May 2013
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dirtsky: Do not let any people who currently pass... →
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sonzaishiteruhime:
As much as those people were hated, Black people were hated worse. People who had lived here for generations where actually kicked from the jobs they held when immigrants began to come here in spades, kicked to give the immigrants jobs.
Those people, the Italians, the Irish people, the Polish people, and many others, they were at...
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'The Baseline Is, You Suck': Junot Diaz on Men Who...
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a write—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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WatchPatti Smith | Smells Like Teen Spirit (via Grooveshark)
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“The weirdest thing was how well Conlon’s concoction worked. The crisp texture...”
– Gozamos.com | Food Geek: Key Ingredient Cookoff
I feel weird quoting myself, but I’m really proud of this week’s Food Geek.
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“Few viral campaigns actually try to alter your perception of a film’s...”
– The Daily Dot | The Greatest Movie That Never Was
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Little girl: What are you doing?
Coworker: Writing an email.
LG: That's weird!
Coworker: ...It is weird, isn't it?
LG: [starts jumping up and down] I'm jumping!
Coworker: I'm sitting!
LG: [giggles] You're funny!
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April 2013
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colleenclarkart:
Click “Read More” to see the rest of the comic!
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Bradley Manning is off limits at SF Gay Pride... →
Williams proclaimed that “Manning will not be a grand marshal in this year’s San Francisco Pride celebration” and termed his selection “a mistake”. She blamed it all on a “staff person” who prematurely made the announcement based on a preliminary vote, and she assures us all that the culprit “has been disciplined”: disciplined. She then...
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Eyebrow of Doom: naamahdarling:... →
naamahdarling:
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iamwhateveryoubelieve:
The men who care about women and don’t want to see them abused stress me out and make my life nearly as difficult as those who actually do abuse women.
Fuck patriarchy. Fuck it hard.
Yeah. This. Let me say something about this: Many men who want to be feminist allies because they care about women have their...
This week
I have any number of reaction gifs, none of them quite do justice to all the feelings in my chest. It’s been a perfect storm of sucky news, crazy world events, and awful weather. You know how I know it’s bad? I found myself taking walks in the rain. That’s always a bad sign for me, walking in the rain like Patsy Cline’s sulky little sister, brain churning out misery as my...
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demented-sheep:
demented-sheep:
“Why would you want to be a [insert gender here]?”
“Trans people are just pretending to be the opposite gender.”
“But if you’re trans, why are you attracted to the same gender?”
“It’s just a phase, you’ll grow out of it and accept who you were born to be.”
bonus
More images from the “Fuck this day” file.
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Eunoia Review | A Thing With Teeth →
My short story is up at the Eunoia Review. You can read it there. It’s kind of sad! I wrote it after getting one of my teeth pulled!
“When the books and letters were gone, she ate their photos, the black-and-white strips from photo booths, the matte prints from their civil union, the out-of-focus pictures from their honeymoon in Puerto Rico. Still hungry, she started on Elena’s...
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“I am naively interested in word roots and how words’ evolutions provide...”
– Bookslut | Reading is Conflation by Olivia Cronk
Fuck, I love this paragraph.
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March 2013
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“How do we forgive our fathers? Maybe in a dream. Do we forgive our fathers for...”
– Thomas-Builds-The-Fire, Smoke Signals (via amyjunesmells)
excuse me while i a) watch this movie again. b) cry forever.
(via notvanishing)
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“I’ve left my gender open to artistic interpretation. It’s not like ‘Okay, today...”
– Andrej Pejic (via wonder-and-fear)
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This is why I write.
(This was part of a personal statement used in an application for a writing program. I didn’t get in, but I think this explains me better than any other bio I’ve ever attempted.)
When I was six years old, my first grade teacher interviewed each of her students. The answers to her questions were pasted below a silhouette she drew of each of us. Twenty-one years later, I only remember...
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Iraqi librarian saved 30,000 books during 2003... →
boogerbrains:
“About ten days after the troops entered [Basra], the library was completely burnt down. We carried about 30,000 books to the restaurant and to our homes. Then, we transferred them from the restaurant to our homes in my own car and in cars belonging to the employees. Most of these books and manuscripts were rare and important ones. Regrettably, we lost a lot of books in the fire,”...
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