April 2012
March 2012
“The fact is that transgender people—in particular, transgender people of...”
– Mandy Carter, Still No Freedom Rainbow for Transgender People of Color (COLORLINES)
If you haven’t already, I recommend taking a look at that report. The race statistics are sobering, and too important to ignore.
(via kiriamaya)
If you ever doubted that racial issues are trans issues, here’s...
“People don’t necessarily know what they want. That’s okay. Sometimes you don’t...”
– On Good Consent, Part One | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via sexisnottheenemy)
THIS.
guerrilla mama medicine: 21 TIPS TO RELEASE... →
dreamsinthyme:
1. Begin your day with love (not technology). Remind yourself of your worthiness before getting out of bed. Breathe in love and breathe out love. Enfold yourself in light. Saturate your being in love.
2. Take time to mediate and journal. Spend time focusing inward…
QUEER ODOR ▽*: "well but loan, whatdaya mean by... →
tranqualizer:
I mean the conscious and unconscious oppressive behaviors ingrained in social interactions between POC and white folks. I mean the institutionalized racism and structural violence that not many white people actively fight. I mean it’s that one white person who gets offended by Santorum saying the…
“Everyone has their favourite books to be read and re-read. Such thing become...”
– “The moderately bookish may be more cautious about splicing together their literary and lubricious endeavours, but the passion they feel for certain printed sheets will be as lively as any got between plain.”
page 25 - Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery, by Jeanette Winterson (via...
Preparation and Dosage Reference Guide
kaspers-spirit:
Continued from Part One: Herbal Nervines.
Tea: Fresh Herb If there is an immediate need, and the plant is available and in season, use the fresh plant parts specified to make a strong tea (also called an infusion). Just fill the teacut with plant material and pour boiling water over, cover, and steep for 10 to 15 minutes for leaves and flowers (20 minutes for roots and barks,...
girl-germs:
Pistol Dreams - The Tallest Man On...
For The Dead - Adrienne Rich
lizgip:
I dreamed I called you on the telephone to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer
The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself
I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill long after the rains have stopped
or the fire you want to go to bed from but cannot leave, burning-down but not...
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from Matthew Zapruder, "The Painted Desert"
poetryeater:
Part of me is always about to turn in a direction I will never go. Trucks roar filled with things people need. Sometimes I sound to myself like a robot. Too many times as a teen I stared onto the surface of a mysterious solvable multifaceted cube. I can see you don’t need me to stretch out my hand to point to dread and its little button. The door swings open, one entire miserable...
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“Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My...”
– Love letter from Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera.
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that...”
– Anne Lamott
“We were happier in the old songs
when the pale spiders came to take us
back...”
– Joshua Bell, “Ramona’s Theme”
You all should buy No Planets Strike.
(via aubade)
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