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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 4d

The girlfriends who founded Antifa.

The famous photo of three rifle-wielding women partisans walking down Via Brera, Milan, on 26 April 1945.

Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 10d

Now and then, comes defamiliarization. In n+1, social media/social platforms became surveillance media/surveillance platforms, and I was, like, slap fucking slap.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 11d

In almost three quarters of a century, I've been through several innovations of which, this will be the end of humanity, was said: Television; the pill; discotheques; daylight saving; computers; cellphones; email; internet; social media. Now ai. Yet no end came, nor comes, for our end is unending.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 11d

Could live to 21, the vet said, and I said, I’ve already done that, and the vet said, Now it’s the cat’s turn.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 12d

Look, I know I’d get more light and $ if I wrote more exploded essays like the chapters of Worthy of the Event. I have the topics and I know they’d be better written than the kind of imagined and actual things I’m writing now, but I just can’t, I just will not. Do not ask again.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 14d

Primeval form of voicemail and call screening, liberation and entrapment at the same time.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 18d

Dodge’s book is much better, I think, and he has a more developed relationship with the theory. Was it not published when u were in grad school?

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 18d

I’m fucked if I know why trans people hate Nelson and Argonauts. I mean, it’s not a trans book but Harry Dodge participated. It’s well written. Her takes on the theory are, um, *coarse*, but at least it is theory. OTH, it is possible to hate her for her success and, on my bad days, I do, I do, I do.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 20d

Almost anything Kaija Saariaho will oblige you to slide along its surface.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 21d

I transitioned in 1967-68. We knew about Candy but were not impressed. The girls of Pigalle, however, we admired even if, like me, an entertainment career was not what we wanted.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 21d

It’s very good though I can’t abide how Zackary Drucker hammers and hammers at Amanda to come out. Amanda made her decision about that 50+ years ago and she has been ever staunch about it. Show some respect for her decision, is what I say.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 21d

Have you seen the documentary about Amanda and April Ashley, Enigma? They both meant a lot to me when I was 16 and transitioning in Sydney and also thereafter. April was a sign of how beautiful and precarious I could be. Amanda showed me that I could just insist on whatever identity I wanted.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 23d

Preparation for the road book I promised to write (working title: Planet 9) requires reading every novel said to be structurally inspired by Canterbury Tales. I have Hyperion and Tokyo Canceled. Suggestion box?

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 23d

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 24d

One student gave me a canister of Taiwan black tea. The other told me there is a little bungalow for me in Chiang Rai, if I want to opt out of Portugal. I feel seen.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 25d

I am as narcissistic, as volatile, as spurning, and as vainglorious as Mr. Trump so where is my White House.? Oh, money and conditions of possibility.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 26d

Emily Zhou’s Substack takes a very good turn with structure and topicality while keeping that crystalline diction I’ve come to admire and expect from her.

theory of the hack

this isn't about you

anecdata.substack.com

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 27d

My furies about
murderers, shills,
and three kinds of
you fucking queen and disrespectful sister
forced me willy nilly
back to Canterbury Tales
where I found the road
to a perfect book
and the kind of anchoritic
vacancy that befits me.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 27d

There is not one drop of ressentiment in the vitriol.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 27d

Ire is as sugar to me.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 27d

I am rage itself.

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Jeanne Thornton @jeannethornton.bsky.social · 27d

TONIGHT please come through!!!

Penina Roth @peninaroth.bsky.social · Sep 12

MONDAY, 7PM: Excited for our @bkbookfest.bsky.social ⭐Bookend Event⭐, cohosted by the Franklin Park Reading Series & World Trans Forum! Readings + panel w/Amie Barrodale, @zefrrr.bsky.social, Chet'la Sebree, and @emializh.bsky.social, 🍻happy hour🍷 until 8pm +📚raffle! tinyurl.com/3cdj3ure #Free #BKBF

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 28d

Also, it turns out that I am by no means the only writer to complain about that book publicity person’s dishonesty, gaslighting, and destructive incompetence. So, if you told me to de-escalate and think about your need to do business with the slag, you can eat my cunt now.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 28d

I explained why it offends me and if that doesn’t work and it happens again, I will make it official.

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Vivian Blaxell @vivianblaxell.bsky.social · 28d

Personally, I don’t give a shit. Politically, I find it silencing and terrifying.