words are magic

queer, poet, bruj@, jaguar

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Make Our Beds/ Jeriko Rose

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Who are you wearing?

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Who are you wearing?      whose words? Have you sewn together your truths yet?       enough to drape your luminous being in couture? If not, keep weaving little spider,      til you've a wardrobe worthy of wearing

Jeriko Rose

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I've cooled and coddled it, encouraged and deprived  it, poisoned and rehabbed it, and my heart still wants you, who am I kidding, loves you oh lion of mine

Jeriko Rose

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We were children, green apples, ecstatic tree climbers who had yet to learn  how to come down without falling.

Jeriko Rose

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Waiting for the raindrops to slip down Aspen leaves and reach me. The dirt is turning dark grey. What color will I be?

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Bridget Riley- Close up of Blaze 4, 1964

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Sigil to help quit smoking.

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Leilani Bustamante has always balanced a romantic beauty with the darker themes in her art. The San Francisco based artist, featured here on our blog, voices themes of mortality exploring elements of death, and rebirth, and her newer works explore the loveliness of the macabre. Ripe with symbolic elements, her paintings feature figures rendered with in the tradition of classical beauties that are arranged in abstract and darkly fantastical montages.

See more on Hi-Fructose.

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We are all dependent on others to varying degrees. A language that denies this fact fuels a system that obscures the ways in which other people care for us. Words such as independence, self-reliance and self-made help create, and are created by, a dynamic within which people are ignored and devalued. Joan Tronto reminds us that by “not noticing how pervasive and central care is to human life, those who are in positions of power and privilege can continue to ignore and degrade the activities of care and those who give care.”

Independence is perhaps the most fundamental of our cultural myths; it supports the organisation of our society and justifies the distribution of goods, real and ideal. The labels independent and dependent, rather than reflecting empirical reality, are myths used to justify inequality.

Lynn May Rivas,  'Invisible Labors: Caring for the Independent Person’ in Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy ed. Barbara Ehrenreich & Arlie Russell Hochschild p.83

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I’m not interested in competing with anyone. I hope we all make it.

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I am in love with every church and mosque and temple and any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That the people say the different names Of the One God

Hafez (via arubasmusings)