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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
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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
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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No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“
This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.
Jan 22, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will.
heres some of what I have so far:
- Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company.
- Strawberry jam
- feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently.
- A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love
- Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie
- Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk
- lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts
- small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.
Jan 13, 2025