February 2012
167 posts
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“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via healthyth-in)
*decide I need to eat better*
*eat half a pint of ice cream for breakfast*
Dammet.
ethelindi:
The point is there are things wrong with us. There are things wrong with me.
But I do have the ability to split epiphanies with my face on demand. Hold me like a birthmark. Awkward if you have to. I wander, so if you lose me, don’t worry.
— Buddy Wakefield, “Gandhi’s Autobiography” excerpt.
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78$ in my bank account
Rent is due in 3 days.
Tonight, though- I drink.
“Trans people are told by the law, state agencies, private discriminators, and...”
– Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, p 41
I mean, basically, yeah.
(via funkyfest)
He’s coming to my school in April.
(via handgrenade2)
M reading this and I’m like: “yeah! Yeah!” and then I see the author and I...
“Library sex began with high hopes. Long before the era of the public library,...”
– Avi Steinberg, The Paris Review. Checking Out.
A brief history of libraries, librarians and sex in which we learn that “again and again,” in contemporary library-porn lit, “the neglected love life of the librarian is a stand-in for the doomed state of the library generally.”
(via...
“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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still mulling over last night
and it’s so stupid. I didn’t expect myself to care so much about such stupid shit (or as some may call it, my history) and I do. And I guess that’s a part of it, though- I don’t really know how I am going to react to anything anymore.
In The Family: The Queer Rolodex →
etiquette-etc:
About a month ago, one of my closest friends had a pretty major health scare. Being the good West Coast queer I am, one of the first things I did was call a friend and ask her to whip up a batch of her herbal Trauma Tea to tamper the side effects of his medication and make him laugh at how woo I’d become. She literally lives across the street but I rarely see her, so she...
“Of course, this is one of the profound ways in which oppression works—to mire us...”
– Eli Clare, “Stolen Bodies, Reclaimed Bodies” (via limpwristsraisedfists)
I made council!
When the news first broke that the superright team made a sweep for executive, and that only 6 of the people out of almost 35 people running got in, I wasn’t upset. Confused, maybe, but talking to Nate and sam last night it was like- we just have to do more work outside of council. Lots more.
Now the real numbers have come out and they may have an exec sweep, but they lost council. And I...
