oh my god i thought people were just… sharing eve babitz quotes… oh no i’m very upset

Eve Babitz, patron saint of cynical hedonists with big naturals. May her memory be a blessing.

Didion styled Manson girls. She dressed Linda Kasabian in I. Magnin. She was punk before punk.

A fifth-generation Californian, she once said: “Don’t you think people are formed by the landscape they grew up in?” She was our landscape. My appraisal of Didion nytimes.com/2021/12/23/boo…

Took a month or so off of here and plan to be around less! Email me, find me irl, use my website’s terrible contact form, inevitably I shall return ❤️

“Diversifying” graduate student cohorts without recruiting, retaining, and promoting faculty of color who work on relevant topics who can teach and advise incoming students is unethical.

Got to talk about the contemporary gothic and disability at #nemla2022 today!

Thank you so much for coming! It was a lot of fun on all ends.

What many know as "social model of disability" was called the "socio-political definition of disability". Developed from/during/with Black Liberation+Black civil rights struggles, it was the reason for the shift to anti-discriminatory laws & "minority" group model of disability.

Need it

"Kim looks like one of the Lost Boys and seems incredibly obnoxious in the best kind of way." Alessandra Occhiolini on #ANTM for Avidly's Too Real series

I wrote about chronic illness, desire, ANTM for Avidly -- "We are not supermodels forever. We are not young forever. We are not healthy forever. And sometimes these changes bring new ways of wanting that are less scripted and more of our own making."

Then the flowers became very wild... —Grace Paley, "September"

#RT Los Angeles Review of Books: RT Avidly: "Kim looks like one of the Lost Boys and seems incredibly obnoxious in the best kind of way." Alessandra Occhiolini on #ANTM for Avidly's Too Real series

Finally got round to reading @travisclau’s chapter. He says that “The nature of quality academic scholarship— a series of extended acts of thinking, reading, writing and editing — is antithetical to the current rhythms (or perhaps arrhythmia of contemporary academic life.”