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From Stephen Elliott
Lidia Yuknavitch talks with her former Chiasmus author, Kat Meads, about her new novel, For You, Madam Lenin, plots a publishing revolution, and asks, “Is feminism dead or just in dire need of a blow job?”
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In a bar, with friends, listening to a man I’ve admired for years saying this: “Enough with the sob stories, ladies. We get it. If I hear one more story about some fucked up sad violent shit that happened to you, I’m going to walk.
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So this guy I know, a guy I like, whose brain has not atrophied or anything, says to me the other night, “Books have lost their social relevance; they have been entirely subsumed by economy, and their material form is fast approaching its own demise.”
It’s kinda moved.
Where I write.
Probably because my understanding of home for the longest time was nomadic–movement and the body.
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“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write your self. Your body must be heard.” — Hélène Cixous