"of traditional attitudes, there are only two—For, or Against. I, personally, find it difficult to say which attitude causes me the most pain.
I never want to compromise with complexities. Too many too often want a story that follows a simple and straight line. I have no interest in following a straight line. Do I contradict myself, very well than
I have multilayers"
"Being femme means minding macho men like mines in a patriarchal battlefield
I am not submissive
And am not dependent upon YOU for protection
The streets are my warzone
I, the warrior, with glitter as my war-paint, pink as my armour and the stomping of my high heels as my battle-cry
I will not accept their bullying behaviour
But neither will I escalate the situation
The expert of how to assert without getting hurt
Cat claws out back arch. But i do not bark
I will live my life and not on my broken knees"
"When you stigmatize sex workers you are not crying for us or with us you are crying straight at us
Which is just a baby step from laughing at us"
"Diamanda Galas said she hustled 74th street in order to feel like she finally owned the streets
Valerie Solanas said she found it funny to get money from stupid men with sex as a hang-up"
"Don't try to rescue me
Every sex worker has their own story to tell
Depending on position
Depending on person
My story is..."
"It is my hope that the more people share their personal experiences, the more society will be able to recognize such experiences as individual, and sex workers as individuals, not as some sort of monolithic group that is either empowered or oppressed.",
"It is my firm belief that the sex workers’ rights movement depends on sex workers sharing their first-person experiences, whether they’re good, bad and ambivalent. Creating a climate of honesty and tolerance begins with us.",
"James Baldwin writes that “of traditional attitudes, there are only two—For, or Against.” He goes on: “I, personally, find it difficult to say which attitude caused me the most pain."
"Of traditional attitudes, there are only two—For, or Against. I, personally, find it difficult to say which attitude causes me the most pain.
I never want to compromise with complexities. Too many too often want a story that follows a simple and straight line. I have no interest in following a straight line. Do I contradict myself, very well than
I have multilayers"
'Public Sex, Private Lives' documentary film trailer from Simone Jude on Vimeo.
Oh, Capitalism stop torturing me!
My ambition fits you very well
My scatterheart scatterbrain does quite the opposite
Stop wasting your time with that stupid neurosis bordering on psychosis
You can easily end this
Gold glitter lipstick makes you beautiful
Published books and articles makes you successful
Performing on stage makes you free to be larger than life
And love,
Love excites you.
But security threatens you and your love of doing things on your own
Who ever said capitalism had anything to do with individuality
It has everything to do with acceptability
And self-promotion within acceptable boundaries
And you, you don’t know how to spell acceptable behaviour
And you, you don’t know how to do anything without over-doing it.
You slut.
You splurge.
You climber.
You are silent when you should be talking.
Speak up.
You are talking when you should be silent.
Shut up.
Even your depressions are manic.
When shit goes wrong
And wrong goes bad
It rots.
The anger is all that remains.
It is not socially acceptable to trust no one
Or stare far too long at a flame
For how long can it burn?
I am leaving my lair
Going out to bitch
I see dead people
Am I a criminal?
I am merely killing empty photographs with my stare
Am I subtle?
Am I growing tall?
Nothing is enough
It has two meanings
Born to die
Born to live
Ease myself into a bubble bath
Ease myself into a body bag
More flowers
Less poison
You can not just chew up all the shit in the world, swallow it down and than shit it out just the same.
Why do you hold on to your hate as if it was the last thing you had left?
Spoiled Brat!
Greedy Bitch!
You are not the victim!
The sons, the daughters may have hated you
Teased you
Kicked you
Scratched you
But
The teachers
The mothers
They praised you and your level of gift and talent
Nobody could match you.
So now you must always be the best
It robs you of your worth!
You are not living up to your potential.
Get your foot out of your ass
Dumbass do not put it in your door
By morning you shall inherit the earth.
Stop walking a line of complexities
Everyone thinks you are contradicting yourself.
Save face.
Walk straight.
BUT I HAVE NO INTEREST IN WALKING A STRAIGHT LINE.
I have only an interest in mocking that path
That one-way street.
The simple road to success
I never want to compromise with complexities
I have multi-layers
I am not a conservative politician comprised of gay porn
There is nothing I want to hide.
Nothing I don’t want to try.
The mask of restraint has fallen off
It has shattered.
Realness does not mix well with reality.
Do. Not. Let. It. Kill. You.
This life will not be confined by your pre-defined measurements of success
Fail and Fail and Fail again
What a character you will build.
What a rocky road you will travel.
What a roller-coaster.
What a flame.
What a waterfall.
Surviving Niagara.
To Paradise.
”I’m my own manager, my own pretty much everything. I can’t explain why that is, but I like that self-reliance. I don’t want to sleep with a guy every night, I don’t want him in my bed every night.”- Diamanda Galas
”För mig är en person som är värdig en person som är rik, chefsposition för ett stort företag, snygg, smal. Ja, det är en perfekt person enligt. Och för mig är de här personerna som inte tjänar bra pengar dom är läskiga och jag tycker det är obehagligt att vara nära en sån. T.ex. om jag sitter på bussen och det kommer någon människa och sätter sig bredvid mig så tycker jag det är obehagligt för jag vet inte om personen är fattig eller rik. Så jag tycker det är obehagligt att åka buss.”
"Istället för att sitta där och vänta på att dö – ut och jobba istället! Gör något av era liv! Jag själv kommer jobba tills jag bokstavligt ligger i graven, vill ha in så mycket pengar som möjligt. Sen har jag ju väldigt stora omkostnader… Alla mina väskor. Kommer att göra storbeställningar på Chanel, Louis Vuitton och Prada under detta år, like it or not!"
”The moment I imagine my suffering as something that’s never been experienced by someone else, I become boring”- Diamanda Galas
"I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” - Sylvia Plath i "The Bell Jar"
“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”
"The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters.”
"Does not my heat astound you and my light? All by myself I am a huge camelia, glowing and coming and going. Flush on Flush. I think I am going up. I think I may rise."
"I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut box and sort of mirror-looking narcissistic experience, I believe it should be relevant and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on".
"Too many guys think I'm a concept, or I complete them, or I'm gonna make them alive. But I'm just a fucked-up girl who's lookin' for my own peace of mind; don't assign me yours."
"It’s freeing to know that we have to FIGHT to make great work and a great life and a great death and leave a great legacy and have a good mission, to achieve excellence, a deep deep human revolution, and that art, like life, is WAR."- Courtney Love
"No serious musician would ever change their name, except for maybe Sting, Cher, Elton John, Jay-Z, everyone else in hip-hop and of course Bob Dylan", "In this age of dangerous school bullying you have sent an important message, if you think someone is weird you should criticize them as much as possible".:
"It’s freeing to know that we have to FIGHT to make great work and a great life and a great death and leave a great legacy and have a good mission, to achieve excellence, a deep deep human revolution, and that art, like life, is WAR."- Courtney Love
"Liknande fläckar av en ”revolution inom revolutionen” breder ut sig överallt. I Brasilien och Paraguay driver jordockupanter hela samhällen efter kommunitära, direktdemokratiska principer. I Venezuela och Argentina sköter radikala folkrörelser daghem, skolor och högskolor enligt Freires ”befrielsepedagogik”, under egen kontroll men med statliga resurser. Venezuela har infört arbetardemokrati i ett elbolag med 10 000 anställda, med vald chef och råd bland de anställda."
"Trans people face discrimination, and possibility of violence, death, alienation etc. every day. Yes, cis women and men are sort of trapped into gender boxes, but so are trans people. Not only that, but they then have to break out of that box and not only deal with facing the things expected of them because of their gender, but have to deal with that in even more extremes in some cases to “pass.” Just because someone is female does not mean they are not privileged for being cis. Think of all the shit that trans people (women and men) have to deal with that cis people (women and especially men) do not. Also: Trans women are women. You think that womanhood is really only defined by genitalia and sex organs? You’re just going to ignore all the trans women who hated going through puberty? Who killed themselves or were killed because people wouldn’t accept their gender? Also, it’s great how people are complaining about trans people “defining female” while at the same time trying to define what being female is in order to exclude trans people."
