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thinking out loud

[thelovelyloner]

The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.

Paulo Coelho (via awelltraveledwoman)

[weltenwellen]

I know that feeling. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can’t stay like you are for another second, or you’re going to explode.

Jennifer Echols, Forget You (via exoticwild)

[roxanegay]

I wrote this on the importance of student activism.

[ktylntn]

Fundamentally, the task is to articulate not just an alternative set of policy proposals but an alternative worldview to rival the one at the heart of the ecological crisis - embedded in interdependence rather than hyper-individualism, reciprocity rather than dominance, and cooperation rather than hierarchy… Because in the hot and stormy future we have already made inevitable through our past emissions, an unshakeable belief in the equal rights of all people and a capacity for deep compassion will be the only things standing between civilisation and barbarism.

Naomi Klein - This Changes Everything (via ktylntn)

[yennyfromthebl0ck]

Mt. Tamalpais, Mill Valley, CA.

[jasmined]

Everyone lies about writing. They lie about how easy it is or how hard it was. They perpetuate a romantic idea that writing is some beautiful experience that takes place in an architectural room filled with leather novels and chai tea. They talk about their ‘morning ritual’ and how they ‘dress for writing’ and the cabin in Big Sur where they go to ‘be alone’ - blah blah blah. No one tells the truth about writing a book. Authors pretend their stories were always shiny and perfect and just waiting to be written. The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. Even I have lied about writing. I have told people that writing this book has been like brushing away dirt from a fossil. What a load of shit. It has been like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.

Amy Poehler, Yes, Please (via austinkleon)

[decolonizingmedia]

End Police Violence: Join Campaign Zero

[karina-padilla]

[candysuckle]

mummy where are you

[mlarson-deactivated20200901]

The first draft is always perfect. Its only job is to exist.

Casey Fowler. (via mlarson)

[streetetiquette]

SLUMFLOWER (2015) - Septmeber 10th

“Slumflower’s ultimate commentary is that the beauty and resilience of black life persists, even in the most unlikely spaces. It insists on the black imagination’s capacity to see brighter days ahead, within and outside of the literal and figurative “boxing in” of life in the slums”. - Zak Cheney-Rice of Mic News

WATCH SLUMFLOWER NOW 

[howbizarro-blog]

Rene Vallejo Psychiatric Hospital, Cuba, C-type print, 16 x 12 inches, 2003

This is a journey through 12 modern ghettos starting in a refugee camp in Tanzania and ending in a forest in Patagonia. In each of these places, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, as editors and photographers of COLORS magazine, methodically documented their inhabitants, and asked them the same questions: How did you get here? Who is in power? Where do you go to be alone? To make love? To get your teeth fixed? For many of those photographed it was their first time in front of a camera. Some looked into it with a hard, penetrating gaze. Others obeyed the ritual of photography with smiles. And Mario, on the cover, turned his back on the camera and waited for the shutter to click.

Ghetto is published by Trolley Ltd.

[rookiemag]

Rookie is hiring! We’re looking for a story editor!

The ideal person for this job has at least two years’ experience as a story editor (either in print or online) and knows the basics of copyediting and fact-checking. Rookie is a fast-growing but small operation located in Brooklyn, NY (applicants should live in New York and be able to meet in and work from our office). We’re looking for someone who learns new skills and protocols quickly and who enjoys solving problems on their own. This is a contract position, with a possibility of becoming a salaried position down the line.

What you’ll be doing for Rookie:

• editing, copyediting, and fact-checking stories

• pitching stories, monthly editorial themes, and other kinds of content

• writing headlines and subheads

• publishing content in WordPress

• managing deadlines for writers, illustrators, and photographers

• collaborating with our team of story editors and freelance contributors

• reviewing and editing submissions from readers

• editing occasional pieces for print projects

• pitching contributions from and interviews with interesting people doing interesting work

• being on the lookout for new content and new contributors for the site

• light photo and video editing on occasion

• light social media

If this sounds like you, please send the following to [email protected], with the subject line STORY EDITOR APPLICATION:

1. Your résumé

2. An email including:

•  A critique of the site: what you like, what you don’t, and why. What should we do more of? What should we do less of? What new kinds of things would you like to see on Rookie?

•  2 essay or short story pitches, including an explanation of why they’d be a good fit for Rookie and our readers.

• 1 idea for a monthly editorial theme: Let us know what that month’s stories might include, and how you see the theme being expressed aesthetically.

• Links to your social media pages (Tumblr, Twitter, etc.) and to your blog, if you have one.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: September 20

[austinkleon]

Writing is selection. Just to start a piece of writing you have to choose one word and only one from more than a million in the language. Now keep going. What is your next word? Your next sentence, paragraph, section, chapter? Your next ball of fact. You select what goes in and you decide what stays out. At base you have only one criterion: If something interests you, it goes in—if not, it stays out. That’s a crude way to assess things, but it’s all you’ve got. Forget market research. Never market-research your writing. Write on subjects in which you have enough interest on your own to see you through all the stops, starts, hesitations, and other impediments along the way.

John McPhee, “The Art of Omission” (via austinkleon)

[humansofnewyork]

“I got a message from God the other day about how to solve the world’s problems. We’ve got to send all the world leaders to play on one of Trump’s golf courses. Then while they’re gone, we replace them with grandmas. Because nobody ever got invaded by a grandma.”

[austinkleon]

Jillian & Mariko Tamaki, This One Summer

Lovely drawings. Beautiful book.

Filed under: my reading year 2015

[newyorker]

A demonstrator in Ferguson, Missouri, Monday, August 18, 2014.

Photograph by Philip Montgomery

[npr]

“Montgomery’s photographs capture the humanity of people for whom this lineage is not an abstract concern. There’s a woman, palm to the sky, anguish etched in her features. We know nothing of what happened immediately before that moment, but we’re tragically familiar with what she’s gone through. A young man stands in the middle of the street during a storm, his gaze focused somewhere far behind the lens. What fear animates the expression he wears? Here is a different man who has been stopped, but “frisk” is the grossest of misnomers for what is being done to him. These are not disjointed moments bound by a single artist’s perspective. These are stations in an American crucible.”

Beautiful and arresting photos in the New Yorker this week. -Ariel

[inspiracioh]

14 Difficulties Of Wanting To Be Outgoing But Having Social Anxiety

[onthisdayinhighschool]

1. You nervously misspeak during simple exchanges. The waiter says “Enjoy your meal” and you reply, “You too!” An acquaintance asks “What’s up?” and you say “Fine, and you?” 2. You think of really …