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CRITICISM: Question Patriarchal Ideals with the All-Woman Utopian Narrative (in 6 easy steps!) from “A Retrospeculative Dive into Herland,” Maze and Miller, 2021

As my portfolio no doubt reflects, Charlotte Perkins Gilman inspires a great deal of thought and art out of me. The zine I publish here is a retrospeculative project with a fantastic author and co-conspirator I completed regarding the novel. The questioning facilitated here, in this specific post, by Vivienne Miller and Simone de Beauvoir features none of my writing, but I take sharing it as an…

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#by vivienne miller #Charlotte Perkins Gilman #herland #in conversation #multimedia #vivienne miller #writing

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THIS BLOG AT A GLANCE:

I’m Lolo Maze (he/him), an English & Feminist Theory student and writer. I dabble in poetry, zines, multimedia visual art, and various forms of activism.

Here, I archive my social media posting all over the web and re-post content I produce so that it’s accessible in an additional non-standard form.

I predominantly post from these accounts and pages:

My Wordpress || My Twitter || My Instagram

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A comic adaptation of Zoe Leonard’s “I want a dyke for president” (1992) 

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the queen of Oz is a trans lesbian and she’s dating Dorothy

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“I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was. Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test. Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I’d prove myself a moron, and I’d be a moron, too. In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly. My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.Consider my auto-repair man, again. He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me. One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: “Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand. The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?”Indulgently, I lifted my right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers. Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, “Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them.” Then he said smugly, “I’ve been trying that on all my customers today.”“Did you catch many?” I asked.“Quite a few,” he said, “but I knew for sure I’d catch you.”“Why is that?” I asked.“Because you’re so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn’t be very smart.””

— Isaac Asimov (via skinnybaras)

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Me trying to get MidJourney’s AI to recreate iconic photographs in a new series “The Machine Recalls a Canon,” starting with Sally Mann’s “Candy Cigarette” (Included here or reference)

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This is just a little post to share out to my friends and followers from my old tumblr, but if you’re new, welcome! This blog is a collection of my writing and art as I release it, as well as some updates about my journey as a student, author, and theorist.

Until I can put this blog more together, you can check out my work on my Wordpress, lolomaze.wordpress.com