Glorious Things

Glori B is a poet, teacher, and filmmaker living in Austin Texas. She can be found every Tuesday night at Austin Poetry Slam, which she also hosts once a month. She likes science, kissing, and Pilot G2 pens. She willingly ate a raw tomato for the first...

[xhba]

third base is when he sees u cry for the first time

[joeydeangelis]

[babelady]

real talk can we stop acting like bisexual people who are in a relationship with a different gender are Diet Gay™

[fadedfemales]

[onlytwitterpics]

[beyonslayed]

ME?????!!!!!!

[thexfiles]

suicidal people deserve a space to talk about their suicidal feelings without risking hospitalization/institutionalization or being accused of being manipulative or attention seeking

[glori-bees]

friend: are you ok?

me: No I'm not, but confronting hard truths and sharing my emotions is difficult for me and i don’t want to burden you with my problems when you have plenty of your own. However, I will be posting a jarring synopsis of my emotional state online for everyone to see, but feel free to ignore it if it makes you uncomfortable. how are you tho?

[wordsnquotes]

I want to do things so wild with you that I don’t know how to say them.

Anaïs Nin (via wordsnquotes)

[explore-blog]

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

After 87 courageous years on this earth, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel (September 30, 1928–July 2, 2016) has left us — and left us his timeless, increasingly timely wisdom on our shared responsibility in ending injustice. (via explore-blog)

[beingglori]

This SxSW I, along with several other Austin Poetry Slam regulars, was invited to perform at the closing party for the 2016 Personalized Learning & Student Success Summit. They graciously recorded and posted videos. 

Check out one of my teacher poems, dedicated to my students Guadalupe and Martin, “Yolamos.”

[dayzea]

When life gets tough it’s time to do some weird shit to your hair

[halseyasfcuk]

Whenever a girl compliments me I’m like… Is this a normal compliment or a gay compliment? I need to know

[teachinginreallife]

When it’s June

[bookgeekconfessions]

I don’t want your love unless you know I am repulsive, and love me even as you know it.

Georges Bataille - My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man (via soracities)

[hechodeoro-deactivated20180924]

skinny girls may hate their body but they don’t gotta deal with everyone else hating their bodies too and encouraging them to hate their bodies

[glori-bees]

Ow.

[sadegg]

everyone: “but youre doing so well in school”

me: i am literally dying i dont know who i am and im a shell of myself. i cant remember one thing i did last week, everything is a blur and i some how simultaneously sleep all the time and never sleep 

[glori-bees]

#AlsoAppliestoTeaching

[oeut]

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (via oeut)