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"It’s a strange thing, being a writer who writes online, it makes it difficult sometimes, to recalibrate yourself or attain the proper boundaries or critical distance, it all feels immense, too much. And I tend to go into a reactive mode when I feel like censoring extreme or excessive feelings online—I am interested in the performance of vulnerability, of even inappropriateness, of pushing against a self-shaming or silencing—but it can cause so much discombulation, constructing yourself online, as opposed to repairing offline, meditating, thinking through. In an essay on Heroines that came out today, the writer wonders about my project of confessionalism, and championing it: “Sometimes withholding is more powerful than disclosure.” I think this is so interesting, and brilliant, and is definitely an idea I’m thinking about lately - how the confessional is commodified in our culture, especially the (white, privileged, hetero, cis) female first-person, also the therapeutic culture around the confessional, with its end of neat epiphanies and (perhaps?) conforming (like this blog post, which is super self-helpy, therapeutic.)"

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Kate Zambreno, from “12-step program for Author Ego” Frances Farmer is My Sister 5/22/13

http://francesfarmerismysister.blogspot.com/2013/05/12-step-program-for-author-ego.html