February 2012
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“I decided to try to do some writing, hoping it might afford me the same sense of...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation (1994) pg. 251 (via redheadbouquet)
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Catch a Body
by Ilse Bendorf
Salinger, I’m sorry, but “Don’t ever tell anybody anything” is a string of words I would like to wrap up in canvas and sink to the bottom of the Hudson, or extract by laser from the ribcage of all of us who ever believed it, who felt afraid to miss someone, to be the last one standing. “Tell everyone everything” is not exactly right, but I do believe that if your mother...
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“When we write Facebook statuses or tweets or make comments about how we’re...”
– Elise Nagy, “Bruises and Birthday Cake: What We Talk About When We Talk About Rihanna and Chris Brown”, In Our Words
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“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via awritersruminations)
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Short Story: ILU-486 →
[Cissexism, ableism, mention of rape, portrayal of anti-choice violence and misogyny]
By Amanda Ching
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“And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
— Genesis 3:13
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– Diane Lockward, Eve Argues Against Perfection (via grammatolatry)
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“I feel like talking always brings us closer to understanding, rather than...”
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Melissa Harris-Perry, professor of political science at Tulane University on talking about racism.
(via thesporkreport)
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paint your own nebula →
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Salvage
by Kay Ryan
The wreck is a fact. The worst has happened. The salvage trucks back in and the salvage men begin to sort and stack, whistling as they work. Thanks be to god—again— for extractable elements which are not carriers of pain, for this periodic table at which the self-taught salvagers disassemble the unthinkable to the unthought.
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Letter from Jack Kerouac to his ex-wife
I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night.
It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don’t worry. It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our...
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“Some outward symptoms are sometimes referred to as ‘cries for attention’ in a...”
– S. E. Smith, “I Don’t Mind If You’re Crazy, As Long As You Act Sane In Public”, meloukhia.net
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“To dilute his feeling of being reported on — to make me seem more like an...”
– David Lipsky, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace
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“This isn’t exactly a sex thing but God does it plague some geek circles. ...”
– Holly Pervocracy, “The Geek Social Fallacies of Sex”
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“Darlinghurst sex shop fire: witnesses report that the blow-up-doll in the store...”
– Jo Thornley, via twitter, on today’s inner-Sydney fire.
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“How to speak this language that remains mute unless we sing it with abandon and...”
– Rilke, Letter to Sophy Giauque, November 26, 1925 (via aperfectcommotion)
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via hermessybraids)
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“in 1965, after keeping a journal for seven years, i concluded that i had nothing...”
– priscilla lang, “we called ourselves sisters,” in the feminist memoir project: voices from women’s liberation. i never have any idea what i’m talking about when i start. ”YOU WRITE TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS.” (via karaj)
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“It is… unfair to ask a woman to leave aside her personal experience and discuss...”
– Melissa McEwan (via earlyfrost)
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“THIS IS INSTEAD OF TELEPHONING BECAUSE I CANT LOOK YOU IN THE VOICE. I SIMPLY...”
– A telegram from Dorothy Parker to her editor Pascal Covici in 1945
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believermag:
Vanessa Veselka (author of Zazen, pictured above) and Lidia Yuknavitch (author of The Chronology of Water) had a conversation for The Believer on the subject of writing violent female characters. Part 1/3.
VANESSA VESELKA: A woman once told me that she loved Zazen but that it suffered for want of “women’s mysteries.” She thought Della should be doing something crafty, like sewing,...
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“What did you think, that joy
was some slight thing?”
– Mark Doty, from “Visitation” (via the-final-sentence)
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Fuck
fuck
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“Of course, this is one of the profound ways in which oppression works—to mire us...”
– Eli Clare, “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies” (via thenewwomensmovement)
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Things that feel weird:
talking about your experiences with psychosis
It’s like self-awareness and breaking-a-fourth-wall-of-ableist-perceptions mental illness meta-ness.