#chaia heller

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

This gorgeous poem by Chaia Heller

[tulipsofthemorning]

[gustaving]

By Chaia Heller

[araekniarchive]

hello i adore your work so much!! i hope you’re having a lovely day. i’d like to request a web-weave on the intersection between love and fruit (like peeling oranges for someone or sharing a peach etc.)

Chaia Heller, After Language

Anne Carson, Decreation

Elvis Presley, I Slipped, I Stumbled, I Fell

William Adolphe Bouguereau, Les Oranges (detail)

Wikipedia definition of the Albanian word for ‘grape’, rrush

Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

Richard Siken, Scheherazade

A vandalised Wikipedia article on mandarins (via @goopy-amethyst)

Nana Mouskouri, Love Tastes Like Strawberries

Lady Lamb, Bird Balloons

Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

Denis Sarazhin

Danusha Laméris, Small Kindnesses

Christopher Citro, Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks

Haley Heynderickx, Jo

[oldwinesoul]

there's just you, me a bowl full of summer peaches...

—Chaia Heller, After Language

[third-nature]

"The truth is, talking about technology is often an excuse for not talking about institutionalized power. It is often an excuse for not talking about the specific ways that institutions such as corporations and the state collude in shaping technologies that are socially and ecologically unjust. It is an excuse for not talking about the lack of real democracy. And what do we gain by talking about 'technology' instead of talking about capitalism and the state? We comfort ourselves with the romantic illusion of being institutionally oppositional when, in fact, we actually support capitalism by providing new opportunities for corporations to diversify their markets by creating 'soft,' 'low impact,' and 'environmentally friendly' technological alternatives for the rich which exist alongside of the really dangerous ones."

Chaia Heller

[anarkittyuwuuniverse]

While allowing people to lighten their anxiety about ecological problems, consumer ecology is predicated on romantic concealment. Just as the knight’s idealization of his lady conceals his underlying desire to maintain his own social privilege, the idealization of pure commodities conceals consumers’ (often unconscious) desires to maintain their own privilege within a global capitalist economy. The mythology of a pure commodity based on consumer and producer protection and constraint conceals the deeper reality of a grotesquely immoral economic system which is sucking the very life out of the planet, along with over ninety percent of its inhabitants. Puritanical consumers who can afford to buy costly ‘ecologically friendly’ commodities can retreat into the discrete world of consumer heaven, where they are absolved of the sin of impure consumption. Focusing on the content of consumption allows consumers to remain within the kingdom of consumer heaven without looking down to see the very hell that capitalist production makes of the earth.

-The Ecology of Everyday Life

[songsforgorgons]

“After Language” by Chaia Heller, from My Lover Is a Woman: Contemporary Lesbian Love Poems edited by Lesléa Newman (1996).