December 2011
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“I bought some string cheese today that expires
on your birthday and thought to...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, April 6 (via grammatolatry)
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“I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather. I want to write poems that are...”
– Stanley Kunitz, The Art of Poetry No. 29 (via clavicola)
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“Husband—because my life
is my own and I wish to give it to you.
Because I wish...”
– from Epithalamion (for Ben and Wendell on their wedding day) by Jon Sands
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Stop Hating Your Body: SIZE DOES NOT INDICATE... →
stophatingyourbody:
Unless you are a doctor, please do not preach to anyone else about their health. Do you know how their internal organs are functioning? How their bones and joints are holding up? No. You are judging that because they don’t fit into your size range they are unhealthy.
To be really honest- why…
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Laughing in the dark
to”There is a strong ethical dimension to the best comedy. Not only does it avoid reinforcing prejudices, it actively challenges them. Put simply, in comedy, as in life, we ought to think before we speak.” - Steve Coogan
In his piece for The Guardian lampooning some really racist comments made by commentators on the BBC show Top Gear, Steve Coogan articulates my feelings about...
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Every Republican politician (and perhaps every...
theweaponofchoice:
stfuconservatives:
Rich
White
Bigoted
Think about everyone you know, politicians and regular people included… it’s like I’ve unlocked some sort of secret code.
-Joe
Every republican is a bigot. That is a given. Only a bigot would align with an undeniably oppressive platform.
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“I’ve only known you for hours. We drink together.
We drink and we get drunk. I...”
– William L. Alton, Dancing With A Brand New Lover (via grammatolatry)
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Apocalypse, Again by Rebecca Hazelton
At first, it’s nothing but killing, and taking, but once fucking enters, barter comes in, and then other acts for other objects, and my husband assures me that in this new economy he’ll be in demand as a man who can throw a pot, because eventually, we will want to eat things out of containers again, and not just put our jaws to a fresh kill, we’ll cook again, which will remind us how we...
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“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”
– Bashō, trans. Hamill (via yesyes)
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“Female horniness in the popular imagination is rare. Admittedly our idea of male...”
– The Pervocracy: From slutty to horny.(via sexisnottheenemy)
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Erin Sheehy on Gender, Music, and Freedom →
amyrebeccaklein:
“For a long time the issue of ‘women in rock’ seemed trivial to me, and frankly, I didn’t think about it much. But reading Ellen Willis has given me pause. There’s a lot more at stake than whether or not a girl decides to learn guitar. Most of the women in my consciousness-raising group have said that as adolescents they felt like they didn’t relate to girls. Smart, dynamic...
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“It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think,...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, December 21st, 2002 (via grammatolatry)
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Crush by Ada Limón
Maybe my limbs are made mostly for decoration, like the way I feel about persimmons. You can’t really eat them. Or you wouldn’t want to. If you grab the soft skin with your fist it somehow feels funny, like you’ve been here before and uncomfortable, too, like you’d rather squish it between your teeth impatiently, before spitting the soft parts back up to linger on the tongue like ...
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Marrying the Violence by Marty McConnell
I have taken the blueprint of your back for granted as if the sidewalk were not an altar and the sound of the shower not a hurricane bearing down – there is no ceremony for this. the night goes on in spite of the rain, much like the mail. make me a bullet of a mouth, sex love and money on the radio. not a bullet, a gun. not a gun, a harbor. to hold you, against this,...
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