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Downsizing SISTER ACT Pays Big Dividends at Matthews Playhouse
Downsizing SISTER ACT Pays Big Dividends at Matthews Playhouse
Review: Sister Act at Matthews Playhouse
By Perry Tannenbaum
A full flowering of onstage success has somehow scurried away from Iris DeWitt in recent years. Just last April, pandemic restrictions and a wretched recording rig trapped her inside a masked, malodorous production of Sense and Sensibility at Central Piedmont Community College. Patchy intelligibility also wrecked DeWitt’s previous…
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mizuki's attraction to men is passive. often times, sleeping with a man is mostly just something that happens. men are easy. reliable. mostly shit lays, but always a guarantee. they approach her often, even the ones who rail against fat bitches, bitches with tattoos, bitches who say fuck you, bitches who fight. she is a secret, shimmering desire. bitch with tattoos, bitch that looks freaky, bitch that loves to argue, bitch that gives it back as good as she gets it. men don't like to admit they like women like her. emasculating, drink you under a table, beat you at poker and laugh in your face bitches.
men are easy. men are rough hands and warm beds and free drinks - the fruity kind, even when she asks for something else. when they take her home, she wonders if they'd see it coming if she slit their throats and watched them bleed out in their shitty, empty apartments. remembers that her apartment, too, is shitty and empty and at the end of the night, so is she.
whatever.
she'll stumble out before he wakes up and catch the train home. she'll pray to god she didn't give him her actual number by accident. she'll fall asleep in her own shitty, empty apartment in her own cold bed after taking care of what he neglected.
#this started out as a meta post and turned into a partial creative writing exercise#semi inspired by bitches by melissa lozada-olive#MOBILE.#usfw#is this anything? i dont know if this is anything#misogyny cw#ask to tag
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Sometimes you remember a poem exists that perfectly encapsulates your feelings about changes your white boss asked you to make to a WOC's direct quotes and it's like
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My favorite poem. Like, ever.
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I think about the most womanly thing we've ever done and it's live anyway.
- Peluda by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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tbh a lot of online positivity reminds me of when i went to buy face razors at target for my mustache and chin hair and my sister, who is naturally hairless and has been her entire life, said "why, they're so unnecessary" in one of those condescending "you poor victim of the eurocentric patriarchy, still removing your natural hair" tones. lady if like, sophia hadjipanteli told me to throw out my tweezers id do so in a heartbeat, but the sentiment hits a little different coming from a sphinx cat yknow.
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Guitars are Better Than Synthesizers for Writing Through Hard Times by Tōth (featuring Jenn Wasner) from the album You And Me And Everything - Directed, shot, & edited by Ben Still
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Like Totally Whatever
by Melissa Lozada Oliva
Like Totally Whatever after Taylor Mali
In case you haven’t realized
it is somehow become necessary
for old white men to tell me how to speak
They like, interrupt a conversation that
isn’t even theirs, and are like
“Speak like you mean it.”
and like the internet is
ruining the english language
and they like put my
parentheticals, my likes, and uhms
and you-knows on a wait list
Tell them no one would
take them seriously in a
frilly pink dress or that make up
Tell them they have a confidence problem
That they should learn to speak up
like the hyper masculine words were
always the first to raise their hands
Invisible red pens and college degrees
have been making their way into the middle
of my sentences, I’ve been crossing things out
every time I take a moment to think.
Declarative sentences, so called because they
declare themselves to be the loudest, truest,
most taking up the most space
most totally white men sentences
Have always told me that being angry
has never helped like anybody,
has only gotten in the way of helping
them declare more shit about how
they will never be forgotten like ever
It’s like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway
were geniuses for turning women into question marks
It’s like rapes happen all the time on campuses
but as soon as John Krakauer
writes about it, suddenly it’s like
innovative nonfiction and not like
something girls are like making up
for like attention and it’s like maybe
I am always speaking in question
because I’m so used to being cut off
It’s like maybe this is defense mechanism
Maybe everything girls do is evolution
of defense mechanism
Like this is protection like
our likes are our kneepads
our uhms are our knives we tuck into our boots at night
our you-knows are the best friends we call
when we’re walking down a dark alley
Like this is how we breathe easier
But I guess feelings never helped anybody
I guess like tears never made change
I guess like everything girls do is a waste of time
So welcome to the bandwagon of my own uncertainty
watch as I stick flowers in your punctuation mark guns
’cause you can’t just challenge authority
You gotta take it to the mall too
teach you to do the bend and snap
paint its nails
braid its hair
Tell its looks like really good today
and in that moment
you murder it with all the poison
in your like softness
you let it know that like this
like this moment
it’s like, uhm,
you know me
using my voice
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“Will We Ever Stop Crying About the Dead Star” from Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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There is much pressure in a white dress
The thing is life gets in the pits,
all yellow, all used. Get out of here
with your dog-eared under-arms, baby.
You have to pretend to be dead
or wear it for a good reason. So I wore it
to the movies & I cried at the previews.
I wore it to the cafe & I asked for some alternative milk.
I wore it to the protest & they took a picture of me
without my permission. I spilled beer on it
at the punk show. I took the train
going the wrong way. I learned my lesson & I took it back,
tucked it into a box & then under my bed.
I wore it to space. I tried to be a star-fucker
but I forgot protection. I wore it to a brand new city. I tried to live
in the moment but my bank account overdrew.
I listened to “Heaven knows I’m miserable now” & it got stuck
in the zipper. I hopped up & down & it didn’t come off.
I went to the park & I pretended to read a classic on a bench.
I held flowers then I put them in my hair. I went to parades.
I said “Woo!” because I’m a “Woo!” girl. I had a few drinks
& I said “Esooo!” instead. I walked under the archways.
I threw pennies into the fountains.
I went to the readings. I wrote down my favorite lines.
I passed by all the mirrors.
I touched all of the sandals on sale.
And it still got colder. And the leaves still
changed color. And you still couldn’t see me.
Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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My favourite poems:
The Glass Essay by Anne Carson
What you missed that day you were absent from fourth grade by Brad Aaron Modlin
The Two-Headed Calf by Laura Gilpin
The Orange by Wendy Cope
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg
America by Allen Ginsberg
The Years by Alex Dimitrov
Stop All The Clocks by W.H. Auden
The More Loving One by W.H.Auden
For Grace, after a Party by Frank O’Hara
Want by Joan Larkin
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
Mad Girl’s Love Song by Sylvia Plath
Like Totally Whatever by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
You are Jeff by Richard Siken
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2023 Reading Thread
I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy (★★★★★)
The Two Towers - J.R.R. Tolkien (★★★★★)
Darkness on the Edge of Town - Adam Christopher (★★★★☆)
The Return of the King - J.R.R. Tolkien (★★★★★)
Madly, Deeply - The Diaries of Alan Rickman (★★★★☆)
Malibu Rising - Taylor Jenkins Reid (★★★★☆)
Catherine, Called Birdy - Karen Cushman (★★★★☆)
Hell Bent - Leigh Bardugo (★★★★★)
Bronze Drum: A Novel of Sisters and War - Phong Nguyen (★★★★☆)
Persuasion - Jane Austen (★★★★★)
Book Lovers - Emily Henry (★★★★☆)
Sharp Objects - Gillian Flynn (★★★★★)
The Blue Castle - L.M. Montgomery (★★★★★)
Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (★★★☆☆)
Bohemian Rhapsody: The Definitive Biography of Freddie Mercury - Lesley-Ann Jones (★★★★☆)
Big Little Lies - Liane Moriarty (★★★★★)
Ariadne - Jennifer Saint (★★★★☆)
Emma - Jane Austen (★★★★★)
Home Body - Rupi Kaur (★★★☆☆)
Dreaming of You - Melissa Lozada-Oliva (★★★★☆)
Happy Place - Emily Henry (★★★★☆)
Sad Birds Still Sing - Faraway (★★★☆☆)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins (★★★★★)
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins (★★★★★)
Neon Gods - Katee Robert (★★★★☆)
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what I read in 2022
2022
We Ride Upon Sticks- Quan Barry
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything- Jane Wong
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories- Hilma Wolitzer
The Rabbit Hutch- Tess Gunty
The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams- Jonathan Ned Katz AND Lesbian Love- Eve Adams (in same volume)
Thistlefoot- GennaRose Nethercott
Bluest Nude- Ama Codjoe
The Master Letters- Lucy Brock-Broido (reread)
Family Lexicon- Natalia Ginzburg (tr. Jenny McPhee)
The Whole Story- Ali Smith
The Rupture Tense- Jenny Xie
Bad Rabbi: And other strange but true stories from the Yiddish press- Eddie Portnoy
A Tale for the Time Being- Ruth Ozeki
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands- Kate Beaton
Wandering Stars- Sholem Aleichem (tr. Aliza Shevrin)
Moldy Strawberries- Caio Fernando Abreu (tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato)
Sarahland- Sam Cohen
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency- Chen Chen
Elephant- Soren Stockman
Craft in the Real World- Matthew Salesses
Life of the Garment- Deborah Gorlin
Olio- Tyehimba Jess
In This Quiet Church of Night, I Say Amen- Devin Kelly
The Wild Fox of Yemen- Threa Almontaser
Song- Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Qorbanot- Alisha Kaplan w/ art by Tobi Kahn
Gold that Frames the Mirror- Brandon Melendez
Foreign Bodies- Kimiko Hahn
A Little Devil in America- Hanif Abdurraqib
Muscle Memory- Kyle Carrero Lopez
not without small joys- Emmanuel Oppong-Yeboah
Too Bright To See & Alma- Linda Gregg
Borne- Jeff VanderMeer
Harvard Square- André Aciman
What We Talk About When We Talk About Fat- Aubrey Gordon
The City We Became- N.K. Jemison
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints- Joan Acocella
Vladimir-Julia May Jonas
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch- Rivka Galchen
Lessons in Being Tender-Headed- Janae Johnson
Against Heaven- Kemi Alabi
How The Word Is Passed- Clint Smith
Earth Room- Rachel Mannheimer
True Biz- Sara Nović
Motherhood- Sheila Heti
The Fire Next Time- James Baldwin
Diary of a lonely girl or the battle against free love- Miriam Karpilove tr. Jessica Kirzane
Mezzanine- Matthew Olzmann
Customs- Solmaz Sharif
Edge of House- Dzvinia Orlowsky
Only as the Day is Long: New and Selected Poems- Dorianne Laux
DMZ Colony- Don Mee Choi
Stay Safe- Emma Hine
Spring Tides- Jacques Poulin, trn. Shira Fleishman (reread)
No One Is Talking About This- Patricia Lockwood
Unaccompanied- Javier Zamora
Where I Was From- Joan Didion
Air Raid- Polina Barskova tr. Valtzina Mort
Dispatch- Cam Awkward-Rich
Bury It- sam sax
A Cruelty Special to Our Species- Emily Jungmin Yoon
Homie- Danez Smith
Dreaming of You- Melissa Lozada-Oliva
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Buenas noches.
The other year you
stopped eating
meat because you said
violence wasn't necessary for survival.
The other day you asked
to be choked during sex
because you needed to
feel loved more severely.
The other day you ignored
the news because it was
"too much for you."
If you are safe can you
even feel alive?
In the end,
What do we all deserve?
Melissa Lozada-Olivia, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
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...the loser of the war: has the best memory.
the winner: gets to forget.
Peluda
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Episode 161 - Hate Reads
This episode we’re talking about Hate Reads! We discuss annoyance reading, hate reading vs reading something you hate, completionism, experiencing bad media as a social bonding experience, and 1-star reviews of books. Plus: Books about women murdering!
You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favourite podcast delivery system.
In this episode
Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards
Media We Mentioned
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Wikipedia)
"A spectre is haunting Europe”
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Game of Thrones (Wikipedia)
Divergent by Veronica Roth
“Divergent might have been sloppy in places, but in a bizarre continuity error, both Tris’ disabling trauma around guns and an actual gun appears and disappears as is convenient in the final chapters… This violates both Chekhov’s Gun and some corollary: if you introduce a gun, it must exist.” (from Jam’s review; see also “I’m not reading another YA trilogy unless someone guarantees me no queer people die in the second act”)
Insurgent by Veronica Roth
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
“reading this book felt like having to eat three bags of raw spinach before I was allowed the ice cream sundae I'd been promised” (from Matthew’s review)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Links, Articles, and Things
161 (number) (Wikipedia)
Schadenfreude (Wikipedia)
Mark Oshiro (who Jam mentioned) appears to have deleted their YouTube channel? Or Something? You can still go to their website and the Mark Reads website.
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr Podcast
Episode on Ready Player One
A recent(ish) episode of Watch+Play (there’s a lot of them!)
There’s also this playlist of shorter, edited videos if you don’t want to commit
Hark (Jam’s holiday music podcast)
Hot take (Wikipedia)
Hate-watching (Wikipedia)
Episode 011 - Religious Fiction (the one in which Anna read the book she hated)
BookTok (Wikipedia)
Matthew can’t find the specific X-Men review he mentioned, but it’s buried in this site somewhere (that link specifically is to a scathing review of the final issue of Mutant X)
Show, don't tell (Wikipedia)
Questions
What Romance genres do you want us to read?
What comic would you use to introduce superhero comics to adults (who haven't read them before)?
Twitter thread
15 works of Experimental Fiction by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors
Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.
Aphasia by Mauro Javier Cárdenas
When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy
Big City by Marream Krollos
Search History by Eugene Lim
Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
The Story of My Teeth by Valeria Luiselli
This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels by Subimal Misra, translated by V. Ramaswamy
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
Oreo by Fran Ross
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
I was the President's Mistress!! by Miguel Syjuco
Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq
Savage Tongues by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
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