A recent discovery at the Center for Sex and Culture library…
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Kickstarter Fundraiser for Janet W. Hardy’s Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals!
As of writing, there are 6 days to go and $5,327 raised with a goal of $7,500. There are many donation levels with special bonuses along the way from $2, $5, and $10 all the way up to $1,000 and $5,000 (I personally recommend the $30 pledge, which I made, in which the bonus is to receive an autographed first edition of the book!). Please donate what you can if this is a project of interest to you, or pass it on to others who may be interested.
Announcing the long-awaited memoir/exploration by internationally famed Ethical Slut author Janet W. Hardy: Girlfag: A Life Told in Sex and Musicals!
Girlfags – women who love, are attracted to, and identify with gay men – are a growing community with a growing voice. Girlfags are not fag hags – fag hags enjoy gay men as company; girlfags enjoy them as bedmates and peers. Girlfags are everywhere…
The audience for this book would, of course, be other girlfags, but it would go far beyond them. Gay men who find themselves in, or considering, relationships with women would want this book, as would anyone interested in a more nuanced view of gender and relationships than the current binary models. Anyone who read and enjoyed Lisa M. Diamond’s Sexual Fluidity will want to read Girlfag – including students and teachers in hundreds of women’s and gender studies classes in universities all over the world.
Collage of books I read in 2011! See also my Goodreads profile.
All 50 state librarians have decided to throw their weight behind the Internet Archive’s Open Library lending program.
The Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA) voted unanimously during a meeting held October 24-26 in Santa Fe, NM, to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the Internet Archive (IA) that will essentially make the state librarian in each state a point person for the Open Library’s lending program.
» via The Digital Shift
yo quiero esto en mi casita
Well, fucking finally.
Original, full text? The lit nerd in me is coming out to play.
Guess what my Amazon gift card will be used for?
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FINALLY. I’ve been meaning to read this book for years, literally, first because of it being the origin of my favorite band on the planet’s name, and then learning of the Manic Street Preachers’ quoting of certain bits (“Then came human beings; they wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to”, the opening quote before the “Love’s Sweet Exile” video, as well as the “everlasting nothingness” spoken of in “Motorcycle Emptiness”).
It is a short read that I managed to pin down in the library today and I quickly filled page after page in my notebook of sections I thought were quote-worthy until it occurred to me that nearly the whole thing is…and also there are a startling number of passages that could’ve nearly plucked from secret thoughts of Richey Edwards himself - this book was certainly influential on his thinking or at least in the character of the central character, Clamence, he found an alarmingly kindred spirit. A few examples:
I was always bursting with vanity. I, I, I, is the refrain of my whole life, which could be heard in everything I said…It is quite true that I always lived free and powerful. I simply felt released in regard to all for the excellent reason that I recognized no equals. I always considered myself more intelligent than everyone else, as I’ve told you but also more sensitive and skillful.
Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.
Yes, I was bursting with a longing to be immortal. I was too much in love with myself not to want the precious object of my love never to disappear…true debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you posses only yourself, hence it remains the favorite past-time of the greatest lovers of their own person…there is nothing frenzied about debauchery…it is but a long sleep.
This book is amazing, an excellent overview of post-punk and related music in the early 80s! Much of it is readable online via Google Books.
