jisungii:

cuddly koalas 🐨🐨🐨

macross-82:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BcrWVMLH34G/

roserosette:

Necromancy, 1972, Bert I. Gordon

smakkabagms:

Essays:
1. Helene Cixous - Laugh of Medusa 
2. Anne Carson - Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry 
3. Kathy Acker - Myth of Romantic Suffering
4. Virginia Woolf - On Not Knowing Greek 
5. Adrienne Rich - Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
       - Adrienne Rich - Three Other Essays 
6. Alice Walker - Looking for Zora 
7. Anna Klobucka - Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector
8. Joan Didion - On Self-Respect
9. Margaret Atwood - Am I a Bad Feminist? 
10. Jeffrey Meyers - The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud
11. Jennifer Nash - Practicing Love 
12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren - “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering
13. Albert Henrichs -  Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus 

Short Stories: 
1. Clarice Lispector - Love 
2. Anne Carson - 1 = 1
3. Margaret Atwood - Stone Mattress
4. Amy Bloom - Silver Water
5. Gunnhild Øyehaug - Same Time, Another Planet 
6. Anne Carson - Back the Way you Went 
7. Tatyana Tolstaya - Unnecessary Things
8.  Kirstin Valdez Quade - Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)
9.  Clarice Lispector - One Day Less

Novels:
1. Helene Cixous - Stigmata 
2. Helene Cixous - Ex-Cities 
3. Helene Cixous - Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite)
4. Jean Genet - A Thief’s Journal (another link)
5. Judith Butler - Bodies that Matter
6. Clarice Lispector -  AGUA VIVA  (my favorite)

Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. - Love, E 

tenderbeasts:

Those links for all asking

Deadly history of women using perfume as poison
-Girlhood, medusa and female rage
-The allure of gothic horror
-Essays and thoughts on girls in horror
-Why girls get hungry in horror
-Mothers and witches
-Women in horror
-The female poisoner
-female werewolves
-Monstrous women - Catherine Lundoff
-Female cannibals and consumptive horror
-Horror films directed by women
-Women, killer plants and annihilation
-Female identity within the gothic genre
-Women in horror - the vvitch
-the vvitch, female sexuality in horror
-Angela Carter - The beast is female sexuality
-Body horror/monster reading list
-Consumptive horror

prettyboistudies:

we’ve all been there fam. in fact my previous semester was not great either – i got kicked out of my university’s honor program. You need a 3.5 cumulative GPA to stay in, and because of a lot of different circumstances, I finished out with a 3.48 – which is, frankly, better than i deserved. But this semester I’m gonna get a 4.0 and reapply. So here’s how ya do it. 

1. have a good first day. 

a big mistake is to go balls-to-the-wall discipline on your first day. Fuckin… relax, dude. Wake up as early as you need to be ready, but don’t push yourself to be up at 5am or anything like that. Set our your stuff the night before so you can have an easy morning. Treat yourself to a good breakfast or just get that fast food you’ve been craving for lunch. It’s really important not to stress yourself out too much, especially after your last semester kinda sucked, and it’s VERY important not to let yourself automatically associate school with negative emotions like fear and stress, because that will paralyze you down the line when things get more difficult closer to exam season, etc. 

2. don’t be afraid to drop

when going to all your new classes, really seriously evaluate your ability to succeed in a class with that time slot/professor/etc. last semester I had a quantitative reasoning class that was part of our core curriculum – the professor was NOT good at their job, did not teach us the material, and frankly showing up to that class was a waste of my time. What i SHOULD have done was DROP THE DAMN CLASS the first week, and taken it the next semester with a better professor. 

3. limit other activities at first

your first couple weeks of the new semester, cut back on other activities. I’m really active in political stuff going on around my city, and i’m on a leadership team for an organization that does that kind of stuff. I’ve let the team know that I’m not going to be participating, going to meetings, or ANYTHING for the next two weeks while my semester gets started. The reasons for this are many – it helps you get used to the pace of all your classes without being stressed out by other things, it helps you reorganize your priorities and put school first, and it also helps you build credit with your professors, so down the line if you’re having problems (like ‘oh SHIT i forgot this homework’ or ‘FUCK i don’t understand this project i need an extension’) they’ll be more likely to help you out, because they know you’ve been putting the effort in. 

4. try out something new organizationally

if you’re like me, keeping track of assignments is really difficult. I lose papers all the damn time. So this semester I’ve bought one of those accordion file thingies – so I can keep all my papers in one place, while still having them separate and organized. Just remember, the strategy is only one part, but you’re responsible for sticking to it and making it work. 

so there ya have it, friends. you’re ready to start this ‘recovery semester’ off with a bang. you can do it, and so can I!