#jessicahopper

[closure4cobain]

Jessica Hopper (Ex GF of Michael DeWitt) -Listen (audio only) of Jessica Hopper being asked a simple question she has answered before in the past. This time, she puts on the tears, and states Kurt was “like family” to her. All the while being very defensive about a simple question asked by a journalist. (The question wasn’t anything friends of Kurt haven’t answered. “What was his mood like?”)

[echeloncrow]

So, um... I have some work to do 😬😅 #bookclubofone . . #misterrogers #dannykatch #menexplainthingstome #rebeccasolnit #sharpobjects #gillianflynn #artemis #andyweir #anthonydoerr #norsemythology #neilgaiman #emmadonoghue #jessicahopper #zachplague #fireandfury #michaelwolff #featherproof #barnesandnoble https://www.instagram.com/p/BpQLbBhgfhA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=183t2dwk10137

[portugaltheman]

Happy Holidays ❄️❄️❄️ ERRATIC FIRE, ERRATIC PASSION #lesterbangs #jimmywebb #jessicahopper #garethmurphy COWBOYS AND INDIES

[lis-likes-fics]

1. King Loki, the beautiful Natasha Romanoff, the amazing Wanda Maximoff, the noble Elijah Mikaelson! 💞💞💞💞

2. All of my followers, friends, and the people who like and reblog my posts! 💓💓💓

3. Singing, writing, acting, drawing!

4. Providing hardwork for all of you to enjoy!

5. Cake

@dumble-daddy @hellotvshowtrash @taylordrunkonwhiskey @draberia @jessicahoppes @fadingcoast @drunkofwinehouse @nebulousfishgills @evrthefanatic @natasha-danvers

Pass the happy 🌻 when you receive this, list with 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications! <3

All my friends and followers on here because you guys are just the best I love you all.

Writing for you all, especially when you guys send all your lovely prompts.

My husband Shinjiro Aragaki I need more of him in my life.

My puppy Kaylee, everytime I come home she acts like I've been gone for years!

Playing video games because I get to go to another world.

I tag: @tarahhornee @funamusea-imagines @iamalivingparody @rumbllefish @z-iridest @pa3art-gb @agirlinsearchof

[nuevayorka]

Mucho Trust Fall

Mama took her ass for a twirl around town over the weekend. It was such fun -- unexpected at every turn! The intrigue began at an art show and continued into dinner where I was accused of "Dr. Phil'ing" conversation, which I always find funny. I get it all the time. At first, people balk at my probing questions, especially during cocktail hour. They prefer a little small talk but then they get into it, men in particular. I find the male perspective fascinating and endearing -- eye-roll-inducing a lot of the time too. (No offense my loves.) The truth is men like to share and I love collecting the data. However, having the conversation turned on me, was not my plan. I like to remain safely in the role of interviewer. But my new friend came for me - even acquiring consensus from the table to conclude that I’m guarded. "You've got your walls up. You're protecting yourself, I can feel it," he said to me. It was my turn to balk! "How could that be - have you read my writing?!" I returned defensively. I like to think of myself as super open! But, as he explained further, I had to admit that I do have my walls up. I don't want to be hurt or disappointed again. And, perhaps, in trying to turn my "pain-past" into tools, I've really just created present-day armoring. And I do think it's right for women to develop a certain measure of precaution, it can get dangerous out there. But, how do I also keep the faith? How can I hold the wisdom of my lessons whilst releasing into the drop of attraction and connection in the present moment? How do I break down this wall of fear between me and another person and trust that it’s OK to let go? The answer is to accept that we will fall. So we must embrace our fears knowing we've fallen many times and gotten back up. We can never know what will happen in life. But, you can always trust that you are worth loving. And when someone offers it to you with honesty and respect, even if it's for one night, four dates or ten years, take it. For as long as it feels good, let them love you. And know that they are doing it FOR THEM, for as long as they can, because they want to. Not because you've somehow succeeded in hiding what you fear you cannot reveal. You are not messy or damaged or imperfect -- you're human and reveling in this truth together is what binds us in relationship. And that’s what I’m going for. But it’s less Dr. Phil more Adrienne Rich who wrote,

“An honorable human relationship – that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love" – is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.”

[the-whore-of-mensa]

Awesome talk by Jessica Hopper at @ohyeahcentre for @_womenswork #womenswork ##jessicahopper #keynote

[woodesmusic]

One of the best (& most moving, brave and vulnerable) things I saw at BIGSOUND this year. Jessica Hopper (Of Pitchfork music)'s speech on women in the music industry. Jessica offers some solutions and some harrowing stories on an extremely important issue.

If you work in the industry, male or female I recommend you put aside a bit of time to watch/listen to this. Inspire change, speak up.

"When women tell you their experiences, believe them"

[morganedewey]

THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY A LIVING FEMALE ROCK CRITIC

[dvshrrr]

weekend reads 📖 ☕️ 🎧 #jessicahopper #femalerockcritic (at Jackalope Coffee & Tea House)

[featherproofbooks]

[hottrampinthecity-blog]

My professional hero has a new book out and I've thoroughly marked it up (but not in the Shannen Doherty in 'Heathers' reading Moby Dick kind-of way) #RockCriticism #FemaleRockCritic #JessicaHopper

[tinyluckygenius-blog]

My book tour dates for The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic:

Monday, May 11 / Brooklyn WORD @ 7:00pm Reading, Q&A

Tuesday, May 12 / Chapel Hill Flyleaf Books @ 7:00 pm Reading, Fundraiser for Girls Rock NC

Wednesday, May 13 / Washington, DC Politics & Prose (Brookland) @ 6:30 pm Reading, Q&A with Chris Richards

Thursday, May 14 / Baltimore Atomic Books @ 7:00 pm Reading, Q&A

Friday, May 15 / Austin Book People @ 7:00 pm Reading, Q&A with Amy Gentry

Sunday, May 17 / Portland Beacon Sound and Reading Frenzy @ 6:30 pm Reading, Q&A with TBD

Monday, May 18 / Seattle Elliott Bay Book Company @ 7:00 pm Reading, Q&A with Sean Nelson

Tuesday, May 19 / Los Angeles Skylight Books @ 7:30 pm Reading, Q&A with Molly Lambert

[crashtestbootleg]

Women, Pacifism, and“uniting the impossible” This is the first little bit I’ve read that speaks to me, warms me, helps me understand my own wildly uncomfortable heart as a neutralist.

My choice is a result of both identity and life experiences. Probably more the latter. But your experiences tend to mold your ideas about what identity schemas mean. So it actually doesn’t really make sense to untangle the tangledness of identity/experience. Your identity also shapes your experiences… how you approach situations, how others treat you, how you interpret your interactions. 

Anyway, Bjork’s always been around but she’s really touched me these days! Obviously there is much buzz with the MOMA show, her new album, and NY tour dates. However she came closer to me this time, she did. 

It doesn’t matter to me right now to address how she’s taken in the art world … I’m just talking about her.

Excerpt below from her Jan 2015 Pitchfork interview with Jessica Hopper-- “The Invisible Woman: A Conversation with Bjork”

I’ve never done an album like this. With Biophilia, I was being like Kofi Annan—I had to be the pacifist to try to unite the impossible. Maybe that was a strange, personal job between me and myself, to show how overreaching I was being as a woman. The only way I could express that was by comparing it to the universe. If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That’s what women do a lot—they’re the glue between a lot of things. Not only artists, but whatever job they do: in the office, or homemakers. Biophilia was like my own personal slapstick joke, showing I had to reach so long—between solar systems—to connect everything. It’s like the end scene in Mary Poppins, when she’s made everyone friends, and the father realizes that kids are more important than money—and [then] she has to leave. [chokes up] It’s a strange moment. Women are the glue. It’s invisible, what women do. It’s not rewarded as much.

[nuevayorka]

Celebrating Women’s History Month With @92Y

Q: How did you start blogging?

A: "I launched the blog almost three years ago at a time in my life when I felt I had drifted very far from my purpose. I was really longing for a sense of contributing and creativity. A blog felt like the natural next step given my fashion background and desire to write professionally more often. At first glance, I guess, it seems like @Nuevayorka is a fashion blog -- to me it's not quite, although, I was always obsessed with fashion. And even though I was the only one in my immediate family, I know it's in my blood. I see it now in my nephew especially! My mom says it comes from my grandmother who was a seamstress in Honduras and made all my mother’s clothes. She was well-known as ‘THE go-to seamstress’ in town and here too when she immigrated to New Jersey in the 60s. So, I know my interest in fashion and art...and my creative bent comes from my family. It was always present in music and storytelling on my father's side. But there was a lot of poverty, pain and trauma in our history which muddled it up. The brain is so focused on survival it can’t open to dreaming, or hold space for creative things, much less pursue them. For me to go into a creative field, even consider it a viable option as a career, was pretty risky to my family. And to me too! So when I entered the fashion industry, I was struggling with a lot of insecurities. I didn't come from an affluent background, I wasn't white -- I didn't feel like I fit in nor did I think I could "keep up." When I landed my gig as a buyer, I had that feeling of having "arrived," you know? It was definitely what I described as my "dream job." But, I struggled to relate to my colleagues. The environment really mirrored my experience in school growing up. Again, I felt I couldn't identify with anyone around me and ultimately had to resign after the economic crash in 2009 because I couldn't sustain the low wages. I wound-up in Europe sleeplessly starring at my laptop having that existential crisis when I finally admitted what I think I always knew: I want to be a writer but have no idea how to do it. So, I started blogging. At that time there was no such thing as blogging or social media in fashion. A small group of dominant voices prevailed, so watching the industry get ripped open with the advent of social media was very exciting. Suddenly anyone with ingenuity and hustle could be a star i.e. "influencer" and none of the insecurities that I once found crippling mattered. When blogging first started happening, it leveled the playing field. I saw it as an opening.”

Q: How did you come up with the concept for @nuevayorka?

A: The concept behind @NuevaYorka is that in the fashion industry, I never saw anyone that looked like me. Identifying is so important for human beings -- we're all seeking that sense of acceptance and belonging. I mean...there are influential Hispanic women, but not many women of color. And there’s this obsession with Europe. A lot of fashion’s history comes from France and Italy, so I totally understand that. But, I think the Spanish language and Latinx culture are super fun and inspiring! There’s so much beauty there, and I felt like it was completely absent in fashion. I wanted to inject it and the easiest way to do so was to use myself, because I'm a Latina, more specifically, I'm a proud brown woman and self expression is very important to me. Fashion is a great tool to practice that every day and so is social media. @NuevaYorka is a celebration of all these things -- all the diverse influences in my life punctuated by all Spanglish captions and set on the streets of Nueva York. 

Q: What have you learned since launching the blog?

@NuevaYorka is my baby! I’m so proud of it and grateful to my little community! It's such a helpful tool for me. It allows me to touch my creativity, to be with it every day. I try to cope with the natural pressures that arise, the alternate reality that occurs online, by just being myself. Within the industry, like all creative circles, I think there is a heavy emphasis on striving for uniqueness and the result is just a lot of same, same, same! We're all uniquely alike! I'm a big proponent of authenticity and amor propio (self-love). Whatever you are, own it! Know there is a space that can hold you -- that needs your voice and spirit. I’ve really discovered a lot about who I am, so much has changed in these three years! It's remarkable to scroll through the transformation on a grid that I've shared so openly with the world. Well, the few in it who have browsed Nueva. Now, I treat it like I'm posting to my friends and family, I just kind of go for it! Try not to overthink it. This is me, this is my voice today, it doesn’t have to be perfect and it’s never going to be perfect. But, it's always honest. Good or bad - I keep it real."  

[thisiserinscherer]

There was a young woman that he picked up on the evening of her prom. The relationship lasted a year and a half or two years. Impregnated her, paid for her abortion, had his goons drive her. None of which she wanted. She sued him. The saddest fact I've learned is: Nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody. They have any complaint about the way they are treated: they are "bitches, hos, and gold diggers," plain and simple. Kelly never misbehaved with a single white girl who sued him or that we know of. Mark Anthony Neal, the African-American scholar, makes this point : one white girl in Winnetka and the story would have been different.

Jim DeRogatis reflecting on his career-defining coverage of the R.Kelly scandal, more than a decade later. (Click here for Mark Anthony Neal's interview.)

[jerbi-blog]