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altlitgossip:Juliet Escoria writes about marriage and...

altlitgossip:

Juliet Escoria writes about marriage and psychiatry for Hobart:

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In California, there were dozens of psychiatrists within a couple miles from me. I could have my pick. I went with mine because I didn’t hate her based on the photo on her website. I ended up liking her because when I told her I was having anxiety, she showed me some breathing exercises rather than handing me another prescription.

When it comes time for me to find a psychiatrist in Beckley, I Google “psychiatrist Beckley.” Scott’s psychiatrist comes up. The internet says he sees 60 patients a day.

I now understand what the fuck is wrong with Scott’s doctor.

There are a couple other clinics in Beckley. Their numbers are worse.

think it’s really funny that perfectly intelligent, thoughtful people are mistaking beyonce as...

think it’s really funny that perfectly intelligent, thoughtful people are mistaking beyonce as some sort of revolutionary feminist. her brand of feminism is attractive, easy to understand, easy to digest. and it is exactly that: a brand, a product, something for you to pay money for and pledge allegiance to and consume.

please note: i’m not talking shit on beyonce. i love her music. i love how she presents herself. without thinking about it too much, i’m pretty sure i respect her more than any other contemporary female pop star. and i certainly appreciate the fact that she is contributing to the idea that a feminist can be a complicated, perhaps contradictory, person: sexy, a mother, wanting to please her husband, fierce, powerful, tough. 

but like. let’s not mistake a well calculated marketing scheme for a brave act of defiance. doing so is at best stupid/ignorant and at worst dangerous.

i may be biased since elizabeth is a “bro”, but i feel like we should be celebrating acts like this over ones like slapping the word “feminism” on a stage and a clip of chimamanda adichie on a song. but “small” acts like raising a child are “ordinary.” it’s so much easier to celebrate something glamorous.

Historia de Heroína, Juliet Escoria

Historia de Heroína, Juliet Escoria:

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Juliet Escoria es, junto con Noah Cicero, la voz en la literatura que surge desde los suburbios olvidados y deprimidos de Norteamérica. Black Cloud, editada por Civil Coping Mechanisms (la misma editorial que ha apostado por escritores de la alt lit y que recientemente ha lanzado la…

My favorite thing about stuff that is written about me in Spanish is the fact that Google translates my name as Juliet Slag.

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I have a new poem up at The Ampersand Review.

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'someone has to die' 

I am dying

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bipolar people of the universe national anthem

scottmcclanahan:Mr. and Mrs.Juliet Escoria

scottmcclanahan:

Mr. and Mrs.Juliet Escoria

I have a thing from the new book I am working on up at Everyday...

I have a thing from the new book I am working on up at Everyday Genius. The book is called The Big Book of Secrets, Lies, Truths and Half-Truths. The excerpt is called COMPUTER GAMES I PLAYED AS A CHILD. Thank you Michael J Seidlinger for asking for something from me.