#kathy acker

[deviika]

— Kathy Acker

#Kathy Acker #Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels #life quotes #abt society #book quotes #dark academia #chaotic academia #light academia #relatable #quotes

[seventyfishes]

#kathy acker

[ashtrayfloors]

When other people I knew in grad school read Kathy Acker’s books they were shocked. Appalled. Particularly most of the budding young feminists. I actually began weeding out women friends by their reactions to her books. The ones that smiled and lowered their eyes with sly understanding and touched themselves, I kept. The ones that freaked out, well, they were idiots. Once I read a paragraph from Empire of the Senseless in my theory of gender class and one of the women began to cry and ran out and barfed. No shit. Pussy, I thought.

—Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water

#quotations #lidia yuknavitch #kathy acker #the chronology of water #i think of this so so often #because i had a similar experience in undergrad #but was thinking of it again recently because i noticed a distinct split in the reactions of my women and nonbinary friends re: poor things #(note: i am not saying ‘women and enbies’ because i think they’re the same obvs #i’m just using it to denote ‘any friend who’s not a man’) #so #some are in the ‘smiling and lowering their eyes and touching themselves’ category #like: ‘i related to bella because xyz and therefore i loved it’ #and some are in the ‘crying and barfing’ category #like: ‘i was super triggered and thought the depictions of sexuality were problematic and horrible’ #i mean i’m not going to weed out friends because of it #but it’s…interesting #makes me think of that post that’s like #a piece of art can be triggering and awful for someone and healing and cathartic for someone else

[mister-crow]

source

#artists on tumblr #collage #traditional art #mixed media #sketchbook #journals #art journal #kathy acker

[intopermanence]

I need to see your flesh. You. This is all I know now: want. I can no longer explain this. What I feel. Why I feel. What is happening to me — want's finally overcoming me — is irrevocable, as irrevocable as everything that has happened to me in the past — I'm going to continue being alone and not talking to anyone. But under this mysterious sign, which doesn't exist, where in front of me is only you…distant, ironic, cruel…, I need to see your flesh just once.

Kathy Acker, from “My Mother: Demonology”

#Kathy Acker #American literature #fiction #novels

[ripeteeth]

"Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party."

Kathy Acker, New York City in 1979

#kathy acker #new york city in 1979

[dyouknowwhatimean]

twin peaks // pussy, king of the pirates by kathy acker

#twin peaks #kathy acker #own post

[brachiocephalics]

Raggedy Man, I remember you, and you are late for my wedding!

Amy Pond + Eurydice in the Underworld, Kathy Acker

#she lives in her own world because she makes the whole world hers is the amy pond thesis in this essay i will #amy pond #doctor who #disasterpiece.web #kathy acker #eurydice in the underworld #i just love her so much #eleven x amy #11amy #elevenamy #otp: you're my best friend #the big bang #dw s5 #moffat era #dw

[davidhudson]

Kathy Acker, April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997.

#kathy acker #literature

[beaft]

It’s possible to hate and despise yourself ‘cause you’ve been in prison for so long. It’s possible to get angrier and angrier. It’s possible to hate everything that isn’t wild and free.

Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School

#kathy acker #i just finished this! #very complicated feelings about it

[bartmobile]

annotation from my copy of blood and guts in high school

#kathy acker

[lizardgoats]

She was an articulator of the post-sixties bohemian bad girl. Not a hippie but a kind of art thug. Kathy [Acker] was the girl who knew she had something to say that mattered, who loved sex and music and refused to be obedient. Later cultural movements like punk girls, riot grrrls, rockers, goths, and even, weirdly, the deadly chick lit, can trace their origins to the territory she pioneered and the devoted followings she inspired in her day.

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, by Sarah Schulman

#the gentrification of the mind #sarah schulman #kathy acker #punk #riot grrrls #goth #chick lit

[agirlnamedbone]

KATHY ACKER ph. Jo Mazelis ca. 1980s

#op #kathy acker #transgressive literature #blood and guts in high school #pussy king of the pirates #queer lit #novelists #writer portraits #jo mazelis

[intopermanence]

When the flesh is torn (incarceration is broken and language emerges) . . .

Kathy Acker, from “My Mother: Demonology”

#Kathy Acker #American literature #fiction #novels

[breathofgod]

#kathy acker #blood and guts in high school #you're the first joy i knew #backing away like he's a dangerous animal #but wanting him

[dyouknowwhatimean]

pussy, king of the pirates by kathy acker

#''new holes on deadgirl'' #kathy acker #own post