Monthly Archives: February 2012

COMMUNITY PLAY: an Editor’s Letter by Colette S

11pm, 60 hours before the website goes live. I am staring at the grey slit that separates the pages on Microsoft Word 14.1.4 documents. I have oriented the slit toward the top of the window. I am acutely incapable of

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COMMUNITY PLAY: an Editor’s Letter by Colette S

11pm, 60 hours before the website goes live. I am staring at the grey slit that separates the pages on Microsoft Word 14.1.4 documents. I have oriented the slit toward the top of the window. I am acutely incapable of

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Carla, a character introduction by K. Garcia

Carla is soft, moist, amorphous and undefined – a plural zone of erotogenetics, – erotogeneity. Carla oozes, Carla spurts, Carla twists, Carla cavorts, Carla enters, Carla envelopes, Carla swallows, Carla sits, Carla is orificial abandon (plural). Carla cannot be contained.

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Carla, a character introduction by K. Garcia

Carla is soft, moist, amorphous and undefined – a plural zone of erotogenetics, – erotogeneity. Carla oozes, Carla spurts, Carla twists, Carla cavorts, Carla enters, Carla envelopes, Carla swallows, Carla sits, Carla is orificial abandon (plural). Carla cannot be contained.

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poster by Andrea Bowers

                      Holtville, CA, a small town located near the US/Mexican Border, is the home to Terrace Park Cemetery. At the back of the cemetery is a dirt field of anonymous

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poster by Andrea Bowers

                      Holtville, CA, a small town located near the US/Mexican Border, is the home to Terrace Park Cemetery. At the back of the cemetery is a dirt field of anonymous

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black holes in the desert by martabel wasserman

   

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Tongues 2012

Daniel Feinberg on Nadia Ayari’s Tongues, 2012 Teeth may be the only bones that show, but the tongue is the only muscle that streaks. Wet (and dry) like a flash, painting can be the sudden occurrence of immolation transfiguring the stubborn

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Tongues 2012

Daniel Feinberg on Nadia Ayari’s Tongues, 2012 Teeth may be the only bones that show, but the tongue is the only muscle that streaks. Wet (and dry) like a flash, painting can be the sudden occurrence of immolation transfiguring the stubborn

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Black and Pink

  Sapp Troy Sapp 511613 5-A-117 ERDC C2727 Highway K Bonne Terre, MO 63628   2,297,400 people in the US are locked up in prisons and jails[1].  Considering that queer and trans people are disproportionately incarcerated, that means that hundreds

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Black and Pink

  Sapp Troy Sapp 511613 5-A-117 ERDC C2727 Highway K Bonne Terre, MO 63628   2,297,400 people in the US are locked up in prisons and jails[1].  Considering that queer and trans people are disproportionately incarcerated, that means that hundreds

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Cruising the Archive with Ann Cvetkovich

Cruising the Archive with Ann Cvetkovich : An Impromptu Salon with Kathryn Garcia, Catherine Lord and Martabel Wasserman In conjunction with the numerous site-specific installations and retrospectives happening in and around Los Angeles associated with Pacific Standard Time, David Frantz and

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Cruising the Archive with Ann Cvetkovich

Cruising the Archive with Ann Cvetkovich : An Impromptu Salon with Kathryn Garcia, Catherine Lord and Martabel Wasserman In conjunction with the numerous site-specific installations and retrospectives happening in and around Los Angeles associated with Pacific Standard Time, David Frantz and

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two photos by Gretchen Phillips

    Gretchen Phillips has been around the block and back and then some. www.Gretchen-Phillips.com

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two photos by Gretchen Phillips

    Gretchen Phillips has been around the block and back and then some. www.Gretchen-Phillips.com

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A Case for Shit by Iman James

  A Catholic priest performs the Holy Eucharist and reading from the Roman Missal he says, “the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke, and said: Take Ye and Eat: This

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A Case for Shit by Iman James

  A Catholic priest performs the Holy Eucharist and reading from the Roman Missal he says, “the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and giving thanks, broke, and said: Take Ye and Eat: This

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Notes from the Underground by Karen Narefsky

  Author’s note: This organizing campaign took place throughout the summer and fall of 2011. It was led by a team of seven organizers (three students, three union workers, and one union organizer), as well as a committee of 12-15

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Notes from the Underground by Karen Narefsky

  Author’s note: This organizing campaign took place throughout the summer and fall of 2011. It was led by a team of seven organizers (three students, three union workers, and one union organizer), as well as a committee of 12-15

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Poster by Catherine Lord

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Poster by Catherine Lord

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ON COMMUNITY: an Editor’s Letter by Christopher J. Lee

My work with RECAPS is premised on a critical engagement of ’community’— an operation that, staged directly, resembles the most basic unit of definitional inquiry (i.e. ‘what is community?), and staged incessantly, resembles a rhizomic network of interrogative energy, concretized in

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ON COMMUNITY: an Editor’s Letter by Christopher J. Lee

My work with RECAPS is premised on a critical engagement of ’community’— an operation that, staged directly, resembles the most basic unit of definitional inquiry (i.e. ‘what is community?), and staged incessantly, resembles a rhizomic network of interrogative energy, concretized in

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CUT, PASTE, DRAG, DREAM: an Editor’s Letter by Martabel Wasserman

I am in the habit of dragging jpegs from my daily Internet wanderings onto my desktop into increasingly chaotic classification systems: Friends in drag, Parties/Performative Resistance?, Police Brutality, Gay Police,Dykes Protesting Interconnected Forms of Oppression, Ernest Flower Power, Psychedelic/Political Buses, Facebook I, Facebook II, Etc. etc. etc.  

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CUT, PASTE, DRAG, DREAM: an Editor’s Letter by Martabel Wasserman

I am in the habit of dragging jpegs from my daily Internet wanderings onto my desktop into increasingly chaotic classification systems: Friends in drag, Parties/Performative Resistance?, Police Brutality, Gay Police,Dykes Protesting Interconnected Forms of Oppression, Ernest Flower Power, Psychedelic/Political Buses, Facebook I, Facebook II, Etc. etc. etc.  

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Poster by Manjulika O’Rourke

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Poster by Manjulika O’Rourke

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Girls With Guns by Rebecca Lieberman

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Girls With Guns by Rebecca Lieberman

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Poster by Meat Joy

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Poster by Meat Joy

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Poster by Rob Ochshorn

reclaim_technology Robert M Ochshorn is a design researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL. http://rmozone.com/

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Poster by Rob Ochshorn

reclaim_technology Robert M Ochshorn is a design researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL. http://rmozone.com/

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Poster by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

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Poster by John Lennon and Yoko Ono

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Poster by Samuel O.

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Poster by Samuel O.

OccupyTogether_poster14.pdf from Occupytogether.org

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Poster by Christopher J. Lee

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Poster by Christopher J. Lee

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Poster by Ulysses Jenkins

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Poster by Ulysses Jenkins

Transportation Brought Art To The People-in progress #1

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Poster by Rebecca Lieberman

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Poster by Rebecca Lieberman

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Poster from Girls in the Nose

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Poster from Girls in the Nose

Lesbopalooza download .jpeg poster courtesy of Gretchen Phillips

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Poster by Andy Brown

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Poster by Andy Brown

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Poster by Martabel Wasserman

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Poster by Martabel Wasserman

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Posters by fierce pussy

lesbian chic download.pdf 10 fierce pussy poster-boy or girl 4 fierce pussy-DYKE poster fierce pussy in its current incarnation is Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yarnaoka

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Posters by fierce pussy

lesbian chic download.pdf 10 fierce pussy poster-boy or girl 4 fierce pussy-DYKE poster fierce pussy in its current incarnation is Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Zoe Leonard, and Carrie Yarnaoka

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JD for President by Sister Comrade

jd download sister comrade is rebecca lieberman and martabel wasserman, we make buttons, posters, armbands and other feminist propaganda.

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JD for President by Sister Comrade

jd download sister comrade is rebecca lieberman and martabel wasserman, we make buttons, posters, armbands and other feminist propaganda.

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Poster by Dyke Action Machine

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Poster by Dyke Action Machine

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Poster by Yvonne Rainer

rainer poster download Yvonne Rainer is an ex-filmmaker and current choreographer. This year (2012) her dances are appearing at Dia Beacon; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Museum Ludwig-Cologne; Joyce Theater-NYC; and Danspace-NYC. She also teaches at UC Irvine.

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Poster by Yvonne Rainer

rainer poster download Yvonne Rainer is an ex-filmmaker and current choreographer. This year (2012) her dances are appearing at Dia Beacon; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Museum Ludwig-Cologne; Joyce Theater-NYC; and Danspace-NYC. She also teaches at UC Irvine.

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Mor Lovehours

An homage to Mike Kelley text and images by Caren Spitler On February first I felt the world around me exhale and cease to take another breath. Still coming off a high from the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time performance festival,

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Mor Lovehours

An homage to Mike Kelley text and images by Caren Spitler On February first I felt the world around me exhale and cease to take another breath. Still coming off a high from the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time performance festival,

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queer polaroids by Alexander Rose, installment one

When I was a kid it never occurred to me pictures of queers existed. Vampiric, no mirrors, all in the dark. So far as I knew. But even then, there was a secret proliferation of photos of my kind of

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queer polaroids by Alexander Rose, installment one

When I was a kid it never occurred to me pictures of queers existed. Vampiric, no mirrors, all in the dark. So far as I knew. But even then, there was a secret proliferation of photos of my kind of

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Reclaim Theory by Martin Eiermann

  Of all the places to root one’s criticism of the Old Left, the bible is perhaps a rather unlikely one. Yet there it is, right in the words of Matthew 9.17, where Jesus addresses the Pharisees: “Neither do men

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Reclaim Theory by Martin Eiermann

  Of all the places to root one’s criticism of the Old Left, the bible is perhaps a rather unlikely one. Yet there it is, right in the words of Matthew 9.17, where Jesus addresses the Pharisees: “Neither do men

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Blue Seduction, compiled by Gustavo Turner

  BY A WATERFALL is one of the many wonderful songs the Bonzo Dog Band taught us. Back when everyone wanted to “blow their minds” (sic) with power blues trios, Viv Stanshall buttoned up his overcoat and out the ass

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Blue Seduction, compiled by Gustavo Turner

  BY A WATERFALL is one of the many wonderful songs the Bonzo Dog Band taught us. Back when everyone wanted to “blow their minds” (sic) with power blues trios, Viv Stanshall buttoned up his overcoat and out the ass

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Unlimited Intimacies: Promiscuous Reflections on Barebacking and Catholic Dogma

by Christopher J. Lee   openings, closed off: (r)evoking judgment of barebacking Of the myriad subcultural phenomena enacted by and through gay men, there is perhaps none more divisive—none more likely to raise ire and interest—than barebacking. The proposal marked

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Unlimited Intimacies: Promiscuous Reflections on Barebacking and Catholic Dogma

by Christopher J. Lee   openings, closed off: (r)evoking judgment of barebacking Of the myriad subcultural phenomena enacted by and through gay men, there is perhaps none more divisive—none more likely to raise ire and interest—than barebacking. The proposal marked

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female noize by Catherine Humphreville

Download and listen to female noize  Not quite two years ago, I had a conversation with a very knowledgeable and kind punk historian about the intersections of punk and women’s music. While many punk women did not identify as feminists, women’s music influenced

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female noize by Catherine Humphreville

Download and listen to female noize  Not quite two years ago, I had a conversation with a very knowledgeable and kind punk historian about the intersections of punk and women’s music. While many punk women did not identify as feminists, women’s music influenced

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BT Art and Porn

ART comes from PORN: PORNOGRAPHY sparks my imagination! I then add MORE : PAINT SEX STROKES COLOR BIGGER SMALLER RACE FEAR SHIT SEX ME YOU RED, BLUE, PINK, YELLOW BEAUTY DICKS HOLES LIGHTnPATTERN TRANS RHYTHM CLOSE UP NONSENSE PRIDE SHAME

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BT Art and Porn

ART comes from PORN: PORNOGRAPHY sparks my imagination! I then add MORE : PAINT SEX STROKES COLOR BIGGER SMALLER RACE FEAR SHIT SEX ME YOU RED, BLUE, PINK, YELLOW BEAUTY DICKS HOLES LIGHTnPATTERN TRANS RHYTHM CLOSE UP NONSENSE PRIDE SHAME

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No Telos, No Beauty, A collaboration between Stephanie Dodes and Marshall Korshak

No Telos, No Beauty from Marshall Korshak on Vimeo. No Telos, No Beauty (2011) is a single channel video installation and performance. The feedback loop of contemporary society has created a parallel reality, a rhetorical back and forth. Media copies culture,

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No Telos, No Beauty, A collaboration between Stephanie Dodes and Marshall Korshak

No Telos, No Beauty from Marshall Korshak on Vimeo. No Telos, No Beauty (2011) is a single channel video installation and performance. The feedback loop of contemporary society has created a parallel reality, a rhetorical back and forth. Media copies culture,

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Indocumentalismo Manifesto—an Emerging Socio-Political Ideological Identity

  Indocumentalismo Manifesto—an Emerging Socio-Political Ideological Identity 31 March 2010 By Raúl Alcaraz/Daniel Carrillo www.antifronteras.com (versión en español será agregada a la página próximamente) Note: The following article tries to put together ideas that already exist. None of this is new

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Indocumentalismo Manifesto—an Emerging Socio-Political Ideological Identity

  Indocumentalismo Manifesto—an Emerging Socio-Political Ideological Identity 31 March 2010 By Raúl Alcaraz/Daniel Carrillo www.antifronteras.com (versión en español será agregada a la página próximamente) Note: The following article tries to put together ideas that already exist. None of this is new

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In Search of Lost Know How by A. Murphy

a video series by A. Murphy How to Slick Back Hair How to Light the Pilot in a Gas Stove    

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In Search of Lost Know How by A. Murphy

a video series by A. Murphy How to Slick Back Hair How to Light the Pilot in a Gas Stove    

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Pink Washing: A Documentary Guide by Sarah Schulman

“Not only do Palestinian queers face these injustices on a daily basis and undergo Israeli oppression like any other Palestinian, but also our name and struggle is often wrongly used and abused to “Pinkwash” Israel’s continuous crimes against the whole

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Pink Washing: A Documentary Guide by Sarah Schulman

“Not only do Palestinian queers face these injustices on a daily basis and undergo Israeli oppression like any other Palestinian, but also our name and struggle is often wrongly used and abused to “Pinkwash” Israel’s continuous crimes against the whole

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Ribbon Paintings, Vadis Turner

Working with traditional forms of craft, Vadis Turner has developed a language that re-imagines rites of passage and the classification of heirlooms in a contemporary context. In 2009 she made a series of contemporary heirlooms that comprised her Dowry. During

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Ribbon Paintings, Vadis Turner

Working with traditional forms of craft, Vadis Turner has developed a language that re-imagines rites of passage and the classification of heirlooms in a contemporary context. In 2009 she made a series of contemporary heirlooms that comprised her Dowry. During

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My Pussy Is Still In Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin)

      My Pussy is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin) a commission piece by The Getty/Pacific Standard Time produced by West of Rome Public Art Agency Curator Emi Fontana Ms. Davis’ gown and shoes by

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My Pussy Is Still In Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin)

      My Pussy is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin) a commission piece by The Getty/Pacific Standard Time produced by West of Rome Public Art Agency Curator Emi Fontana Ms. Davis’ gown and shoes by

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Saint Valentine

by Christopher Johnson-Roberson   His body shattered by stones or other acts known only to God. A lily stem aslant in a glass jar, its petals fallen off, all fragrance gone from them, only the stamen sticking out, its anthers

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Saint Valentine

by Christopher Johnson-Roberson   His body shattered by stones or other acts known only to God. A lily stem aslant in a glass jar, its petals fallen off, all fragrance gone from them, only the stamen sticking out, its anthers

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How An Oyster Makes His Shell, by RL Goldberg

  When I asked how she got a splinter up there, she said she tripped on a tree stump while she was looking for a place to get stoned, but the truth was, it was a broomstick, and she didn’t

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How An Oyster Makes His Shell, by RL Goldberg

  When I asked how she got a splinter up there, she said she tripped on a tree stump while she was looking for a place to get stoned, but the truth was, it was a broomstick, and she didn’t

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