The Wife of Wrath

This is how i feel: the world is big, beautiful, and full of amazing things--and i want to see as much of it as possible. Vancouver Island is incredible and gorgeous, and at the end of the day it will always be home. Meeting new people, learning new things, and having crazy new experiences are the reasons we're all here--that and to have a hell of a lot of fun in the process. Music should make the world go 'round, not money. Decisions are much scarier than spiders. One day i'll grow up, but i don't know when that will be. -------------------------------------- i like: rollerderby, feminism, hockey, politics, postcolonialism, fine writing, human rights, pop culture, collecting old and random stuff, critical theory, urban agriculture, music that touches your insides, non-lazy journalism, fashion, etc.

[wifeofwrath]

This thing that I won. I love you this league. #evesofdestruction #rollerderby #nofilter #joy (at Logans Tavern Of The Damned)

[sktagg23]

Dr. Seuss was not even in the general area of fucking around.

[qvyens]

#everyone thinks of dr seuss as some sweet old guy who wrote kids books and made up cute words#little do they know he was the most hardcore political motherfucker to ever draw cartoons for newspapers of all time basically#he was of german and jewish descent and got bullied a lot as a kid#then he grew up and drew cartoons for the school paper#and when he got fired for being to fucking real for the paper to handle he made up a new name and KEPT SUBMITTING THEM ANYWAY#BECAUSE HE NEVER FUCKED AROUND FOR A SECOND#DID YOU KNOW DR SEUSS DID A FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY AFTER WWII ABOUT HOW WWII WASN’T ACTUALLY OVER AND THE NAZIS WERE STILL ALL AROUND#IT WAS CREEPY AS ALL FUCK AND MORE HARDCORE THAN YOU WILL EVER KNOW#IT WON A FUCKING OSCAR OR SOME SHIT#HE DID KIDS BOOKS ON A WHIM HIS REAL TALENT WAS DISMANTLING FASCIST REGIMES WITH ADORABLE BLACK AND WHITE SKETCHES OF TURTLES#OH YEAH AND YURTLE THE TURTLE WAS ABOUT HITLER#AND THE SNEECHES WERE ABOUT SEGREGATION#SO FUCK Y’ALL AND YOUR CANDY-ASS VISION OF DR SEUSS

[alcoholicintrovert]

I think almost all of his stories have a deeper meaning and Horton Hears a who was written as an apology to the Japanese after WWII

[samjoetemple]

Holy guac

[captainsavage42]

Also the Pro-life movement used his line “a person’s a person no matter how small” on their literature without his permission, and he made them stop using it an apologize because he was pro-choice.

[malcolmcooks]

okay but before reading the caption I thought these were contemporary cartoons in the style of dr suess, and the fact that these are so relevant again is pretty scary

[wifeofwrath]

I missed tumblr, always learned so much.

[wifeofwrath]

Just finished >> next up. So many half-finished non-fictions on my bedside right now but I've found an old forgotten comfort in novels, sad as they may be, that's pulling me back in. #nowreading #januaryreads #annmariemacdonald #fallonyourknees #kirandesai #theinheritanceofloss

[weavemama]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wifeofwrath]

ohhhh snap.

[vllmnn]

the year of letting go, of understanding loss. grace. of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say ‘you are not kind.’ the year of humanity/humility. when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed. everyone I’ve met this year, says the same thing ‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’. the year I broke open and dug out all the rot with own hands. the year I learnt small talk. and how to smile at strangers. the year I understood that I am my best when I reach out and ask ‘do you want to be my friend?’. the year of sugar, everywhere. softness. sweetness. honey honey. the year of being alone, and learning how much I like it. the year of hugging people I don’t know, because I want to know them. the year I made peace and love, right here.

Warsan Shire | on: exiting 2016 and entering 2017 (via vllmnn)

[robdelaney]

No Getting Off the Train

Normally I try to motivate people to vote, register to vote & help others do the same based on policy. For example I wrote a piece recently explaining why I was voting for Clinton strictly because of her health care policies and who she’s said she’d nominate to the Supreme Court. That’s all more than enough for me to gallop purposefully to the ballot box and cast a vote for her. I really loathe frothy pieces that focus on a candidate’s “character” or “story” or who they remind you of from your personal life or whatever other garbage people base their bloviating think-pieces on.

But something happened yesterday that has operated on me more deeply than anything in any political campaign I’ve ever seen. It has triggered my lizard brain and I want to harm the people who’ve angered me. In a fun way!

I’m not talking about the “revelation” that Trump said he could take women and “grab ‘em by the pussy” in 2005. I’m talking about the Republicans who’d endorsed him and stood by him disavowing him on or after the day this news came to light.

That’s what it took for you to disavow him? Since I’m not a total moron, I know that what really happened is that it finally became clear to anyone who knows how elections work that Trump was definitely going to lose. This became conventional wisdom about two weeks ago. So the same drive for self-preservation that led these turd balls to endorse him in the first place has compelled them to pull the rip cord when Access Hollywood revealed their pussy tape and gave them the opportunity to pretend they care about women or something. (When they’ve endorsed a guy whose running mate is Mike Pence.) Ha ha, that is funny. Funny ha ha; like a clown. 

To them I say: fuck you. No. I am going to give money - and encourage others to give money - to the people running against you if you formally un-endorsed Trump on or after October 7, the day the tape was played for America. Nope, you are welded to Trump until the end, you spineless shit loaves. The good people of ActBlue were kind enough to put together a site where you can give money to the opponents of the senators, congressmen, governors and state legislators who’ve unendorsed Trump on or after October 7th. It doesn’t include some people I truly loathe, like Paul Ryan, but that’s because he’s stuck to his guns thus far and continues to toe the line, like a good little Republican. 

Nope, I’m talking about the real garbage, the people who want it both ways; the people who got on the train, and now want to get off. Fuck you baby, you’re on the train till it crashes into the American Electorate at full speed. Keep your eyes open and stay alert; I want you to feel it.  

God Bless America! 

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Your Friend, 

Rob

[wifeofwrath]

Comin' for ya. #pemberton #pemby2016 #pembyfest #featportscandalous #psrd #froggerspemby (at Sea To Sky Hwy)

[wifeofwrath]

Proud to be published in a magazine with this on the cover. I wrote about the Copper Owl in this month's @megaphonemag. Still time to get your copy by finding a vendor in downtown Van & Victoria. Check the app on their website. (at Coast Salish Territories)

[wifeofwrath]

Pics from the #SiteC rally outside the federal Liberal convention today. Honour the treaties. It's that simple. #nositec #bcpoli #cdnpoli #treaty8 #keepthepeace #peaceriver #justintrudeau

[getbritney-deactivated20190515]

Britney Spears for V Magazine by Mario Testino

[talkandtalkandtalkandtalk]

FUCK ME UPPPP!!!!!!

[wifeofwrath]

ummm where can I get one of these in Vic?

[micdotcom]

Watch: In another clip, Sanders explains the real reason he got into politics.

[wifeofwrath]

that bottom one... what I’ve been trying to explain to my parents.

[wifeofwrath]

A song for Sunday morning.

Also, did you hear DeRay is running for Mayor?

[roxanegay]

My PEN USA Freedom to Write Acceptance Speech

I am often told that I am fearless, that I am brave, because I write, openly and unabashedly, about race and gender, sexuality, popular culture, sexual violence, the body, identity. In truth, I am not fearless. I am terrified but I write anyway. I pretend no one is going to read my words and I try to make sense of this world that is so breathtaking and beautiful and complicated and hideous. I allow myself to believe my perspective, how I choose to narrate the world, is as valuable as anyone else who chooses to do so. I allow myself to believe my life experiences have relevance. I allow myself to believe my voice matters in a world where as a woman, as a black woman, as a Haitian American woman, as a bisexual woman, I am told to remain silent in so many harmful ways. Those who disagree with me, often on Twitter, call this arrogance and I am absolutely fine with that. I refuse to accept that inequality or violence and suffering are things we must accept as facts of life as if we do not dare to want for better, for more. I see this world as it is but I refuse to accept this world as it is. In my writing, there is no room for complacency. I write this way because I am, by luck of birth, afforded the freedom of expression as an inalienable right. There is often a lot of muddled talk about this freedom because far too many people do not realize that the freedom of expression does not exist in a vacuum. We have this freedom to write, to speak, to express ourselves as we choose, but we are never free from consequences. With such a powerful right comes a powerful responsibility to express ourselves carefully, thoughtfully, and to consider the reach and repercussions of what we say and do in the name of freedom. As a writer, I take this responsibility as seriously as I embrace my right to express myself as I want. Sometimes I fall short but always, I try to live up to this responsibility. I try not to take the freedom of writing for granted.

I thank PEN USA for finding me worthy of this honor. This is a most unexpected and gratifying award. I will continue to write. I will continue to be terrified yet brave because these are not incompatible emotions. I thank my parents for instilling in me the confidence to believe my ideas matter. I thank the editors who help shape my words, artfully and especially Maya Ziv, who edited Bad Feminist and Amy Hundley who edited An Untamed State. Last but never least, I thank my partner in crime who is the shelter in the storm and the person who makes it possible for me to be brave by seeing me as I really am and not looking away.

[vlada-sasha-natasha]

i cant express with words how much i love this campaign

[wifeofwrath]

dying.

[wifeofwrath]

Sunday Morning Viewing

[wifeofwrath]

Our elders have been warning us about this for generations now—they saw the unsustainability of settler society immediately. Societies based on conquest cannot be sustained, so yes, I do think we’re getting closer to that breaking point for sure. We’re running out of time. We’re losing the opportunity to turn this thing around. We don’t have time for this massive slow transformation into something that’s sustainable and alternative. I do feel like I’m getting pushed up against the wall. Maybe my ancestors felt that 200 years ago or 400 years ago. But I don’t think it matters. I think that the impetus to act and to change and to transform, for me, exists whether or not this is the end of the world. If a river is threatened, it’s the end of the world for those fish. It’s been the end of the world for somebody all along. And I think the sadness and the trauma of that is reason enough for me to act.

Dancing the World into Being: A Conversation with Idle No More’s Leanne Simpson

[reprisedpiece]

That’s one of the great things about music. You sing a song to 85,000 people and they’ll sing it back for 85,000 reasons.

Dave Grohl ((the most beautiful quote I’ve read and it was said by a true legend))