The truth is it’s always the brain, reading or writing.
July 15, 2021
Even at the Whole Foods, they were seeing genres and taking them apart.
On Lauren Berlant

The Pink
Happy new vagina
I suppose what I’m saying is not that the desire for a universal is politically defensible but, more simply, that the desire for a universal is synonymous with having a politics at all. In a punishing twist, feminism has become both the preferred name for this desire and the very politics which must not claim it. Indeed, the minimal definition of a feminist might be a person who, affirming that women will never constitute a political class, privately hopes it might happen anyway.
Could all women really be believed? That was a lot of women.
Bad TV
Nothing good comes of forcing desire to conform to political principle. You could sooner give a cat a bath.