May 2013
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April 2013
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It's good to type this shit out.
coketalk:
I’m hurting pretty badly right now. I’ve been dealing with the 10th anniversary of a traumatic event, one that fucked me up and dramatically altered the course of my life.
Ten years. The anniversary snuck up on me. I didn’t see it coming until it was too late, and it fucking clobbered me. I spent the weekend partying with old friends, trying to annihilate myself, knowing full well...
mynameiselly:
You’d think that after 4 years, you would be able to stop loving someone, that your patience would simply dry up like rain in the desert and things would change, that something might happen in between the 1,001 days you have spent memorizing the irises of his eyes and the way he speaks when he is nervous, but life is not a movie.
Because in movies, one day the boy wakes up...
On three responses
dearcoquette:
How do I respond to the assertion that I “shouldn’t advertise what’s not for sale” with my choice of dress?
Response #1 (The High Road): “It’s insulting to imply that my sexuality is for sale, and it’s disrespectful to make comments that commodify my body.”
Response #2 (The Middle Road): “How I dress is none of your business.”
Response #3 (The Low Road): “You wish you had these...
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March 2013
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slugloverslife:
it’s so strange that there are words that you’re just not supposed to say
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“You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:...”
– Poem written by an 11-year-old Afghan girl
This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their...
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5 examples of how the languages we speak can... →
dozana:
divineirony:
To say, “This is my uncle,” in Chinese, you have no choice but to encode more information about said uncle. The language requires that you denote the side the uncle is on, whether he’s related by marriage or birth and, if it’s your father’s brother, whether he’s older or younger.
“All of this information is obligatory. Chinese doesn’t let me ignore it,” says Chen. “In...
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