Michela Provagna
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Michela Provagna
When life imitates art, I don’t ask questions, I just bask in it as long as I can.
Paloma Mag • 023. CULTURE/VULTURE.
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.
“The woman was giving her life and her youth and strength to the child...without realising she was a heroic figure”.
"I Hope to Become Me, More and More"
Splitting Hairs
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
By Sarah Gold McBride
Splitting Hairs: Chinese Immigrants, the Queue, and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship
And so, Mary MacLane stayed at home and followed a singular ambition: “I wish to write, write, write!”6
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
I make a mental note that it’s important for artists to live in big, bustling cities. This way, they are constantly reminded of what they are up against.
Paloma Mag • 023. CULTURE/VULTURE.
Or, in MacLane’s words: “Why shouldn't everybody pose? . . . It is so amusing to pose. Besides, unless you aren’t clever enough to select poses, why ever be yourself to any one? You have a right to yourself for yourself and a few friends. Why should I give myself to you? You are nothing to me.”
“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
In fact I have abandoned altogether that kind of pointless entry; instead I tell what some would call lies. “That’s simply not true,” the members of my family frequently tell me when they come up against my memory of a shared event. “The party was not for you, the spider was not a black widow, it wasn’t that way at all.” Very likely they are right,
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