Laurie Weeks (a bio. found on the internet says that she "explores a world of girls snared in a matrix of cultural sociopathology and their own self-loathing. Emphasizing imagery and deadpan humor, her stories have a surreal overcast and combine gothic elements with science fiction") is currently writing this terrific on-going piece for Vice Magazine called My Massive Feelings (Fragments from the Diary of a Young Girl). If you were ever a teenaged girl obsessed with your own dark feelings and Sylvia Plath, or if you are a grown girlish-type creature still obsessed with your own dark feelings and Sylvia Plath (here here!), this is a must read; hilarity and truly touching memories hidden in your own angsty past will ensue. Check it out here and don't forget to read part II as well.
I have always felt like girls being obsessed with Miss Plath was, ok, yes, an angsty tortured goth poet thing BUT also a totally queer thing. Think of the Plath girls you knew, or know now, and watch those threads sew themselves together. There was one specific reading of a Plath poem as queer in one of her many biographies (I am referencing the one talked about in Janet Malcolm's book The Silent Woman; if you are interested in Plath you should really read it) and her ex-husband got really upset, like "what if her children read this someday! defamation!" Like finding out that your mom may have had some queer tendencies would be the worst thing in the world. And considering the context, literally, there is no way that a little bit of gayness could have been the worst part of the Plath legacy. Come on now.
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