May 2012
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To Hold
So we’re dust. In the meantime, my wife and I
make the bed. Holding opposite edges of the sheet,
we raise it, billowing, then pull it tight,
measuring by eye as it falls into alignment
between us. We tug, fold, tuck. And if I’m lucky,
she’ll remember a recent dream and tell me.
One day we’ll lie down and not get up.
One day, all we guard will be surrendered.
Until then, we’ll go on learning to...
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April 2012
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“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via glitteringinstrument)
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“Queerplatonic is a word for describing relationships where an intense emotional...”
– Queerplatonic Relationships (via stab-tier)
Finally! A word I can use!
(via jessiedress)
alice-unchained:
my dad ate a cucumber today and he was like “wow this is pretty cold” and then he just slowly put the cucumber down and stared into space for a really long time until he turned to me with wide eyes and quietly said, “oh my god. cool as a cucumber.”
March 2012
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“Sex-negative messages don’t keep people from having sex. They keep people from...”
– Sex-Negative Education and the Spectre of Rape « Sex Positive Activism (via anorable)
February 2012
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miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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January 2012
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“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of...”
– Audre Lorde (via ellielamothe)
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December 2011
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November 2011
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“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have...”
– Alice Walker (via phamv)
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October 2011
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“(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;...”
– e e cummings
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“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman
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August 2011
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“And yet in modern American culture, sex is practically the only sin there is....”
– The Pervocracy: When did “sin” become synonymous with sex? (via sexisnottheenemy)
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“Sex doesn’t “lead to assault.” Sex is not the culprit. Silence is the culprit....”
– http://sexpositiveactivism.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/166/
July 2011
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“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me...”
– Audre Lorde