We read a lot of good stuff this week. What are reading, or what did you write? Leave it in the comments below, and we'll consider it for our next roundup.
Kenneth Anger: Film As Magical Ritual’: Jaw-Dropping German TV Doc From 1970 - Dangerous Minds
"Anger’s interview segments were shot as he sat behind a makeshift altar, lit in magenta and inside of the magical “war gods” circle seen at the end of the film."
On Refugees and Refusing To Be Scared - The Rumpus
"Bring them here for as long as they need refuge, and if they want to make a home here, even better. I’m not scared. I refuse to be scared."
On Pandering - Tin House
"What did Tina Fey say about sexists in the workplace: over, under, and through. The problem with responding to sexism with Sesame Street is that if you read that e-mail as I read that e-mail, as I was being trained to read—that is, carefully and curiously, over and over—you’ll see something more than the story Stephen told himself about me as a writer or, in this case, not a writer. I saw, in the form of paragraphs and sentences, my area of expertise, how it took only a few lines to go from professional dismissal to sexual entitlement to being treated as property to gaslighting."
David Lynch and the Second Coming of Transcendental Meditation - Motherboard / Vice
"Practitioners of TM engage in two 20-minute meditation sessions per day; once in the morning and once in the evening. They access this field by silently repeating a mantra given to them by a certified TM instructor. By connecting with the Unified Field, meditators purportedly feel calmer and more at peace."
Iskra Lawrence’s Favorite Black Friday Deals for All Sizes - Runway Riot
"Forever 21 has deals starting from $4, and with Macy’s door-busters, you will definitely bag a bargain. For fresh fast fashion, take a look at Boohoo. They have 20% off the entire range, and Old Navy has the code: early bird for 30% off or 40% if you spend over $100."
(PS: Luna Luna is a huge fan of Runway Riot.)
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A funeral director wants to bring death back home. - The New Yorker
“'People are afraid of death,” she said. “Do you want to go sit with the corpse or do you want to party? If you put it like that, it’s not a very hard question.” She is not denying that people can find great comfort in a personalized funeral ceremony. “But I would still argue that it doesn’t give you the full engagement with death and grieving that you need,” she says."
The Deck Of Cards That Made Tarot A Global Phenomenon - The Atlas Obscura
"Suddenly, worlds of knowledge, coupled with current thinking on the psychology of the human mind opened up, and people of all walks of life became enamored with contacting the spirit world to find out the future or to commune with the dead. Christians began reading the Kabbalah. Interest in photographing ghosts rose."
On Pandering - Tin House
"What did Tina Fey say about sexists in the workplace: over, under, and through. The problem with responding to sexism with Sesame Street is that if you read that e-mail as I read that e-mail, as I was being trained to read—that is, carefully and curiously, over and over—you’ll see something more than the story Stephen told himself about me as a writer or, in this case, not a writer. I saw, in the form of paragraphs and sentences, my area of expertise, how it took only a few lines to go from professional dismissal to sexual entitlement to being treated as property to gaslighting."
David Lynch and the Second Coming of Transcendental Meditation - Motherboard / Vice
"Practitioners of TM engage in two 20-minute meditation sessions per day; once in the morning and once in the evening. They access this field by silently repeating a mantra given to them by a certified TM instructor. By connecting with the Unified Field, meditators purportedly feel calmer and more at peace."
Iskra Lawrence’s Favorite Black Friday Deals for All Sizes - Runway Riot
"Forever 21 has deals starting from $4, and with Macy’s door-busters, you will definitely bag a bargain. For fresh fast fashion, take a look at Boohoo. They have 20% off the entire range, and Old Navy has the code: early bird for 30% off or 40% if you spend over $100."
PS: We LOVE Runway Riot.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: A funeral director wants to bring death back home. - The New Yorker
“'People are afraid of death,” she said. “Do you want to go sit with the corpse or do you want to party? If you put it like that, it’s not a very hard question.” She is not denying that people can find great comfort in a personalized funeral ceremony. “But I would still argue that it doesn’t give you the full engagement with death and grieving that you need,” she says."
The Thing All Women Do That You Don’t Know About - Drifting Through My Mind
"Maybe I’m realizing that men can’t be expected to understand how pervasive everyday sexism is if we don’t start telling them and pointing to it when it happens. Maybe I’m starting to realize that men have no idea that even walking into a store women have to be on guard. We have to be aware, subconsciously, of our surroundings and any perceived threats."
The Troubling Trendiness Of Poverty Appropriation - The Establishment
"And it’s not just the Tiny House Movement that incites my discontent. From dumpster diving to trailer-themed bars to haute cuisine in the form of poor-household staples, it’s become trendy for those with money to appropriate the poverty lifestyle—and it troubles me for one simple reason. Choice."
Selfie: The revolutionary potential of your own face, in seven chapters - Medium
"I think about Francesca Woodman; the lovely, doomed Francesca, the daughter of two bohemian artists, a plaintive blonde who spent summers in Italy and learned to take photographs of herself in an old farm house. She started noodling around with a camera when she was only 14 in 1972, fully committing herself to her work when she went off to study at RISD three years later. She sent her shots to fashion houses and magazines, but couldn’t really get much traction; she applied for grants and residencies with mixed results. She was in such a rush to become a success that any slowness in the process felt like a deep insult. Her depression rolled in like an unshakable fog. She tried to kill herself once, then again, and in 1981, when she was only 22, she succeeded by leaping out of a window of a building on the East Side of Manhattan."
Ridin' Dirty: A Sweeping Look At Witches Mounting Their Broomsticks - Broadly
"There is very much a sense that women are the weaker vessel—that they are more sexually voracious than men, more susceptible to sexual sin and therefore more likely to lead men astray." Take women with basic medicinal knowledge; add domestic implements, hallucinogenic properties, and conscribed female existence; add a healthy dose of male anxiety, and you may very well make witches."