le whorela
@aromatasemebro.bsky.social
trans alt girl, writer. hands have come up from the dark before and slid away again, why not yours? links: http://linktr.ee/aromatasemebro
![Q. You were saying a little while ago: "Rather than crying about faded pleasures, I'm interested in what we ourselves can do." Could you explain that more precisely?
M.F. Asceticism as the renunciation of pleasure has bad connota- tions. But ascesis is something else: it's the work that one performs on oneself in order to transform oneself or make the self appear which, happily, one never attains. Can that be our problem today? We've rid ourselves of asceticism. Yet it's up to us to advance into a homosexual ascesis that would make us work on ourselves and invent-I do not say discover-a manner of being that is still improbable.
Q. That means that a young homosexual must be very cautious in regard to homosexual imagery; he must work at something else?
M.F. What we must work on, it seems to me, is not so much to lib- erate our desires but to make ourselves infinitely more susceptible to pleasure [plaisirs]. We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.
Q. Can one see the first fruits of strong constructive relationships in the United States, in any case in the cities where the problem of sex- ual misery seems under control?
M.F. To me, it appears certain that in the United States, even if the basis of sexual misery still exists, the interest in friendship has become very important; one doesn't enter a relationship simply in order to be able to consummate it sexually, which happens very easily. But toward friendship, people are very polarized. How can a relational system be reached through sexual practices? Is it possible to create a homosex- ual mode of life?
This notion of mode of life seems important to me. Will it require the introduction of a diversification different from the ones due to social class, differences in profession and culture, a diversification that would](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ojmzd4t7tdbautptz6ppbzl7/bafkreifjgnccjd7cci2wwasedckw2eepmtqjcqp4xuu3qjpaebovgvxkfi@jpeg)
signed up for storygraph to see if it doesn't help me structure my reading. you can add me on there if you'd like (aromatasemebro)
January 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
signed up for storygraph to see if it doesn't help me structure my reading. you can add me on there if you'd like (aromatasemebro)
this one drew out a lot of meta-commentary about my approach towards criticism, if you're into that kind of thing boxd.it/8h9rEx
A ★★★★½ review of The Brutalist (2024)
I went into this film knowing only about its reception that some of my peers found it to be Zionist. When we articulate the moral orientation of a work of art, when we hold it up against our own world...
boxd.it
January 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
this one drew out a lot of meta-commentary about my approach towards criticism, if you're into that kind of thing boxd.it/8h9rEx
this is essentially two reviews in one because I was bowled over by Auntie Mame into speechlessness when I saw it last month
December 6, 2024 at 3:26 AM
this is essentially two reviews in one because I was bowled over by Auntie Mame into speechlessness when I saw it last month
I don't usually like to do rankings, but the prompt of favorite songs from 2000 to 2024 called out to me. One per main artist
December 4, 2024 at 8:07 AM
I don't usually like to do rankings, but the prompt of favorite songs from 2000 to 2024 called out to me. One per main artist
one of the worst things that two ships can do is pass in the night
December 2, 2024 at 7:08 PM
one of the worst things that two ships can do is pass in the night
such a crazy hard line that it went straight to bio
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 PM
such a crazy hard line that it went straight to bio
questions I am always asking
November 28, 2024 at 6:01 AM
questions I am always asking
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hi everyone. it's my birthday this weekend! rent is due the same day! I have been looking for work for most of the year and am pretty defeated! if you (or, ideally, your well-off older family members with liberal guilt) would like to help out a down-on-her-luck trans gal, my venmo is in my profile.
November 27, 2024 at 8:07 PM
hi everyone. it's my birthday this weekend! rent is due the same day! I have been looking for work for most of the year and am pretty defeated! if you (or, ideally, your well-off older family members with liberal guilt) would like to help out a down-on-her-luck trans gal, my venmo is in my profile.
we'd probably have like 80% fewer instances of misgendering if formal/polite forms of address were abolished altogether
November 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM
we'd probably have like 80% fewer instances of misgendering if formal/polite forms of address were abolished altogether
some of you are living in such a way that your memoir could be called "only I laughed in pleasure"
November 25, 2024 at 6:36 AM
some of you are living in such a way that your memoir could be called "only I laughed in pleasure"
last night we all clicked, dragged, and used keyboard arrows on bjork. com
November 22, 2024 at 10:49 AM
last night we all clicked, dragged, and used keyboard arrows on bjork. com
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bsky.app/profile/rose... updated post for accuracy (misread “hit by transphobes in car” to be as hurt w the car itself, when situation was they got out and attacked), pls share this version instead
URGENT SUPPORT REQUEST: three of my friends were assaulted by transphobes on their way home from a TDOR event in NYC and are currently hospitalized w head trauma + injuries — pls RT, send emergency funds for time off work/recovery if yr able, DM if yr in the city and can help 🫂
November 21, 2024 at 10:20 AM
bsky.app/profile/rose... updated post for accuracy (misread “hit by transphobes in car” to be as hurt w the car itself, when situation was they got out and attacked), pls share this version instead
I'm smoking that shit that made the carriage return
November 20, 2024 at 3:36 AM
I'm smoking that shit that made the carriage return
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Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87
Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87
The writer was also a renowned academic and poet as well as being one of the leading figures of second wave feminism
Sandra Gilbert, the American poet and literary critic who co-authored the landmark second wave feminist text The Madwoman in the Attic,…
dlvr.it
November 19, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87
it bears repeating that I've got tits
November 19, 2024 at 10:45 PM
it bears repeating that I've got tits
I'm still in disbelief over this photo I took from my former subway stop in Ridgewood last December. didn't edit it even a little bit. Andreas Gursky btfo'd
November 19, 2024 at 2:43 AM
I'm still in disbelief over this photo I took from my former subway stop in Ridgewood last December. didn't edit it even a little bit. Andreas Gursky btfo'd
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🎧still. open.spotify.com/track/4fGbjb...
Water No Get Enemy
Fela Kuti · Expensive Shit · Song · 1975
open.spotify.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:07 PM
🎧still. open.spotify.com/track/4fGbjb...
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This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
#Israel’i air strikes just flattened these residential apartment blocks in #Beirut. You can hear shocked screams of people in the street below as the missiles hit & the buildings collapse in just seconds. This is the daily reality of life in #Lebanon’s capital now.
November 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM
This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
remembering how emotional I was watching the Pruitt-Igoe demolition sequence in Koyaanisqatsi, mourning the near instaneous loss of thousands of spaces that had once at least offered the safety of enclosure, and now we watch daily just how much the airstrike has made that safety completely illusory.
This is happening now in Beirut.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
X, as horrific as it got, is a loudspeaker for the silenced. I am still there because of it. We must get intentional about circulating the horrors in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan if we intend to make this the just alternative.
#Israel’i air strikes just flattened these residential apartment blocks in #Beirut. You can hear shocked screams of people in the street below as the missiles hit & the buildings collapse in just seconds. This is the daily reality of life in #Lebanon’s capital now.
November 18, 2024 at 6:08 AM
remembering how emotional I was watching the Pruitt-Igoe demolition sequence in Koyaanisqatsi, mourning the near instaneous loss of thousands of spaces that had once at least offered the safety of enclosure, and now we watch daily just how much the airstrike has made that safety completely illusory.
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finding out that the last thing legendary 1950s vaginoplasty surgeon Georges Burou said to patients going under anesthetic was "au revoir, monsieur" and first thing he said when they woke up was "bonjour, mademoiselle"
November 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
finding out that the last thing legendary 1950s vaginoplasty surgeon Georges Burou said to patients going under anesthetic was "au revoir, monsieur" and first thing he said when they woke up was "bonjour, mademoiselle"