the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive

 ❧ Side blog mostly about books - she/her, in my late 20s, feminist, 🏳️‍🌈 ❧

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[teenagekingdomstarlight]

Actually I love finding gay subtext in things, it’s like seeing gay shrimp colours and straight people are never going to experience it

[seatsforreading]

The Signs as places to read

Aries: 

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Scorpio:

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Pisces:

[lawyerd]

352 | Normally, this whole lot is filled with used books and these book doors are thrown open to reveal, you guessed it, books. But I walked by while the shop was closed and had to take some photos of these doors | Brattle Book Shop, Boston, MA 

[nocontextgrishaverse-deactivate]

same energy

rules of wolves x six of crows

[menwritingwomencringe]

Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald

[rotmance-deactivated20210324]

—reasons to keep a diary/written record of existence.

credits: 1. anais nin; 2. sophocles; 3. fanny howe; 4. @pigmenting ; 5. louise erdrich; 6. tristine rainer; 7. clarice lispector; 8. sei shonagon; 9. elaine feinstein; 10. susan goldsmith wooldridge.

[chthonic-isabelleadjani-deactiv]

The idea of english as a mother tongue is so strange to me, in my head english is how ppl communicate when there's no way in common to communicate, so english as a mother tongue sounds a bit like idk email as a mother tongue ykwim? Like english to me feels like the stuff that's used to fill the empty spaces between languages

[debbie-sketch]

Cozy Room Commission 

Insta: @debbiebalboa

[solarpunkwitchcraft]

The point of getting rid of the death penalty isn’t that there are some innocent people on it. The point of prison abolition isn’t that there are some innocent people in prison.

The point is that the state shouldn’t have the power to kill people. The point is that the prison system commits systemic abuses of human rights, doesn’t reduce crime, is deeply racist, and doesn’t take the desires of the victims into account. To argue about whether one individual on death row or with a life sentence is innocent or guilty is just a distraction from the central issues, which is that these institutions are unjust and should not exist

[apricitystudies]

every minute spent on planning saves you ten minutes spent on execution. short essays probably don't require that much preparation beforehand, but if you're writing something longer you should probably spend some time planning first. this is the process i go through when planning my essays, and i find it works really well!

[inbetweenfictionandreality-deac]

“I waited too long to read the sequel, and now I can’t even remember the characters.”

 A novel by me

[haliasjane]

“I read the whole series in less than two days, and now can’t separate the events of individual books” the thrilling sequel

[chocolatequeennk]

“I’ve read so much fanfic for this series, I can’t remember what really happened in the books” the stunning conclusion

[logarithmicpanda]

Quick and dirty review:

- Black sirens!

- Urban fantasy dealing with current issues (BLM, intersectional feminism)

- Found family and sisterhood

- Dual POV told in two distinctly vivid voices

- Fast paced and standalone

8,5/10

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Blackness to me is inherently gender nonconforming largely because we will never fit into binary white supremacist notions of manhood and womanhood.

[plutospromise17]

Angela Davis actually touches on this in her novel Women, Race, and Class.

Essentially, she says that Black women may have been considered genderless because we did all the same work as men but then weren’t considered men when it came to sexual abuse, suddenly being forced into these feminine, submissive roles that we clearly didn’t fit into. Once the Atlantic Slave Trade was banned, Black women were then seen as breeders to provide for slaves since they couldn’t be imported. Despite this, Black women, even if we were pregnant, still had to work in the fields and suffer the same punishment as our male counterparts.

Angela Davis goes on further to say that since Black women were never seen as housewives, Black men were in turn never seen as family providers or heads of households. By this point, Black women had acquired an abundance of traits that didn’t fit into 19th century perception of what it meant to be a woman. Also, with the rise of industrialization, white women never experienced that same intensive labor which further pushed them into the housewife stereotype. Essentially, there was this white feminist movement to erase the housewife stereotype but it didn’t include the struggles of Black women because we were never seen as housewives to begin with.

All of this to say: We were genderless and outside of any gender norm within the white supremacist framework.

[embodiedfutures]

Reminder that we offer the novel mentioned above, Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis, as a free PDF for anyone to read under our social justice resources. Please share so everyone has equal and equitable access to education and activism!

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Several recordings of Davis can be found on Spotify as well not just Women, Race and Class and are highly recommended

[road-rhythm]

Fiction doesn’t exist to provide us with comprehensive instructions to navigate life. It exists to provide us with the perspective, questions, critical consideration, exploration, beauty, and escape we need to figure it out for ourselves.

[luthienne]

What’s the word / for the kind of loneliness that can feel like swimming / unassisted in a foreign language, for the very first time?

Carl Phillips, from Wild is the Wind: Poems; “What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us” (via luthienne)

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Do you ever write something and think: I am completely bullshitting this, but it’s ✨ educated ✨ bullshit so it’s probably still fine