March 2012
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“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a...”
– Audre Lorde (via mmmajestic)
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“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year...”
– - Courtney Martin (via creatingaquietmind)
I love this.
(via hamncheezr)
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“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if...”
– Bill Mollison (via appletonpermaculture)
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“[For the oppressor,] discovering themselves to be an oppressor may cause...”
– Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (via humanformat)
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Henry Rollins. An early experimental sound poem...
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“Because you make so little impression, you see. You get born and you try this...”
– Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (via haitiansensation)
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“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged...”
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Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain. My life as a woman, as a queer person, as a fat person, is not your thought experiment. (via sanitywatchers)
This really struck a chord. Even my boyfriend, feminist that he is, can have this reaction when I’m in tears after an NPR story. This...
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Vagina Pagina: Things parents forget to tell their... →
Things parents forget to tell their children
lunaticwolfe:
Bodies are hairy. No matter the gender, your face will have hair and that is more than okay.
Your butthole is going to have some hair too. And maybe your nipples. And your tummy. And where ever else.
Stretch marks. Those are a…
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Some nights I reread letters from long-departed lovers and think about how, even caught in the cresting flush and sway and eddy, when we pressed skin to skin the end of everything stirred fitfully in us both.
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If you aren't growing; you're dying: Each From... →
sauverlemonde:
That time I thought I was in love and calmly said so was not much different from the time I was truly in love and slept poorly and spoke out loud to the wall and discovered the hidden genius of my hands And the times I felt less in love, less than someone, were, to be honest, not so…
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Time Immemorial.: I will be good; I will be good.I... →
timeimmemorial:
I will be good; I will be good. I have set my small jaw for the ages and nothing can distract me from solving the appointed emergencies even with my small brain — witness the diameter of my hat band and the depth of the crown of my hat. I will be correct; I know what it is to be a man. I will be correct or bust. I will love but not impose my feelings. I will serve and serve with...
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VIRGINITY IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
Virginity:
is sexist
is heteronormative
commodifies sex
commodifies young cis-het white women
contributes to rape culture
contributes to slut-shaming
erases queer folk
erases transfolk
frames a woman’s worth as inversely proportional to the number of dicks that have been inside her
“Each planet has its own orbit agenda.
Think of people close to you as planets....”
– Yoko Ono (via vashti)
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“Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males...”
– bell hooks, Feminism is for Everybody (via humanformat)
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“Your racism is showing when we are invisible to you; an afterthought solicited...”
– - Carol Camper, “To White Feminists” Canadian Woman Studies, 1994 (via dancing-with-diversity)
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“Poetry is concerned with using and abusing, with losing with wanting, with...”
– Gertrude Stein, Lectures in America, “Poetry and Grammar” (via semperaugustus)
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Fuck Yeah, Poetry!: Account →
fuckyeahpoetry:
The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.
Some would be devoted to acting against consciousness, Like the flight of a moth which, had it known, Would have tended nevertheless toward the candle’s flame.
Others would deal with ways to silence anxiety, The little whisper which,…
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Watchcadenceandrhythm:
A recent interview with Karen Finley about her latest book, The Reality Shows. She babbles on brilliantly about the public/private, Charlie Sheen, 9/11, performing female hysteria, Liza Minnelli, Butoh, creating art in response to social context, art funding and censorship, and art as healing. It also includes a few clips of her latest show, Make Love.
There’s some other stuff...
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ahuntersheart:
I’ve memorized all the fish in the sea I’ve memorized each opportunity strangled and I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love and I’ve memorized that too. Charles Bukowski, “Memory”
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