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The Oracle Wishes the Public a Happy New Year
“Women resist this understanding [men’s commonplace sexual violence] because it directly threatens the commonly held goal of having a happy and healthy relationship. If you understand the extent to which men hate you, how will you ever find your dream guy?” Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse. I read 37 books this year. I went vegan, I’m sober,…
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“Where are all the Thinkers”? Faux-Intellectualism and Knowledge Capital
o god, i’m the world’s biggest hypocrite. i have a zine, i lecture the omnipresent you, dear reader, on my personal philosophies. in an era in which anti-intellectualism is rife and entire departments of education are being slaughtered, that is not what i am here to say. there is a pervasive strain that is invading…
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My Year of Distress and Agitation: Desire and Prophecies
Ahhh… as the year comes to an end, I have gathered a couple more chapters for my memoir, a Lexapro prescription, and a promising esoteric plan for my effervescent future. As tangtang’s niche becomes deeply intertwined with modern relationships commentary (humiliationships are included), I, The Oracle, bring to you my wrap-up of the year. Prophecies…
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muniching
ill travelled as i am, i’ve never been on such a short flight. they have tended to stretch infinitely, across oceans and sustained by meals of lukewarm chicken and rice, mysteriously possessing both qualities of mushiness and Crunch. lucía and i sit on the end of each aisle and hold hands during takeoff. perhaps it…
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Lucía’s Guide To Surviving A Berlin Escapade
I get into Emil’s shower and feel my mascara uncrusting under the hot water. Last night we got home at 6am from Lokschuppen (which on a bad night is just Chantal). After 4 hours of house music (God forbid), we called it quits. I am ever grateful for Emil’s filtered shower-head and lily-scented shower gel,…
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Everything Is Embarrassing: The Performative Male Epidemic and The Panopticon of Aesthetics
in the expansive sea of internet lingo, a new and incredibly boring twist emerges in the figure of the‘performative male’, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the 2020 ‘male manipulator’. how creative. if i felt the need to emphasise this and also insufferably flex my work on Freud, i might invite you to…
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Tang in Tangier
I throw my bag under the very window Matisse once looked out of to paint Window At Tangier in 1912. So absent from Western metropolises, the ultramarine blue that he uses so consistently in his paintings of Tangier is apparent everywhere I look. I see, very clearly, what he meant by calling Tangier a “paradise…
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The Year Of The Situationship
“What’s He to Hecuba, Or Hecuba to Him?” – Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 HT: In a linguistic sense, the invented word ‘situationship’ does not have a stable meaning in the same way that ‘relationship’ does. It is deliberately ambiguous. What situation, you may ask? We have no idea. It could range from we have…
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He is the Subject, He is the Absolute. She is the Other.
Everyone has read the quote, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” from The Second Sex (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir. It is not especially difficult to determine that this means that women’s condition is not influenced or caused by biological sex, but by the formation of gender structure. Today we gather to…
