February 2012
Fact: White students receive more scholarship... →
Do minority students get more than a fair share of college scholarships? That myth reared its head earlier this year after a Texas nonprofit, the Former Majority Association for Equality announced plans to give scholarships only to white males. The group claimed that white males are disadvantaged because they don’t “fit into certain categories or ethnic groups.” So Mark Kantrowitz, publisher...
Twitter poems
kathleenjoy:
1. how to be music how to harvest honey in the heart 2. being alive makes me nervous 3. Radiant time differences. Equatorial shimmering. Come across. 4. it’s not hard to be somewhere else when you’re not anywhere 5. cough up Illuminati in the sink 6. no matter how I ask, you only give me the uneasy answers
Ballet Slippers With Rebekka Jones
themousestache:
Foto: Delphine Diaw Diallo
Styling + Set Design: Rebekka Jones
Makeup: Sophie Ono
Model: Melinda & Adeline
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light...”
– Hafiz of Persia (via lucifelle)
please
“the thing about love is that it accommodates who you are. so if you are lazy...”
– warsan shire
been thinking about this the past couple weeks..
(via miswritten)
sleepingintheforest:
When something hurts you don’t run away from it. Throw yourself into it. Do it again and again and again until you’re beyond feeling anything anymore, that’s when you know that you’ve won
hxcfairy:
Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats...
Post Apocalyptic Images of Japan →
so much joy it hurts: Among The Attributes of a... →
kathleenjoy:
Today began a dreamsicle made of dirt and up to us to pilot this sky’s specific dye lot. And why not? Our lives are six or seven people a lot, a couple dozen less so, and an even call it hundred lesser still. Today it’s the cinnamon blush of rust on a dumpster. It’s the city’s talc of salt and…
“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...”
– leonard cohen (via shh-utlow)
so much joy it hurts: Translating Brecht by Franco... →
kathleenjoy:
All afternoon a thunderstorm hung on the rooftops, then broke, in lightning, in torrents. I stared at lines of cement, lines of glass with screams inside them, wounds mixed in and limbs, mine also, who have survived. Carefully, looking now at the bricks, embattled, now at the dry page, I…
i feel like i’m awakening to poetry again. words are starting to creep through my folded limbs and nestle against my heart, to stir it into trying to form symphonies that maybe one day will move a broken heart somewhere. perhaps if i breathe out into the window they will crystallize into lyrics and shatter into a small explosion of shards, each fragment a precise, wrought tool i’ll use...
“It always fascinates me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all,...”
– Marion, 2 Days in Paris (via putridity)
“a woman is only as good as the peace and light she radiates”
– -Coco Chanel
I would absolutely disagree. I think a woman is as good as the darkness she spills, the bruises she weaves, the anger and protest and harshness she scratches up the walls with every muscle she possesses, the bites she gives, the claws she bares. I think a woman is as good as the peace...
“One of the fables we live by is that some day the killing will stop. If only we...”
– Derrick Jensen, The Culture of Make Believe (via thenewwomensmovement)
Chicanery: Why does it feel like network TV has... →
weirdgasm:
Here are some I kinda feel are out there for the past 4+ years:
No more than half of the cast may contain POC
These people may only exist as a support for the storylines of their white peers. Any spotlight on their characters must be a very special episode or hastily conclusion…
Chicanery: on forgiveness →
perversetoamiracle:
fucknohugoschwyzer:
desliz:
I am in a very inarticulate state, but I have been reading the responses to the Feministe mess and seeing multiple complaints along the lines of how feminism has no room for forgiveness, and how can we possibly expect things to…