MUSINGS OF A WANDERER

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MUSINGS OF A WANDERER turned 2 today!

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There are things inside that must get out

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Where politics and art intersect, incredible insights can and do happen. I think art can teach things that speeches and graphs cannot.

Amanda Palmer (previously) goes to the United Nations for a major event addressing the quest to end the violence against women, where she learns that:

1 in 3 women worldwide experiences some form of physical violence inflicted against her in her lifetime.

Women aged 15-44 are more at risk from rape and domestic violence than from cancer, motor accidents, war, and malaria.

It is estimated that 1 in 5 women worldwide will become a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime.

Find out what you can do to help abate this gruesome epidemic here, and read Amanda’s full story here.

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Don’t be too careful. You could hurt yourself.

Byron Katie (via jimchuchu)

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Anti-Mau Mau poster, circa 1952.

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Susan Sontag on literature and freedom – superb read.

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Barbara Kruger

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Male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are – about luck and identity and how the idea struck them. The interviews much more seldom engage with the woman as a serious thinker, a philosopher, as a person with preoccupations that are going to sustain them for their lifetime.

Eleanor Catton, the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize.

Pair with Margaret Atwood on literature’s “women problem” and these illustrated biographies of women writers who shaped the literary canon, then consider what makes a great interview.

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by Katrina Casino

Photographer Sanaa Hamid explores both sides of cultural appropriation.

Welcome to Out of the Closet, where each week I’ll be rounding up the most interesting things that the big, bad Internet has to say about fashion, style, fads, and their place in politics. Over...

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"i visited cambodia primarily to capture the ancient temples of angkor wat, but between shoots i noticed the monks i was filming were constantly on their mobile phones and laptops, checking facebook. they just couldn’t put their phones and laptops down and that fascinated me." - bronek kaminski

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Slow Motion by Phox.

I’m intrigued. Her voice is like hot chocolate. It’s officially sweater weather, so here’s something to keep you warm. :)

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I know I have a heart because I feel it breaking.

The Wizard of Oz (via jimchuchu)

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How To Be a Nonconformist – an irreverent 22-step vintage illustrated guide, amazingly, written and illustrated by a 16-year-old high school girl.

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You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for.

Janice Joplin's final interview, September 30, 1970 (via explore-blog)

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A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

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Creativity, very much like love, is a gift. And you don’t get to get gifts all the time. If you go on a date and you don’t like the guy or girl you are meeting, you are not experiencing “lover’s block”—you simply don’t love at that moment, and if you’re patient enough you’ll experience love in the future (probably in the place and the time you’d least expect it). If you don’t write well, keep writing bad stuff (don’t worry, bad writing is completely ecological—it doesn’t damage the ozone layer or give you cancer). If it gets too frustrating, stop doing it—move on to badminton, collect airplane models, or do all those other things that people who don’t write do. But mostly, wait patiently. (Patiently as opposed to impatiently, or angrily, or bitterly—because those kinds of waiting don’t breed future good writing. Patience does.) Writing isn’t a habit. It’s a unique form of expression. And nobody owes you that special experience on a daily or a weekly basis. But if you make an effort, when it’s gone, to keep living your life and experiencing new things, it will eventually return. And when it does, enjoy it as much as you can, before it goes away again.

Etgar Keret on getting unstuck, contributing to these favorite definitions of creativity. 

Pair with celebrated artists, writers, and designers on overcoming your creative block. 

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