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