this is another thing I am working on. Cristina has summed it up real nicely, "what the eff it is to 'grow up' 'punk rock.'
HOW TO BE A GROWN-UP: a research endeavor
"The dominant notion of adulthood is all tied up with the concept of settling: fixing your position in life and then making do with it. Most people naturally resist that compromise; that's why growing up is generally viewed as a necessary evil. Our culture fetishizes youth ... partly because WE HAVE NEVER COME UP WITH A PROCESS OF MATURING THAT ISN'T STEEPED IN SOUL-CONSTRICTING CONCESSION AND DENIAL." - Ann Powers [emphasis mine]
possible interested parties:
A] you seem to be living in a way that is NOT "soul-constricting concession and denial" - aka you are still making music, or art, or going on tour, or doing activism, or in general turning what your grandma thought was a "phase" into your lifestyle/happiness/livelihood.
B] you are also trying to figure this shit out + maybe have long soul-searching emo conversations about this and are in the midst of "quarterlife crisis" or whatever gross word you wanna use for it.
I WANT TO INTERVIEW YOU. Or have you interview yourself and send me the results. Or make a collage, or a song, or whatever your thing is- and send it to me. I want to put all of these things together in one place, probably a zine (although that all depends on how this turns out). Because in seven months, I am moving to a bigger town, and I have no fucking idea what the next step of my life will look like. Big-kid job w/ benefits or continuing queer girl punk make-ends-meet lifestyle: one sounds far more appealing than the other, but the route is much less clear, and I need to hear that it can be done. And I know that I am not the only one wrestling with this, and that there are lots of other folks- like, everyone I know- who are craving similar stories.
I want to know the utterly mundane minutiae + also the heavy stuff: do you have regrets? How do you pay for the dentist? Gimme the nitty gritty, I want to know.
Do you know someone else who would be into this or worth talking to? Send them to me. if you see this + are into it, COUNT YOURSELF IN.
Here is where you can send stuff. or ideas. or feedback.
HOW TO BE A GROWN-UP: a research endeavor
"The dominant notion of adulthood is all tied up with the concept of settling: fixing your position in life and then making do with it. Most people naturally resist that compromise; that's why growing up is generally viewed as a necessary evil. Our culture fetishizes youth ... partly because WE HAVE NEVER COME UP WITH A PROCESS OF MATURING THAT ISN'T STEEPED IN SOUL-CONSTRICTING CONCESSION AND DENIAL." - Ann Powers [emphasis mine]
possible interested parties:
A] you seem to be living in a way that is NOT "soul-constricting concession and denial" - aka you are still making music, or art, or going on tour, or doing activism, or in general turning what your grandma thought was a "phase" into your lifestyle/happiness/livelihood.
B] you are also trying to figure this shit out + maybe have long soul-searching emo conversations about this and are in the midst of "quarterlife crisis" or whatever gross word you wanna use for it.
I WANT TO INTERVIEW YOU. Or have you interview yourself and send me the results. Or make a collage, or a song, or whatever your thing is- and send it to me. I want to put all of these things together in one place, probably a zine (although that all depends on how this turns out). Because in seven months, I am moving to a bigger town, and I have no fucking idea what the next step of my life will look like. Big-kid job w/ benefits or continuing queer girl punk make-ends-meet lifestyle: one sounds far more appealing than the other, but the route is much less clear, and I need to hear that it can be done. And I know that I am not the only one wrestling with this, and that there are lots of other folks- like, everyone I know- who are craving similar stories.
I want to know the utterly mundane minutiae + also the heavy stuff: do you have regrets? How do you pay for the dentist? Gimme the nitty gritty, I want to know.
Do you know someone else who would be into this or worth talking to? Send them to me. if you see this + are into it, COUNT YOURSELF IN.
Here is where you can send stuff. or ideas. or feedback.
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