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Week 2, July 2021: "The Horror of Interpersonal relationships" #ReadCommunity

This week, we read "The Beauty of the Husband" by Anne Carson and "Maurice" by E. M. Forster.

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: What does a justice-informed, justice-oriented lifestyle actually look like? How do collectivists conceptualize the self? Where's the emotion in leftist action? Ryen and Katherine do the work in real-time: every episode, we puzzle out power structures in economy, beauty, and media. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

we discuss what it means to want someone, and what it means to be wanted. we also do a "what's in my bag" tag sometime in the middle.

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Week 1, July 2021: "The Horror of Interpersonal Relationships" #ReadCommunity

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: What does a justice-informed, justice-oriented lifestyle actually look like? How do collectivists conceptualize the self? Where's the emotion in leftist action? Ryen and Katherine do the work in real-time: every episode, we puzzle out power structures in economy, beauty, and media. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

celebrating Stephen Burrows, Prana Machine, Naomi Campbell, China Machado, Holland, Beyoncé, and, for good measure, @pranamachine one more time. 

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Week 3, June 2021: "#MeandWhiteSupremacy" #ReadCommunity

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: What does a justice-informed, justice-oriented lifestyle actually look like? How do collectivists conceptualize the self? Where's the emotion in leftist action? Ryen and Katherine do the work in real-time: every episode, we puzzle out power structures in economy, beauty, and media. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

from scoring points for being a "good ally," to building truly supportive relationships across the lines of race, class, culture, and sexuality. (rainbow capitalism be damned – happy pride month!) thank you to Layla F. Saad for her book and workbook, "Me and Wh*te S*premacy." content warning: discussion of racial stereotypes about Indigenous people and Black people

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Week 2, June 2021: "#MeandWhiteSupremacy" #ReadCommunity

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: What does a justice-informed, justice-oriented lifestyle actually look like? How do collectivists conceptualize the self? Where's the emotion in leftist action? Ryen and Katherine do the work In real-time: every episode, we puzzle out power structures in economy, beauty, and media. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

what should your inner anti-racist voice sound like? we discuss white exceptionalism, white fragility, and proximity to wh*te s*premacy. thank you to Layla F. Saad for her book and workbook, "Me and Wh*te S*premacy"

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Week 1, June 2021: "#MeandWhiteSupremacy" #ReadCommunity

Read along (with members in 13+ countries!) at linktr.ee/readcommunity 💗

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: What does a justice-informed, justice-oriented lifestyle actually look like? How do collectivists conceptualize the self? Where's the emotion in leftist action? Ryen and Katherine do the work real-time: every episode, we puzzle out power structures in economy, beauty, and media. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

Abby Holgerson (@ominous_abby) performs to herself. She's been a vampire bride, a puppet queen, the Venus, an amateur burlesque icon, and a successful Depop merchant. Through all her mediums, Abby explores the "mundane horror" of life in 2021. In this episode, we discuss what it means to become possessed – to make ourselves monstrous – and what it's like to be both hot and funny at the same time 😌

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Week 4, May 2021: "Self-Capture" #ReadCommunity

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

what can you do with a camera? play, obscure, expose?

we discuss the work and lives of the following artists: Lee Miller ~ Robert Mapplethorpe ~ Garry Winogrand ~ Ana Mendieta ~ Cindy Sherman ~ Erin M. Riley ~ Bill Cunningham ~ Diane Arbus ~ House of Dior ~ Halston

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Week 1, May 2021: "Self-Capture" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Kim Hart, "10 Masters of the Self-Portrait, from Frida Kahlo to Cindy Sherman"

Arthur Danto, "Playing with the Edge"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

is Asian America a monolith of our own making? with Janine Sun Rogers (@janine.rtf), we discuss what it means to be "Asian enough" — according to Asian Americans, Asian nationals, and dumpling-making grandmas.

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Week 3, April 2021: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Christina Elizabeth Firpo, "The Uprooted" — Chapter 4: War, Political Loyalty, and Racial Demography, 1938-1845

Lane Johnston, "Okinawa and the U.S. military, post 1945"

Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, "Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947-52" — Conclusion

Charmaine Chua, "The smell of wood: Recuperating loss in a country of forgetting"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

what if world history began in africa - stayed in africa - discussed what non-african people did to africans - and who africans are now?

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references made:

"Mad Men" Season 2, Episode 3: "The Benefactor"

"Mrs Dalloway" (Virginia Woolf)

"A Room of One's Own" (Virginia Woolf)

https://www.instagram.com/lizzobeeating/

"Truth and Power" (Michel Foucault)

Teen Vogue / Vogue China

Bachelor Nation!

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Week 2, April 2021: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Sabrina Strings, "Fearing the Black Body" — Chapter 6: Thinness as American Exceptionalism

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Joy James, "The Womb of Western Theory: Trauma, Time Theft, and the Captive Maternal"

bell hooks, "Overcoming White Supremacy: A Comment"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

"...decolonization is not accountable to settlers, or settler futurity. Decolonization is accountable to Indigenous sovereignty and futurity."

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references made:

"Oprah with Meghan and Harry" (2021)

The Iliad, The Aeneid, The Odyssey

Hera (Juno), Artemis, the Minotaur, Medusa, Perseus, Argus, Io

"Autobiography of Red" (Anne Carson)

"The Song of Achilles" (Madeline Miller)

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Week 1, April 2021: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang, "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor"

Jan C. Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel, "Decolonization: A Short History; Chapter 2: Nationalism, Late Colonialism, World Wars"

Aimé Césaire, "Discourse on Colonialism"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

when you're angry, you register 7% of what you hear. 7%!!!

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content warnings: slavery, throughout; 3:00 rape; 36:55 eating disorders

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references made:

Fearing the Black Body (Sabrina Strings)

“Race” and Racism: The Development of Modern Racism in America (Richard J. Perry)

Gone with the Wind (dir. Victor Fleming)

#girlboss

twelve-step programs

The Big Book (Bill W.)

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Week 4, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Resmaa Menakem, "My Grandmother's Hands"

Padraig McAuliffe, "Death and the Maiden as a Mirror Reflecting the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice Policy"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

huge content warning for the episode entire: sexual violence, rape, victim-blaming, pedophilia, kidnapping, forced marriage

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references made:

Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse cases

Christine Blasey Ford's testimony against Brett Kavanaugh

Gone Girl (dir. David Fincher)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Lolita: The Story of a Cover Girl (ed. John Bertram, Yuri Leving)

Gerald's Game (dir. Mike Flanagan)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)

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Week 3, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Suzanne McKenzie-Mohr, "Counter-storying Rape"

Kim Elsesser, "Cross-Examination Is Brutal—Is It Time To Consider Restorative Justice In Sexual Assault Cases?"

sujatha baliga, "A Different Path for Confronting Sexual Assault"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

content warnings: 8:40 suicide

restorative justice practices could disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline at several critical points. that's it, that's the bio

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Week 2, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Robert McClure, "Native American Peacemaking Courts Offer a Model for Reform"

Ann Arnett Ferguson, "Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity"

Annalise Acorn, "Restorative Justice Compared to What?"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine talk fashion history, beauty philosophy, and leftist politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

content warnings: romanticization and glorification of physical/mental illness and eating disorders THROUGHOUT, 12:45 sexual assault / domestic violence

fuck it, here's everything we discuss:

romantic agony ~ cult of thinness ~ talk therapy (modality) ~ Sigmund Freud ~ repressed memories ~ romanticizing mental illness ~ white women's tears ~ "i'm not like other girls" ~ audrey hepburn ~ body ideals during the great depression ~ @yourfatfriend ~ fatphobia ~ Penny Dreadful (Showtime) ~ The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) ~ The Queen's Gambit (Netflix) ~ "phoenix from the ashes" abuse narrative ~ Bridgerton (Netflix) ~ colorblind casting ~ Satanic Panic

Week 1, March 2021: "Narratives of Healing" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading

Susan Sontag, "Illness as Metaphor"

Eva Illouz, "Triumphant Suffering"

Bessel van der Kolk, "The Body Keeps the Score"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherine.shark

#champagneproblems except not really, women going unloved and neglected is a pandemic unto itself. anyway, we discuss heterosexuality & how it thrusts gender relations, the orgasm gap, and queer love into harsh detail #menarefrommars #andtheyshouldgoback

Week 4, February 2021: "Love's Truths" #ReadCommunity

Victor Karandashev, "Romantic Love Ideals in Modern America and Europe"

Pantéa Farvid, "Oh It Was Good Sex!"

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Stevi Jackson, "Love, Social Change, and Everyday Heterosexuality"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen and Katherine discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

what's a policy of LOVE (not just of equity, justice, fairness)? student loan forgiveness, eichler's homes, & planned parenthood, we think.

what seems a policy of love, but really does the bare minimum? public parks & daca, we think.

references made in this episode:

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, "Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire"

Nancy Fraser, integrated theory of justice

Sara Ahmed, feminist killjoy

"Mad Men," Season 7, Episode 14, "Person to Person"

Week 3, February 2021: "Love's Truths" #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Eleanor Wilkinson, "A Feminist Critique of Love as a Political Concept"

bell hooks, "Community: Loving Communion"

Kathleen Lynch, "Why Love, Care, and Solidarity are Political Matters"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

we talk 

teaching men to love 🙄 

mothering ourselves 🤰 

being intentionally selfless/selfish 💔 

using love languages, but on ourselves 💌  

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Week 1, February 2021: "Love's Truths" #ReadCommunity  

This week, we're reading the following: 

bell hooks: "All About Love" 

Audre Lorde: "A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer" 

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

in the last episode of january 2021, we discuss the "place" that is social media: memes, wealth porn, algorithms, and more.

spoiler: it's NOT some act of God taking over our lives; it IS just one more major phenomenon in the history of humanity.

content warning: 28:50 eating disorders, thinspo / pro-ana, self-harm

Week 4, January 2021: "Place, Location, and Identity" #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Norberto Nuno Gomes de Andrade: "The Right to be Forgotten"

Georg Franck: "Social Media and the Ecology of Emotion"

Kath Albury: "Sexual Expression in Social Media"

Ana Deumert: "The performance of a ludic self on social network(ing) sites"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

filmed this episode on the day that trump supporters stormed the capitol. we discuss: when did we realize racism was a thing? who helped us become anti-racist? what does a "post-racial" america look like, and why do we even care?

Week 3, January 2021: "Place, Location, and Identity" #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Cheryl I. Harris, "Whiteness as Property"

Devon W. Carbado, "(E)Racing the Fourth Amendment: Introduction"

June Jordan, "In the Land of White Supremacy"

Calvin L. Warren, "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

two californians debunk myths about their home state — is it really a liberal paradise? is it really the promised land? no, and we explain why.

Week 2, January 2021: "Place, Location, and Identity" #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Joan Didion, "Slouching Toward Bethlehem"

Louis Menand, "The Radicalization of Joan Didion"

Saul Sanchez, "The Migrant Experience from Birth to Age Five"

June Jordan, "Where I Live Now I & II"

Alex Schafran, "Road to Resegregation: Conclusion"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

we're back with a new setup & way better audio 🙏 

content warnings: 13:10 self-harm, 27:15 domestic violence & suicide, 34:10 eating disorders  

Week 1, January 2021: "Place, Location, and Identity" #ReadCommunity  

This week, we're reading the following: 

Guernica Magazine, "Interview with Sara Ahmed," 9 pages 

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," 17 pages 

Claudia Mitchell, "Girlhood and the Politics of Place: Introduction," 2 pages 

Andrea Dottolo and Carol Dottolo, "I Remember You Most in the Kitchen," 20 pages 

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

in our last episode of 2020, we get choked up talking about protests and people's movements ❤️

also shout out to the birds from 12:30 to 13:12, if anyone can id them by their bird calls, we'd love to credit them as noisy ass guests on this episode

Week 4, December 2020: "What Do We Look Like?" #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Diane di Prima, "Revolutionary Letters"

Allyson Field, "L.A. Rebellion: UCLA Project One Films"

Na'ama Klorman-Eraqi, "Feminist Photography in 1970s Britain,"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

is femininity compulsive? is femininity constructed? is femininity defined by its consumption? 🤢

Week 3, December 2020 #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Ana Elias, "Aesthetic Labour"

Sarah Banet-Weiser, "I'm Beautiful the Way I Am"

Sianne Ngai, Interview on "Our Aesthetic Categories"

Adrienne Evans, "The Entrepreneurial Practices of Becoming a Doll"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our Instagram accounts: @rosesalltrash @rrryen @katherineshark

Flaws of the body positivity movement :/ CONTENT WARNING: body dysmorphia (throughout), eating disorders (11:58), verbal abuse (27:30)

Comment your favorite part of your body 💩👇

Week 2, December 2020 #ReadCommunity

This week, we're reading the following:

Deb Burgard et al: "Are We Ready to Throw Our Weight Around?"

Richard Shusterman: "The Somatic Turn"

Richard Shusterman: "Somaesthetics and the Body/Media issue"

Breanne Fahs: "Mapping Gross Bodies: The Regulatory Politics of Disgust"

Jason Whitesel "Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma"

- "Chapter Three: Performing Fat Bodies"

- "Conclusion"

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#ROSESALLTRASH PODCAST: Ryen (22) and Katherine (23) discuss fashion history, aesthetic philosophy, and beauty politics. Follow our personal accounts: 

https://www.instagram.com/rrryen/

https://www.instagram.com/katherine.shark/