Dang, riot grrl is heavy

I’m terrible at keeping up with the themes of my blog. But I have some things I want to say.

So i’m writing this review of Muslims of Metropolis by Kavitha Rajagopalan, and I keep thinking about these two quotes, which may or may not have anything to do with the book, but certainly speak to a certain political mood-crisis  i find myself in:

“A lot of the times because of the media and stuff people get forced to be reactionary, like i find myself trying to be the opposite of the media’s perception or something like that. And it’s really fucked up because it fucks with your creativity because you end up always having to answer questions that are based on lies.” — Kathleen Hanna

“I’m doomed to fight on the side of people that have no space for me in their social imagination, and I would probably be the first person that was strung up if they won. But the point is that they are the ones that are resisting on the ground, and they have to be supported, because what is happening is unbelievable.” – Ahrundhati Roy

I also re-read Jigsaw Youth for the first time in forever and i was like dang, this is still relevant to my life.

Also, last week I totally developed emotional problems based on people posting this story to their Facebook profiles. It’s like totally awful and i get that, but I’m also like “Yeah, no fucking shit.” and then i’m all, “The blood of gay Iraqis, much like the blood of all Iraqis is on your hands. talk to you later.”