#curated.

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Aimee Nezhukumatathil, "The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer

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Anne Carson's new poem: Life

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I see you looking back at me; wlw and mirrors

The Looking Glass, Vicente Romero Redondo (1956) / Justin Timberlake - mirrors / The Handmaiden / mirror / Dibutades, Francine Van Hove (1942) / IDER - mirror / Portrait of a Lady on Fire / John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

ID in reblog 

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I wanted to be in a room of my own. I yearned to do ordinary things in an ordinary way, to watch TV, wash my hair, have some tea.

— Hardboiled & Hardluck, Banana Yoshimoto translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich

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A PORTRAIT OF SUMMER pt 2/?

Lorde, Solar Power / Nakada Ikumi / Lorde, Solar Power / Nakada Ikumi / Joji, No Fun /  La Collectionneuse (1967) / Joji, No Fun / from here

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i have never done this but here's a list of things i have watched/read/listened to recently!

videos -

1. the beautiful pathological liar: sza

2. you are not sexually liberated, you're 16

3. the daddies of eugenics and phrenology

4. reading dirty tiktok fanfiction

5. how hollywood demonizes ultra-femininity

poems, articles etc -

1. the western model is broken, pankaj mishra

2. narendra modi and the new face of india, pankaj mishra

3. my poem for my stepdaughter, prageeta sharma

4. dalit poetry and the aesthetics of traumatic materialism

5. at noon, reginald gibbons

6. at my best, john rodriguez

7. the waiting, jane wong

8. the rich girl and the weird friend... the social network polycule i dedicate this to u

9. on becoming a pop star, i mean, a poet by chen chen

10. weight by jacqueline woodson

books

beach read by emily henry; birthday girl by murakami; burning in water, drowning in flame by bukowski; botchan by natsume sôseki; hullabaloo in the guava orchard by kiran desai (these are mostly good, if u wanna know about a specific one message me!)

and lastly, here's a playlist i have listened to a lot this summer

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When you’re not sitting across from someone, you’re sitting across from the world

On eating alone, Stephanie Rosenbloom