[papayajuan2019]

i love the world so much. why do i often forget this

[anditslove]

Andrea Gibson, Birthday

[notgreatbob]

''i wasted those years'' who cares. you lived the only life you could've lived in those moments

[papenathys]

Absolutely insane lines to just drop in the middle of an academic text btw. Feeling so normal about this.

[ A Critical History of English Literature, Vol. 1, Prof. David Daiches, first published in 1960 ]

[n1pp]

Who is SHE?

→ journal out who you want to be in 2025:

1. What does she look like? (Physical appearance, style)

2. How does she dress on a typical day?

3. What does she like ?

4. What doesn't she like?

5. What is her behavior like in different situations?

6. (Social interactions, demeanor)

7. How does she prefer to be treated by others? (Expectations from relationships)

8. How does she treat people around her? (Interpersonal relationships, kindness)

9. What does her daily routine entail? (Activities, schedule)

10. At what time does she usually go to bed? (Sleeping habits)

11. When does she wake up in the morning? (Morning routine)

12. What are her hobbies and interests? (Leisure activities)

13. What is her profession or occupation? (Career, job responsibilities)

14. What are her long-term goals and aspirations? (Career ambitions, personal achievements)

15. How does she handle stress or challenges? (Coping mechanisms, problem-solving approach)

16. What type of books does she enjoy? (Cultural preferences)

17. How does she maintain her physical and mental well-being? (Health and self-care routines)

18. Does she have any specific dietary preferences or restrictions? (Food choices)

19. Who are her closest friends, and what are her relationships like with them?(Friendship dynamics)

20. How does she navigate conflicts or disagreements? (Communication style, conflict resolution)

21. What values and principles guide her decision-making? (Personal ethics)

22. How does she spend her leisure time on weekends? (Weekend activities, relaxation methods)

[liones-s]

one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become

[memeuplift]

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

Remember what April was like when we were young, that sense of liquid rushing and the wind taking blue scoops out of the air and the birds beside themselves in the budding trees?

John Banville, Ancient Light

[anxietyproblem]

[femsolid]

What's a book written by a woman that changed your life or that you consider a classic? Any genre, any language.

[marywollstonecraft]

Some books by women that either are or I think should be classics:

Human Acts - Han Kang I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson People in the Room - Norah Lange The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River - Xiao Hong

Books that changed my life:

Trauma and recovery - Judith Harman Pornography - Andrea Dworkin Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (in a bad way lol but also, a classic)

Some other cool, interesting, or striking books by women:

The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein Why Fish Don't Exist - Lulu Miller Earthlings - Sayaka Murata Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies - Caitlin Doughty Short stories by Daphne Du Maurier, Octavia E Butler, Lana Bastasic Poetry by Sally Wen Mao, Warsan Shire and Wislawa Szymborska

[chocolate-covered-whiskey]

Coming of Age in Mississippi - Anne Moody

(Cliché but) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

[nansheonearth]

Scum Manifesto - Valerie Solanas

[athenawasamerf]

All of Nawal El Saddawi’s work, but especially women and sex

[hippodamoi]

Woman On The Edge of Time - Marge Piercy Women and Madness - Phyllis Chesler. The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Gilman Perkins Herland - Perkins Loving to Survive - Dee L. R. Graham

[cavatas]

"An honorable human relationship — that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word 'love' — is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other. It is important to do this because it breaks down human self-delusion and isolation. It is important to do this because in doing so we do justice to our own complexity. It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us. It isn't that to have an honorable relationship with you, I have to understand everything, or tell you everything at once, or that I can know, beforehand, everything I need to tell you. It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive, to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying, all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us. The possibility of life between us.

— Adrienne Rich, On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

[diabeticlesbian]

I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

[diabeticlesbian]

Why the Popular Phrase ‘Women and Femmes’ Makes No Sense - Kesiena Boom

Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow

Taking Care - Callista Buchen

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield

Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz

Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha

Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”  - Molly McManus

They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson

The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities -  Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.

The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library

A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver

Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks

Working Class History

Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson

In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman

Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb

Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation  - Silvia Federici

Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) -  Jane Yeon and Audris Park

Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman

Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra

R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker

The Journey - Mary Oliver

The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)

[diabeticlesbian]

Magda Romanska, “Necr-Ophelia: Death, Femininity, and the Making of Modern Aesthetics”

Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington

Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)

Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution

Ozamu Tezuka Documentary

Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall

38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark

‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed

This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s

Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately

Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews

Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division

Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson

Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)

“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier

Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna

Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland

Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2

Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - Virginia L. Blum

[diabeticlesbian]

The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe Foreword by Lola Okolosie (ebook free to download this month 06/2020)

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube

The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde

Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)

Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)

CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982

Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash

Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley

A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)

Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2

Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’

Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris

Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert

‘They Set Us Up to Fail’: Black Directors of the ’90s Speak Out. Julie Dash, Matty Rich, Darnell Martin, Ernest Dickerson, Leslie Harris and Theodore Witcher on a boom that went bust, and what’s different now. - Reggie Ugwu

[diabeticlesbian]

You can now search and browse every edition of Spare Rib online!

(Important information for researchers: Some material from the Spare Rib magazines on the Journal Archives site has been redacted until the Library is able to secure further copyright permissions.)

How to Repair a Hole in a Sock with Darning

Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes - Kate Mulherin et al.

What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us - Sam Kriss

Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - James Baldwin

“Scenes of an Indelicate Character”: The Medical “Treatment” of Victorian Women - Mary Poovey

The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong

Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat - Gina Kolata

How to Sew a Button - for Absolute BEGINNERS

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Solidarity Cinema

Where to watch classic films directed by women online and for free - Rafaella Britto

Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici (Audiobook by Lil Guillotine)

Colonising the Body: State Medicine And Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Chapter 5) - David Arnold

“Racism, Birth Control And Reproductive Rights” (From Woman, Race and Class) - Dr. Angela Davis

No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear - Toni Morrison

[diabeticlesbian]

My Withered Legs - Sandra Gail Lambert

Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, at work in 1952 (video)

You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. - Kate Murphy

The History and Troubling Present of the “Pansexual” Label - Kravitz M.

A Man and his Hoe

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big - Jane Healey on secret corridors and impossible floorplans

May 23rd, 1988. Section 28. Lesbians invade BBC. - Colin Clews

Complete issues of The Gay Left 1975-80

A Decade of World-Class Masterclasses Online - Scottish Documentary Institute

5 Steps to Illustrating a Repeat Pattern by Hand - Julia Rothman

“Feminism was not invented by American women.” Nawal El Saadawi in conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

[diabeticlesbian]

How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay - Katherine Blouin, Monica Hanna, Sarah E. Bond

[diabeticlesbian]

Glass, Irony and God (The Gender of Sound) - Anne Carson

The Archivettes: A Sinister Wisdom Conversation with Megan Rossman (video)

‘I am not a pretty woman. And that’s never felt like more of a crime than in 2020.’ - Katie Scoble

Girls are cruelest to themselves: The Glass Essay - Anne Carson

Social media can be bad for our self-image. Could marking photos as edited help? - Paulina Jayne Isaac

Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson

Joan Nestle in Conversation with Cheryl Clarke @ Sinister Wisdom (video)

Decreation - Anne Carson

New World Order: The scream’s a good weapon. - Sarah Nicole Prickett

[diabeticlesbian]

GAY LIBERATION FRONT: Looking Back At The Revolutionary LGBTQ Group 50 Years On - Cliff Joannou with Dan Glass

Ceramic Review Masterclasses videos)

Gay Pride 1979- Inside Story (Documentary)

15 Songs About AIDS - Sal Cinquemani

“I Call It Blaxidermy”: Pamela Council on Their Art and Aesthetic - Clarity Haynes

Revenant Journal Archives: Revenant is a peer-reviewed e-journal dedicated to academic and creative explorations of the Supernatural, the Uncanny and the Weird.

The Tale of the Fox - Wladyslaw Starewicz (1937)

How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger - Michaeleen Doucleff and Jane Greenhalgh

Paper Books Can’t Be Shut Off from Afar - Maria Bustillos

‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the latest to include the iconic first period scene. Why don’t we ever see normal menstruation on TV? - Caroline Kitchener

HoneyHands Magazine

Some Women’s Work: Domestic Work, Class, Race, Heteropatriarchy, and the Limits of [U.S.] Legal Reform - Terri Nilliasca

Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political Equality. - Mychel Denzel Smith

Possession (1981)

Have You Seen This Bird: The Emotional and Ecological Ramifications of an Obsessive Kinship with Frank, a Neighbourhood Scrub-Jay. - Elisabeth Nicula

Painting Ghosts: Running into the cold, restorative waves with artist Nicole Eisenman. - Andrew Durbin

Nevada - Imogen Binne

[diabeticlesbian]

Child Pageants and the Performance of Gender. - Lisa Wade, PhD

The extraordinary body of Evatima Tardo - Bess Lovejoy

Ginger’s role in cures and courtroom battles

The beautiful language of bookplates - Alexandra Hills

Why a Disabled Artist Collective Was What I Needed All Along - Riva Lehrer

The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins - Roberta Smith

The unbearable daintiness of women who eat with men. - Kate Handley

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Ursula K. Le Guin

‘A fair chance for girls’: The law of periodicity and the Viavi system - Lalita Kaplish

Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection - Julia Kristeva

The sickness in the wellness industry - Gwendolyn Smith

‘Unsettling the men’: the representation of transgressive female desire in Daughter of Darkness (Lance Comfort, 1948) - Paul Mazey

Reassuring ghosts and haunted houses - Christine Ro

How The New Yorker Fell Into the “Weird Japan” Trap - Ryu Spaeth

A Symbol of a Lost Homeland - Yasmeen Abdel Majeed

Forbidden love: The WW2 letters between two men - Bethan Bell

Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies. - Rachel Bennett, Catherine Cox, Hilary Marland

[diabeticlesbian]

here you go,homosexuals

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[tockthewatchdog]

i really think this tweet is onto something

[djuvlipen]

this is why I need everyone to remember that the self-identified leftists you meet online often have little to no actual experience with real life political organising or campaigning; they are absolutely not representative of the leftists you meet in political groups and orgs. the former group is often made up of libertarian liberals who defend ideas antithetical to anti-capitalist movements (they support sex work, micro-police every single thought and word). there is nothing to be gained by pretending these people are actually leftist. conflating those two groups (libertarian liberals and the anti-capitalist left) is counterproductive and only works at harming the reputation and credibility of actually anti-capitalist groups (the same way conflating radical feminists with far-right conservatives harms the reputation and credibility of the feminist movement)

[stuckinapril]

Most anti phone advice is so inane and regurgitated to me but one thing I’ve been thinking about for days is “social media is okay, but the real danger comes in when you think your phone should be your go to during your limited pockets of leisure” like that’s literally the truest thing ever

[stuckinapril]

It really is true that after a long shift or a hard study session or a tiring workout the first thing I think to do is doom scroll to “reward” myself………. But as much as I try to combat my screen I’ve never truly delved into why my phone should be my go to during my downtime. Like why is it the reward . Why is it not taking a nap. Or getting a treat. Or calling a friend . Or even reading a book. It’s like I do those things w the idea in mind that that’s when I’m “on” but what if they rly should be my downtime rewards instead of phone time

[stuckinapril]

And this comes from someone who does not necessarily think social media is the devil bc I totally understand why people use it and how it makes connecting easier…… but I see older patients all the time and it’s so striking to me how they don’t have attention issues and how their reward system is wired so differently. My 52 year old boss rewards herself for an 8 hour work day by taking a run after work. Like immediately after work. She does have a phone, and she does use it, but it’s not her reward during downtime at all. She does not need a phone break in between things, because those things are what nourish her. And that’s just fascinating to me bc for my generation a peek at their phone is the ultimate reward

[stuckinapril]

LAST THING bc i feel like if this reaches more people they’ll be like ummm reading or talking to a friend arent downtime activities and like okay that’s so fair……. I think the whole point is finding a default downtime activity that feels right for *you* while also not taxing you mentally. Like this is not me saying go full blackout on your phone. Also it’s just true that doom scrolling is not as passive as people think it is (I literally do it too) and your brain is still burning out from taking in so much at once, so investigating if it’s the holy grain “brain off” activity really is valid

[trackmarx-and-tattoos-blog]

If you haven’t seen this movie, you NEED to try and find it online or on demand. This is the perfect movie named “Perfect High”. Any drug addict, friend of a drug addict or relative to a drug addict will fall in love with this. It shows the start of a full blown addiction by a prescription of pain pills that later leads to IV heroin use. Its definitely not “The Basketball Diaries” or “Trainspotting”, but I absolutely loved it. It was so relatable, & truly touching. A real tear jerker! I originally watched this on Lifetime Movie Network (LMN), but depending on your cable network you can probably find it somewhere else or even on the internet. Y'all will love it!

[terrierfan123]

Sometimes I put my face up against my dog while he's sleeping to feel his little lungs expand and his little heart beat and I am struck by the beauty of of life and the miracle of nature to evolve for thousands of years just to create one little guy and put him in my house

[cowboyjen68]

hi! my girlfriend is a butch lesbian and I'm trying to find books to give her about/exploring butches and lesbian masculinity. do you have any recommendations?

Try "Excuse me, sir. A Butch Memoir" by Shayley Howard. I have only read part of it but it is very relatable so far. She can be found on Tiktok or Facebook by her name.

Excuse Me, Sir! Memoir of a Butch

A more "fluff" read that helped me and was very enjoyable as just an escape is The Celaeno Series by Jane Fletcher. It is fantasy/scifi and she never uses "butch" or "femme' but definitely explores those dynamics in a world that she creates. There is a lot of romance, drama etc (tiny bit if NSFW) and women are represented as full and varied humans where masculine and feminine traits are honored and acknowledged.

Rangers at Roadsend by Jane Fletcher | Bold Strokes Books

Sergeant Chip Coppelli escaped the manipulative plots of her powerful family by becoming a soldier. After 9 years in the elite Rangers, deal

[old-school-butch]

The Beebo Brinker chronicles by Ann Bannon. Old school. gloriously politically incorrect since the day it was printed.