adventures into meaning/lessness
CONTENT WARNING: This content includes brief audio depicting transphobia, as well as later discussion of queer and transphobia throughout the episode. Pleasae feel free to sit this one out, take breaks, whatever you need to do. Show Notes: Are there IKEA instructions for how to be a ‘proper’ human? Is our nature predetermined by a …
Continue reading “Level With Me, E1: Existentialism as a Transfeminism”
So by this point, if you also occasionally indulge in the brain rot carnival that is American celebrity news, you may know that Kimye is over… tragic, I know. I want to say that the Kim Kardashian-Kanye West romance is the Romeo-Juliet for contemporary times. Is that too sacrilegious to claim? At the very least, …
https://vm.tiktok.com/TTPd2jrXuW/ *updated page with video because link didn’t work:
Dear Reader, We begin with a story which goes something like this: A fateful rightward swipe on Tinder and four years of monogamous romancing later, you now find yourself walking down the aisle. A white chiffon train trails behind you, followed by a sea of eyes–– perhaps among them a teary-eyed mother sticks out most …
Continue reading “Love, Marriage, Baby Carriage: On Sartre & Bad Faith, A Letter”
If you’ve watched Mean Girls or practically any other cliché all-American high school movie, you’re likely familiar with the classic power-hungry Jock vs. cowardly Nerd trope. If not, here’s a quick clip to give some context for what I’m talking about: It’s tale as old as time: a cutthroat community of social cliques, each painfully …
Inspired by “The Sickness Unto Death” by Anti-Climacus, edited by Søren Kierkegaard
This meme is not particularly flashy. Visually, it consists of blurry/pixelated black text on a stark gray background. This is notable because the average Instagram user’s behavior revolves around reproducing normative aesthetics i.e. images with conventionally beautiful, smiling subjects, utopic highlight reels finetuned to appear livelier than life itself, vibrant colors, clean and corporate-friendly graphic …
Camus defines the Absurd as that site of passionate confrontation between “the mind that desires and the world that disappoints.” (50) Upon realizing the chasm that exists between the needs of one’s mind and the indifference of the world to meet those needs, he writes that the absurd (hu)man witnesses in their newfound consciousness the …
Continue reading “Beyond the Absurd Man: The Absurd Queer as Blueprint for Revolt”
