on alice

in light of receiving my first anonymous message from a frothy anti-choicer, i have made some changes to the comment section. you can only comment if you are a "member" of this blog. and believe me sweet pea, i am selective. this is not only because it pisses me off when anti-choicers call me ignorant, but because i foresaw the deluge of hate mail i might receive should word get out about saucy gert.

the skirt of my alice b toklas is a feminist project but the feminism it espouses is mine and maybe not yours. it is about reproduction, sexuality, health, medicine, fashion, art, economics and power. it is pro-choice. it's politics are that peculiar mix of libertarian-socialism adopted so often by those who loath arbitrary regulation and love paying taxes for kids' to get an education. it loves men and not just for their bodies. but it really, really loves women.

a century ago alice and gertrude were partners in paris who hosted cocktail hours with the day's powerhouses of creativity, intelligence, and sexuality. when gertrude wrote she was autobiographical and her prose curled up in a loop and she repeated things she repeated things she repeated things. and so the skirt of my alice b toklas admires words, independence, and the perfection of a hem-line two inches above the knee.