February 2013
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You Can Stop Saying "I'm Not a Feminist But" Now.
roxanegay:
Today, I am done with women bending over backwards to disavow feminism. I’ve been done with this for a while but I am EXTRA done today.
I mean, ladies, do whatever you want and be whatever you want and be however you want and believe whatever you want but stop saying, “I’m not a feminist, but,” and then proceed to list everything that has been borne of the feminist movement. You don’t...
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“I have felt negatively about people who seem like they are bragging about drug...”
– Mira Gonzalez (via prettayprettaygood)
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January 2013
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Gentle Reminders About Writing
roxanegay:
1. There is no shame in writing slow. Your writing takes as long to develop as it takes. Writing is not a race. There is something very seductive about slow writing, about the care being given to the words when the writing happens at a more languorous pace. This is not to say fast writers don’t take care. We do. All writers approach their craft differently and there’s so much room for...
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WatchMasculinities and Male Bodies on the Internet, artist talk for Arcadia Missa
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Today I Am a Make Up Artist
Today I am a make up artist. Every day, really. It makes life more interesting. Better.
It started when I was young. There was a period of six years when I lived every day as a boy. Cut my hair short, wore my brother’s clothes, peed standing up, chased and pinched the girls, played tackle football, went fishing with my uncle, wiped snots on the wall by my bed, stole my dad’s Playboys. I made...
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Men who actually think about me
cunny4:
show me a pic of me that looks like me so i “know” “so i know” for future “reference” “for future reference”
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“In that moment though, as trite as it may sound, I realized that feminism cannot...”
– Lucy Tiven, “I Am Digging Up The Desecrated Corpse Of Feminism“ (via walkermargaret)
Lucy Tiven will have 4 poems appearing in Illuminati Girl Gang Vol. 3
"no strange, only different" by Brittany Wallace →
Brittany Wallace will have 3 poems appearing in Illuminati Girl Gang Vol. 3
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“I enjoyed performing for men online, men that I had never met in person. I liked...”
– How We Grow Older by Gabby Gabby for thought catalog (via glitterdeath)
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Ten Opening Paragraphs for a Review of Mira...
thetangential:
“In the Victorian Era, sex was not thought to be enjoyable for women, who were famously advised to ‘lie back and think of the empire’ while their husbands plowed away. For women in the ‘alt lit’ community writing about sex today, the equivalent maxim seems to be ‘lie back and think of the Internet.’”
“Mira Gonzalez writes poetry that seems very true. I mean that both in the...
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i wish that you would yell at me and i would yell...
it is 2nd grade and the P.E. teacher asks me “are you feeling alright?”
she says “why don’t you sit with me. would you like me to call your mom?”
i don’t remember if i am crying or not
then i am holding my mom’s hand as we walk across black asphalt
my shirt is a comfortable faded green hand-me-down
the weather seems fine because the weather is always fine
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i became a bit confused during...
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Have the sens have the decency
cunny4:
You cant escape delusion but u can make commitment bulletproof Ice be my shield you’re all I have and more baby I cant hold my own so u say im amazing baby ive never seen my body in porn ive never seen my body in anything
