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“Arundhati Roy’s ‘The Ministry of Utmost Happiness’: The Worlding of Queer Lives Under Neoliberalism” by Mauve Perle Tahat
“’You’ve already been to my funeral. You’ve already laid flowers at my grave. What more can they do to me? I’m a shadow at high noon. I don’t exist.’The last time she met him he said something to her, casually, jokingly, but with heartbreak in his eyes. It made her blood freeze. ‘These days in […]
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“Ghost Writing: Carceral Legacies, Haunted Bodies and Spaces” by Mauve Perle Tahat
One of the most terrifying ghost stories the U.S. has is incarceration. The prison is a haunted grotto. Prisons and prisoners are haunted by traumas caused by white supremacy. People admitted to these spectral spaces are part of its phenomenological architecture. When prisoners leave they are forever escorted by phantasmal histories. Most tangibly they will […]
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Self-care Soup: Mars Roundhouse Kicks in the Door to the Tune of 90’s House Music
Self-care Soup is a short column where Moriah Mylod and M. Perle talk about vibes in the ether and self-care strategies. M. Perle: Aries season is a time when we think about our power. What it’s like, how we use it, where can it get us. We can misuse power, but let’s think about […]
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I Burned You a CD {Part Three}: The Art of the New by M. Perle
a violent yet flammable world, au revoir simone, audio, audio visual, Bessel van der Klok, black box, christine and the queens, Clairvoyance, crystals, cults, david henry hwang, emergent strategy, emotional landscape, everybody everybody, feeling, feeling music, fleetwood mac, healing, kate bush, m. butterfly, mix, mix cd, mix tape, Music, never going back again, new year, new year same me, nostalgia, playlist, remind me, royskopp, Rudolph Steiner, running up that hill, the body, The Body Keeps the Score, The Dead, The Internet, thinking about music, tilted, time, twin shadow, writing about music -
I Burned You a CD {Part ONE}: Growing by M. Perle
Que seguimos rompiendo aquí Esta fiesta no tiene fin Botellas para arriba, si Los tengo bailando, rompiendo y yo sigo aquí I’m in the first row on your show, in the first row👊 On the First Floor Power show 🎶 Your vibrato’s like vulnerable leaves, 🎶 You do it crazy, that’s how you […]
aimee mann, amason, audio, beyonce, blood orange, burned cd, cd insert, chastity belt, damn fine cup of coffee, dance, demi moore, different now, disclosure, donna summer, empire of the sun, friendship, growing, j balvin, jackson 5, jewel case, letter, live, lyrics, mariah balenciaga, mi gente, mix tape, mixed cd, mixed media, money can’t buy it, Music, new edition, notes, nothing is good enough, on the radio, playlist, redacted, sing, song, songs, striptease, the jacksons an american dream, the knife, the radio dept, video, you stopped making sense -
Playing ‘Exquisite Corpse’ By Myself by M. Perle
“And it kills me, the word sorry. As if something like music should be forgiven. He nuzzles into the wood like a lover, inhales, and at the first slow stroke, the crescendo seeps through our skin like warm water, we who have nothing but destinations, who dream of light but descend into the […]
TERSE. Journal : fears. futures. phantasmagorical. funsized. 