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It’s Complicated #1- do you have to hate the Afghan Whigs if you’re a feminist? #atomicbooks
If you’re in Baltimore (or, you know, on the Internet), you can buy the first issue of “It’s Complicated” at one of our favorite bookstores, Atomic Books.
Posted on May 13, 2013 via ATOMBLR with 7 notes
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It isn’t that I like it and I don’t like it—that’s too simple. Or, if you will, it isn’t “both yes and no.” It’s “this but also that.” I’d love to settle in on a strong feeling or reaction. But, having seen whatever I see, my mind keeps on going and I see something else. It’s that I quickly see the limitations of whatever I say or whatever judgment I make about anything. There’s a wonderful remark of Henry James: “Nothing is my last word on anything.” There’s always more to be said, more to be felt.
Posted on April 20, 2013 via Mark Richardson with 72 notes
Source: theparisreview.org
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The wonderful Tobias Carroll of the excellent Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed us about "It's Complicated"
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Zine Swaps
We’re surprised and excited about how many orders we’ve gotten for the first issue of “It’s Complicated.” In case you missed it, it’s now available for purchase at Etsy.
Meanwhile, we thought we’d mention that we’re also totally open to zine swaps — just get in touch via Tumblr or email (itscomplicatedbook@gmail.com) and tell us about your zine. As long as it’s not, like, a Men’s Rights Activist zine or something about how you hate Lydia Lunch, we’ll probably be down.
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Great news: “It’s Complicated #1” is now available for purchase on Etsy! Buy it here.
Here’s all the info:
“It’s Complicated Zine #1: Totally Crushed Out!” is the first issue of a series of zines about feminist writers’ relationships to the artists whose misogynist work we love. Edited by Judy Berman and Niina Pollari.
Issue #1 is 52 black and white pages, with a full-color cardstock cover designed by Gina Abelkop of Birds of Lace. Included are the following essays:
Nona Willis Aronowitz on Eminem
Brooklyn Copeland on Marlon Brando
Elisabeth Donnelly on The Afghan Whigs
Nina Mashurova on Charles Bukowski
Tom Ribitzky on the men of Ayn Rand
Judy Berman on Glam Rock -
The issue #1 zines are here! That’s the cover — and the zines as they looked when Niina opened the boxes yesterday — above.
Since the first issue is themed around artists whose work we loved as teenagers, we knew we wanted the issue to look like a school notebook with doodles all over it. Niina did the sketches, and then the amazing Gina of Birds of Lace Press took them and designed this cover.
The zine is 54 pages, and contains essays by Nona Willis Aronowitz, Elisabeth Donnelly, Tom Ribitzky, Brooklyn Copeland, Nina Mashurova, and Judy Berman.
We’ll be sending issue #1 to Kickstarter backers ASAP, including those who ordered both issues. Watch this space for more info on how to buy the zine if you don’t already have a copy coming via Kickstarter (or if you did but also want to buy dozens more copies to distribute to everyone you know).
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In which John Darnielle responds to my question about why he called his own song Going To Georgia “misogynist garbage” at a recent show.
This is a good exchange (and something like something I wrote at length about in some sort of project that’s sure to come out at some point).
That too! And it (Issue #2) will come out in… not that many months, we promise.
Posted on January 4, 2013 via You Rach You Lose with 1,001 notes
Source: rachelfershleiser
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In which John Darnielle responds to my question about why he called his own song Going To Georgia “misogynist garbage” at a recent show.
IMPORTANT THINGS MAKING MY HEAD HURT
John Darnielle gets all It’s Complicated on himself! <3
Posted on January 4, 2013 via You Rach You Lose with 1,001 notes
Source: rachelfershleiser
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Your audience, as it grows, your need for a teaching job, the fact of being taken seriously and reviewed by people—all these things might lead you to over-analyze your words and censor them. As Adrienne Rich put it, “Lying is done with words and also with silence.” You’re too young to remember this—I’m too young to remember this—but in 1976 Vivian Gornick wrote an essay called “Why Do these Men Hate Women?” Underneath this boldfaced headline were the photos of Normal Mailer, John Updike, and Philip Roth. Mailer probably enjoyed that, but I doubt Updike and Roth did. Still, what did Philip Roth do in response to that attack? He went on to publish books like “Sabbath’s Theater,” in order to provoke such critics rather than placate them. And the important thing isn’t whether you like Philip Roth or think he’s a nice person or a misogynist or a pervert or just really funny; the important thing is that no one would dispute that Roth has continued to be the writer he had to be, a writer who has been lionized and vilified. But, let’s face it, mostly lionized.
Jeffrey Eugenides’s Advice to Young Writers : The New Yorker
Adrienne Rich employed to defend Philip Roth.
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Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": Feminism (Plural)
Feminism is flawed. Feminism is flawed because it is a movement powered by people and people are inherently flawed. For whatever reason, we hold feminism to an unreasonable standard where the movement must be everything we want and must always make the best choices. When feminism falls short of…
The whole thing, but especially this part: “I openly embrace the label of bad feminist. I do so because I acknowledge up front that I am flawed and human. I am not terribly well versed in feminist history. I am not as well read in feminism texts as I would like to be. I have certain… interests and personality traits and opinions that may not fall in line with mainstream feminism but I am still a feminist. I cannot tell you how freeing it has been to accept this about myself.”
A zine, book and now Tumblr about feminist writers' relationships to the artists whose misogynist work we love. Edited by Judy Berman and Niina Pollari.
Have questions or interested in participating in the project? Contact us at itscomplicatedbook@gmail.com
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