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ethereal girl in a material world. i like things bittersweet.
making emotional and noisy "ambient" / neoclassical music, writing poetry and diaries, and taking portraits of the ones i love in Tiohtià:ke.
a bookworm bb and hobby collector.
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bognymph started reading The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parents—a fencer, a horse rider and a keen …
bognymph finished reading I Am Alien to Life by Djuna Barnes
Barnes' fascination with womens' internality - their madness, their melancholy, and their wit - is conveyed so idiosyncratically in these short stories. I feel like her poetic prose lends itself well to the format.
I still very much want to revisit her novel "Nightwood" since I feel it will speak to me now more than it did in my early 20s. I sometimes struggle to drop in or to not rush through short story anthologies, but I got a lot out of savouring these. Some of them are a bit opaque, but that's 19th/20th century modernism, baby.
Her handling of grief in a few of these really stood out for me, the beauty and neurosis of it.
Barnes' fascination with womens' internality - their madness, their melancholy, and their wit - is conveyed so idiosyncratically in these short stories. I feel like her poetic prose lends itself well to the format.
I still very much want to revisit her novel "Nightwood" since I feel it will speak to me now more than it did in my early 20s. I sometimes struggle to drop in or to not rush through short story anthologies, but I got a lot out of savouring these. Some of them are a bit opaque, but that's 19th/20th century modernism, baby.
Her handling of grief in a few of these really stood out for me, the beauty and neurosis of it.
bognymph started reading I Am Alien to Life by Djuna Barnes
bognymph finished reading Female masculinity by Judith Halberstam
"The question, then, might be not what do female masculinities borrow from male masculinities, but rather what do men borrow from butches?"
"The question, then, might be not what do female masculinities borrow from male masculinities, but rather what do men borrow from butches?"
bognymph wants to read Spontaneous combustion by Feinberg, David B.
Spontaneous combustion by Feinberg, David B.
A harrowing first-person account of gay life in New York City and what AIDS has done to it since l980.
bognymph started reading Female masculinity by Judith Halberstam
A recommendation from my co-worker who I have kind of a two-man book club going with. This feels like a good follow-up to "Sex Variant Women In Literature", which I read earlier this year. Excited about this one.
A recommendation from my co-worker who I have kind of a two-man book club going with. This feels like a good follow-up to "Sex Variant Women In Literature", which I read earlier this year. Excited about this one.
bognymph finished reading Covert Joy by Clarice Lispector
Thanks for cracking open my consciousness again, Clarice
bognymph wants to read How to Suppress Women's Writing by Jessa Crispin
How to Suppress Women's Writing by Jessa Crispin, Joanna Russ
This landmark feminist critique presents a “brilliant and scathing” survey of the forces that work against women who dare to …
bognymph wants to read Mesopotopia by Anne Waldman
Mesopotopia by Anne Waldman
From “one of the most important and irreducible living American poets” (Poetry Foundation) comes a powerful and prophetic collection of …
bognymph wants to read I Am Alien to Life by Djuna Barnes
bognymph started reading Covert Joy by Clarice Lispector
When in doubt, Clarice
bognymph wants to read Female masculinity by Judith Halberstam
bognymph finished reading Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as …
God I wish I’d had a copy of this when I was like 13. I’m usually more of a purple prose enjoyer, but the straightforward style made this feel so immediate and personal. I’m glad I was familiar with Feinberg’s life and activism before going in, because otherwise many moments in here would have felt very “and then everybody clapped”. But ze was really about it.
Much has been said about the brutality in this novel, but it was the soft squishy parts that really broke me. I had to put the book down and lie down many times.
It feels like a diary, a condensed history, an indictment, and a mirror all at once. This really nestled into my heart, I already know I’m going to re-read it in a few years’ time. A salve for my little outsider heart.
bognymph started reading Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg
Stone Butch Blues is a historical fiction novel written by Leslie Feinberg about life as a butch lesbian in 1970s …