I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I … - Marie Calloway

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Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Marie Calloway

I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet
blogging
other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.

Blogging, Growing Up, People, School, Writers, Writing

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I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.

Felt, Ideas, Might, Relieved, Wonder

I will be a commodity, and I will be in demand and valuable.

Commodity, Demand, Valuable

Besides the money aspect, I guess I was curious about sex work. In the way that most people are, but also because ever since I was a teen I had read feminist writers like Dworkin and Mackinnon and the way they wrote about sex work had an enormous impact on me. Was it really as horrible as they said?

Besides, Curious, Impact, People, Sex, Teen

One thing about having mostly absent parents that I think was perhaps "good" for the development of my intellect
writing is that I was given almost total freedom to read
write
look at whatever I wanted. I wonder a lot about how my past experiences, particularly my negative childhood (home life and being severely bullied
ostracized throughout school) as formed my
my thoughts
my writing, though I should also note those things were far from the only thing that had an impact on me
my writing.