“Girls are not machines that you can put kindness into until sex falls out.” —#SylviaPlath
@raisecain
Anti-Zionist Jewish Writer: climate, feminist art, parenthood, hip-hop & jungle / Faculty: Arts, Literature &Comms #Dawson #Concordia / 90s www feminist art microfemininewarfare:electronic music /MTL/Toronto/Warszawa http://raisecain.net
“Girls are not machines that you can put kindness into until sex falls out.” —#SylviaPlath
1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
"I told you... you ask me a question and after that you have to take a Kalashnikov to stop me!" I think about Eliane & her work often; beyond bedrock for me, but it was hearing her describe her music in the most animated, matter-of-fact way that sticks out; R.I.P.
soundcloud.com/kfw/eliane-r...
!!! Was wild.
Barometer poem
Barometer by #KatiaGrubisic
Ho-lee shit. Of course. Couple this with long covid and what is left of our future? Thank you for constantly working on this.
Highly recommend this book, well to do when you're able to devote uninterrupted hours to it or forgo sleep — When We Cease to Understand the World.
My 10 yr old's teacher asked us for Valentine's letters she'll distribute to our kids. My letter was excerpts of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet: si les murs ne laissaient venir à vos sens aucun des bruits du monde—alors n'auriez-vous pas toujours votre enfance, cette richesse délicieuse et royale
What about you?
Top 10 albums of all time for me, with Infinite Lies being in my top 10 (5 ? depending on the year) songs of all time.
J'ai choisi Saute Ma Ville, un court métrage que j'aime beaucoup et qui a changé ma vie. C'est grâce à ce film que j'ai découvert que je pouvais faire des films.
For my first oral French assignment, I must speak for 3-5 minutes on a Francophone film/tv show that changed my life —Saute Ma Ville by Chantal Akerman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTh_...
bsky.app/profile/rais...
for the BOC: "It's as if Genghis Kahn got together for breakfast with Oliver Wendell Holmes and Virginia Wolfe and ordered just a bowl of homemade granola and then skipped out on the check. RATING: 11.-111"
Dying over the Boards of Canada and the script for Autechre.
David Cross has something to say: pitchfork.com/features/gue... & also obv this: www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?t...
I am so so sorry. You are an incredible thinker, archivist, and writer and I hope this gets sorted soon. You do not need to have this on your shoulders when life is already so much.
Thinking about this a lot since finishing ~I Who Have Never Known Men~ by Jacqueline Harpman.
Think a 10 year old could play it too?
100% this. Absolute madness that we're creating a consumer give-take society where we've detached friendship from living a life.
I may have to add ~anti-copyright extremist~ to my bio. Yes Yes, Anna's Archive backed up Spotify (metadata and music files) distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB) annas-archive.li/blog/
"My eyes adjust to the dark,
but my heart never."
@huaxi.bsky.social aaww.org/waiting/
Go in heel.
110% Show your children you aren't and they never need to be. Wrote about this: bsky.app/profile/rais...
Go on heel.
We are in the typefaces stage of the world's end. Wtf. What else can 2025 bring?
My latest creative non-fiction "Moving at their Pace: Activism with Children" explores (Palestinian) activism with kids & why it matters for re-imagining what activism can be. atlantisjournal.ca/index.php/at... I'd love comments/critiques—this is messy stuff & even good intentions can miss the mark.
sleep or stay up listening to the new Knxwledge dropped today on repeat? knxwledge.bandcamp.com/album/v1-2
NBD. I asked after school and without hesitation: Naughty Naughty Volume 6 Side B. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiEq...
Bathurst station at 4am.