Getting Us Through – At Avidly
There is no proper way for a woman to cut her hair, let alone do anything right in this world.
Not this time
The Women’s March knows that movement building is not efficient. It can not be made smoothly instrumental. It involves building relationships, changing habits, listening to people. It involves nurture and unpaid work. It means grooming local candidates, turning slow-moving democratic institutions, and learning policies. It also means protests, music, stories, art projects, par-tays and feels. ...
Cheap Thrills
Summer anthems are not, or are not always, the best song or the most important song. They are the temporary, even disposable songs, celebrating the just right now, even when the just right now combines a terrifying mash up of all that threatens us and all that we want to protect. Yesterday was Bastille day and ...
7 Things About Prince
I’m not a human I am a dove I’m your conscious I am love All I really need is to know that You believe 1) Seeing the movie Purple Rain, as a kid. The scene where he gets Apollonia to jump in the lake, I felt mad at him, and also funny inside, which ...
Jeanne Carr and John Muir
We spent a few days this winter in Yosemite. I hadn’t been there since I was a child. On the school trip there in 5th grade, I remember seeing a family of six quail walking beak to tail in descending order of size. I remember a Quonset hut. I remember heroic narratives about John Muir. I ...
Are you free from sin?
Sitting in a café at the edge of downtown, I’m near the midpoint in my usual commute to work, at the edge of Los Angeles’s district of gentrified warehouses, the Arts District. A couple of generations of actual artists have lived around here. Some of them are now being edged out, by the successful marketing ...
I want to buy
Future Spa
If I were skating and you were skating and other people were taking a shower in their own golden hair, with pulley systems, and six-pack abs, and splashing in the golden light of the future, if everything were echo deco font and the sphinxlike spaceman bodybuilder were being birthed from the back of a semi, ...
Lip gloss
If I’m being honest, I was upset starting last night, because of the silliest of professional slights. Silly, minor. Living this life means feeling invisible or attacked about half the time, and crazy the other half, and sometimes it is my fault. Sometimes I am being, as they say, too sensitive. So I decided to ...
Sidewalk Art
