Girls Can Blur The Line Between Divine Intuition And Delusion, As A Treat

Melanie Martinez wishes she was Grimes. Grimes wishes she was Bjork. Bjork wishes she was 2 inches tall so she could go inside the computer and have a big adventure

having a female moment but in a helena bonham carter in fight club sort of way…like “girl” but in a natasha lyonne understanding of the word…the general tone and timbre of carol burnett as miss hannigan in the 1982 film adaptation of annie…

Louise Glück, from an interview with poet in Poets & Writers

Minnie Riperton (1970)

natasha lyonnes purse at the met gala

jean-michel basquiat by gianfranco gorgoni at his great jones street studio. noho, new york city. 1985

Writing in the Journal of Lesbian Studies in 2016, Elly-Jean Nielsen, a Ph.D student at the University of Saskatchewan, declared that lesbian camp more commonly followed three themes: erotic, classic, and radical. Eight years before, Annamari Vänskä, a professor of fashion research at Aalto University in Finland, nodded to Serbian Eurovision singer Marija Šerifović, who in 2007 performed in a tuxedo surrounded by five “femininely coded” women. But both seemed less interested in the qualities of dyke camp for dyke camp’s sake and more interested in pairing it with camp as we know it.

Dyke camp overlaps with camp in some areas, certainly. But in others it is completely different; it has its own electric vision. If camp is the love of the unnatural, dyke camp is the love of the ultra-natural, of nature built up and reclaimed, of clothes that could be extensions of the body, of desire made obsessive, of lesbian gestures or mannerisms maximized by a thousand.

Rather than drag, which parodies what is real, dyke camp takes the real and magnifies it, so that it becomes absurd or funny or simply attractive in its own right.