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A book I'm currently reading which hollers in your face the lack of empathy for women not that many years ago, which is still underlying the way we currently attend to our understanding and treatment for us. "A way of caring about sentences of craft-- about form or content-- is another way of saying, Please listen to my story. To sit in a circle. To say come sit quietly in this room with us," Scanlon writes.
Sep 30, 2024
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This is one of the best books I’ve read in years. It’s part memoir about life in the New York State Psychiatric Hospital in the 90s—caught in the shift from Freudian psychoanalysis to the big pharma-influenced biomedical model, part analysis of how women (in particular) are taught to be sick when they need to receive care, not provide it, and part love letter to the madwomen writers from all over. & the writing is just fantastic.
Mar 4, 2025
Oct 14, 2024
Answering my own ask because i realised I hadn't recd this incredible book. I listened to the audiobook (linked), read by the author. A memoir mixed with outstandingly thorough film criticism. it’s an incredible piece of work, spanning the history of the “psychotic woman” in the horror film genre. Amazing to see someone‘s obsession become something so beautifully tangible.
Feb 21, 2025
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Coded a blog with my bare hands. Wrote about heartbreak. Did it because a boy I liked two years ago did it, so I did it too. I miss the way I used to like people.
Sep 30, 2024
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I like to chew it.
Sep 30, 2024
A friend of mine gave me a psychic reading for my cat (Bug), and she loves flowers. She's not afraid of death. She wants her own water fountain too. And she's so excited to watch me grow. She doesn't want me to be afraid of her dying because she's just happy to be here and it's only just the beginning. She knows all my secrets. And why I cry. And she thinks I'm beautiful.
Sep 30, 2024