January 2012
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aside: men who are neurotic about being convinced...
collaterlysisters:
hey bros, group hug. I’m gonna lay something on you, it’s going to make life a lot simpler. Check this out: there is no such divide between reason and emotion. When people talk about reason in this way they are actually using shorthand for a certain way of negotiating and conveying emotion. What you argue for and how you do it are inevitably a product of your emotions. ...
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“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more...”
– Toni Morrison, The Nobel Lecture in Literature
(via cultureofresistance) (via feministhistorian)
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Judith Butler on Peace
I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. It does not mean that we do not have murderous impulses. This is a mistaken way of...
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“Rivers and water are perfect Buddhist metaphors. On the one hand, they represent...”
– Van Beek, 1995. The Chao Phraya: River in Transition, pp 105. (via thegullible)
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“Unfold a street map of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map, and...”
– Psychogeographic London — The Pop-Up City
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“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...”
– Sylvia Plath (via forestmilk)
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December 2011
11 posts
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“I would love the chance to ask a butterfly “did you know what you were going to...”
– INFJ Doodles
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“The only theory worth having is that which you have to fight off, not that which...”
– Stuart Hall (1992) Cultural Studies and Its Theoretical Legacies. In Cultural Studies, ed. L. Grossberg, C. Nelson, and P. Treichler, p.280 (via geogthoughts)
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“A philosophy is not a private introspective diary to which the philosopher has...”
– Graham Harman, Tool-being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (via transartorialism)
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'Thanks' Is an Action Word — The Good Men Project →
“One of my best friends lives around the corner from me. He’s happily married and has two beautiful children. We meet for coffee pretty much every Friday morning. We’ve known each other for over a decade now. He’s a sports fanatic, a software engineer, and has perhaps the best laugh of any human being I have ever met. I love him like a brother. And I know he feels the same way. We hug...
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“…introverts are not driven to seek big hits of positive emotional...”
– Revenge of the Introvert | Psychology Today
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“The most exemplary nature is that of topsoil. It increases by experience, by the...”
– Wendell Berry
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“Tsundere (ツンデレ?) (English: /ˈsuːndɛreɪ/ or /tsʊ-/, Japanese: [tsɯndeɽe]) is a...”
– Wikipedia
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“Jean Piaget sostuvo en sus últimos trabajos que, para que exista una acción,...”
– Página/12 :: Psicología :: La TV basura y lo posible
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Untranslatable Words: Mamihlapinatapei
crossculturecommunications:
Yagan (indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego) – “the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start”
November 2011
6 posts
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“I have no siblings.
Meteors are not dangerous.
I love to gamble.
I eat only...”
– Karen Schubert, I’ve Been Lying (via grammatolatry)
littleelk:
I’m 26 and I don’t give a shit about shit I gave a shit about even a few years ago.
Good.
“Someone once asked me, “Why do you insist on taking the hard road?” I replied,...”
– Unknown
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Why I Study History
thierrry:
(OR: Why I waste time in a meaningless field; why I want to spend my life looking at old dusty letters and books; why I care about people who are dead and gone; why this even matters.)
I study history because I love humanity.
I study history because it encompasses the entire realm of human thought and deed.
History is a coded map of the human heart; it is a record of hopes &...
Tender, Loving Care and Other Agricultures of...
transitionsurrection:
The looming end of life as I’ve known it? I hear it coming from miles away. I’m not just paranoid. Even above my barren cul-de-sac, government planes are igniting the airwaves with ultimate reverb. Helicopters hovering over cow herds, jets hiding sleek bellies in cirrus cover, huge troop transport cargo planes motoring from the airbase toward poisoned oceans.
Fortunately,...
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Lisa Bloom: How to Talk to Little Girls →
I went to a dinner party at a friend’s home last weekend, and met her five-year-old daughter for the first time. Little Maya was all curly brown hair, doe-like dark eyes, and adorable in her shiny pink nightgown. I wanted to squeal, “Maya, you’re so cute! Look at you! Turn around and model that pretty ruffled gown, you gorgeous thing!”
But I didn’t. I squelched...
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“I put my hand on him. Touching him was always so important to me. It was...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via poledancingtogospelhymns, tarasnonsense)
October 2011
14 posts
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Petrichor →
…the scent of rain on dry earth.
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“While cooking demands your entire attention, it also rewards you with endlessly...”
– Ruth Reichl, Garlic and Sapphires (via spice-etc)
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“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care...”
– Zadie Smith (via tobia)
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“on the pine tree’s
tippy-top…
moon gazing”
– Issa (via yama-bato)
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“I like reading. It makes me happy. It makes me sad.”
– Nicole, 7 yr old sibling (via tranquality)
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“The discovery that other people live quite satisfactorily in ways very different...”
– Political ideologies and the democratic ideal (via shaananigans)
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“A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said so does God. That’s why you...”
– Andrea Gibson, “Jellyfish”
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...”
– Andrew Boyd (via chemicalxrated)
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“I guess, overall, this post is about how one can not really know one’s gender as...”
– Becoming More Butch (in a Gay Sense) | Transfaggotry
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From the introduction to the Epistemology of the...
whoamito:
Even identical genital acts mean very different things to different people.
To some people, the nimbus of ‘the sexual’ seems scarcely to extend beyond the boundaries of discrete genital acts; to others, it enfolds them loosely or floats virtually free of them.
Sexuality makes up a large share of the self-perceived identity of some people, a small share of others’.
Some people spend...
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Nos hemos convertido en seres neuroquímicos →
“En un sentido, los individuos viven en la intersección de distintos modos de pensar y de actuar. Lo que llamamos resistencia suele ser la caída de uno de esos modos y la instauración de otro. Si bien lo que dicen quienes resisten es “queremos derribar el poder”, lo que casi siempre hacen es proponer otra manera de pensarse a sí mismos y usarla contra el poder...
September 2011
6 posts
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“and i know nothing would make my family prouder
than giving up everything i...”
– Andrea Gibson - Dive (via maytagmaytag)
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psychotherapy:
We grow, including the intellectual and the spiritual, without being deeply aware of it. In fact, some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us,...
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“The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but...”
– Neale Donald Walsch (via illuminatedbeing)
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“What they don’t understand about birthdays and what they never tell you is that...”
– Sandra Cisneros (via jennyeatsquotes)
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Orgasm by David LaBounty
februaryy:
my nine year old asked me what an orgasm is
and I was absent for the answer
I was typing words on the screen while he was watching another screen
so he asked me again
he asked me, dad, what’s an orgasm?
and I found shelter in my absence and said, I didn’t know
and he said, yes you do, you know everything
I shrugged my shoulders and left my absence but only for...
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“Tennyson once said that if we could understand a single flower, we should know...”
– The Zahir, Jorge Luis Borges (via boringalien)
August 2011
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a slice of the butch voices conversation
Re: butch without masculinity?
In a ’98 article published in butch/femme: Inside Lesbian Gender, Ann Cvetkovich argues in part that butchness (especially stone butchness) may be read just as well as a feminine gender as it is a masculine one. She draws on a poem by Lee Lynch from the ’92 Persistent Desire anthology, though Lynch deploys the term “womanly”–notably different from the “feminine”...
“I do not like that man. I must get to know him better.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via fuckyeahmenfolk)
July 2011
10 posts
“Fan fiction that isn’t constrained by canon is known as AU, which stands...”
– How Harry Potter Became the Boy Who Lived Forever - TIME