text backlog

i forget we have a blog bc lowkey vs code is such a ballache to open and upload things to, but while i am here, i’ll dump 2 things i wrote for other people »> first is an essay about KITSCH! in the Polyester Book of Bad Taste »» u can buy it here or anywhere else tbh i do not mind! i wrote about the kistory of kitsch & its relationship with the avant-garde, clement greenberg, my gujuarati family’s whatsapp groupchat and the glittery e-cards we send to each other (and the messy performance i did about it at eastside projects back in likeeee 2019?) – mostly i think the essay was trying to pick apart whether kitsch is radical bad taste or bad full stop, thinking about the history and politics of aesthetics through the 20th century and also NOW. i am in good company, sandwiched just before an essay by literal tavi gevinson (SCREAM) but other contributors include Rene Matić, Angela Hui, Yomi Adegoke, Keiran Yates, Annie Lord, & ofc babes of Polyester Ione Gamble & Gina Tonic (2 icons who,…