February 2012
12 posts
"Déjeuner du matin"-Jacques Prévert
Il a mis le café Dans la tasse Il a mis le lait Dans la tasse de café Il a mis le sucre Dans le café au lait Avec la petite cuiller Il a tourné Il a bu le café au lait Et il a reposé la tasse Sans me parler Il a allumé Une cigarette Il a fait des ronds Avec la fumée Il a mis les cendres Dans le cendrier Sans me parler Sans me regarder Il s’est levé Il a mis Son chapeau sur sa tête Il a mis...
“I would like to see us stop trying to be so damn civil to the people who are...”
– Andrea Dworkin, “Freedom Now”
wilco - when you wake up feeling old
January 2012
6 posts
“Just like the unseen patriarchs who are assumed to be cloaking women in...”
– Blanket Condemnations: Contested feminisms and the politics of the burqa
December 2011
9 posts
“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
"A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You" -...
When I said I wasn’t with another girl the January after we fell in love for the 3rd time, it’s because it wasn’t actual sex. In the February that began our radio silence, it was actual sex. I hate the tight shirts that go below your waistline. Not only do they make you look too young, but then your torso is a giraffe’s neck attached to tiny legs. I screamed at myself in the subway for writing...
"Anniversary" by Jason Whitmarsh
She says he isn’t as funny as he used to be. About fifty percent as funny, maybe less. He thinks, but doesn’t say, no, it’s you, you’re depressed, you don’t find anyone funny anymore. She thinks, but doesn’t say, I’ve always been depressed. I’ve never found anyone funny—except you, once.
“Choice feminism gets one thing right: You should be able to make the choices...”
– http://www.xojane.com/entertainment/choice-feminism-isn%27t-a-choice
November 2011
4 posts
October 2011
8 posts
"2 A.M" - Dorianne Laux
When I came with you that first time on the floor of your office, the dirty carpet under my back, the heel of one foot propped on your shoulder, I went ahead and screamed, full-throated, as loud and as long as my body demanded, because somewhere, in the back of my mind, packed in the smallest neurons still capable of thought, I remembered we were in a warehouse district and that no sentient being...
“Pregnancy-related deaths…are often the ultimate tragic outcome of the...”
– Dr. Mahmoud Fathalla
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“We’re not really equal when we’re STILL supposed to uncritically and obediently...”
– Jessica Yee, feminism for real: deconstructing the academic industrial complex of feminism
September 2011
9 posts
“Too many of us still believe that “self-respect” for a woman means chastity and...”
– Hugo Schwyzer (The Good Men Project Magazine)
5 tags
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Tolstoy; The Kreutzer Sonata (via wordpainting)
"We Are Hard" - Margaret Atwood
i)
We are hard on each other and call it honesty, choosing our jagged truths with care and aiming them across the neutral table.
The things we say are true; it is our crooked aims, our choices turn them criminal.
ii)
Of course your lies are more amusing: you make them new each time.
Your truths, painful and boring repeat themselves over & over perhaps because you own so few of...
August 2011
12 posts
"Dover Beach" - Mathew Arnold
The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand; Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw...
