March 2012
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February 2012
Polyamory involves a lot of text messages.
Just a thought.
“The erotic functions for me in several ways, and the first is in providing the...”
– Audre Lorde (via jchowski)
“Intersectionality is not optional. It is not something you can take off and put...”
– Intersectionality Is Not Optional (via satifice)
“The fact that sex is indeed a spectrum, which is something that as an intersex...”
– Cary Gabriel Costello, Transphobia, Racism, and Segregation (via feministsociologist)
“Some people are just better
at surviving
than living”
– Buddy Wakefield, ‘Healing Herman Hesse’ (via loverofstories)
Crazy Like Us: The Globalisation of the Western...
fuckyeahgenderstudies:
I’ve pretty much finished this book and i would heartily recommend it to everyone. It’s definitely the best book i’ve read this year. I found the portions on anorexia nervosa and depression (having personal experience with both and having undertaken academic research on AN) particularly compelling and ultimately persuasive.
US link UK link
“This fascinating book reports...
This is why we are concerned when our friends say...
Shannon: Our room smells so gross.
Me: Whhhyyyyyyyyyy?
Shannon: Because we haven't been able to open the windows and we smell bad.
I really ought to go to bed.
Instead, I am lurking in some dark places.
Another night of clammy skin and feverish feelings.
Also, what are people doing overhead?!
trigger warning (self injury)
4 years, 2 months, 24 days clean.
It still seems like an impossible task.
I just want to be held and cry.
Instead, I need to do my homework.
Right now, fuck you senior spring.
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
– Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You (via opendrawer)
Temper tantrum day
Sometimes I have days that are out of control. Everything I feel bothers me and ultimately I end up hitting and flailing and upset.
Right now, I need to do homework, perhaps take a short nap, etc. Also take some medicine. I’m a bit tremory, which is not unusual, but probably something that should get checked out. Sometimes I think I need to do a different set of blood tests than the...
all of this is making me remember so sharply how...
wicked-grin:
and how deeply that rejection convinced me (based on all the context around it - my friends were getting into their schools, college was the penultimate experience, to not go to college was failure, to not be able to do any of this effortlessly was failure) i was more than just not good enough, i plain wasn’t good.
how ridiculous is intelligence and how we measure it and how we...