10-25-2026 MY INSPO: beats, bats, beauties
not in the mood to talk about the vs runway show, i feel like the whole internet shared their opinion on who should or shouldn’t walk the runway. did les wexner fund this show too? let me stick to my niche - this week has an air of pretentiousness. before there were hipsters... we had the beatniks the beat generation fascinates me. i think i watched only a bit of kill your darlings in high school, and we've read some poems of the time in high school. the first time i ever witnessed a beatnik might've been the extremely goofy movie when i was a child: when i looked up more about the beatniks, it was clear that the males were only remembered, such as jack kerouac, alan ginsberg, and william borroughs. but there are still women poets not completely forgotten, such as diana di prima, ruth weiss, and elise cowen. every artistic movement in history has its flaws, usually it's misogyny. this article from yeoja magazine highlights some of them. elise cowen the beat...