October 2011
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“There is an argument that it’s OK to draw women in this hyper-idealized and...”
– Jamie McKelvie, Female Super-Hero Characters and Sex (via elliottmarshal)
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by Frida Kahlo
Diego. the beginning Diego. builder Diego. my child Diego. my boyfriend Diego. painter Diego. my lover Diego. my husband Diego. my friend Diego. my father Diego. my mother Diego. my son Diego. me Diego. universe
Why do I call him My Diego? Never was or will be mine. He owns himself.
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“[I only know
that something held me back,
a doubt, a debt, a face I could not...”
– Jean Nordhaus, from I Was Always Leaving
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“I think that one of the most damaging and erroneous messages that we are given...”
– http://danceswithfat.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/enough/ (via bbwprincess)
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ya'aburnee
Arabic: Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “you bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
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My Mood Swings, Elvis Costello (via...
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“Of all that is written, I love only what a man has written with his own blood.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra (via aubade)
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“When we ask men to reject sexism and the abuse of women, we are not taking...”
– Jackson Katz, The Macho Paradox (via yawnson, tigersmilk)
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“I never tire of birdsong and sky and weather. I want to write poems that are...”
– Stanley Kunitz, The Art of Poetry No. 29 (via softcollapse)
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Lack of Faith by Anna Kamieńska
Yes even when I don’t believe there is a place in me inaccessible to unbelief a patch of wild grace a stubborn preserve impenetrable pain untouched by the sleeping body music that builds its nest in silence
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“My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via mirroir)
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“Most men do not attack or harass women; but those who do are unlikely to think...”
– Bob Connell, “Masculinity” (via petitefeministe)
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from David Markson’s Reader’s Block
Before Sylvia Plath turned on her oven to commit suicide, she left bread and butter and milk in the bedroom where her two children were sleeping.
Boethius was executed by having a thong inexorably tightened about his temples.
According to medieval legend, his pupils stabbed John Scotus Erigena to death with their pens.
At twenty, Bach made a pilgrimage of more than two hundred miles, on foot,...
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