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When we ‘see’ a landscape, we situate ourselves in it. If we ‘saw’ the art of the past, we would situate ourselves in history. When we are prevented from seeing it, we are being deprived of the history which belongs to us. Who benefits from this deprivation? In the end, the art of the past is being…

I started to think about my father picking cotton as a kid & the hierarchy of the fields. How poor whites & Mexican-Americans got first pick. How undocumented workers went in second & African-Americans picked last. How my father said getting first-pick made him feel special until one very hot day, …

At the same time, a significant number of young writers—many of them teenage girls—are chatting online with Tao Lin or some other depressed man in his early 20s. They call this “Alt-Lit.” This is before one Alt-Lit woman turns up in an anarchist space in San Francisco & starts sleeping with one of …

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If you were to wear a shirt that said leave me alone
People might not talk to you or harass you or assault you.
You might put them off. You might manage
To trick them, this time. That you weren’t even trying
Is a terrible sign—like an intersection with signs
That say don’t stop keep going.…

Don’t believe everything you see on YouTube
& I don’t mean don’t believe it

The way you wouldn’t believe something
On the cover of the National Enquirer; I mean
Don’t believe it like so many people

Believed lonelygirl15. Don’t place
Too much importance on a person’s intentions
Which …