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Jul 10, 2024 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Clementine Morrigan
ClementineMorrigan.com is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Yesterday a writer I know emailed me telling me that various Canadian news outlets were interviewing Canadian writers for their commentary on Alice Munro’s daughter’s recent article in the Toronto Star which details how Munro chose to stay with the man who sexually abused her daughter (and who was an active sexual predator).
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May 12, 2024 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Clementine Morrigan
Several people have expressed concerns to me that I am not focusing enough on possible antisemitism in the Palestinian solidarity movement when I express my solidarity with the people being subjected to unthinkable cruelty in Gaza.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Clementine Morrigan
“Some things only God can forgive” — KeshaYears ago, I went through a very heavy Holy Virgin Mother of God phase. Not because I’m a Christian, but because I am one generation removed from Irish diasporaCatholicism on both sides of my family. And I still fuck with Mary. She’s kind of a badass. But beyond her anarcha-communist leanings, I love her many faces, and see clearly the pre-Christian Irish Pagan impulse to Goddess worship shining through her.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
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There’s dishes to be washed. Laundry on the floor. I haven’t been going to the gym. There’s work stuff I’m procrastinating on. I feel like there’s a lot to do and not a lot of will to do it with. Underground, things are happening. I have to pay attention to the thoughts behind the thoughts, the flickers of images and sensations that rise and reveal themselves between the muddle of what I consider to be my “real” life and my “real” priorities.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Clementine Morrigan
As I’ve written before, “social justice” culture does not have a singular, unified understanding of gender. There are multiple frameworks battling it out and sometimes coexisting in an uneasy tension. One of these worldviews argues that gender identity is an entirely internal experience, and that it is impossible to know someone’s gender by looking at them.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Clementine Morrigan
My tits are like a 34G or something like that. I don’t know anymore because I don’t wear a bra, but I remember them being a G. I used to try to squeeze myself into DDD bras, the largest you can get in “straight” sizes, before realizing I had to pay for the expensive speciality bras for gigantic boobs. Then, around 5 years ago I stopped wearing bras altogether.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Clementine Morrigan
Instagram made my mind into a pinball machine. The frenetic bursts of attention, anchored to nothing, and going nowhere. When I was deep in the scroll, I was in a haze, a blur. I would come out of the scroll like coming out of a bender — hazy about what had happened over the last chunk of time. I learned about the world through Instagram: information came to me decontexualized and random, free from fact checks and organized through the attention-hungry whims of the Algorithm.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Clementine Morrigan
He tells me he is not used to dating women like me. I don’t know what he means. What kind of woman am I? His other partners: beautiful. I feel no animosity, no jealousy. I feel only the kindred connection of women who share a lover. It’s not that I’m not aware of our differences: she contours her face and has an instagram account dedicated to make up, I don’t wear make up, she is heterosexual but tells me in confidence that she is curious about women, I am queer in all senses of the word.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
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“I’m so angry, I don’t think it will ever pass.” — Eliott Smith. “States of overwhelming helplessness, such as the feelings that precipitate addictive acts, produce a feeling of rage. This rage is actually a normal response to the serious emotional injury of losing a sense that one is in control over oneself and one's life.” — Lance DodesEliott Smith’s words about anger repeat in my mind with regular consistency.
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Dec 25, 2023 | 
clementinemorrigan.com | Gabor Maté |Clementine Morrigan
I stole this idea from Kier Adrian Gray who recently made a similar list. Thanks for the inspiration Kier!When I was a child I was a voracious reader. My practice of constantly reading as a child played a large part in making me into the person, thinker, and writer that I am today. Like so many of us, I’ve experienced a massive erosion of my attention span due to the predatory design of social media in service of surveillance capitalism. This has impacted my ability to read.