[mytholadies]

In our seventeenth episode we discuss Kannaki, the heroine of the earliest Great Tamil Epic, The Cilappatikāram. We talk about karma, the power of women’s rage, and what makes a virtuous woman.

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[howieabel]

“من پێش تۆ هاتمه‌ دنیا:
تا عومری گوڵ درێژتر،
گڕی ئاگر په‌تیتر،
ته‌می خه‌م ته‌نكتر كه‌م
تا فێر بم به‌ ئاسانی
له‌سه‌ر سنگت سه‌وز بم،
تۆ له‌ خۆمدا بزر كه‌م 
I came to the world before you
to make flowers live longer
and flames burn brighter
and to disperse the sorrowful clouds,
to learn how easy it is
to come to life in your embrace
and lose you within me”

— Abdulla Pashew

[kuizu-deactivated20190823]

WATER FILLS THE TRAIN STATION

[basquiatwowo]

Maria Pratts interviewed for Apartamento Magazine, photography by Nacho Alegre

[howelljenkins]

found out why iraqis say “shlonek” i love historical linguistics

[howelljenkins]

@rumman ok so basically shlonek is comprised of two parts, “sh” and “lonek.” “sh” is a shortened prefix coming from the word “shinoo”/“shu,” the arabic word for “what.” “lonek” means “your color.” the combination of sh-lonek comes together to form a question that literally asks “what is your color?” which iraqis use in place of greetings like “how are you?”

apparently this didn’t originate out of thin air and asking people for their color didn’t just start for fun. it came from people greeting others during a time of wide spread illness, where your color indicated how far along you were in the illness. they asked “what is your/their color” to gauge how someone was doing; for example, if they were yellow they were hanging in there and if they were blue you knew that they’d succumbed to the illness. this question stuck and has now worked its way into the iraqi lexicon.

more articles on iraqi dialect

[tpanda073]

Hala Alyan, Interactive :: House Saints 

[Text ID : I want the miracle that makes me ordinary: to kiss the back of her hand. I pray to the rain when I pray and I pray to open and name what surfaces. My favorite house is my mother. The heart muffled like a speaker. There are no gardens here. Only another year. The tree leaves like open palms, up then out then waiting to be patted. 

to resurrect into a forked river. The mountain saints are gone and it's a new country now. The women fold the desert into a blanket. Dear patron saint of hyphenates. Of lentils and clean feet. Of borders and their seven names. Of returning and tap water and bismillah. 

to leave with the blackbirds. The Mediterranean is an accent. The Nile is an accent. My father is an accent. His Gaza with an opera. 

The saint sees cinder in the tea leaves. The saint turns a daughter into 

blue and the pollution is blue and the smoke from our mouths is blue and each cracked egg is morning. The saint touches the welt and it turns rhinestone. The saint says return to your grandmother, she’s left the door unlocked. The saint says she’s left you the ovary 

crickets outside the window. The dead are not dead. They are pinned to each siren-hot pink, green, white, white-like beaks to a wire. It is not enough to say love in Arabic. You must say be the thing that buries me, 

a door from spackled sky to spackled room. You don't need a house to spread out your rug. Maybe log trees and peach trees and a rooster that wakes us every morning, a throat or tongue 

that turns the clock back to its first hour. End ID] 

[holyisthenameofmyruthlessaxe]

Interactive :: House Saints by Hala Alyan

[typodescript]

[text ID: It is not enough to say love in Arabic. You must say be the thing that buries me, /end ID]

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fav makeup looks part 1

[silkportfolio]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7twAeUlEcp/

[mahoganymamii]

Chloe x Halle performing "Forgive Me" at VerizonUp (2020)

[clownboybitch]

Eldest daughters, arent you tired of de escalating? Dont you just wanna go ape shit?

[kalb-ivaveyla]

[endure-deactivated20240501-deac]

financial aid needed 12/17/20

hey folks. i was formally admitted to the college i am transferring to as of today (12/17/2020) and i have accepted the admission to get away from my abusive family + start living authentically and autonomously, but i have some barriers in the way.

i owe approx. $480 to my therapist’s office for extensive trauma work throughout quarantine while i was stuck in my family home. i also owe my current college $1,234.76 for insurance costs from when i had to buy my own insurance after i was financially cut off by my parents for transitioning. these two amounts are the most urgent for my fundraising needs; though i was accepted to my new college, i cannot properly enroll without a final academic transcript which i can’t acquire without paying off my account statement.

[image description: screenshot which reads, “Statement of Account Student Receivables. Current Date: 12/17/2020. Amount to Pay: 1,234.76. /end id]

lastly, i need to pay $425 to my new college for the enrollment and orientation fees, as reflected here.

[image description: a screenshot which lists items and prices. the cost of the enrollment deposit is listed at $200.00usd, and the orientation fee is listed at $225.00usd. the subtotal and total are both $425.00usd /end id]

i am really, really close to escaping this situation for good. please help me, i’ll do tarot readings, make art, etc. upon request. i have a job but i’m chronically ill and it’s been slow so they cut my hours. thank you.

v*nmo: @stoat / c*sh*pp: $stoat / p*yp*l: ask off anon

[tpanda073]

whenever someone adapts a certain word or mannerism I use into their own way of speaking it just feels like :) yes you can have this bit of me with you forever :)

[naramdil]

i hate when girls feel dumb for trying to see the best in people and then end up hurt or disappointed like no!! it’s those people that were dumb for misleading you. they took advantage of your kindness and generosity, and they’ll rot for it 

[excisions]

[unrar]

University of Bahrain, 2004, Bruno Barbey.