"Say teenage girls are attention whores—fashion fanatics, shopaholics, sex crazed, shit-talkers, bulimics, classless gum crackers, & Plath addicts. Loitering between the dress-play innocence of childhood and the plain-clothed penance of womanhood, they parade in shopping malls, movie houses, & back bedrooms, as seething, sequinned receptacles of excessive emotions, hormones, desire."
Also, please be sure to check out the rest of the This is What a Feminist Poet Looks Like: Part II Forum.
You should also check out the first forum, as well as the delirious lapel counterpart.
Many thanks to the fabulous Danielle Pafunda for curating yet another seminal forum!
*I'm nineteen in the photo above.
4 comments:
Have you read Becca Klaver and Arielle Greenberg on Plath?
also, I'm writing on Ariana Reines! any recommendations in terms of texts etc?
kate - this is so so extraordinary. when reading this i kept on thinking about Cixous' Sorties: "The heroine is she who has broken something." Resituating the excess of the teenage girl's bodies as a sort of radical rebellion. I love it. I
Ross,
There's a good essay by Chris Kraus that references Reine's work in the new book Feminaissance edited by Christine Wertheim (from Les Figues).
I'll think about others to recommend. What are you already using?
Can't wait to read your essay!
Kate--Thank you for commenting, and for posting this on your blog! Wow! I'm very honored.
Oh and yes I have read the Plath/teenage girls' essay! It was one of the essays I read for this manifesto--I will post a list of them all on my blog sometime soon.
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