I prefer The Price of Salt, but there’s something satisfying about Carol, too. It makes me think of young Pat seeing the woman who inspired it & following her around by bus & subway. It speaks to the […]

Rosalind…great character in my (emotionally) favorite Fitz book, This Side of Paradise. That and The Beautiful and Damned and the early short stories are the ones about the youth culture of that time, with […]

yeah, but they seem to have been helped along by the First World War…which made fashion tip towards slim and boyish. I wonder if Victorian segregation of the sexes/homo-eroticism didn’t help things along too…

I don’t want to take away from what Grace has written (contrary to the passive-aggressive implications of one commenter) and I thank her for posting a phone number for those who might need it. I was simply (and […]

I was speaking to Grace.

And I still think it’s a fundamentally dangerous idea to say 1) that there’s a special, distinctive form of suicidal behavior that should be helped by It Gets Better, etc. Do […]

“it looks exactly like my sofa upholstery.”

yep, this. I thought of one of my grandma’s old couches.

“We don’t have control of the events in our lives, but we have control over how we react to them. Life will run everyone down at some point, but you can choose to either let it consume you or rise above it.”

I […]

I’m still giggling at this. Esp when I saw Rosie at #2 and thought, “that looks like Jodie when she won the Oscar in…” and then I hit #8 and said “oh.”

The 90s were touching. A horror show, but […]

“all these streams come from the same poisoned font – an anxiety over femininity and femaleness which ironically twists into a vicious mimesis of patriarchal structures of violence, despite the best intentions and […]

“I’m not sure the article was trying to aim any exclusivity in blame at the butches, it is simply a column that is centered around/focused on a butch experience.”

yes, but I think it would be tremendously […]

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“everybody in this picture has mono.”

you have made me unspeakably happy with this entire post.

prefer The Friendly Young Ladies, its cheerful, ambling antidote

yes!

Fast Car should have gotten honorary 90′s status though, given that it continued to be played so much.

I love this list, though.

the fuckers are politicians, and to at least appear as if they’re in this country/century/relevant they have to get rid of DOMA. so it’s done.

spectacular article.

yes, this. very simply, standing means you’ve got a right or property interest that’s being threatened or injured as the result of a law, and the federal courts can do something about it (declare the law that’s […]

Everything Lexi said about the day to day bread and butter issues for queer people nationwide. All that can’t be forgotten, and I don’t think any of it will be forgotten – I think with new rights to marry rising […]

I thought the same thing: “But Aries are all assholes. Myself included.”