Kat

Just your typical non-neurotypical queer feminist Dostoevsky enthusiast. I treat all languages as potential sexual conquests. I want to be Frida Kahlo.

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By Kat • 11 years ago

This is what 9th-century Byzantine feminism sounds like: St. Kassia

A SYTYCB entry

Talk to the hand. 

So there is a lot of  real talk shit-talk about The Church and its ever-metastasizing list of codified injustices to women making the rounds on the internet, but lest we forget about the female pioneers who fought — and, like the recent slew of bad-ass nuns who are sticking it hard to the Pope, the Republican Party, et. al with their “radical” and women-positive interpretations of Christian values — still fight tooth and nail to carve out a space for the marginalized in the church hierarchy, here is a post about one of the women who used her magical-virgin powers for the greater good (of feminism, that is!).

By Kat • 11 years ago

Cathy Song and Georgia O’Keeffe: the “volume” of resistance

 

A SYTYCB entry

Critic, all-around literary mucky-muck, and unintentional racist Richard Hugo begins his introduction to award-winning poet Cathy Song’s 1987 debut collection, Picture Bride, with several encomiums to the (and I quote): “passive,” “receptive,” “tribal” (cringe)  and — last but not least — “colorful, sensual and quiet” tone of her poems, which Song — as he goes on to consummately man-splain —  “offer[s] almost shyly as bouquets to those moments in life that seemed minor but in retrospect count the most.” Are you rolling your eyes yet? If you haven’t already guessed, Hugo has  just successfully deployed the infamous “Asian Woman as Flower” simile and, by casting her as a Rare Bloom of precocious literary talent, manages to both ...

 

A SYTYCB entry

Critic, all-around literary mucky-muck, and unintentional racist Richard Hugo begins his introduction to award-winning poet Cathy Song’s 1987 debut collection, Picture Bride, with several encomiums to the (and I quote): “passive,” “receptive,” “tribal” (cringe) ...