December 2010
Televangelist Pat Robertson says legalize... →
Nobody's Family Is Going to Change | This American... →
treee:
Host Ira Glass describes a children’s book from the 1970s called Nobody’s Family Is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh, the author of Harriet the Spy. On the surface, it sounds like a rather menacing title for a kids’ book. But in fact, the story is about how kids can finally find peace if they stop hoping that their parents will ever be any different. The question is, though: Is it true?...
“The heart has its rhythm of exchange, she says, without surplus or deficit. Mine...”
– Rosmarie Waldrop, excerpt from Conversation 23: On Cause (via holdonmagnolia)
“Maybe I should have thought: all
Such things rot, fall—
Barns, houses,...”
– W.D. Snodgrass, excerpt from A Locked House (via holdonmagnolia)
Dear everyone,
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Guess what’s never, ever funny. In any way, shape, or form.
Rape jokes.
Stop telling them.
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WatchDogfest on my bed, 2k10
“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hate myself.
Make love to me
like...”
– Buddy Wakefield (via handgrenade2)
“and this just in
I am done with those
who in life would have made me fight
an...”
– Shane Koyczan, excerpt from Skin 2 (via holdonmagnolia)
braidsandbattlers asked: Hey, I found you googling celiac and tumblr. :) I have celiac disease too! It's fun finding new people who know they have it.
“The fact that anyone can be labeled a slut, at any time, with any level of...”
– from “‘slut panel’ postmortem: shame, shame, go away” on feministing. the whole piece is very good, but this section was especially good. (via 63words) (via skirtonfire) (via definatalie) (via drugz) (via xdny) (via albinwonderland) (via bettychantel) (via thefeeloffree) (via dancingonembers) (via...
adomania
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the crushing sense that the future is arriving ahead of schedule, that all those years with fanciful names like “2011” are bursting from their hypothetical cages into the arena of the present, furiously bucking the grip of your expectations while you lean and slip in your saddle, one hand reaching for reins, the other waving up high like a schoolkid who finally...
Stop "corrective rape" in South Africa →
thenewfilo:
From a Cape Town safehouse for survivors of ‘corrective rape,’ the women created a petition on Change.org targeting South African Justice Minister Jeffrey Radebe.
Please, they wrote, declare ‘corrective rape’ a hate crime, which would both empower and require South African police to take a harder line on the vicious crime.
Click here to add your name to the petition.
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When someone wakes me up:
simply-marisa:
when i do this, charlotte says i’m “cabbage patchin’ “
“There are two things a man loves - taking
And not taking care of a woman.
It...”
– Elizabeth Skurnick, excerpt from Medusa in Oregon (via holdonmagnolia)
Capitalism Uber Alles: How the American Working... →
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yes, yes, yes a thousand times, yes.
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via bacchae)
“The thought insists upon itself. The dead
body of it, what you have put...”
– Camille Rankin, Still Life With Spurious Picturesque (via holdonmagnolia)
USA TODAY: Brain anomaly leaves woman without... →
jilly-t:
Researchers who have studied a woman with a missing amygdala — the part of the brain believed to generate fear — report that their findings may help improve treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.
In perhaps the first human study confirming that the almond-shaped structure is crucial for triggering fear, researchers at the University of Iowa...
