YES

from marisa and autostraddle:

Also hi hello, leggings are another way of fucking the patriarchy, because by wearing leggings, we’re highlighting yet another part of our body that/which we’re taught should look a certain way before we highlight it. Leggings are your way of saying “this is what my legs look like DEAL WITH IT.” The cutest girl in leggings isn’t the skinniest one or the tallest one or the one who goes to the gym the most, it’s the one with the smile on her face and the world in her heart.

fucking the patriarchy by wearing leggings…so awesomely excellent. it makes me want to wear nothing but leggings. or american apparel biking shorts, which i also think fucks the patriarchy in a most intense way.

“costello”

from jim gavin’s story “costello” in the new yorker:

on each rooftop a row of turbine vents. spinning silver flowers. costello sails over the bright and hostile neighborhoods of north long beach, scene of his wasted youth. during the plague, everything falling apart, he hid out there again, a grown man, pretending he still had a job. nineball at two in the afternoon. a vacation in hell. smoke and mirrors for two months. putting everything on the credit card. she said he looked gray, his skin was gray, and when he told her, finally, a moment of pure relief, she was there, touching his gray hand, bringing his color back.

jenny holzer

jenny holzer, courtesy of karaj.