February 2012
11 posts
“Why imagine that specific genes for aggression, dominance, or spite have any...”
– Stephen Jay Gould, “Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism”, Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (via darlingtonia-californica)
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Lily Herman: Road Test →
lherman:
All the way across the country Jesse was obsessed with knowing where we were. The name of the river we slept beside in Utah, tiny towns that had been emptied out in one final garage sale after the steel-mill shut down, dirt roads that fell into each other like tributaries and opened up idly into…
NotAskingForPermission: jenniferbundock: “The... →
jenniferbundock:
“The essence of true love is mutual recognition—two individuals seeing each other as they really are. We all know that the usual approach is to meet someone we like and put our best self forward, or even at times a false self, one we believe will be more appealing to the…
click through— bell hooks always has a bit more to say then you think at first.
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“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely...”
– Zora Neale Hurston
January 2012
21 posts
THUNDER PERFEKT MIND: miserablefuck: bezdan: Heh,... →
miserablefuck:
bezdan:
Heh, just earlier today I’d mentioned to someone that I didn’t like doing these things… ah well, this one doesn’t seem too bad. Have at it.
i’m feeling particularly self-absorbed tonight. have at it. or don’t. actually do, i can’t pretend i don’t want to talk…
haters gonna hate. people are sending you numbers, so clearly some other people think it’s all...
The Wall Street Journal published a letter... →
dobredobre:
climateadaptation:
Climate scientists slam the WSJ in this long rebuttal to a trashy editorial on climate denial. The first half of the piece are dozens of signatures, so you’l have to scroll scroll scroll to get to the red meat. But it’s well worth your time. A sampling:
(i) The planet is warming due to increased concentrations of heat-trapping gases in our atmosphere. A...
Lily Herman: Words I use too muchDepending on the... →
lherman:
Words I use too much
Depending on the context conspiring or conspiracy, usually in a positive light, like two people pitching a tent in their own bedroom just to have somewhere to put their heads closer together, inhabit where live would do just as well, altar, not like change but in…
I was trying to remember the word ‘haphazard’ the other day, and then I was reading...
“Really, I’m not trying to be rosy about things like the atom bomb and war and...”
–
William Styron (The Paris Review)
“-Do you enjoy writing?
-I certainly don’t. I get a fine, warm feeling when I’m...”
– William Styron (The Paris Review)
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion’s den unarmed, rash to navigate the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via lherman)
“We will send word when we may, and some of us may yet meet at times, but I fear...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King. How many times have I been in a room with friends and felt this? (via lherman)
Lily, why do I always like everything you like
“It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that...”
– G.K. Chesterton, from Orthodoxy (via lherman)
THUNDER PERFEKT MIND: soydulcedeleche: But... →
soydulcedeleche:
But basically when i say “am i shitty for not doing more” its about not doing more to aquire things. For not going above and beyond to own all the shiny things the cousins back home dream of. The pressure isnt to give back to the community, that is my lifes work, but rather…
Even I get flashes of this feeling in Russia, except fortunately for me, there isn’t any...
“The role of the revolutionary artist is to make...
(— Toni Cade Bambara)
Art and fixing our fucked up society—life of creating and life of contributing—that’s the sweet spot that I’m trying to find now that I’ve gotten through 4 years devoted to writing and then 4 years devoted to politics. live and learn, friends.
I can live through the written word better than real life, in every way except love. But even in love, this must be an asset.
“What’s the secret, I wanted to know.
Bodies beat minds, she said.”
– John Fowles (via lherman)
“It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: You must start...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (through Meriadoc Brandybuck)
December 2011
13 posts
7 things Dec 25
1. Home
2. I have a home!
3. Dad thought I was joking about the red caviar
4. Never want to leave
5. Never want to leave
6. Except for Ohio
7. Christmas hike
bonus 8: spent more hours fantasizing about Ohio than hours I will be there
“And Bonnie was just enough older than me, just enough further along in the...”
– Diane di Prima (via lherman)
“The FBI came back a second time, a year later, to tell me that Mike had now...”
– Diane di Prima (via lherman)
perhaps the most succinct crux of this paper
handsandcurls:
“To perceive, to have consciousness, is actively to enact, invoke, or be possessed by memory.”
—John Roberts, from The Lining of Forgetting
damn
November 2011
6 posts
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Transcending Anatomy →
leotron:
What is Transcending Anatomy?
Transcending Anatomy started as a project for my SExCo class at Oberlin College in spring 2011. As a trans person who has primarily had sex with other trans people, I was frustrated that the few available resources about sexuality for partners of trans people mainly talked about hormones and surgery. They didn’t represent me or my partners, and I...