Mammalian Days

go outside, good things happen outside

[felicityfenton]

[felicityfenton]

Let's!

Felicity Fenton

[felicityfenton]

On Freeform Portland with Tom Kay - All 45's all about money.

[mothwood]

I do not know how to tell you what the presence of another body inside your body does to the grammar of sentences and their birdlike unfolding against gray light.

Kristen Case, from Landscape with Childbirth and Pronoun (via mothwood)

[felicityfenton]

There we two, content, / happy in being together, speaking little, perhaps not a word.

Whitman

[felicityfenton]

And Let flatness light up in volume,

for the flat has no volume, 

and it is the volume which is the flat;

the volume eats the flat,

which turns on all sides because of that.

[felicityfenton]

Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story, the genealogy, the rights of man, the rule of law. The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Rebecca Solnit - Men Explain Things to Me

[felicityfenton]

.... and I should like to ask you, as best I can, dear Sir, to be patient towards all that is unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms, like books written in a foreign tongue.

Rainer Maria Rilke

[felicityfenton]

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

Anaïs Nin

[felicityfenton]

A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

Nikki Giovanni

[felicityfenton]

Still I -and nobody farther from everything than I- keep tuning in and broadcasting. Ghosts, echoes, reflections, remains of voices and landscapes. I cannot help it, nobody could figure it out; but, somehow, I stay on, showing all programs at the same time, all episodes of all seasons, trying to locate the only episode I am interested in. But it is not an easy task. They are a lot, too many chapters. And the one I am looking for is neither among the most interesting ones, nor is it the most successful.

Rodrigo Fresán, The Bottom of the Sky.

[felicityfenton]

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom

- Kierkegaard

[noahtinker-deactivated20150304]

We are, I think, quite urgently in need of coming to feel that we are the eternal Universe, each one of us.

Alan Watts (via noahtinker)

[felicityfenton]

It is of the essence of life that it does not begin here or end there, or connect a point of origin with a final destination, but rather that it keeps on going, finding a way through the myriad of things that form, persist and break up in its currents. Life, in short, is a movement of opening, not of closure.

― Tim Ingold, Being Alive: Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description

[felicityfenton]

[htmlles11]

"While some cyberfeminists contend that the Internet shifts gender and racial regimes of power through the human/machine hybridity of cyborgs (Haraway 1985), identity tourism (Nakamura 2002; Turkle 1997), and the escape from embodiment (Hansen 2006; Nouraie-Simone 2005b), I argue that the lived experience and actual Internet practices of girls and self-identified women reveals ways that they use the Internet to transform their material, corporeal lives in a number of complex ways that both resist and reinforce hierarchies of gender and race."

Jessie Daniels: Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment. 2009. (via htmlles11)

[felicityfenton]

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein