me. what's [human name] going to do, suffer bc of attachment to some constructed idea of their own identityyYyiiǝǝǝᴉᴉᴉᴉnǝnʇʎʎʎǝᴉ.,,~~~
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we are the former interns of the girlbosses you could not cancel
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if you’re dating an academic, you’re single to me. what is matthew going to do, file a complaint with the vice provost
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perhaps i need to check my privilege but this ‘top shortage’ you speak of, i have not experienced it personally
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BASICALLY THE ENTIRE CONSTRUCT OF INTELLIGENCE IS ROOTED IN 19th CENTURY RACIST PSEUDOSCIENCE AND YET IS USED TO DECIDE WHO LIVES & DIES—THINK ABOUT PESCATARIANS JUSTIFYING THEIR DIET BASED ON WHICH ANIMALS HAVE “HIGHER” COGNITION, NO SHADE TO PESCATARIANS, ANYWAYS,
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spent last few hours reading tons of “gender critical” writers after spending last weekend raving with a dozen+ trans women & my main takeaway is that.. our detractors may be having less fun!! ..& i wonder if a hot girl ever hugs them gently from behind while they dance together
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12 step support group for if your boyfriend listens to noise music
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land acknowledgement in rental listing for $6500/month upstate compound
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do other people who teach [high school or college especially] ever feel like giving a student a grade, as an act in itself, is just an intrinsically wrong and loserly thing to do?
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friendly cis women at boutique in wburg gets real close and whispers in my ear “do you know your shorts are completely see through? i’m only telling you bc i would want someone to tell me.”
“yes” i say, “i know”
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many years ago i met a precocious 8-year-old who spoke mostly in aphorisms, the most memorable of which was “on the moon, a tree could say ‘i hate myself’” -and i think of this one often ..
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regretting that when i wrote about Pleats i didn't talk about gregory peck's phobia of parallel lines in hitchcock's spellbound (1945)
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psychology internship training directors want to talk about diversity and inclusion and then pay you 24k a year to work 60 hours a week in the most expensive cities in the country
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i dropped my coffee in the elevator by accident; it did a flip and landed right side up with 90% of the liquid still still in the vessel. i feel that this must be a portent, though of what i am unsure
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when someone tells me they were raised by therapists, i always want to say “what was that like for you”
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one of the most special things trans ppl do is change their name a second or third time, like once you get a taste of the power of self-authorship, why quit
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i wrote about trans people talking to cis people about trans people .. what could go wrong?! honored to be in the extremely special
@Parapraxis_Mag
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new level of trans liberation unlocked: yelping “i’m transgender btw!” with your arms above your head, to the TSA agent right before they turn on the full body scanner
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therapists have a common term, “help-rejecting complainer,” they use to describe some difficult patients; notably there is no common corresponding term, like “misattuned bad-advice-giver,” for difficult therapists..
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fuck the police, fuck the judicial system, fuck prisons; therein, fuck the idea of a conviction—as defined and carried out through these systems—as something that can heal or help or protect.
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feeling very emo today.. i hope someone picks a fight w me so i can compassionately witness them
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we are in a time of rolling pandemics; the next pandemic we face seems to be bicurious people in straight relationships experimenting with nonmonogamy
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we are the daughters of the people who claimed to be witches but weren’t actually witches
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it's always 'wyd' and never 'what meaning(s) are you constructing rn'
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the saying hi to someone to not saying hi to someone pipeline
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sitting in a room full of social work students who evidently have no critique of police or policing ; trying to decide if i should go on a rant
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in a meeting w 20+ psychoanalysts and the “superego” truck drives by, no one says anything.
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possible that i am a workaholic but with hanging out instead of working
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when your friend asks if you intellectualize as a defense against challenging emotions and you respond by sending them a taxonomy of defenses
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I wrote about about raving for the
@Hopkins_Review
and it’s giving messy but maybe that’s fun for you :)
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i got to talk to sweet david about feminizing my thinking, AI panic, being messy in writing, and why i love staying up late for
@Artforum
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cis people don't even know what it's like to have your entire twitter feed be just trans girls dunking on each other
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does anyone else who writes professionally ever feel wrung out, like all the ideas and energy have been extracted?
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people say 'not gay as in happy' but does anyone say 'not trans as in of or related to transportation'
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are the basic norms of clinical writing (e.g. saying "patient reports feeling sad" vs just writing "patient feels sad") .. kinda gaslighty?
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on earth we’re briefly waiting under fluorescent lights to microwave our lunches
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you live in a consumerist fantasy of individual differentiation; you believe your preferences, tastes, interests, romantic partners and hobbies uniquely define you. I also live in this fantasy.
we are the same
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i wrote about my ambivalence about diagnosis (and diagnosing, and diagnoses)
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may we all have lifelong lesbian epistolary interlocutors who we also have sex with
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r.i.p. to all the dried-up group chats where the members no longer all speak to one another
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batman goes to nightclubs in a number of the movies, but never goes to a fetish club which honestly strikes me as an oversight
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honored to be quoted in this carefully reported, thoughtful, and honest piece <3
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thought about sharing my particular zany experience here but instead i tried practicing having ‘private pleasure’™
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yes i am eating an entire package of soppressata out of my pocket in the back of the poetry reading. yes the package is crinkling. yes one piece slipped out my hand and is on the floor.
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my body is a machine that turns mechanical metaphors for cognition/affect into critiques of late capitalism
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wanting to react to current events without shrill outrage or detached superiority feels v challenging this week, here is a picture of when a full-up mosquito and my windshield collided
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reminding myself to try and be open and loving to every person, as i lower my designer sunglasses over my meticulously made up and surgically altered face
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which early life coping mechanism did you internalize and now identify as just 'part of your personality'
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why are hannah’s eyes darting around during zoom class? because she’s updating the wikipedia page about antipsychiatry of course!
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when i drink an entire pot of coffee and finally catch the fly that’s inexplicably found its way inside and has been buzzing around my house all morning
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ripping thru downtown on a warm day in my honda fit, blasting nirvana unplugged, flipping off cops
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come see us on sunday 💗
My last NYC event for this one:
@mckenziewark
in conversation with
@malefragility
about RAVING 3pm Sunday July 16 at Unnamable Books 615 Vanderbilt Ave BK 11238. (Photo Caroline Tompkins)
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never underestimate the power of a small group of young people to meet on the internet and then hang out in real life
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left wing academics are like “destroy power structures” and then are like “that was a very smart comment jesssica would you like to be my TA next semester”
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‘separate self is an illusion’ i whisper to myself as my eyelids descend, completely browned out in an armchair at the function in a room full of old and new beloveds
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i really believe in a lot of the ideas in cognitive behavioral therapy, but they also seem, like, kind of disrespectful to say to a distressed person
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me: adults mostly yell at children when the adults themselves feel scared or out of control but that doesnt make it ok
cashier at the food coop: ok but do you want a bag
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tmasc people love oldtimey demasculinized names like bobby and ollie but when will trans femme people start using oldtimey defeminized names like marge or peg?
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I got to talk to my friend and collaborator
@EricaDawnLyle1
about why being trans in radical and why making noise in public is radical for
@MomusArt
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stayed up too late rereading Arendt’s responses to the ADL-led freak-out after Eichmann in Jerusalem and all I really have to say to my foremother is “r.i.p. mama you tore crazy”
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trend forecast: the uninterrupted continuation of totality
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if all military funding in US was redirected to underwriting unprofitable small businesses, restaurants could pursue more experimental dining styles (lying-on-floor restaurant, food-through-a-tube-only restaurant, no-using-hands restaurant). consider!
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