Lion's Teeth

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Fri, 04 May 2012 11:59:04 -0400

"We Meet. We Try. Nothing Happens, But" by Richard Brautigan

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:17:00 -0400

We meet. We try. Nothing happens, but
afterwards we are always embarrassed
when we see each other. We look away.

"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:00:02 -0400

“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game,
but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
And this fact is only threatening to those women who still
define the master’s house as their only source of support.”

- Audre Lourde

Noemie Goudal

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:57:00 -0400

Noemie Goudal

George Stroumboulopoulos: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:12:00 -0400

George Stroumboulopoulos: There's one thing that's interesting about your books. I noticed that you write women really well and really different. Where does that come from?
George R.R. Martin: You know, I've always considered women to be people.

"Dirty Valentine" by Richard Siken

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:32:00 -0400

There are so many things I’m not allowed to tell you.
I touch myself, I dream.
Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending
that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands,
these shins, these soapy flanks.
The musicians start the overture while I hide behind the microphone,
trying to match the dubbing
to the big lips shining down from the screen.
We’re filming the movie called Planet of Love-
there’s sex of course, and ballroom dancing,
fancy clothes and waterlilies in the pond, and half the night you’re
a dependable chap, mounting the stairs in lamplight to the bath, but then
the too white teeth all night,
all over the American sky, too much to bear, this constant fingering,
your hands a river gesture, the birds in flight, the birds still singing
outside the greasy window, in the trees.
There’s a part in the movie
where you can see right through the acting,
where you can tell that I’m about to burst into tears,
right before I burst into tears
and flee to the slimy moonlit riverbed
canopied with devastated clouds.
We’re shooting the scene where
I swallow your heart and you make me
spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls
right out of my mouth.
You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.
Lying on the sofa with my eyes closed, I didn’t want to see it this way,
everything eating everything in the end.
We know how the light works,
we know where the sound is coming from.
Verse. Chorus. Verse.
I’m sorry. We know how it works. The world is no longer mysterious

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Larry Clark

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:41:00 -0400

Larry Clark

"The fight for accessible education has to be a panoramic fight against poverty - against..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:49:00 -0400

“The fight for accessible education has to be a panoramic fight against poverty - against dehumanization, ghettos, exploitation, and fear. It needs to be the fight for anti-racist collectives and radical immigration reform, and it needs to be the fight against the non-profit industrial complex wherein some organizations, under the guise of anti-oppressive activism, re-enforce the status of the privileged (for they are the educated professionals) and remain invested in the oppression of the poor and racialized (for they are the “clients” who legitimize the non-profit organization). The fight for accessible education has to seek to change universities from institutions that reinforce oppressive hierarchies to institutions that break oppressive hierarchies down.”

- Megan Lee, “Maybe I’m not Class-Mobile; Maybe I’m Class-Queer”, in Feminism for Real

"Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for..."

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:29:00 -0400

““Though no one would ever think of using the term honor violence (we reserve that descriptor for brown people who live somewhere else, motivated by religious something-or-other or tribal something-or-other), one-third of women murdered every year in the United States are killed by their intimate partners. In 2005 that amounted to 1,181 women, or three women every day. To put that in perspective, the UN estimates there are 5,000 honor killings every year in the entire world. 5,000 in a world of 6 billion versus nearly 1,200 in a single country of 300 million. In other words, a woman in America runs a greater risk of being killed by her husband or boyfriend than a woman in Pakistan.””

- How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Feminists. (via popmuslim)

Jarek Puczel

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:46:00 -0400

Jarek Puczel

Tim Eitel

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:38:00 -0400

Tim Eitel

"The body of a Muslim woman, a body fixed in the Western imaginary as confined, mutilated, and..."

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:52:00 -0400

“The body of a Muslim woman, a body fixed in the Western imaginary as confined, mutilated, and sometimes murdered in the name of culture, serves to reinforce the threat that the Muslim man is said to pose to the West, and is used to justify the extraordinary measures of violence and surveillance required to discipline him and Muslim communities. Against the hyper-visibility of the Muslim woman´s body (customs officers, shop clerks, and restaurant workers now all presume to know how Muslim women are oppressed by their terrible men), it is virtually impossible to name and confront the violence that Muslim women (like all groups of women) experience at the hands of their men and families without providing ideological fuel to the war on terror.”

- Sherene Razack

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Jack Chambers

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:50:00 -0400

Jack Chambers

Balint Zsako

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:23:00 -0400

Balint Zsako

"I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love..."

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:59:00 -0500

““I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.””

- Emma Goldman

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Helmut Newton

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:17:00 -0500

Helmut Newton

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