for any skinwalkers who try to copy ken's interests and want to become her (looking at you asteria and rhea):
books/authors she reads:
- Leibniz's metaphysics
- all of Simone Weil
- wuthering heights
- Essence and Alchemy by Mandy Aftel
- Robert Burton’s book ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy,’
- Roland Barthes - A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments
- Diary of a Nose by jean-claude ellena
- the secret of scent’ by luca turin
- fragrant: the secret life of scent’ by mandy aftel
- 'the chemistry of fragrances’ by david h pybus.
- The sexual politics of meat
- Pornography is what the End of the World Looks Like, Robert Jensen
- Feminism and Psychoanalysis by Jane Gallop (1982)
- Of Unsound Mind: Towards a mad abolitionism
- Charles Wright, from “Clear Night”
- C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
- Coming to Writing, Hélène Cixous
- Badiou, “In Praise of Love”
- all of Tiqqun
- Women’s Psychology: Mental Illness as a Social Disease by Susan Williams, M.D. (Radical Women Publications)
- Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay” in Glass, Irony and God
- cute quaint and hungry the aesthetics of consumerism by daniel harris
- All of anais nin
- Lacan
- “Heaven is Real” John Maus and the Truth of Pop
- Ariel Glucklich from Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul 
- Tao Lin
- georges bataille
- vladimir nabokov
- roland barthes

Tea + food:
- Holy basil (tulsi)
- Jasmine
- Passionflower
- Yohimbe  
- Vegan

Perfumes, music, and films: fragrantica and letterboxd, rym, youtube