February 2010
“We have stories
as old as the great seas
breaking through the chest
flying...”
– Chickasaw Indian saying (from The Book Inscriptions Project) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via guerrillamamamedicine)
“You cannot be middle-class if you earn the minimum wage in America today says...”
– Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle-Class (via ihatethismess) (via glitterbombing)
Watchbradicalmang:
As Obama Pushes “Clean Coal,” Jeff Biggers Tracks History of Destructive Mining in “Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland”
On the heels of President Obama’s major initiative to develop so-called clean coal technology, the journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers explores the myth of clean coal in a new book on the secret history of coal mining...
“The Green Man walks across America
in order to best assist the whales in their...”
– Sebastian Matthews
“‘because we’re not all a size 6.’
—maxi pad commercial...”
– camille-yvette welsch, “big pussy”
gratitude
today i am grateful for:
maple syrup
oatmeal
leftovers
amazing female doctors
alternative medicine
acupuncture (maybe)
feeling a little healthier
feeling a little happier
warm bus rides after a cold day getting soaked in the rain
friendly bus drivers
friendly faces
finding cool restaurants & cafes that are hiring
my father’s new self-improvement kick
self discovery
facing...
Poetry 365: Thunder, Elizabeth Bishop →
And suddenly the giants tired of play.— With huge, rough hands they flung the gods’ gold balls And silver harps and mirrors at the walls Of Heaven, and trod, ashamed, where lay The loveliness of flowers. Frightened Day On white feet ran from out the temple halls, The blundering dark was…
“i want to have a writing party on top of a building where all the incredible...”
– gala darling (via littlemissapocalypse)
revolution;: love & revolution →
I would not die for you, save at the barricades– your hand clutching your .45, your fingers sticky with blood.
While the sky rained sulfur, branding your pale skin, your eyes would be ablaze with pupils licking like flames at the crackled papers of history. The tension in your lips would…
“We cannot all do great things, but we can all do small things with great love.”
– Mother Teresa
i identify as…
activist, chubby, cuddly, curious, dominant, fairy, fat femme, female-bodied, feminist, gender anarchist, gender deviant, gender pirate, genderfuck, goddess, grrl, hairy, lover, multifacetted, nymphomaniac, open, outspoken, pansexual, passionate, queer, radical, right-brained, sapphist, self-defined, sensitive, sex positive, sister, trans-loving, treehugger, witch, womyn,...
Radiolab: Lucy →
nerdout:
Chimps. Bonobos. Humans. We’re all great apes. This hour we take a look at what happens when we all try to live together. Our main story is about a chimp named Lucy. When Lucy was only two days old she was adopted by a psychologist and his wife who wondered: if given the right environment, how human could Lucy become? This story and other tales of radical sharing between humans and the...
tattoome:scarpia:
Lani
yes! i love seeing more girls with neck tattoos!
l'arte della poesia.: Past Bedtime by Lesley... →
Sometimes I feel like a stream, she said. I can’t explain it. Sometimes I braid her slippery hair, the faint strands and dark and all the honey in between, run my thumb over the rope of it, then let go. It takes no impression from my winding and worrying. Sometimes I think this isn’t the…
“It’s not about Katy Perry. It’s about this song and its innocence on her part....”
– Beth Ditto, on why she doesn’t care if Katy Perry is “impressed” with her or not
Fuck. Yes.
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Women Writers
leslie marmon selko
judy blume
rachilde
marjane satrapi
katherine dunn
anne lamott
lady mary wortley montagu
jhumpa lahiri
anne carson
kelly link
monique wittig
staceyann chin
ekaterina sedia
anais nin
audre lorde
mary astell
aphra behn
lenore kandel
amy hempel
keri hulme
anne waldman
judith halberstam
jean rhys
nancy garden
christa wolf
marianne boruch
mirabai
mary...
curate: Patrick Rosal, Man Hanging Upside Down →
I never knew the body could bend so many ways… —Melissa Roxas
Here is a man hanging upside down, from a makeshift cross. No credible witness can seem to tell us his name or where he comes from. Let the record show, he did lie in at least seven dozen bits, until the local birds…
“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– j.d. salinger (via fuckyeahfemmes)
“Hair has always been a sign of masculinity…[the phrase] “puts hair on your...”
– Jennifer Miller (Juggling Gender, 1992) (via fuckyeahbeardedladies)
“Under the current ‘tyranny of slenderness’ women are forbidden to become large...”
– Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power, Sandra Lee Bartky (via fuckthetrees) (via fuckyeahwomynwhodontshave) (via mutedheartbeats)
