[weltenwellen]

Ada Limón, from "To the Busted Among Us", Sharks in the Rivers

[birdwarde]

palestine will be free

[fruitblush]

Prints

All profits raised from this print will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

[werewolf-transgenderism]

I grant you refuge from hurt and suffering.

With words of sacred scripture I shield the oranges from the sting of phosphorous and the shades of cloud from the smog.

I grant you refuge in knowing that the dust will clear, and they who fell in love and died together will one day laugh.

“I Grant You Refuge” by Hiba Abu Nada (trans. Huda Fakhreddine)

[1i1ium-cand1dum]

The Northern Lights 1: Howard Russell Butler (1856-1934) 2,3,4: Sydney Laurence (1865-1940)

[dionysian-mystery]

Poetry by Nikita Gill

[lifeinpoetry]

“and nothing says that you must say hello as we pass in the street, but we have known each other too well in the dark for this and it hurts me when you do not speak.”

— Audre Lorde, from “The dozens,” The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

[blackponderer]

(Let This Radicalize You, p. 105)

[elwenyere]

– Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes, from Let This Radicalize You

[weltenwellen]

A Conversation with Richard Siken by Thomas Hobohm

[egaskell]

The Orange by Wendy Cope

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Tiles! I want to have a kitchen wall full with different designs

[saywhat-politics]

[sisteroutsiders]

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Audre Lorde, from “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” as published in Sister Outsider (1983)

[memoryslandscape-deactivated202]

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, from “The Book of Sand,” The Book of Sand (Plume, 1979)

[cithaerons]

via https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html

With Roe Overturned, How State Abortion Laws Are Changing

The New York Times is tracking abortion laws in each state following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

[sentimentalbeing2001]

“all too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”

- bell hooks, (1952-2021)