Jacqueline Rose

So I will point you towards a really interesting writer on this.

Her name is Jacqueline Rose and the article you want to look for is called The Case of Peter Pan.

I will try and put a note to this in the show notes.

The theory and scholarship has moved on a lot from the questions that she asks in this piece and provided a lot of answers but it's a really foundational piece to read if you're interested in children's literature theory.

There's a kind of almost anti-commodification moment.

There's something so powerful about Monroe's projection of the idea that we can all be this hot right like it's it's an invitation there's something there's a there's a very powerful invitation in Marilyn's embodiment that says you're in on this too right this is this is pleasure and labor and we could do this together right she doesn't yield before giving herself she gives herself freely and that that's something I find very moving I've been very transfixed by it um i have a lot of respect for um the way this survivor of a working-class childhood with a deeply um you know abusive and also psychiatrically incarcerated mother by the way these biographical details so far are identical to gloria steinem's which is a fascinating twist of history you know But this sort of working class survivor of child sexual abuse turned herself into, you know, a beacon of, I think, a very skillful insistence on resting, I've used that word before, but kind of resting pleasure out of suffering and out of oppression you know and it's very interesting to me to find in the archives Jacqueline Rose the philosopher has given us many of these leads you know the trans woman follower of Malcolm X who called herself Christine told the journalist Bill Weatherby that Marilyn is a sort of, you know, an implicit comrade of anti-racist struggle and gender liberation struggle.

Christine said she's been hurt.

She knows the score, right? She was a symbol for, you know, trans women And also, as Ella Fitzgerald said, an end to anti-blackness.

By the way, these biographical details so far are identical to Gloria Steinem's, which is a fascinating twist of history, you know.

But this sort of working class survivor of child sexual abuse turned herself into, you know, a beacon of, I think, a very skillful insistence on resting, I've used that word before, but kind of resting pleasure out of suffering and out of oppression you know and it's very interesting to me to find in the archives Jacqueline Rose the philosopher has given us many of these leads you know the trans woman follower of Malcolm X who called herself Christine told the journalist Bill Weatherby that Marilyn is a sort of, you know, an implicit comrade of anti-racist struggle and gender liberation struggle.

Christine said she's been hurt.

She knows the score, right? She was a symbol for, you know, trans women And also, as Ella Fitzgerald said, an end to anti-blackness.

There's a kind of almost anti-commodification moment.

There's something so powerful about Monroe's projection of the idea that we can all be this hot right like it's it's an invitation there's something there's a there's a very powerful invitation in Marilyn's embodiment that says you're in on this too right this is this is pleasure and labor and we could do this together right she doesn't yield before giving herself she gives herself freely and that that's something I find very moving I've been very transfixed by it um i have a lot of respect for um the way this survivor of a working-class childhood with a deeply um you know abusive and also psychiatrically incarcerated mother by the way these biographical details so far are identical to gloria steinem's which is a fascinating twist of history you know But this sort of working class survivor of child sexual abuse turned herself into, you know, a beacon of, I think, a very skillful insistence on resting, I've used that word before, but kind of resting pleasure out of suffering and out of oppression you know and it's very interesting to me to find in the archives Jacqueline Rose the philosopher has given us many of these leads you know the trans woman follower of Malcolm X who called herself Christine told the journalist Bill Weatherby that Marilyn is a sort of, you know, an implicit comrade of anti-racist struggle and gender liberation struggle.

Christine said she's been hurt.

She knows the score, right? She was a symbol for, you know, trans women.

By the way, these biographical details so far are identical to Gloria Steinem's, which is a fascinating twist of history, you know.

But this sort of working class survivor of child sexual abuse turned herself into, you know, a beacon of, I think, a very skillful insistence on resting, I've used that word before, but kind of resting pleasure out of suffering and out of oppression you know and it's very interesting to me to find in the archives Jacqueline Rose the philosopher has given us many of these leads you know the trans woman follower of Malcolm X who called herself Christine told the journalist Bill Weatherby that Marilyn is a sort of, you know, an implicit comrade of anti-racist struggle and gender liberation struggle.

Christine said she's been hurt.

She knows the score.