grasping for the ends of this elastic moment

what was once before you, an exciting, mysterious future, is now behind you. lived, understood, disappointing. you realize you are not special. you have struggled into existence, and are now slipping silently out of it.

[neshamama]

figurine of a woman baking, 8th-6th century bce, pottery, akhzib

[alwaysthewindneverthebird]

what’s she baking?! i need to know!

[littleyellowleaves]

imagine yourself happy

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein

[alexandriad]

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

[swirling-orbs-of-disorder]

From ancient to abstract, this one sure got around.

Japanese one made no sense to me until I finally saw the “sale sale/sasa lele” version. セール　セール。 But then it’s a meme so it has to be misspelled?  🤷‍♂️

[everyone-loves-purple]

tHERE ARE MEMES IN THOSE HIEROGLYPHICS

[195195119511951-deactivated2021]

From We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

[soracities]

Sebastían Queupul Quintramil, ÜL: Four Mapuche Poets (ed. Cecilia Vicuña, trans. John Bierhorst)

[Text ID: “voy a tejer la espuma del mar (I’ll weave the ocean’s foam)”]

[stfudiscoinfernoed-archive]

The trend of telling people to “just date a girl instead” is not actually progressive. It’s offensive to bi or gay men, who are already told their attraction men is shameful and not to be acted upon, and to straight or bi women, who should not be victim-blamed for IPV they may face in relationships with men. It’s offensive to those whose abusers have been women. It’s offensive to people who have had white womanhood, straight womanhood, cis womanhood, and other privileged womanhoods used against them.

[facinaoris]

Alexander McQueen Menswear Fall 2020 

[thesaddestchorusgirlintheworld]

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)

[vetmedirl]

This woman’s work changed the way we see ourselves in America.

[refinery29]

Hari Nef is helping to normalize transwomen’s bodies and identities in a really important way that if you’re cisgender you may not have thought about

Nef goes on to explain the difference between her photoshoot with Velencoso, versus how transgender women are typically photographed in fashion editorials. “Images of trans femmes being loved rarely exist outside of pornography,” Nef wrote. “We tend to be hyper-sexualized and objectified within the cisgender gaze. Either that or we’re dehumanized as scum or (just as bad) untouchable goddesses.”

Photos: Twitter/Hari Nef

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[anthyhime-deactivated20210201]

The “sex and gender are different” theory that cisgender people invented so they can grasp trans identity while still erasing it is toxic. It translates into “your gender may be ____ but biologically you are _____” which normalizes the concept that genitalia validates your gender. Its nothing less than bullshit.

[oudeteron]

It also creates this patronizing linguistic construction where you can just replace “biologically” with “really” and that’s the actual sentiment here, isn’t it? They’re humouring you, that’s it. Truth is that sex is as much a social construct as is gender, but admitting that debunks the status quo in a way that the simplistic sex/gender distinction doesn’t, so of course it hasn’t caught on yet.

[kafk-a]

Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88

[gatheringbones]

the new lesbians: interviews with women across the US and canada, laurel galana and gina covina, 1977

[L: You said here on the questionnaire that the Greek Orthodox religion was important to you. Is it important to you now?

B: No, not in a religious sense. In an aesthetic, emotional sense, yes, it always will be, because the things that are true about the Easter service, for instance, will always be important to me, and there will always be a need for me to go for Easter.

L: What are those needs?

B: There’s a beautiful hymn that’s sung at Eastern time about Christ trampling out death and to me the essence of what we do as we get up every day is to get rid of the death in us, to get rid of that which is standing still, stagnant, that isn’t creative, to make the day— and it happens every day for us. It’s a very triumphant hymn, beautiful. So that kind of an emotional thing I can’t leave, even though I don’t think there’s a God up there. It’s much more Blakian what I believe now, that it’s in each of us, that divine thing— some of us kill it, some of us have it killed at a very early age, but that’s where it is, it’s in us. That has to be cultivated.]

[bmebooks]

Issue XII - Beatrice Forshall

[quotemadness]

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

Betty Smith (via quotemadness)

[pottedfairies]

we should treat love as something to be built rather than found

[littleyellowleaves]

For Emily Dickinson’s ‘Wild Nights’