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

content warnings: 25:20-25:40 eating disorders 44:11 mention of suicide and psychosis

girls (and gays) love personality tests and feminine icons because - who are we out of the male gaze, when we're not being scammed by the patriarchy? anyway, katherine's an enneagram 2 libra (sagittarius rising) and ryen's an enneagram 5 aquarius (aries rising).

references made in this episode: Alice Sparkly Kat alicesparklykat.com ~ cottagecore à la Emily Dickinson, Henry Thoreau ~ Out of the Gloss @outtathegloss ~ Margaret Atwood ~ enneagraminsitute.com ~ "Hard Feelings / Loveless" (Lorde)

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Week 2, May 2021: "Self-Capture" #ReadCommunity This week, we're **watching**

Viktor & Rolf 1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boccaN98V90

Get Ready With Me: Coco + Glossier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Ameu6p02c&

Get Ready With Me: Delilah + Glossier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqx4cnBmTks&

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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

content warning: antisemitic hate & hate crimes, throughout

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refs to other content (yeah yeah yeah here we go!)

Maus (Art Spiegelman) • The Jewish American Princess (The Take) • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Prime Video) • @ominous_abby • Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk) • Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan) • Ralph Lauren (né Lifshitz) • As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks) • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) • Death and the Maiden as a Mirror Reflecting the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice Policy (Padraig McAuliffe) • ***Duke Blue Devil, not UNC Devils • Rachel Menken (Mad Men, AMC)

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Week 4, April 2021: "Decolonization is Not a Metaphor" #ReadCommunity This week, we're reading/watching

Edward Said, "The Question of Palestine"

Santiago Slabodsky, "Decolonial Judaism: Triumphal Failures of Barbaric Thinking" — Epilogue: Duped by Jewish Suffering

92nd Street Y, "Our Power to Heal: Tirzah Firestone & Gloria Steinem in Conversation (http://tiny.cc/FirestoneSteinem)" — 19:35-33:35

Zvi Gitelman, "The New Jewish Diaspora: Russian-Speaking Immigrants in the United States, Israel, and Germany" — Introduction: Homelands, Diasporas, and the Islands in Between

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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