nat writes a book

Nat // 21 // writer // literature student // feel free to message me

[nat-writes-a-book]

sometimes I wish that I had gone to a some liberal arts college crammed with artsy kids—in five months I graduate from my state school and it’s been four years of corn and engineering elitists. my soul needs more

[topcat77]

Woman With Red Hair And Green Eyes (aka The Sin) 1902 

 Edvard Munch

[dark-romantics]

Strolling aimlessly in a bookshop is self care

[nat-writes-a-book]

strolling aimlessly in a bookshop with your best friend and takeaway coffee is the best self-care

[daydreaming-scribe]

The craft really did try to make a rich girl who forced a douchey guy to fall in love with her the heroine, and made the trio of villains a girl who was subject to daily explicit racist bullying who decided to fight back, a girl treated like a freak for terrible full-body burns who just wanted to heal herself, and a poor girl from an abusive home environment who wanted to be in power for once, huh.

[nat-writes-a-book]

very tired, but writing a thesis on monstrous women in gothic literature

[nat-writes-a-book]

I don’t mean to be depressing, but I wish that I had friends. Two weeks ago, I returned to campus for the first time in nearly eighteen months, and I had forgotten how uncomfortable I am here. Twenty-one years old and still a misfit. 

I want to graduate, but how will that be any better?

[crittizen]

this is a poem

[wa-u-moved]

i couldn’t not draw this

[diabeticlesbian]

I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

[diabeticlesbian]

Why the Popular Phrase ‘Women and Femmes’ Makes No Sense - Kesiena Boom

Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow

Taking Care - Callista Buchen

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield

Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz

Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha

Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”  - Molly McManus

They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson

The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities -  Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.

The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library

A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver

Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks

Working Class History

Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson

In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman

Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb

Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation  - Silvia Federici

Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) -  Jane Yeon and Audris Park

Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman

Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra

R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker

The Journey - Mary Oliver

The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan

The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)

[chasingliterature]

A Dark Academia Book List for the folks who have ALREADY read The Secret History:

Catherine House - Elisabeth Thomas

Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth

Madam - Phoebe Wynne

Black Chalk - Christopher J. Yates

The Lake Of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman

These Violent Delights - Micah Nemerever

feel free to add more :)

[primulaceas]

Sylvia Plath, from The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath; entry no. 102

[emmastudies]

The discord is growing in such a lovely way! Already 300 members, a selection of good study chats & tips, study rooms (with desk cams, mics, and others without!) and some off topic general fun discussions. Would love to have you all in there! x

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

the complete works of susan sontag: pdf

[nat-writes-a-book]

planning for a productive writing summer! 

[biologyfreak]

A little coffee. A little sunlight. Your troubles will get smaller.

-Richard Webber

[richard-diebenkorn]

Berkeley No. 13, Richard Diebenkorn

[enamouredpoet-deactivated202205]

“flowers and mirror” - abbott fuller graves

[too-little-caffeine]

Umm quick question..

What if things work out?

What if you achieve everything you've wanted to?

While you sit here, tasting nothing but burning ambition in your mouth, what if everything turns out alright?