June 2012
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“Maybe if everyone walked around being in touch with each other’s hidden pain it...”
– Michelle Tea (bornreadygeneration)
empathy can be deadly
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synecdoche:
“I will never forgive myself for bailing on internet famous make out party” is something I never thought I’d say.
I am forgiving myself because it was truly the right thing to do and everyone was so nice about it. Perhaps all of those therapy sessions at the pain clinic are paying off.
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“It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...”
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via proustitute)
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“Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?”
– Sarah Waters, The Night Watch (via bebravelive)
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gleeful redistribution vol. 5
fuckdudeskilldudes:
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU MIKKI
Hancock, B. R. (1972). Affirmation by negation in the women’s liberation movement. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 58(3), 264-271.
woohoo! tx
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Sharkwater
On May 13, 2012, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson was arrested for protecting sharks in 2002. Join Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for a screening of the documentary Sharkwater, which captures the incident that led to his arrest. For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure. What it turned into was a beautiful and dangerous life journey into...
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“i could have lived without the chapters on the royals of britain, but other than...”
– I have never wanted to read a book more.
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“Her husbands, for example, are never even referred to by name — Number...”
– hahahaha same review
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“In the time-honored tradition of celebrity memoir, Helen Reddy’s The Woman...”
– from the first review on Amazon
You know you’re living right when all the features editors look at you like your’re crazy and all the fashion editors tell you they love your outfit. Horses on top, checks below—calling it “Barni.”
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Relevant
Helping
My role as helper is not to do things for the people I am trying to help, but to be things; not to try to control and change their actions, but through understanding and awareness, to change my reactions. I will change my negatives to positives; fear to faith; contempt for what they do to respect for the potential within them; hostility to understanding; and manipulation or over...
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“Womanhouse with its sickly pink kitchen, its woman trapped in the sheetcloset,...”
– WOMANHOUSE via mikkipedia (via elanormcinerney)
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People are being awfully rockist about writing these days.
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fuckdudeskilldudes:
one of my friends lives in an anarchist collective house and I ended up cooking for her a few times when she broke her right arm bc her shitty collective house couldn’t get their shit together and, like, help her eat
it’s like don’t talk to me about your radical politics if your radical politics don’t involve “radical disability politics” aka feeding your roommate with a...
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Paula Hays Harper, Art Historian, Is Dead at 81 →
In the early 1970s, Dr. Harper provided the creative spark for a project that became a milestone in women’s art. As a lecturer at the California Institute of the Arts, outside Los Angeles, where the first feminist art program at a major art school had just begun, Dr. Harper suggested that the 21 students in the original class collaborate on a project about what house, home and domesticity meant...
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“Take notes,” Nora Ephron’s mother advised her as a child. “Everything is copy.”
– Nora Ephron, prolific author and screenwriter, dies at age 71 - The Washington Post (via heathalouise)
mh: i know, nora ephron, she was so fucked up but so great. heartburn—pioneering revenge art!
kj: i was never all that into her but feel so in debt to her.
(via karaj)
rbing purely for spite...
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If you're a feminist who understands the...
vanboobsenstein:
like duh
I love that big number!
Alex Balk: I was gonna do a mix-and-match quiz on... →
alexbalk:
“I wish that I had met a man who rimjobs highly prized. It pains me that my prowess there will go unrecognized.”
“You ever kick a Jew in the backside while you’re in a crowd and then, when he looks back at you, you tilt your head over at some unsuspecting black in the crowd, so the Jew thinks the…
Sometimes I just come to with a start and wonder if I will be far enough away...
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First Guns: Don't Feel Bad About Your Arms, Nora... →
Apparently Nora Ephron had some things to say about us when she was interviewed by Barbara Walters over the weekend. The Daily News reports it thusly:
“Julie & Julia” director Nora Ephron is “upset” about Michelle Obama’s sleeveless look - but not because she thinks first ladies shouldn’t…
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MELISSA EXPLAINS IT ALL: Tales from My Abnormally... →
This better have Salem dirt.
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So last night instead of dinner we had an intervention. That sucked.
How is it that being even in the most moderately if not minutely successful band launches you into a culture of enabling that will literally kill you given half a chance.
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“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
– Anne Sexton, The Truth the Dead Know (via nogreatillusion)
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“Spiderlike, I spin mirrors,
Loyal to my image,
Uttering nothing but blood—...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Childless Woman” (via awritersruminations)
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rgr-pop:
rgr-pop:
Literally the most gleeful thing in the world to me is when there is a dude and nobody reads that dude’s blog. It’s like Christmas.
Reblogging right now for relevance.
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Listen
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At one point, they rested and he stepped close to... →
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My friend, my friend, I was born
doing reference work in sin, and born
confessing it. This is what poems are:
with mercy
for the greedy,
they are the tongue’s wrangle,
the world’s pottage, the rat’s star.
—Anne Sexton, “Mercy for the Greedy”
I need to learn this. Mercy for the greedy. Am I capable of it?
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not me: Thank you for listening yesterday, and for what you said. You are so strong.
me: Of course. I'm actually not feeling that strong today, surrounded by wedding bands at work, couples on the subway, I know I will be alone forever.
not me: [no reply]
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“We tell people they are “strong” when we are uncomfortable with their pain and...”
– Captain Awkward, “The lie of ‘strength.’” (via baddominicana)
That and this are making me feel like Captain Sensible might be my way out.
When you’re dealing with an “overbearing” personality prone to browbeating, manipulation, silent treatment, and/or temper tantrums, absolutely the best thing...
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