The Dream Called Laundry

Apr 07

David Bowie as Tilda Swinton, with Tilda Swinton as David Bowie

(Source: davidbowieaseveryone, via kawaiimon)

Mar 21

Revolutionary Gay Magazine: 5 Unconventional Drag Stars That Changed The Face Of Drag Forever -

1. Raja: This queen won the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and rightfully so. Her statuesque “stomp the runway” and eclectic looks made her a front runner every time on her season. Never willing to conform and never giving a fuck about what people have to say, Raja has proven she is a force…

Love all these girls!

Mar 17

Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": What Empathy Is -

roxanegay:

I was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama last week, teaching a group of students about how to write difference into our fiction. I thought about how we teach many things in the creative writing workshop—how to read and think like a writer, how to bring discipline to the wilder of…

Feb 21

guernicamag:

We lived on cul-de-sacs & avenues,

not streets, & with fireflies humming

at the partition, a shadow couldn’t be

more than a shadow. I couldn’t sleep—

consumed as I was by my trembling—

but felt their sleeping, their dormancy,

how it stirred in me a hunger

black as a pocked tooth. The pain

of that night was like the pain of a tooth:

it swelled, it ached. It was growing.

via Self Portrait as an Incubus – Guernica / A Magazine for Art & Politics

Jan 20

Safe House: On Catharsis -

dvdwntr:

Nick Flynn wrote one of the best memoir’s I’ve ever read, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, which is also the only literary work I know that refers to my hometown by name. The book is about, among other things, his mother’s suicide, his own history of addiction, and his father’s homelessness….

Smart stuff!

(Source: The Huffington Post)

Dec 01

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Nov 15

What it’s like living in the Castro as a woman

whilstinsf:

Submission by: <”Patroclus“>

This is the best .gif. Game over.

Nov 02

jezebelcom:

Can we take a minute just to appreciate the best photo of the President of the United States that I’ve ever seen? And by best, I obviously mean sassiest. Seriously, this could be the cover of Sassy magazine! SASSYPANTS FOR PREZ.

[via Washington Post]

Oct 11

Wonder on a Whim: Satan Says by Sharon Olds -

wonderonawhim:

I am locked in a little cedar box

with a picture of shepherds pasted onto

the central panel between carvings.

the box stands on curved legs.

it has a gold, heart shaped lock

and no key. I am trying to write my

way out of the closed box

redolent of cedar. Satan

comes to me in the locked box

This fucking poem. TOO GOOD.

Oct 10

Announcing the 2012 National Book Award Finalists!

nationalbook:

For information about this year’s twenty Finalists, visit our website.