Belladonna of Sadness (1973) // Clementine Von Radics // Lilith Kerr (me lol), Unloving the Knife
on taking up space
The Mountain Goats, “Heel Turn 2” // Topaz Winters, “battlefield” // Lilith Kerr (me) // The Mountain Goats, “This Year” // e.e. cummings // Tumblr user @girlroach // Angus & Julia Stone, “Make it Out Alive” // Gang of Youths, “Achilles Come Down” // Gloria Gaynor, “I Will Survive” // Mary Oliver // Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” // Richard Siken, “Snow and Dirty Rain” // Lilith Kerr (me) // Lilith Kerr (me), “rebirth” from unloving the knife (2023) // Gwendolyn Brooks, “To the Young Who Want to Die” // Lilith Kerr (me again; sorry, I was running out of material lmao) // Tumblr user @daisies-on-a-cup // The Mountain Goats, “Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1”
#hopepunk#we’re all going forward#none of us are going back#hopepunk webweaving#web weaving#poetry web weaving#poetry webbing#quote webbing#words words words#words and stuff#word webbing#word webs#word web#a hopeful future#brutal teeth gritted resilient angry optimism#poetry#pretty words#the mountain goats#tmg#richard siken#gloria gaynor#mary oliver#word weaving#poems and fragments#quotes#words n quotes#hopeposting#gritted teeth optimism
on maternal lines and inherited rage
Shivani Mittal via Instagram // Kiki Rockwell, “Burn Your Village” // @cursedsuggestion // @domestic-butch // @petrichor-moss-and-lightning, “autonomy in the age of greed” // Lidia Yuknavitch, “Letter to My Rage: An Evolution” // unknown
#on female rage#on feminine rage#hell hath no fury#inherited feminine rage#kinship#on mothers and daughters#female rage#feminine rage#divine feminine#kiki rockwell#unloving the knife#poetry#poems#female rage poetry#feminine rage poetry#web weaving#poetry web weaving#poetry webbing#word webbing#word weaving#words n quotes#on girlhood#girlhood
*wearing a stupid little propeller hat* hey, hey you there! do ya like gay shit? do ya ever feel like your ribcage is set alight with sapphic yearning?? me too!! consider purchasing my cringefail of a brainchild, unloving the knife (see samples above)!! coming out april 28, 2023, this illustrated collection is filled to the breaking with feminine rage and angsty queer longing (along with a sprinkling of mental illness and neurodiversity).
if you’re interested, preorders are available here:
Mitski, “Brand New City” / Nessa Barrett, “dying on the inside” / Lilith Kerr (me), “autonomy in the age of greed”.
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