Cait Barlowe

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preemptive nostalgia for the possible but doubtful

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The Whistler

By Cait Barlowe

this is my own personal diary

Cait Barlowe

Jan 19

check out my newest essay,,, on chronic suicidal ideation and the radical imagination.. I reference Dana Seitler, Max Haiven, Agnes Heller, and Marx (obvi)!! would mean the world if you could check it out and let me know your thoughts.. love you all <3

In my ceaseless search to find meaning, what I’ve come to know is that the questions matter more than the answers. What if things could be different? What if we could demand more? What if we could create something better, something just, something safer and kinder and more beautiful? Answers are meaningless here, answers are concrete and finite. Answers do not beget more answers, only endings. The questions are the beginnings, the questions cause little rifts, the questions allow for the creation of something new.

Cait Barlowe

Jan 19

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Dec 30

I wrote the dreaded break up essay and survived…!! But, I also wrote about Leslie Jamison’s “Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain,” and Rayne Fisher-Quann’s “Against Narrative.” Two essays that have greatly impacted my worldview and the way I have handled heartbreak. Give it a read!! <3

This December, I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t pin down love. I can’t dissect it until it makes sense to me. Love is not so much an intellectual experience as it is a sensuous one, in fact, it may be the least intellectual endeavor that one can pursue.

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