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One of my favourite real-life artists is a woman I used to live with and whom I love tenderly. Ruth! O’Leary! You can look her up. Ruth moved to the co…
Ellena Savage
Feb 18
The cats in the empty lot beside my apartment block are ‘in heat’. They howl and wail all day and night. Sometimes, in the middle of the night, I wake …
Ellena Savage
Feb 9
In the middle of a fight towards the end of my friendship with David (not his real name), a guy I had shared share-houses with, on and off, for a few y…
Ellena Savage
Jan 30
There is a famous and beautiful poem by the Sufi poet Rumi, ‘Dissolver of Sugar’ which goes like this: Dissolver of sugar, dissolve me,if this is the t…
Ellena Savage
Jan 23 2
Dear friends, readers, colleagues, strangers, and people who have no idea how they got on this mailing list: This interruption to regular programming i…
Ellena Savage
Jan 14
A few years ago I went to an artist residency in Spain that I probably should not have gone to. One reason I should not have gone is that at the time, …
Ellena Savage
Jan 12
I sat down to masturbate but my mind was really elsewhere. On one screen, I watched half-heartedly as a muscle-clad MILF whose body was close to ketosi…
Ellena Savage
Jan 3
I don’t think I have enjoyed the median valley of nothing between the day of Christmas and the new year ever so much. The party cooking and cleaning is…
Ellena Savage
Dec 29, 2019
the other night at dinner i felt compelled to defend yoko ono. yes yoko ono the multimedia conceptual artist and peace activist, who is doing fine, who…
Ellena Savage
Dec 23, 2019
(Listening to the audiobook of Gender Trouble on the day of Boris Johnson’s election)
Ellena Savage
Dec 15, 2019
According to the online life expectancy calculator, it’s likely I’ll live for eighty-eight years in all. Thirty-two years down! Fifty-six hypothetical …
Ellena Savage
Dec 5, 2019 4
I’m thinking more and more about the police lately, because these days they are everywhere, and unwelcome. New Democracy—the new government in power—hi…
Ellena Savage
Nov 25, 2019
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