marta paolelli

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.
- Baldwin

as a writer, even as a child, long before what i wrote began to be published i developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs - joan didion

If you don’t make room for creativity, it will come for you sideways, as boredom, as envy, as rage, as apathy, as ache.

- Yrsa Daley-Ward on substack

literacy is quality of life. it’s not just about books. it is about being able to understand a lease, advocate for yourself, navigate systems, and even regulate your emotions to get better outcomes. people think literacy just means reading for fun or school but it’s functional, emotional, digital, financial. if you can’t read instructions, write a

if it’s possible that one can write critically about aesthetic optimization as a way of continuing to worship it while establishing plausible distance.

- from “Poser ethic” by Rayne Fisher-Quann on Substack.

social media incentivizes us to craft consumable personas, to prioritize surface-level aesthetic experiences over privately-held and deeply-felt emotional ones, to run on envy and memetic desire and competitive self-optimization, to buy things in order to better sell ourselves

- from “Poser ethic” by Rayne Fisher-Quann on Substack.