January 2012
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“Taking care of people is only work when they fight you over it.”
– this was my insight yesterday, stepping out of the shower, based on something J said to me what feels like ages ago but was probably last month.
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“Because of all this want, we sometimes are afraid we feel too much. Some of us...”
– The Throwaways - The Rumpus.net
more from Melissa Chadburn, because I am in love with her writing and just sent her a fan email, and because this this this this.
also am thinking about waking up next to someone, or rather thinking about waking up next to someones and how different it can feel....
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“Let’s face it; we’re a generation with no tolerance for longing.”
– Melissa Chadburn | The Spookiness of Want and ‘The Marriage Plot’ | The Nervous Breakdown
I really liked Melissa Chadburn’s writing when someone first told me to read her and I thought of that today and went looking for her again and found this.
And—oh yeah.
I think of the...
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“I wrote stories from the time I was a little girl, but I didn’t want to be a...”
– Joan Didion (via austinkleon)
truth.
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...”
– Albert Einstein, y’all (via shadood)
relevant to recent discussions.
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“The magic of anonymity for women writers throughout history is that it allowed...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #94: The Amateur - The Rumpus.net
“For myself, identifying as femme is not about adhering to any code or strictures...”
– We Are All Subversives: Femme Strength and Queer Solidarity | RADICAL FAGGOT
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“You will hear thunder and remember me, and think: she wanted storms.”
– Anna Akhmatova (via beautyandthemuse)
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“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
– Anaïs Nin (via beautiful-ambition)
the internet is trolling me today.
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Ingredients of Love →
guerrillamamamedicine:
bell hooks
I think particularly in the Western world, and in the United States especially, people have a vision of healing that is about feeling that you must be free from pain. Other than a vision of healing that says we can restore a sense of balance to our being that may allow us to cope with pain in ways that are restorative. So pain isn’t perceived as the enemy...
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Watchfuckyeahalisonmosshart:
The Kills: The Last Goodbye
Samantha Morton Helms an Emotive Music Video Portrait of the Rock Duo
The Kills celebrate 10 years of musical partnership with this poignant and playful video, directed by Oscar nominated actress Samantha Morton. The captivating, melancholic song “The Last Goodbye” offsets the hard-edged sound Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince are known for...
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writer's block
when you’re counting down to something it consumes your whole life. I was proud of myself yesterday that I knocked out an article in a couple of hours because most of the day was spent moving back and forth between Feelings, cycling through mood swings, shapeshifting between the girl who can handle anything, big boots and a short skirt and a swagger and the girl who gets broken in public...
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my radical poly genderqueer special person and i...
loveandzombies:
queerinnature:thiefofwords:transcending-anatomy:
accomplices <3
That is awesome.
This is the bestest thing ever! I want an accomplice! :D
YES.
amazing. my friend, in his wedding vows, said that when he and his lady were moving into their apartment and had to fill out a form explaining their “relationship to one another” he wanted to put “partners...
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“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to...”
– Vita Sackville-West in a letter to Virginia Woolf (via crooners)
I have read this so many times and I still love it.
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“What sorts of promises might genuinely free men and women make to one another?”
– -David Graeber, “Debt: The First 5000 Years”
relevant to my thoughts today.
for women who are difficult to love.
warsanshire:
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you are a horse running alone and he tries to tame you compares you to an impossible highway to a burning house says you are blinding him that he could never leave you forget you want anything but you you dizzy him, you are unbearable every woman before or after you is doused in your name you fill his mouth his teeth ache with memory of taste his body just a long shadow seeking...
“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and...”
– George Eliot, Middlemarch. (via o-delaisse)
holy mother of god relevant.
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““There’s a huge amount of money to be made off of children who have to...”
– Standardized Tests Hurt Kids and Public Schools: Teachers, Parents Take a Stand Against Corporate-Backed Test Regime | | AlterNet
relevant to Why I Hate Arne Duncan
“We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us...”
– President Barack Obama (via tinytomato)
you say shit like this and then you put Arne Duncan in charge of education policy. I am not amused, Mr. President.
milkeemountainmama:
and i wonder—how much of hoarding is trying to bring order to the chaos and violence of poverty? and how much of the “help” given to hoarders addresses things like poverty, racism, gender violence, etc….because it seems to me that even in the seemingly sympathetic light that this show is framing hoarders with—the therapists don’t seem to be doing much beyond “you need to take...
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“I’ve thought a lot about Farrakhan, recently, watching Ron Paul’s...”
– The Messenger - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Politics - The Atlantic
This is important.
'Les Miserables' Movie: Taylor Swift As Eponine,... →
reachingtheshore:
isabelthespy:
milkeemountainmama:
that astonished face at the top of the article just kills me. do they hold classes for rich people with daddy’s who can get them anything they ever wanted on how to do that surprised astonished face?
what is this I do not even. though it’s interesting that Amanda seyfried has classical voice training? also i love her and want her to be...
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“Daphne challenged Simon’s perspective on grounds of gender, sexuality, race and...”
– retromania: a roundtable with ann powers, carl wilson, and daphne carr - bookforum.com / miscellany
Carl almost gets to my point and then stops, which is what frustrates me about so much cultural criticism these days. I sat at Jeff Jarvis’s talk last year at South by Southwest just WAITING...
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“The interweb in general,” he writes, “has screwed up my enjoyment of record...”
– retromania: a roundtable with ann powers, carl wilson, and daphne carr - bookforum.com / miscellany
SO! I did not read Retromania, because of the below-mentioned distaste for The Sex Revolts, and also because I was concerned with another type of revolt this year.
But if I might be so bold as to...