March 2012
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“I would like to help create a more egalitarian society. I think our biggest...”
– Alice Bag, interview 3/30/12
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Confessions of an Ex-Cutter
Recently, a good friend confided to me that she was worried about her daughter. The young girl had started cutting herself and my friend was worried that she was suicidal. I wondered why my friend had chosen me to give her advice. How could she know that I’d once been a cutter myself? It’s been years since my cutting days, but the feelings of shame and embarrassment that coincided with slicing...
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“When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose...”
– Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet, essayist, and lesbian feminist. Blood, Bread and Poetry, ch. 13 (1986). From an essay written in 1984.
RIP - Adrienne
“That’s why I want to speak to you now.
To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.)
I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then,...
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“Yes. I totally agree with this:
The more I think about it, I realize that’s...”
– Excerpt from an article I’m writing for an upcoming punk quarterly based out of Richmond. I’m really excited for that project to come together. Rumor is there will be a Propagandhi interview. (via gugugutwrench)
AWESOME MAX
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“The most rewarding things for me have been the things that help me grow, so most...”
– Alice Bag, March 2012 interview with Press Enterprise.
http://www.inlandsocal.com/iguide/music/music-headlines/20120309-riverside-alice-bags-book-tour-heads-inland.ece
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