Harbor in the Storm

I'm Erin, and I'm not sure what this is.

[fullpraxisnow]

I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love. For me, the revolution, which is not possible without a theory of revolution — and therefore of science — is not irreconcilable with love. On the contrary: the revolution is made by people to achieve their humanization. What, indeed, is the deeper motive which moves individuals to become revolutionaries, but the dehumanization of people? The distortion imposed on the word “love” by the capitalist world cannot prevent the revolution from being essentially loving in character, nor can it prevent the revolutionaries from affirming their love of life. Guevara (while admitting the “risk of seeming ridiculous”) was not afraid to affirm it. “Let me say, with the risk of appearing ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by strong feelings of love. It is impossible to think of an authentic revolutionary without this quality.”

Paulo Freire |Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)

[villiago-deactivated20141112]

[buddhabrot]

what i’m tryna b

[mesogeios]

However bad life is, what’s important is to make something interesting out of it. And that has a lot to do with the physical world, with looking at stuff, snow and light and the smell of your screen door and whatever constitutes your phenomenal existence from moment to moment. How consoling—that this stuff goes on and that you can keep thinking about it and making that into something on the page.

Anne Carson explains an idea that she and Alice Munro have in common (attachment to the physical world and the details in life), from The Art of Poetry No. 88, Paris Review  (via betrachtung)

[jamesusilljournal]

The Oval,  Naoshima Island, Japan, designed by architect Tadao Ando

[harborinthestorm]

me: *has a puny human emotion*

blue whale: you are like a little baby. feel this

blue whale: *telepathically shares it's emotions with me and I fucking explode*

[serious]

[keanugrieves]

Mitski - Your Best American Girl (Official Video)

[gothhabiba]

So many of us long for love but lack the courage to take risks. Even though we are obsessed with the idea of love, the truth is that most of us live relatively decent, satisfying lives even if we often feel that love is lacking. In these relationships we share genuine affection and/or care. For most of us, this feels like enough because it is usually a lot more than we received in our families of origin. Undoubtedly, many of us are more comfortable with the notion that love can mean anything to anybody precisely because when we define with precision and clarity it brings us face to face with our lacks–with terrible alienation. The truth is, far too many people in our culture do not know what love is. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up.

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

(via gothhabiba)

[timeaway]

In evening light lambs wonder amongst the apple blossom

[womanhouse]

Martha Graham and Agnes de Mille

[arabellesicardi]

i think it’s really funny how this particular conversation has saved so many of the women i know. all the women. everywhere. we come back to martha like church. 

NO SATISFACTION WHATEVER AT ANY TIME. 

[godswollen-deactivated20171014]

Girl frightened. Girl destroyed. Girl as a symptom. / Girl in a paroxysm of rage. Girl disappeared in a / death-like loss of feeling. Girl as indescribable evil.

Juliet Ashbury, The Only Good Girl is a Dead Girl (via thinegar)

[lessabstractednow]

Gaslighting does not require deliberate plotting. Gaslighting only requires a belief that it is acceptable to overwrite another person’s reality. The rest just happens organically when a person who holds that belief feels threatened. We learn how to control and manipulate each other very naturally. The distinguishing feature between someone who gaslights and someone who doesn’t is an internalized paradigm of ownership. And in my experience, identifying that paradigm is a lot easier than spotting the gaslighting.

What I Wish I’d Known About Gaslighting, Shea Emma Fett. (via a-witches-brew)

[reimenaashelyee]

2017: a pictorial letter for the New Year.

[addelburgh]

[jvepvrk-deactivated20170228]

him sad :(

[maga-capturandomariposas]

Within patriarchal culture, the girl who does not feel loved in her family of origin is given another chance to prove her worth when she is encouraged to seek love from males. Schoolgirl crushes, mad obsessions, compulsive longings for male attention and approval indicate that she is rightly pursuing her gendered destiny, on the road to becoming the female who can be nothing without a man. Whether she is heterosexual or homosexual, the extent to which she yearns for patriarchal approval will determine whether she is worthy to be loved. This is the emotional uncertainty that haunts the lives of all females in patriarchal culture. From the start, then, females are confused about the nature of love. Socialized in the false assumption that we will find love in the place where femaleness is deemed unworthy and consistently devalued, we learn early to pretend that love matters more than anything, when in actuality we know that what matters most, even in the wake of feminist movement, is patriarchal approval

Bell Hooks, Communion (via socio-logic)

[davideaurilia]

[baapi-makwa]

“The current buildup of tremendous force at Standing Rock should be understood as a military invasion of a sovereign nation on behalf of a foreign oil company.”

[angremlin-deactivated20250312]

This is 100% accurate. Native lands are NOT UNITED STATES TERRITORY. They were NEVER ceded to our government and our government SIGNED TREATIES acknowledging this! But now a foreign oil company says their lands are in the way and so on behalf of this foreign interest our government has sent military forces to invade the land so they can sell it off to be destroyed for profit