December 2011
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My Dead Friends I have begun, when I’m weary and can’t decide an answer to a bewildering question to ask my dead friends for their opinion and the answer is often immediate and clear. Should I take the job? Move to the city? Should I try to conceive a child in my middle age? They stand in unison shaking their heads and smiling-whatever leads to joy, they always answer, to more life and less...
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i forgot to bring my guitar to ohio and left my jeggings there
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“why motherfucker is a word
and fatherfucker isn’t
is all I know of woman’s...”
– The Angel in The Dream of Our Hangover: Aphorisms, Mark Leidner (via golehyas)
“the clarity of frost without
the pain of coldness”
– Audre Lorde, “Beams” (via oshun-girl)
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someone on craigslist is looking for a “Governess”
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think i maaaaaybe just got a part-time job assisting the seemingly neurotic director of the new relationship foundation in his in-ap’t office
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me: brother never says whether he likes things or not, he just says whether they’re good or bad
mother: that’s just how men are dear
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that tim allen movie the santa clause presents one irritating example of how only assholes can enter liberal contracts and win
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“These restraints, she feels, make her old, too much like her own mother, who...”
– alice walker, “coming apart,” preface to audre lorde’s essay in anthology about pornography
“The reality is that there is no way to build a real movement for justice and...”
– Winona LaDuke, in the foreword for Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith (via mylifeasafeminista)
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Pooping is a feminist issue →
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
This is a thought-provoking article. Especially in light of this section:
According to Dr. Jack Morin in his book Anal Health and Pleasure, “holding it in” is not okay. Ignoring bathroom calls can cause serious damage to your internal sphincter — the muscle whose job is to relax, allowing for quick and easy bowel movements. Ignoring the need to go causes the internal...
: For many of us, whether it’s turning toward... →
For many of us, whether it’s turning toward Buddhism, or like many African American people who have turned toward Yoruba, the healing is a healing into wholeness, moving away from the sense of the self as splintered and fractured and broken. But it’s not a healing into perfection. It’s not a vision of wholeness that says everything will become right with me. It’s an acceptance that says we...
gonna start a henry's dress/eric's trip cover band...
hedgerows:
who is with me?
duh
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gay bed and breakfast hiring
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/etc/2755908137.html
fuck i forgot to tell my little sister that her frog might not die just because it’s dying
“It’s a kind of inward aggression. It seems like self-contempt, but it’s really...”
– Mary Gaitskill on Justine (via jessicatoombs)
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mary gaitskill is about that moment where you’re like well i get cat-called all the time so i might as well go around feeling really hot while at the same time feeling how much you and everyone else is ugly not like magazine ugly but like worm ugly
amouthfulofparticulars:
i’ve now cried during two ‘my so called life’ episodes. i can’t tell if i’m really sensitive or regressive or both but angela and her friends’ problems feel so fucking relevant
Joseph Shapiro at NPR News: Calls For More... →
isabelthespy:
thecurvature:
Each state already has laws that require some combination of doctors, teachers, day care providers and others who work with children to report suspected abuse. If they don’t, they could face fines, the loss of a license, and, in some states, possibly jail time.
Now several states want to expand the list of who’s a mandated reporter — especially in places where...
new wave feminism: To privileged people who went... →
notforyoutobreak:
I acknowledge that you went through bad things. I really do. I am very sorry you went through that. You didn’t deserve it in any way.
But you DID NOT go through those bad things because you’re male/white/able-bodied/middle-class/cis/straight/etc.
But people have gone…
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can’t figure out how to remove myself from the lesbian sex mafia listserve
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and i’m thinking about applying to cosmetology school?
CUE-CONTROLLED RELAXATION
dbt-skills:
Cue-controlled relaxation is a quick and easy technique that will help you reduce your stress level and muscle tension. A cue is a trigger or command that helps you relax. In this case, your cue will be a word, like “relax” or “peace”. The goal of this technique is to train your body to release muscle tension when you think about your cue word. Initially, you’ll need the help of the...
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http://www.yasmeensong.com/notes.html
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TW: suicide, incarceration. Bei Bei Shuai...
My friend’s mom started a petition on change.org to help BeiBei Shuai, a mentally ill Chinese immigrant who has been imprisoned without bail in Indiana since April. She is accused of murder because she attempted to kill herself while pregnant, and miscarried her fetus. She is being charged with “feticide”. The whole situation is terribly unjust, but at the very least, she should...
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library list
-dialectic of sex
-dark end of the street
-breakfast at tiffany’s
-anything by madeleine l’engle
-ash by malinda lo
NOT IN THAT ORDER
if things don’t hurt i usually think i’m doing them wrong
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“So come, drown yourself in forbidden libations while you deliver a machismo...”
– Seema Jilani nails it in “The expat drinking scene of journalists and diplomats in Afghanistan’s capital is the height of disrespectful colonialism” for The Guardian.
Every. Single. Word.
(via mehreenkasana)
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hey would anyone wanna exchange themed mixes with me??? like on mediafire or something?