Oh to Be Where You Are In The Universe

Reading :)

[brookheimer]

from strike sparks by sharon olds

[ololygas]

the thing is, ellen bass

[firstfullmoon]

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, “palestinian love poem”

[lydisreading]

New favorite.

[orpheuslament]

Ritual Is Journey, Chris Abani

[jem-in-eyee]

Wuthering Heights (2011) dir. Andrea Arnold // by georges bataille, literature and evil (1957, tr. Alastair Hamilton) // The glass essay, Anne Carson

[robinsversion]

How I sleep knowing I always cite my sources:

(First image from the film Drip Dippy Donald (1948); second image from season 4, episode 3 of the Simpsons, “Homer the Heretic” (1992).)

[sawasawako]

*pretends to be shocked*

[sawasawako]

oh wow. i could not have foreseen this

[sawasawako]

anyway, this is taken from this article by dan sinykin, referring to these findings

[sawasawako]

“The Contract Says” is an act of rebellion. It reveals the distorting expectations people with power — presumably white or speaking on behalf of whiteness — put on nonwhite poets. And it undermines those expectations by including anecdotes the speaker does not want the poet to tell. (“Don’t read the one where you / are just like us.”) But it also performs coerced complicity in the recitation of the hubcap anecdote in the poem itself. By attending the event (in the world of the poem) and by including the anecdote of the hubcaps (in the published poem in our world), the imagined poet and Limón both do the thing they’re trying to prove they don’t do. They resist and perform tokenization at the same time. Grossman, Spahr, and Young’s data makes visible that this poem is an expression of the nauseating racial logic of contemporary prize-winning culture.

like. HELLO

[heavensghost]

Morgan Nikola-Wren

[hannahp0calypse]

space is time

[hannahp0calypse]

Hey if you like this comic, it recently got added to The Creator’s Guide to Comics Devices by @reimenaashelyee as an example of time & space in comics!

IMO the site is a fantastic collection of narrative/structural/artistic devices and techniques in comics, and well worth a look if you want to find more discussion of comics like the above puts forward. Highly recommend!!

[damazcuz]

Certain words can change your brain forever and ever so you do have to be very careful about it.

[dark-romantics]

[concerningwolves]

Full offense but your writing style is for you and nobody else. Use the words you want to use; play with language, experiment, use said, use adverbs, use “unrealistic” writing patterns, slap words you don’t even know are words on the page. Language is a sandbox and you, as the author, are at liberty to shape it however you wish. Build castles. Build a hovel. Build a mountain on a mountain or make a tiny cottage on a hill. Whatever it is you want to do. Write.

[yasminali-poetry]

I don’t remember if i’ve reblogged this before… but it is still an important reminder

[luthienne]

by the way your voice always matters in the fight against injustice. every single time you speak out against an injustice it matters. it sheds light on it. it empowers others to speak up. it matters

[luthienne]

if you are afraid to talk about palestine ask yourself why. will you be in danger? as palestinian people are? will an occupying army come into your house in the middle of the night and arrest you for mentioning the tragedy of palestine on social media? is it because you might be perceived as radical for asserting that an occupied people have a right to live free from oppression and death? is it because you feel you don’t know enough to speak out on the 60 days of relentless bombardment in 75 years of ethnic cleansing?

here are some resources to educate yourself:

- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, Ilan Pappé

- The Question of Palestine, Edward Said

- Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom, Norman Finkelstein

- Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics, Marc Lamont Hill & Mitchell Plitnick

- The Hundreds Years’ War on Palestine, Rashid Khalidi

- Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine, Noura Erakat

- Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis

- Journal of an Ordinary Grief, Mahmoud Darwish

what’s happening is wrong. it is unjust. and we are not powerless. this goes triple for usamericans. it is our weapons, our military aid, and our country’s unconditional support to the apartheid state of israel that is making this genocide a reality.

use your voice. speak the truth. it always matters.

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

I simply can't afford to quit on the idea that human life can change for the better.

[louisegluck]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals

[girlfictions]

Refaat Alareer, an academic and lecturer at the Islamic University of Gaza, was martyred along with his family in a targeted assassination carried out by the Israeli occupation on December 7th, 2023. We must continue to stand against this genocide.

[luthienne]