“To say I didn’t get their themes — love, sex, drugs, and women — would be an understatement. Sex was just an abstract concept, the eventual byproduct of kissing furiously in the boiler room, impossible to consider on any sort of physical level. I loved my family, but I didn’t know that sort of furious, eating its own tail, self-destructive love that comes from mutually miserable people pushing and pulling at each other, exacerbating the pain with drugs.”

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Elisabeth Donnelly on discovering The Afghan Whigs at 12, in an in-progress essay for It’s Complicated #1 (via itscomplicatedproject)

Yes, the whole essay is this wonderful, and I can’t wait until Niina and I aren’t the only ones who get to read it.

(via judyxberman)

I wrote about The Afghan Whigs for Judy and Niina’s awesome project, and you’ll get to read it soon! I’m excited to read all sorts of essays grappling with being a feminist and the complicated relationship with misogynistic art.