virgin-martyr

[virgin-martyr]

patron saint of unhinged women in nightgowns

[loveletters2myself]

womanhood is an endless cycle of finding your way back to a younger version of yourself and nurturing them

[illusoryfem]

Franciscan nuns at the Convent of St. Anthony of Padua, Spain, are keeping a giant rabbit breed from dwidling to extinction. To fund their conservation efforts, the nuns sell homemade cookies and ice cream. (People)

[antigonick]

“But in fact, as we now see, Edgar all along represented the devouring force that will gnaw and worry Catherine to death, consuming flesh and spirit together. For having fallen into “heaven”, she has ultimately—to quote Sylvia Plath—"fallen / Into the stomach of indifference", a social physiology that urgently needs her not so much for herself as for her function.”

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Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, “Looking Oppositely: Emily Brontë’s Bible of Hell”, in The Madwoman in the Attic

[virgin-martyr]

She had what's known as inner life and didn't know it. She lived off herself as if eating her own entrails.

Clarice Lispector, excerpt from The Hour of the Star trans. Benjamin Moser

[virgin-martyr]

You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Lik thickened wine: summer's blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking.

Seamus Heaney, excerpt from "Blackberry-Picking"

[iphyelly]

happy mother’s day

[virgin-martyr]

“This is the third of May, and everything is in delightful forwardness; the violets are not withered, before the peeping of the first rose.”

John Keats, Letter to George and Georgiana Keats written at Wentworth Place, Hampstead 3 May 1819

[virgin-martyr]

[mournfulroses]

Tove Ditlevsen, from a poem featured in There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die: Selected Poems

[derangedrhythms]

I felt the breath of God grow cold on my skin.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

[virgin-martyr]

“Moonlight can play odd tricks upon the fancy, even upon a dreamer's fancy. As I stood there, hushed and still, I could swear that the house was not an empty shell but lived and breathed as it had lived before.”

Daphne du Maurier, excerpt from Rebecca

[virgin-martyr]

“The girls drifts up out of her nightgown and its color. Her wings are fastened onto her shoulders like bandages. The butterfly owns her now. It covers her and her wounds. She is not terrified of begonias or telegrams but surely this nightgown girl, this awesome flyer, has not seen how the moon floats through her and in between.”

— Anne Sexton, excerpt from “Song for a Red Nightgown” from Love Poems

[virgin-martyr]

I could feel the night hanging on me like a soft, damp bedgown

Gillian Flynn, excerpt from Sharp Objects

[virgin-martyr]

I can’t wait to show you all my new room!! I’m going for haunted Victorian dollhouse!!!

[eesirachs]

do you take any interest in liberation theology? if so, do you recommend any books/papers about it?

my recs—alves theology of human hope, yountae beyond man, keller political theology, moltmann theology of hope, rivera poetics of the flesh, rivera-pagán god the liberator, rose theology of failure, sobrino christology at the crossroads or christ the liberator, spivak can the subaltern speak, ateek justice and only justice, boff ecclesiogenesis, freire pedagogy of the oppressed, tonstad god and difference (esp chapter on abortive ecclesiology), segundo liberation of theology, thurman jesus and the disinherited, liew and segovia colonialism and the bible, menéndez-antuña bridging the interpretive abyss, tinker spirit and resistance. the rest i'm sure you know—cone, williams, gutiérrez

[virgin-martyr]