#feministfriday episode 61 | Celebrity Gossip

Hullo,

 

I hope you were not expecting actual celebrity gossip because I don’t have any. What I do have is Morgan Parker! who writes poetry about and in the voices of celebrities:

We decided, over a craps table in Atlantic City, to do a collaborative project inspired by Beyoncé and Lady Gaga’s collaboration with “Telephone” and “Video Phone.” I’d start with a poem in Beyoncé’s voice, and he, a white male, would start with Gaga, and then we’d switch. We never switched. Each of us had trouble inhabiting the new voices. So much of writing about pop culture demands that you consider your relationship to it and your own personhood.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/251030

 

Here is a poem of hers from the series she mentions above, on the above topic:

slip a flower into our hair

listen to our body

yours and mine

http://30xlace.tumblr.com/post/82192707781/morgan-parker

 

Still on the topic of Beyoncé, this Tumblr that takes photos of Beyoncé and makes colour palettes out of them is visually compelling for very obvious reasons. I hope it will also provide useful inspiration for your next graph:

http://beyoncepalettes.tumblr.com/

Alex.