hucketry

gender, poetry & other genres of foxy

[wordsnquotes]

When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart  (via autobibliographies)

[bostonpoetryslam]

I don’t know what poetry is, but I want it to be some kind of magic or alchemy, a transformation whose power or method cannot be completely traced. I need poetry to contain the unknown. I want it to be a terror or horror that begs to be held, some perfect mix of fear and need.

Meghan Privitello, for Amy King’s “Young Poets Bare All: What Is a Culture?” (via bostonpoetryslam)

[wordsnquotes]

She’s sensitive, too. Takes to hurt the way water takes to paper.

Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her (via autobibliographies)

[queeringstyle]

Friday :) #queeringstyle #smile #friday #details #sunnyday By: @vandalia

[boy-so-pale]

[visual-poetry]

by sigurdur gudmundsson (+)

[via]

[afronautic]

[blackfashion]

closed curtains….soul searchin’

[warfashion]

[iamcaptainzombie-deactivated202]

[1000drawings]

[visual-poetry]

art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

flannery o'connor (via visual-poetry)

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

One reason it’s really exhausting having multiple marginalised identitities is that it’s basically impossible to cut yourself off from every person who hates you for one of your identities.

Consuming media, interacting with family, having friends, coworkers - there are always parts of yourself you have to do your best to play down for your own self-protection.

You’re constantly forced to make compromises and split your identity apart, because the one show that doesn’t have misogynist jokes has homophobic jokes, or your friends can handle you being poor but they’re super ableist.

It’s exhausting to navigate the world when you have to find acceptance piecemeal.

[glenallsop]

Sarrah Candee

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[therumpus]

[James Baldwin]’s refusal to align himself with any bloc within the civil rights movement isolated him, and he suffered from it—Cleaver’s attack wounded him, as did Wright’s sense of betrayal and Martin Luther King Jr.’s decision to exclude him from the list of speakers at the March on Washington. But the same resistance to alliances that cost him during his lifetime has given shape and power to his afterlife. Now that the old factions have disintegrated, and the national discussion of race has largely retreated from debates over proposed solutions to a debate over whether problems still exist, Baldwin’s work has regained its influence. That his observations about race in America feel as relevant and cutting as ever is as much a testament to his insight as to the level of the current discourse.

For the New York Review of Books, Nathaniel Rich writes about James Baldwin’s undeniable influence on the American landscape and why his work is more relevant than ever before. (via therumpus)

[therumpus]

What I mean when I say my sexuality is writer is that my way of writing is informed by my identity as a voyeur. Voyeurism isn’t only about watching, or looking. It’s about exploring the erotic power in how it is you look, and what you can see. As much as where I look is important, how I look is what creates the erotic energy that inspires and informs the way I write. As a voyeur, I watch in a way that is about gathering information, studying the person, the situation. I move through the world conscious of movement, objects, scenes and interactions that attract my attention. Not only because I might write about them later, but because by paying close attention to how I frame my gaze, I am better able to think about which words I’ll choose to offer you on the page. 

(K)ink #8: Writing While Deviant: Ames Hawkins.

[soph-okonedo]

Models pose wearing Polo Ralph Lauren Fall 2016 during New York Fashion Week on February 12, 2016 in New York City