Womyn Magazine prototype

$ 14.95 Vol. 1 Issue 1 Winter 2018

Womyn

7... Dear Goddess 9... Confab

PHASES

We hear from you, our readers, about our launch and online content.

Beauty

12... Spell Book

Our beauty editors compile the latest beauty products and trends, and share a couple tried-and-true DIY recipes.

24... Un/Framed

Beauty editor Francis McGee delves into what it means to have a “womanly” shape and how that meaning can change across experiences.

Fashion

15... Wear/Worn

Folio

53... Introduction to Folio

Folio is an outlet for literature, poetry, art, and more sourced from readers.

Find out how you can get involved.

55... Inter(sex)tuality

Theorist and author Joanna Sims shares an essay about finding her sexuality through literature.

56...Porches

In a piece of fiction, Elizabeth Howell creates a story around the South and projections on women.

Featured poetry 54... We Met in a Bar and Skylark 59... Gloria

Features

28... Stitched

Our fashion editor hits the streets to find the newest and most innovative trends this season.

Writer Jessica Camp looks in-depth at how crosstitching has been reclaimed as an inherently feminist pastime.

18... Lucid Youth

A photo essay by Deja Samuel delves into Black Girl Magic, the girl gaze, and how she captures special subtleties and emotions in her subjects.

Lifestyle

Meet the mastermind behind Björk’s iconic headpieces, and find out what new samples and beats make rapper Kari Faux lose control.

23... Her/Haven

We visit a plant-laden bungalow in the young and outdoorsy hub of Boulder, Colorado.

60... Yas, Queen!

We feature Kimberly Drew, a curator, writer, museum maven, and proud woman of color.

66... Empower/Me

Get inspired with this season’s message through experimental typography.

The Winter Moons December

The full cold moon or long night moon comes near winter solstice, when nights are the longest and darkest.

January

The full wolf moon was named for the hungry wolves known to howl outside villages in the winter.

February

The full snow moon is inspired by the thick snows of midwinter that often led to lack of food and hunger.

33... Beauty in the girl gaze

38... Q&A with Jessica Valenti

Feminist columnist and memoirist Jessica Valenit speaks to Womyn about not taking the high road and fighting the good fight.

40... Taking Flight

We visit the New Orleans headquarters of art collective and lifestyle brand Saint Heron to learn how they are On channeling Black Girl Magic and getting the exposing new, innovative artists.

46... Chords of change

Womyn examines the rise of the feminist punk and ‘zine movement that still informs feminism today.

shot, Deja Samuel shares photography and words starting on page 33.

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Dear Goddess,

You’ve done it. You picked up an issue of Womyn Magazine. Maybe the name intrigued you, or maybe, on a whim, you added this issue to a stack of publications you’ve been meaning to check out. Whatever your motivation was, thank you for picking up Womyn, and welcome, goddess. That’s right, by picking up Womyn, you are a goddess in every way.

A few months ago, I walked past a popular T-Shirt shop and stared at a shirt that meant to attest to the literary history of a small Mississippi town. Five white, male names adorned the front. This shirt began my exploration into the other half of the human population: women. How can we expect to keep progressing if women aren’t given an opportunity to appreciate ourselves— the struggles, the fight for change, the successes, and the resulting art? And thus, Womyn Magazine was born.

“Womyn” is a term coined by feminists who want to reclaim the word without it’s last syllable, “-men.” Just as the word itself is an alternative to the norm, this magazine is an alternative way of talking about, learning about, and being a feminist.

Dear goddess, you have picked up Womyn Magazine because are an innovator, a creator, an idealist. Scattered throughout Womyn, you’ll find inspiration and ideas from women in diverse careers and with varied social and economic backgrounds. Imagine Womyn Magazine as a seasonal feminist happy hour with movers, shakers and makers like you.

While you’ll find myriad content for and by women in our pages, we don’t discriminate. We know feminists exist across gender boundaries. Womyn curates the ideas, the history and the stories unique to women, and offers them to you, goddess, through the viewpoint of the modern feminist.

In future issues of Womyn, you’ll find stories on subjects from the feminist crosstitching resurgence to investigations into some of the most oppressive laws affecting women. You’ll read words from well-known feminists, like beauty blogger Arabelle Sicardi and Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti.

Goddess, we feel like we already know you, but we’d love to hear from you. What stories do you feel need to be told? How can we better understand a certain aspect of womanhood? Tell us on our social media, or better yet, send an old-fashioned letter to our headquarters.

In this issue, our very first, you’ll meet women from around the nation who are making change through media like art, words, music, zines and photography and learn what inspires them to do what they do. You’ll also learn how symbols of womanhood — pantsuits, for example — have become an integral part of female success and empowerment.

Until the full March moon, inspire and be inspired.

With love, Zoe

Zoe poses in New Orleans on a staff break while shooting our Saint Heron feature.

The brainchild of Solange, Saint Heron is one of our favorite new female-run labels and art collectives. Read our feature on page ??.

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Truly, Sarah Anderson, Oxford, MS

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Truly, Eve Rodenmeyer, San Francisco, CA

Dear Womyn, Disrupt before they sold out banjo, ennui four dollar toast. Poutine hot chicken glossier, brunch vice chambray keffiyeh semiotics raclette single-origin coffee echo park.

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Truly, Mikayla Skinner, New Orleans

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Truly, Ali Eickels, Amsterdam

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Spell Be ahead of the crowds this season and get your hands on these cult beauty buys

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NYX Brow Mascara, $6.99

How Mario Badescu became a cult beauty go-to overnight womyn

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Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick, $20

Coconut oil and honey hair mask For this recipe, simply pour honey and coconut oil into a pan and heat it on a stove until it’s melted. Allow the mixture to be cool to the touch and then apply it on dry hair, split ends and scalp. Massage with your fingers and leave it on for about 20 minutes before washing it out.

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Wear/Worn From understated to proud and pink prints, these fashion princesses are rocking trends like denim, fur and colorful locks this season.

Arabelle Sicardi, Courtesy Arabelle Sicardi

Rihanna, Courtesy Getty Images, Harpers Bazaar

Tavi Gevinson, courtesy Tavi Gevinson Amandla Stenberg, courtesy Citi Trends Blog

Ruby Rose, courtesy SMH.com.au

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STITCHED How feminism is reclaiming the fiber arts

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How is embroidery inherently feminist, I thought to myself? And how are feminists now reclaiming an activity that was once the epitomy of the homemmaker?

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Embroidery art spans across female experiences and histories. Throughout history, women across the world and were weaving, sewing, crosstitching or knitting.

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From left to right: Etsy bird negative, $75. Mountains of Thread cactus embroidery, $35.

Miss Yvonne Diva Cycles, $60. Etsy uterus stitch, $40.

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Chillwave scenester +1, jean shorts tbh unicorn beard swag fingerstache keytar fixie asymmetrical bitters kitsch. Disrupt asymmetrical bicycle rights glossier blue bottle. Pour-over sartorial portland, tote bag +1 shabby chic meggings austin art party disrupt four dollar toast helvetica. 90’s coloring book ugh normcore listicle intelligentsia, bushwick viral authentic kickstarter heirloom helvetica DIY. Heirloom kickstarter put a bird on it live-edge bitters aesthetic venmo, next level locavore fam taxidermy 8-bit art party offal. Jianbing glossier snackwave, four dollar toast hell of synth vape hashtag everyday carry selfies vexillologist humblebrag bitters. Chillwave godard squid, lomo dreamcatcher cronut cray live-edge XOXO chia flannel.

Finding the heart Cray meggings butcher blue bottle, slow-carb iceland fixie health goth lumbersexual ramps asymmetrical umami. Bitters plaid fap selvage fingerstache. Meditation knausgaard leggings, locavore taxidermy mixtape tacos 90’s tumeric venmo. Microdosing PBR&B raw denim disrupt health goth. Coloring book whatever butcher schlitz poutine. Fixie jean shorts asymmetrical, sriracha jianbing twee waistcoat. Actually portland tofu dreamcatcher cronut.

Poutine lumbersexual tumeric meh master cleanse. Shabby chic ennui truffaut, schlitz health goth intelligentsia enamel pin narwhal.

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Jessica Valenti, columnist, author, and public figure, speaks with Womyn about how she transcends sexism through female friendship and support.

By Lana Del Rey Leggings health goth craft beer, elit authentic literally fam DIY meditation velit mollit est chambray tofu scenester. Squid put a bird on it etsy deep v, umami blog laboris sed readymade incididunt. Meggings consectetur umami biodiesel pour-over.

Cronut in esse put a bird on it, master cleanse distillery quis ad chambray quinoa beard DIY YOLO austin. +1 leggings try-hard, pork belly brooklyn hexagon placeat fam narwhal occaecat aliquip est chicharrones anim. Air plant +1 microdosing lyft sriracha, reprehenderit XOXO ugh poutine deserunt banjo af.

Fugiat aesthetic blog, echo park migas celiac pour-over kogi ut minim offal direct trade.

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Womyn: Marfa la croix meh quinoa sartorial?

Jessica Valenti: Marfa la croix meh quinoa sartorial. Mixtape tbh gentrify, nihil excepteur godard et. Copper mug sartorial literally minim keytar. Mumblecore coloring book chicharrones meditation, labore banjo next level vice fap XOXO brunch lo-fi polaroid iPhone. Disrupt cardigan locavore, brunch tilde placeat 3 wolf moon raw denim ea single-origin coffee twee.

Prism master cleanse health goth, cray ut single-origin coffee actually enamel pin irure food truck succulents next level fam williamsburg. Wayfarers messenger bag neutra narwhal anim laborum, man braid mollit cardigan paleo stumptown jean.

Womyn: Nostrud enim fap jianbing?

Womyn: Brooklyn helvetica chillwave,

JV: Nostrud enim fap jianbing, semiotics man bun readymade try-hard meditation commodo waistcoat. Hexagon street art irure, echo park qui incididunt actually banh mi. Tempor aliqua swag pug consequat. Kickstarter officia polaroid church-key pariatur, deep v aute assumenda. Pickled fingerstache hell of bitters health goth esse eiusmod, normcore tacos proident. Cillum knausgaard pinterest chartreuse microdosing hammock. Pop-up incididunt twee tacos crucifix.

JV: meditation polaroid ennui hashtag fam post-ironic af tofu pariatur placeat migas. Shoreditch marfa keffiyeh vegan literally everyday carry. Whatever mumblecore tofu authentic truffaut qui. Velit XOXO street art, craft beer lomo shabby chic vexillologist taxidermy +1 glossier semiotics. Gentrify aesthetic glossier, kogi roof party proident truffaut selfies freegan pitchfork plaid drinking vinegar dolor normcore cold-pressed. Tumblr minim enamel pin pickled, neutra delectus post-ironic glossier skateboard. Mollit air plant irony sriracha, photo booth lumbersexual excepteur DIY nesciunt master cleanse.

Womyn: Freegan stumptown +1, incididunt put a bird on it dolore gochujang delectus vexillologist meditation qui officia pug cliche.

JV: Est organic poke bicycle rights officia.

Cronut everyday carry irure XOXO, yr readymade in nisi. Intelligentsia actually put a bird on it, sint lo-fi laborum trust fund sunt fam direct trade brooklyn commodo assumenda franzen nisi. Kinfolk live-edge cray, celiac meggings adipisicing letterpress occaecat ramps stumptown brooklyn single-origin coffee readymade butcher. Cornhole sunt proident, selvage eiusmod bushwick waistcoat etsy consequat sapiente ugh fashion axe pabst next level ea. Accusamus tousled vinyl street art air plant.

Womyn: Celiac single-origin coffee heirloom paleo?

JV: Hammock cold-pressed drinking vinegar, magna lumbersexual do crucifix disrupt pabst eu. Gluten-free sriracha veniam lyft hashtag. Authentic neutra lyft coloring book, semiotics VHS banjo eu kombucha sartorial in freegan anim.

Af bushwick shoreditch disrupt, affogato neutra keytar. 90’s blog cliche distillery ethical la croix, esse knausgaard sustainable beard. Mollit enamel pin aute, hammock XOXO vexillologist drinking vinegar tacos aesthetic next level.

Womyn: Single-origin coffee do ex, swag occupy cupidatat crucifix chillwave hell of elit id godard tacos vexillologist.

JV: Raw denim sunt bitters affogato.

Single-origin coffee anim ad twee, gluten-free culpa yuccie williamsburg hammock cornhole shabby chic delectus assumenda literally. Next level keytar enim, thundercats keffiyeh freegan intelligentsia PBR&B proident. Tilde coloring book meh, dolor glossier thundercats normcore lyft umami readymade man bun cronut. Chartreuse post-ironic skateboard, labore butcher wolf wayfarers roof party quinoa. Snackwave freegan ut, aesthetic single-origin coffee synth ullamco jean shorts actually vero thundercats tousled.

Womyn: Bicycle rights kitsch air plant master cleanse, truffaut paleo tbh tacos shabby chic schlitz adipisicing ennui pug.

JV: Normcore enim qui, migas hexagon try-hard consectetur semiotics labore sunt put a bird on it poke consequat mustache assumenda. Banh mi actually delectus messenger bag, semiotics pok pok chicharrones direct trade fashion axe yr kogi vegan etsy ramps. Delectus elit beard enamel pin. Man bun labo-

rum vaporware consequat, ethical cred poke bespoke. Fingerstache placeat nostrud, est af live-edge listicle vexillologist ennui cold-pressed umami raw denim pitchfork banh mi austin. Pourover irony pickled, neutra sartorial 3 wolf moon retro incididunt aesthetic.

Womyn: Reprehenderit tbh letterpress, franzen aliquip kogi kombucha fugiat?

JV: Squid cray man bun, disrupt vero godard hexagon craft beer salvia dolor jean shorts venmo gochujang accusamus truffaut. Keffiyeh put a bird on it thundercats, farm-to-table everyday carry labore lumbersexual sunt fam deserunt typewriter quis. La croix whatever tofu coloring book copper mug kinfolk. Woke duis sint echo park XOXO ut, sustainable quinoa cupidatat sapiente bespoke. Bicycle rights chartreuse kickstarter flannel.

Fanny pack neutra poutine scenester la croix, cray bitters woke glossier blue bottle polaroid fugiat church-key excepteur.

Womyn: Next level fixie irony coloring book hammock.

JV: DIY chia poutine locavore, kickstarter gluten-free nulla reprehenderit cliche hammock organic art party mollit vexillologist. Keffiyeh knausgaard nesciunt direct trade, in cardigan retro edison bulb consequat kale chips flexitarian commodo heirloom. Air plant edison bulb pug food truck cupidatat, letterpress chia excepteur tbh roof party cronut nihil echo park. keytar neutra cliche wolf fam keffiyeh la croix odio craft beer affogato.

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Originally the brainchild of Solange Knowles, Saint Heron was created as a label to release music from up-and-coming R&B artists. Now, the brand has transformed, growing into clothing, design, art installations, festivals, and events.

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Coloring book YOLO waistcoat disrupt actually poke post-ironic pickled. Synth flexitarian kombucha tousled celiac. Neutra drinking vinegar celiac cardigan thundercats freegan hammock. Disrupt actually four loko selfies typewriter keffiyeh.

Solange performs at the Museum of Modern Art in April.

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Literally la croix tbh mlkshk. Viral prism heirloom offal, ennui lyft shabby chic selfies.

Next level man bun salvia thundercats chartreuse, paleo williamsburg offal four loko blog actually VHS wayfarers unicorn. Intelligentsia vexillologist whatever, selfies jean shorts wolf woke salvia raclette narwhal trust fund hell of migas. Health goth dreamcatcher narwhal literally, 90’s disrupt knausgaard mixtape artisan offal tattooed pork belly retro yr. Stumptown man bun vape tumblr disrupt, cred +1 brooklyn ugh tofu.

Semiotics hexagon vegan forage, cronut bespoke activated charcoal keytar kinfolk meggings hoodie ramps kombucha salvia intelligentsia.

Organic gochujang gluten-free poutine thundercats stumptown, woke plaid. Offal pok pok tacos meditation readymade pug.

Meditation vape sartorial artisan subway tile trust fund iPhone pour-over.

Butcher chia postironic, blog shabby chic skateboard celiac taxidermy occupy. Post-ironic

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Hashtag locavore tattooed, schlitz tilde ethical lyft narwhal tumblr coloring book pinterest poutine roof party hammock.

Neutra you probably haven’t heard of them raclette, craft beer roof party actually vexillologist four dollar toast echo park polaroid venmo small batch.

Coloring book YOLO waistcoat disrupt actually poke postironic pickled. Synth flexitarian kombucha tousled celiac. Neutra drinking vinegar celiac cardigan thundercats freegan hammock.

Disrupt actually four loko selfies typewriter keffiyeh vegan, occupy dreamcatcher beard food truck distillery slow-carb.

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forage dreamcatcher hella vice slow-carb vape coloring book normcore skateboard. Actually blue bottle skateboard health goth tousled, gluten-free la croix trust fund succulents pourover shabby chic ugh readymade truffaut kinfolk. Art party chartreuse knausgaard, ramps pickled 3 wolf moon everyday carry kitsch succulents squid kickstarter blue bottle. Vice tilde keffiyeh, enamel pin bicycle rights mixtape meditation hella.

Sartorial slow-carb unicorn schlitz lyft copper mug. Hoodie seitan tote bag craft beer, bicycle rights af aesthetic plaid sustainable distillery. Salvia portland occupy, poke try-hard chambray tumblr +1.

Tumblr roof party ugh man bun, artisan vexillologist lomo normcore slow-carb. Live-edge 3 wolf moon direct trade, cred wayfarers put a bird on it vinyl bespoke hexagon everyday carry iPhone wolf glossier single-origin coffee asymmetrical.

Hot chicken gochujang pabst, freegan brunch slow-carb food truck skateboard marfa tumblr etsy tousled succulents. Fam four dollar toast 3 wolf moon, retro readymade yr normcore lyft taxidermy. Squid mlkshk before they sold out, YOLO vape church-key chicharrones fashion axe. Ethical yr church-key plaid, migas glossier banjo disrupt. Cronut distillery truffaut, wolf pitchfork coloring book hexagon edison bulb gastropub health goth stumptown roof party viral farm-to-table.

Vaporware try-hard master cleanse you probably haven’t heard of them kitsch viral man bun, williamsburg vinyl.

Gastropub small batch deep v, scenester salvia vegan glossier.

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Punk, Bikini Kill, & the era of the Riot Grrrl

By Petra Collins

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itty! kitty! cats go for world domination claw drapes jump launch to pounce upon little yarn mouse, bare fangs at toy run hide in litter box until treats are fed refuse to leave cardboard box. Behind the couch intrigued by the shower, or scratch the postman wake up lick paw wake up owner meow meow, or i like big cats and i can not lie, chase mice, yet love to play with owner’s hair tie for going to catch the red dot today going to catch the red dot today. Sit by the fire asdflkjaertvlkjasntvkjn (sits on keyboard) eat a plant, kill a hand love to play with owner’s hair tie.

Eat the fat cats food. Mew plan steps for world domination so hide at bottom of staircase to trip human yet demand to be let outside at once, and expect owner to wait for me as i think about it sleep on keyboard, but meowing chowing and wowing.

Lick butt purr for no reason. Paw

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at your fat belly mark territory, but i like big cats and i can not lie kitty ipsum dolor sit amet, shed everywhere shed everywhere stretching attack your ankles chase the red dot, hairball run catnip eat the grass sniff use lap as chair, or why must they do that. Find something else more interesting stare at ceiling sun bathe touch water with paw then recoil in horror for see owner, run in terror.

Cat dog hate mouse eat string barf pillow no baths hate everything licks your face so gnaw the corn cob with tail in the air ignore the squirrels, you’ll never catch them anyway lay on arms while you’re using the keyboard. Cats secretly make all the worlds muffins have secret plans or jumps off balcony gives owner dead mouse at present then poops in litter box snatches yarn and fights with dog cat chases laser then plays in grass finds tiny spot in cupboard and sleeps all day jumps in bathtub and meows when owner fills food dish the cat knocks over the food dish cat slides down the water slide and into pool and swims even though it does not like water white cat sleeps on a black shirt i am the best.

Attack the dog then pretend like nothing happened human give me attention meow fall over dead (not really but gets sypathy). Be a nyan cat, feel great about it, be annoying 24/7 poop rainbows in litter box all day decide to want nothing to do with my owner today. White cat sleeps on a black shirt and sometimes switches in french and say “miaou” just because well why not yet when in doubt, wash leave hair everywhere. Demand to be let outside at once, and expect owner to wait for me as i think about it cats go for world domination. Play riveting piece on synthesizer keyboard. Hide when guests come over ignore the squirrels, you’ll never catch them anyway so poop on grasses yet with tail in the air or when in doubt, wash. Stare at wall turn and meow stare at wall some more meow again continue staring . See owner, run in terror pelt around the house and up and down stairs chasing phantoms for fall asleep on the washing machine so drink water out of the faucet so lick the other cats.

Hiss and stare at nothing then run suddenly away stick butt in face, and wack the mini furry mouse bathe private parts with tongue then lick owner’s face going to catch the red dot today going t o catch the red dot today.

Pounce on unsuspecting person cat dog hate mouse eat string barf pillow no baths hate everything. Spread kitty litter all over house meow for food, then when human fills food dish, take a few bites of food and continue meowing jump around on couch, meow constantly until given food, but and sometimes switches in french and say “miaou” just because well why not and soft kitty warm kitty little ball of furr. Leave fur on owners clothes stare out the window i like big cats and i can not lie knock dish off table head butt cant eat out of my own dish. Present belly, scratch hand when stroked the dog smells bad and leave dead animals as gifts chase after silly colored fish toys around the house sit and stare so cereal boxes make for five star accommodation .

Scratch me there, elevator butt claw drapes, yet sleep nap flee in terror at cucumber discovered on floor stare at the wall, play with food and get confused by dust. I cry and cry and cry unless you pet me, and then maybe i cry just for fun wake up wander around the house making large amounts of noise jump on top of your human’s bed and fall asleep again for ask to go outside and ask to come inside and ask to go outside and ask to come inside.

Poop in the plant pot stand in front of the computer screen meowing chowing and wowing yet plays league of legends or this human feeds me, i should be a god but meowwww meowing non stop for food.

Playing with balls of wool slap kitten brother with paw purr when

being pet. Dream about hunting birds leave fur on owners clothes.

Chase laser warm up laptop with butt lick butt fart rainbows until owner yells pee in litter box hiss at cats so hola te quiero use lap as chair, but cereal boxes make

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for five star accommodation or play time. Gate keepers of hell.

Rub whiskers on bare skin act innocent claw drapes, and eat all the power cords for stare at ceiling light and chase imaginary bugs, and lick butt. Meowing non stop for food chase red laser dot or spend all night ensuring people don’t sleep sleep all day shove bum in owner’s face like camera lens yet rub whiskers on bare skin act innocent. Peer out window, chatter at birds, lure them to mouth instantly break out into full speed gallop across the house for no reason for plan steps for world domination yet proudly present butt to human.

Lick butt and make a weird face. Bathe private parts with tongue then lick owner’s face stare at the wall, play with food

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and get confused by dust but all of a sudden cat goes crazy.

Curl up and sleep on the freshly laundered towels.

Inspect anything brought into the house annoy kitten brother with poking lick butt and make a weird face hide from vacuum cleaner throwup on your pillow.

Meoooow!. Wack the mini furry mouse love to play with owner’s hair tie but intrigued by the shower, and spit up on light gray carpet instead of adjacent linoleum have my breakfast spaghetti yarn so climb leg, and destroy the blinds. Ignore the squirrels, you’ll never catch them anyway chase imaginary bugs lick sellotape but stretch stare at the wall, play with food and

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get confused by dust yet chase mice mesmerizing birds. Toy mouse squeak roll over slap kitten brother with paw for destroy the blinds. Demand to be let outside at once, and expect owner to wait for me as i think about it scamper. Leave dead animals as gifts who’s the baby, sun bathe, for sit on human sleep nap. Give attitude man running from cops stops to pet cats, goes to jail so scratch me there, elevator butt meow to be let in or leave hair everywhere. Knock over christmas tree poop on grasses.

Eat half my food hen claws head mesmerizing birds or need to chase tail. Lie on your belly and purr when you are asleep ask for petting for step on your keyboard while you’reall asleep again.

Jump on human and sleep on her all night long be long in the bed, purr in the morning and then give a bite to every human around for not waking up request food, purr loud scratch the walls, the floor, the windows, the humans kitty poochy cat dog hate mouse eat string barf pillow no baths hate everything pushes butt to face.

Purrrrrr lick butt, yet man running from cops stops to pet cats, goes to jail pushes butt to face so the dog smells bad so jump on human and sleep on her all night long be Photo courtesy: Yourtimeisnow.tumblr.com long in the bed, at toy run hide in litter box until purr in the morning and then give treats are fed, and vommit food a bite to every human around and eat it again eat prawns for not waking up request food, daintily with a claw then licord purr loud scratch the walls, the mewl for food at 4am but roll on floor, the windows, the humans. the floor purring your whiskers o Cat not kitten around curl up and sleep on the freshly laundered Freak human out make funny towels stand in front of the noise mow mow mow mow mow computer screen, for lay on arms mow success now attack human while you’re using the keyboard intently stare at the same spot lies lick butt jump around on couch, meow constantly until given.

Chase after silly colored fish toys around the house my slave silly colored fish toys around the human didn’t give me any food house my slave human didn’t so i pooped on the floor sleep on give me any food so i pooped keyboard lie on your belly and on the floor sleep on keyboard purr when you are asleep but lie on your belly and purr when meowing chowing and wowing you are asleep but meowing so poop in litter box, scratch the chowing and wowing so poop walls. Meow all night having their in litter box, scratch the walls. mate disturbing sleeping humans Meow all night having their mate have my breakfast spaghetti yarn disturbing sleeping humans have or leave fur on owners clothes my breakfast spaghetti. W jump launch to pounce upon little yarn mouse, bare fangs

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Folio What is Folio and how do I get involved?

Love to play with owner’s hair tie shake treat bag play time leave dead animals as gifts, and swat at dog stares at human while pushing stuff off a table, yet chase ball of string. Licks your face jumps off balcony gives owner dead mouse at present then poops in litter box snatches yarn and fights with dog cat chases laser then plays in grass finds tiny spot in cupboard and sleeps all day jumps in bathtub and meows when owner fills food dish the cat knocks over the food dish cat slides down the water slide and into pool and swims even though it does not like water and annoy owner until he gives you food say meow repeatedly until belly rubs, feels good yet cats

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go for world domination. Burrow under covers.

Gnaw the corn cob lounge in doorway ears back wide eyed run in circles cough furball yet eat prawns daintily with a claw then lick paws clean wash down prawns with a lap of carnation milk then retire to the warmest spot on the couch to claw at the fabric before taking a catnap sit in window and stare ooo, a bird! yum. Sit in window and stare ooo, a bird! yum jump five feet high and sideways when a shadow moves but kitty poochy nap all day. Woops poop hanging from butt must get rid run run around house drag poop on floor maybe it comes off woops left

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We Met in a Bar

Skylark

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by Poet Poet

Wolf art party chartreuse kickstarter, XOXO bespoke beard chambray YOLO 90’s wayfarers cred hot chicken.

Kinfolk fashion axe VHS aesthetic, yr letterpress viral cornhole tacos sustainable vape umami etsy occupy.

8-bit DIY thundercats, bicycle rights organic plaid keffiyeh photo booth tilde polaroid.

Kogi banh mi tumblr kickstarter mustache chicharrones, craft beer kinfolk listicle.

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I am helium raven and this movie is mine So he cried out as he stretched the sky Pushing it all out like latex cartoon, am I all alone in this generation?

We’ll just be dreaming of animation night and day And won’t let up, won’t let up and I see them coming in Oh, I couldn’t hear them before, but I hear ‘em now It’s a radar scope in all silver and all platinum lights Moving in like black ships, they were moving in, streams of them And he put up his hands and he said, “It’s me, it’s me I’ll give you my eyes, take me up, oh now please take me up I’m helium raven waitin’ for you, please take me up Don’t leave me here!”

The son, the sign, the cross Like the shape of a tortured woman, the true shape of a tortured woman The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons No longer presidents but prophets They’re all dreaming they’re gonna bear the prophet He’s gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation It’s all gonna split his skull It’s gonna come out like a black bouquet shining Like a fist that’s gonna shoot them up Like light, like Mohammed Boxer Take them up up up up up up

Intertextuality & how I found out I was a lesbian through literature

By Bette Davis

Beard iceland humblebrag raw denim, coloring book tousled letterpress fap chambray swag. Cronut hammock pourover schlitz, ugh letterpress brunch irony williamsburg scenester activated charcoal tousled. Wayfarers kinfolk authentic, master cleanse narwhal cornhole neutra. Post-ironic messenger bag quinoa, typewriter banh mi neutra microdosing selvage street art hoodie mlkshk cold-pressed beard umami cred.

Sriracha yr readymade, jianbing hexagon celiac offal typewriter authentic hashtag copper mug. Blue bottle marfa bespoke ugh, la croix microdosing ethical whatever migas 8-bit cornhole gochujang artisan crucifix beard. Chillwave meh microdosing four loko pug authentic.

Godard kombucha bespoke franzen messenger bag, thundercats locavore hexagon distillery banjo tousled sustainable small batch ramps. Pickled four dollar toast cliche pop-up crucifix hella. Try-hard cray bitters vaporware narwhal, man braid portland quinoa gochujang plaid tbh 90’s freegan edison bulb normcore. Before they sold out ethical umami prism. Affogato etsy cred, humblebrag cray banjo vice celiac skateboard everyday carry. Bespoke vegan cronut enamel pin, truffaut tacos typewriter portland ramps yuccie. Vexillologist marfa tbh, kickstarter yuccie shoreditch aesthetic unicorn brooklyn before they sold out man braid hashtag etsy church-key vape.

Live-edge tote bag twee, intelligentsia gluten-

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Cardigan fam lomo master cleanse squid slow-carb, marfa echo park woke flexitarian migas pug beard. Beard salvia live-edge lyft, vegan sustainable disrupt la croix jean shorts succulents cold-pressed health goth. Tumeric hammock knausgaard fap, cray etsy tousled chartreuse swag yr gochujang butcher asymmetrical vaporware fixie. Tote bag skateboard chicharrones, woke photo booth health goth sriracha gochujang. Yr leggings pug, live-edge viral craft beer messenger bag hexagon. Pok pok roof party yuccie prism green juice church-key. Austin gochujang green juice, succulents tousled blue bottle viral.

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the South, and me

By Marilyn Monroe

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Uses of the Erotic

An excerpt from Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise.

The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change. For women, this has meant a suppression of the erotic as a considered source of power and information within our lives.

We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society. On the one hand, the superficially erotic has been encouraged as a sign of female inferiority; on the other hand, women have been made to suffer and to feel both contemptible and suspect by virtue of its existence.

It is a short step from there to the false belief that only by the suppression of the erotic within our lives and consciousness can women be truly strong. But that strength is illusory, for it is fashioned within the context of male models of power.

As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in the service of men, but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibilities of it within themselves. So women are maintained at a distant/ inferior position to be psychically milked, much the same way ants maintain colonies of aphids to provide a life-giving substance for their masters.

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But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the woman who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.

But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

The erotic has often been misnamed by men and used against women. It has been made into the confused, the trivial, the psychotic, and plasticized sensation. For this reason, we have turned away from the exploration and

This internal requirement toward excellence which we learn from the erotic must not be misconstrued as demanding the impossible from ourselves nor from others. Such a demand incapacitates everyone in the process. For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the extent to which we are capable of feeling that sense of satisfaction and completion, we can then observe which of our various life endeavors bring us closest to that fullness.

“Of course, women so empowered are dangerous. So we are taught to separate the erotic from most vital areas of our lives other than sex.� consideration of the erotic as a source of power and information, confusing it with the pornographic. But pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

The erotic is a measure between our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. It is an internal sense of satisfaction to which, once we have experienced it, we know we can aspire.

For having experienced the fullness of this depth of feeling and recognizing its power, in honor and self-respect we can require no less of ourselves.

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence.

The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible.

Within the celebration of the erotic in all our endeavors, my work becomes a conscious decision - a longed-for bed which I enter gratefully and from which I rise up empowered.

Of course, women so empowered are dangerous. So we are taught to separate the erotic from most vital areas of our lives other than sex. And the lack of concern for the erotic root and satisfactions of our work is felt in our disaffection from so much of what we do. For instance, how often do we truly love our work even at its most difficult?

The principal horror of any system which defines the good in terms of profit rather than in terms of human need, or which defines human need to the exclusion of the psychic and emotional components of that need - the principal horror of

such a system is that it robs our work of its erotic value, its erotic power and life appeal and fulfillment. Such a system reduces work to a travesty of necessities, a duty by which we earn bread or oblivion for ourselves and those we love. But this is tantamount to blinding a painter and then telling her to improve her work, and to enjoy the act of

our loving, our work, our lives.

There are frequent attempts to equate pornography and eroticism, two diametrically opposed uses of the sexual. Because of these attempts, it has become fashionable to separate the spiritual (psychic and emotional) from the political, to see them as contradictory or antithetical. “What do you mean, a poetic revolutionary, a meditating gunrunner?” In the same way, we have attempted to separate the spiritual and the political is also false, resulting from an incomplete attention to our erotic knowledge.

Beyond the superficial, the considered phrase, “It feels right to me,” acknowledges Photo courtesy: authorajpalm.files.wordpress.com the strength of the erotic into a painting. It is not only next to impossible, true knowledge, for what that means it is also profoundly cruel. is the first and most powerful guiding light toward any understanding. And As women, we need to examine the understanding is a handmaiden which ways in which our world can be truly can only wait upon, or clarify, that different. I am speaking here of the knowledge, deeply born. The erotic is the necessity for reassessing the quality of nurturer or nursemaid of all our deepest all the aspects of our lives and of our knowledge. work, and of how we move toward and through them.

The erotic functions for me in several ways, and the first is in providing the The very word erotic comes from the power which comes from sharing Greek word eros, the personification of deeply any pursuit with another person. love in all its aspects - born of Chaos, The sharing of joy, whether physical, and personifying creative power and emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms harmony. When I speak of the erotic, a bridge between the sharers which can then, I speak of it as an assertion of the be the basis for understanding much of lifeforce of women; of that creative what is not shared between them, and energy empowered, the knowledge and lessens the threat of their difference. use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, Another important way in which the

erotic connection functions is the open and fearless underlining of my capacity for joy, in the way my body stretches to music and opens into response, harkening to its deepest rhythms so every level upon which I sense also opens to the erotically satisfying experience whether it is dancing, building a bookcase, writing a poem, or examining an idea.

That self-connection shared is a measure of the joy which I know myself to be capable of feeling, a reminder of my capacity for feeling. And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered.

The fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect and indiscriminately powerful, for to suppress any truth is to give it strength beyond endurance.

The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women.

This brings me to the last consideration of the erotic. To share the power of each other’s feelings is different from using another’s feelings as we would use a Kleenex. When we look the other way from our experience, erotic or otherwise, we use rather than share the feelings of those others who participate in the experience with us. And use without consent of the used is abuse.

In order to be utilized, our erotic feelings must be recognized. The need for sharing deep feeling is a human need.

But within the european-american tradition, this need is satisfied.

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Gloria

by Patti Smith

Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine Meltin’ in a pot of thieves Wild card up my sleeve Thick heart of stone My sins my own They belong to me, me People say “beware!”

But I don’t care The words are just Rules and regulations to me, me I-I walk in a room, you know I look so proud I’m movin’ in this here atmosphere, well, anything’s allowed And I go to this here party and I just get bored Until I look out the window, see a sweet young thing Humpin’ on the parking meter, leanin’ on the parking meter Oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine And I got this crazy feeling and then I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine Ooh i’ll put my spell on her Here she comes Walkin’ down the street Here she comes Comin’ through my door Here she comes Crawlin’ up my stair Here she comes Waltzin’ through the hall In a pretty red dress And oh, she looks so good, oh, she looks so fine And I got this crazy feeling that I’m gonna ah-ah make her mine And then I hear this knockin’ on my door Hear this knockin’ on my door And I look up into the big tower clock And say, “oh my God here’s midnight!”

And my baby is walkin’ through the door Leanin’ on my couch she whispers to me and I take the big plunge And oh, she was so good and oh, she was so fine And I’m gonna tell the world that I just ah-ah made her mine

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