December 2010
“I think you should always write—I see this in both our works—you should always...”
– Boston Review — Junot Díaz: Song of Solomon Transformed My Life
Song of Solomon Transformed My Life →
ilykadamen:
Young people are more isolated from adults than they’ve ever been. Unless you’re an adult who is getting paid to somehow be involved with young people, chances are most adults have no contact with young people that they’re not related to. And the isolation is kind of structural and it’s very deep and it’s very visible. It’s basically divided the country into people who have daily...
“They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all...”
– Kate Braverman, The incantation of Frida K (via slychedelic)
And what do YOU, with your rusted compass, know of love ??
(via nezua)
“You think this is working—
This is easy living:
To overhear some music,
And,...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Secrets of the Craft - The Poet” (via aubade)
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“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health...”
– U.S. Cesarean Rate Reaches Record High, Rises for 13th Consecutive Year - The Unnecesarean -
“California Watch, who reported in February that California’s rate of women dying...”
– California Watch Examines Early “Elective” Births - The Unnecesarean -
“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air,
Me and you.”
– Sylvia Plath (via sylviaplathismylove)
“The problem with the nonviolence bandwagon is that it is grossly...”
– Who Decides How the Oppressed Should Fight Oppression?
(via afghanipoppy)
Our collective history of the South African struggle against apartheid, including Mandela himself and the armed wing of the ANC which he led, has been completely sanitized of all its violent elements as well. No one seems to...
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin (via libraryland)
fatimasfilosofee-deactivated201 asked: haha "kanye shrug" but you're right and I agree completely.
dude my son bakes so good that i wouldn't mind if he was a cheif, it'd be a plus actually. people are crazy and i'm so proud of you letting your daughter do what she wants. i love sports too and i love wearing dresses!!!! <3
dude my son bakes so good that i wouldn't mind if he was a cheif, it'd be a plus actually. people are crazy and i'm so proud of you letting your daughter do what she wants. i love sports too and i love wearing dresses!!!! <3
“I came to the puddle. I could not cross it. Identity failed me. We are nothing,...”
– The Waves, Virginia Woolf (via sketchofthepast)
"The least of eloquence...": If you love someone,... →
If you love someone, you let them go.
I heard this often and many times but never fully understood. Why would you let someone go if you really love them? Why would you let them out of your sight? Why would you let go of their hand? When you let someone go you risk never seeing them again, you risk losing them forever. You risk everything you two shared.
“I searched the World but haven’t...
“Ableism is colonial. It is employed to maintain an ideal body of a white...”
– —Qwi-Li Driskill (found through Aaron). (via theredtree)
“First, we have to ask what Western liberal values we may be unreflectively...”
– Lila Abu-Lughod, (2001). Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies, Feminist Studies 27 (1), p. 105. (via umnica)
“What might life be like were I to give in to the rhythms of my own ragged dance?...”
– Susan Hanson (via dancingonembers)
little-fighter asked: You live in Cairo? That is the coolest thing ever! I am so jealous, I've always wanted to visit there. Have you lived anywhere else around the world?
“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...”
– Toni Morrison, “Jazz” (via ancestryinprogress)
How To Use Gender Neutral Pronouns →
jadedhippy:
It’s like gender neutral pronouns 101, useful stuff!
“Get fruity! A mashed banana or peaches inserted in your vagina is a delightful...”
– Cosmopolitan Ultimate Sex Guide. (via ahhellobeautiful-)
That’s fucking gross, Cosmo
(via ivyyy)
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha OH COSMO! This is so hot, I’ll totally be doing it tonight~
(via disgustinghuman)
i just gagged.
(via sexisbeautiful)
the phrase “delightful invitation for him to whoosh...
piddleprotreats asked: How do you like Cairo?
runawayslave asked: Finally a blog I can read, hope u don't mind me following u. Peace
oh. you wanted more navel gazing self-involved...
ok. so im old school. i make resolutions. or at least guiding suggestions for the new year. or something like that.
1. learn to paint with watercolors. really.
2. really get on the frontline/shoreline project that she and i keep talking about doing.
3. the book of poetry and stories finished. and published or scheduled for publishing.
4. video...
piddleprotreats asked: How do you like Cairo?
“One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices...”
– Mary Oliver (via loveandzombies)
loveyourchaos:
courtney love reading kurt’s...
a-n-a-r-c-h-a asked: I've answered your question on my blog - my plan was to drop my answer here cos I'm not officially back on Tumblr, but it's much too long.
It will be what you make of it: Emotions of... →
Whenever change enters our life we experience the emotions of change. As we sense that loss is coming there is anxiety, apprehension, and worry. When loss arrives we feel sad, angry, irritated, and frustrated. Grieving needs to be done. With the experience of suffering through change may come stress, depression, burnout, helplessness, or even hopelessness. Eventually, hope brings a renewed...
Microcredit Loans Trigger Wave of Suicides in... →
kiriamaya:
abbyjean:
more on the microcredit crisis in india. it’s a big problem.
Signal boosting.
tobia:
Jill Scott He Loves Me WHO IS JILL SCOTT?:...
“And I can no longer fly,
I who was winged from childhood.
A mist clouds my...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Confusion” (via arsvitaest & aubade)
