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Noam • 27 • constant desperation to kill the quietness

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Do you have some trans love poem?

some love poems by trans authors!

this is what makes us worlds by joshua jennifer espinoza

poem where i be & you just might by danez smith

self portrait as john the baptist hitchhiking by c.t. salazar

nocturne with rain by uma dwivedi

from “reconstructions” by bradley trumpfheller

i can love everyone by alok vaid-menon

what space faith can occupy by tc tolbert

gay cowboy love poem by @julykings

t4t by oliver baez bendorf

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“I say with perfect faith that prayers precede God. Prayers created God. God created man, and man creates prayers that create God who creates man.”

— From Gods come and go, prayers remain forever by Yehuda Amichai

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on june

emily dickinson complete poems of emily dickinson: “all these my banners be” (via @soracities​) \ annette wynne why was june made? \ pablo neruda one hundred sonnets \ virginia woolf the waves \ l.m. montgomery anne of the island (via @metamorphesque​) \ sylvia plath the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, 1950-1962 \ mahmoud darwish a river dies of thirst \ emily dickinson complete poems of emily dickinson: “ourselves were wed one summer–dear–” (via @soracities​) \ philip larking cut grass \ morgan parker magical negro: “the black saint & the sinner lady & the dead & the truth”

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Deer On the Side of the American Highway by Devin Kelly

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Lorraine Zago Rosenthal, Other Words for Love

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Crutches poses

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anger is a neutral emotion (like every emotion), it does not carry moral weight, it is not violence.

[gatheringbones]

“cutting relationships off and never engaging in repair again is a perfectly valid choice” and “materials geared towards white survivors of domestic trauma can often exacerbate our inherent tendencies to self-isolate and destroy connections and view all members of the outside world as a hierarchy of potential threats in ways that complicate our ability to see through the constant coaching and grooming we are subjected to by the white supremacist systems that surround and protect us”

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depathologizing your own responses to things means no longer worrying about which symptom matches which diagnosis matches which branded treatment model and instead practicing gentle non-judgmental curiosity about what you’re going through from the perspective of someone who wants to fulfill one of the most basic and primal needs for you which is the sensation of being seen and heard

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home is a hole in your chest

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I think franz kafka’s letter to his abusive father is one of the best early works of domestic violence literature and I wish we all talked about it more.

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[“We were so different and in our difference so dangerous to each other that if anyone had tried to calculate in advance how I, the slowly developing child, and you, the full-grown man, would stand to each other, he could have assumed that you would simply trample me underfoot so that nothing was left of me. Well, that did not happen. Nothing alive can be calculated. But perhaps something worse happened. And in saying this I would all the time beg of you not to forget that I never, and not even for a single moment, believe any guilt to be on your side. The effect you had on me was the effect you could not help having. But you should stop considering it some particular malice on my part that I succumbed to that effect.”]

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[“Hence the world was for me divided into three parts: one in which I, the slave, lived under laws that had been invented only for me and which I could, I did not know why, never completely comply with; then a second world, which was infinitely remote from mine, in which you lived, concerned with government, with the issuing of orders and with the annoyance about their not being obeyed; and finally a third world where everybody else lived happily and free from orders and from having to obey. I was continually in disgrace; either I obeyed your orders, and that was a disgrace, for they applied, after all, only to me; or I was defiant, and that was a disgrace too, for how could I presume to defy you; or I could not obey because I did not, for instance, have your strength, your appetite, your skill, although you expected it of me as a matter of course; this was the greatest disgrace of all.”]

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"(either we eat God or he eats us)"

“The consecrated host is Christ afflicted; it is God as a thing. God is edible… We respond to these awesome gifts by imitating them. We, too, must renounce being. We must not eat but rather become food.”

“one could eat oneself - as if the human were a god (...)”

“God who ate everything, did this world feed you?”

"God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it.”

There is a God, and he is hungry

Caroline Walker Bynum, “Women Mystics in the Thirteenth Century”, from Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages//what did jesus do?, adam gopnik//Claire Wolfteich, "Attention or Destruction: Simone Weil and the Paradox of the Eucharist"//sacrifice: a problem for theology, simone weil// Strike Sparks, What Is the Earth?' by Sharon Olds//Margaret Atwood, Interlunar; from 'Eating Snake'//Amor Fati, Ruth Awad//The Secret History, Donna Tartt//C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity//Introduction to Simone Weil's Waiting for God, by Leslie A. Fiedler//Reginald Scot, The Discoverie of Witchcraft//Waiting for God, Simone Weil//Archeology, Myriam Fraga.

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. . . faith is devotion to question, to mystery.

Karmen MacKendrick, Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions

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Untitled  -   David Remfry , 1988.

British, b. 1942 -

Lithograph, 89.6 x 68cm,

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[image description: a black and white lithograph of two women dancing with each other in a crowd. one looks slightly intimidated and the other has her eyes closed and is smiling softly.] 

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[ID: a photo of partially-shaded, mossy ground with the caption “Dappled light on the moss looks lovely but tricks me into reaching for clumps of light when I think I’m reaching for fallen yellow leaves.”]

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Zentyatze Echeverria by Enrique Leyva