[plurallyconsidered]

misery loves company

struggler seeks solidarity

[alvallah]

One of my favorite things about loving someone or developing a closeness or fondness towards someone is also loving and developing a fondness for the things they care about. When you learn to see the world in a new way, or you learn to appreciate the things you’ve previously overlooked, or they become your excuse to get into an interest you always thought was cool but thought you didn’t have time for. When a connection makes your world bigger and warmer and fuller and more beautiful.

[discreetwithabellyring-deactiva]

https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/social-media-is-not-self-expression/

[kosmogrl]

pre hairwash melancholy

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

My advice to you is this: Commit some bright, brave sins while you have time.

– Judith Tate O'Brien

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“And me? It was always you I loved, not your elegant strategy. I will love you still, if you now outgrow it. I will love you more whether time moves forward or backwards. Whether ice melts or water freezes back. Whether your next move is protection, break-through, shift, or any combination. There are at least three ways to love you: as you were, as you are, as you will be. I love you. That means I choose all three.”

— Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[stuckinapril]

Literally cannot believe I was ever scared of getting older like this is awesome. Learning so many new things about myself & reacting to things that used to get under my skin so differently. This is so sexy.

[smokefalls]

We must define care, love, and intimacy for ourselves outside of capitalist logic and abandon the grammar of patriarchy. I believe love requires care, but care does not require love. You can care for someone or be caring, but that does not mean you are loving. Like bell hooks, I view care and care ethics as something we do and show praxis. I am not invested in making people love each other. My care ethic says I do not need to love you, and I don’t exactly need to know you. Still, I understand our fundamental interdependence, and I am clear about what the stakes against capitalism and patriarchy are.

Monaye Johnson, "A Black Feminist Perspective on the Politics of Care" from We Are Each Other's Liberation: Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities (edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee A. Swift, and TD Tso)

[virginias-daughter]

“Anger is an assertion of rights of worth. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. Anger is memory and rage. It is rational thought and irrational pain. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved. In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth.” 

– From Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger by Soraya Chemaly

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say.

— Gilles Deleuze

[oniri-que]

Gilles Deleuze.

[wovi]

*

simone weil

[tall]

[dk-thrive]

I owe the trees my health — the beauty of the blossoms, the beauty of things growing. Above all, the softness of the air breaks down my intensity.

— May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep (W.W. Norton & Company, 1968)

[lyouve]

my favorite activities are wandering and wondering

[seren-starlight]

Unoriginal sin. Derivative sin

[kismetkayla]

“People can only meet you as far as they’ve met themselves”.