Is a friend of ours I’ll call Vova. Vova has a house by the river, which was where he and his wife were holed up, having a quiet evening. Around 11:30 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, Vova realized that they were out of mineral water, and ran out to the local kiosk, on the off-chanceContinue reading “The only person in Kyiv who had a better New Year’s Eve than I did”
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Monday Music: in honour of Kris and perfect weeks and weekends
I got a package from the beautiful Kris Bernard right smack on New Year’s Eve, and have been exposed to a ton of new music (not to mention new hats). I haven’t had time to start listening properly until today — it’s been a ridiculous few days, happy and weird — but now that IContinue reading “Monday Music: in honour of Kris and perfect weeks and weekends”
Vintage Soviet New Year cards
Scanned and provided to the general public by the lovely Marya Koshkina here and here. There were no official celebrations of Christmas in the USSR, of course. All of that energy was shifted to celebrating the New Year. This has to be one of my favourites: Because I was born in 1984, I was ableContinue reading “Vintage Soviet New Year cards”
“Fully sexually available to men”? Haven’t we been through this?
Yes, Virginia, we have. Still, this is kind of a special moment in the history of the feminist blogosphere: transphobia AND rape apologia, in one nifty little stocking stuffer of a post: sex-pos transwomen–if i were born male, like you were, i might be “sex-positive,” too. you know: exhibitionist, pro-porn, and squeeee!-fully sexually available toContinue reading ““Fully sexually available to men”? Haven’t we been through this?”
My friends do cool things: link round-up
Michael Forster Rothbart, who’s really cool and whom I interviewed earlier this year, has a new site dedicated to his photography, After Chernobyl. It’s interactive. A couple of people I adore have just created an equally adorable — and convenient — app: Pushme.to. Even as a stubborn, pedantic, even illogically hysterical anti-iPhoner, I can recognizeContinue reading “My friends do cool things: link round-up”
Natalia A. 