Archive - the pillow book

pretending not to be fascists

Someone tries to shoot the orange man and misses. On Twitter half the people you follow are condemning political violence and the other half are making…

Jul 17 •

& forced birth revenge fantasies

Jul 2 •

May 2024

scenes from the swamp

smell bad guys earwax

May 29 •

invasion of the body snatchers

I tell my friend that lately all the ads on my Instagram feed are shapewear promising hourglass figures, or shapewear masquerading as swimsuits, or…

May 8 •

April 2024

plus an nytimes debut baby

Apr 18 •

March 2024

psychoanalysts' furniture supply co

He was a jerk, my psychoanalyst says of the first boy with whom I fell in love. This therapist is a very direct German woman who calls me Ms. Svitak. I…

Mar 7 •

February 2024

The day after Valentine’s I saw someone who reminded me of a friend I’d loved, on a run down the street. It wasn’t that they looked alike, necessarily…

Feb 19 •

January 2024

damn, these elites aren’t as smart/cool/moral as I thought they’d be!

Bourdieu uses two metaphors to describe field (the space of relations you, a social agent, have with others) — one that comes from science (an…

Jan 31 •

Everyone else’s family is hell, your friend or partner your shitty Virgil guiding you through. I take it back: some people’s families are normal, quiet…

Jan 4 •

November 2023

B is for brumation

A IS FOR AESTHETIC

Nov 14, 2023 •

October 2023

Oct 25, 2023 •

the uses of homosocial shame?

Oct 3, 2023 •

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