December 2009
154 posts
“When I teach about racism the first thing I say to my students is that racism is...”
– from an ‘INTERVIEW WITH ROBIN D.G. KELLEY’ (via thirdstitch) (via seaponies) (via ihatethismess) (via sexismandthecity) (via greatloyalties)
Records That Made Me a Feminist: Björk’s Homogenic... →
bowfolk:
littlebat:
neoncocoon:
colonizetheborderland:
lams:
To be blunt, Vespertine didn’t really make sense to me until I started having sex. Critics like Ryan Dombal would seem to concur. I remember seeing her performance of ”Cocoon” on Jay Leno and thinking that it was really quiet, but totally not getting how micro-embodied intimacy is the song’s entire purpose. While I had a good...
Teenager Wins Science Fair, Solves Massive... →
robot-heart-politics:
nmac:nolagrrlnyc:hippieflavor:
11th-grader Daniel Burd successfully isolated 2 types of bacteria that will eat plastic grocery bags, allowing the bags to biodegrade in months instead of hundreds of years.
via makdreams: age-of-ecology: supergluefiend
“Angela Carter wrote that the pornographer is like a terrorist of the imagination...”
– Tamara Berger (via nightmarebrunette) (via foxesinbreeches)
Sweatshop Hall of Fame 2010 →
robot-heart-politics:
azspot:
The official inductees of the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame are: Abercrombie and Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Ikea, Kohl’s, LL Bean, Pier 1 Imports, Propper International, and Walmart. This list also includes an Honorable Mention to the American Apparel and Footwear Association, a national trade association representing apparel and footwear companies. This association...
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“thy wrists
are holy
which are the keepers of the keys of thy blood”
– e.e. cummings
formspring.me
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witchwife:
making you feel more guilty about not writing poems: who’s yr favourite poet?
Tough question! Rainer Maria Rilke is my one and only, but right now I’m having flings with Christian Bok, Amy Gerstler, and Olena Kalytiak Davis. They all write strange & wonderful poems that push the limits of language and color the way you look at the world....
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formspring.me
making you feel more guilty about not writing poems: who’s yr favourite poet?
Tough question! Rainer Maria Rilke is my one and only, but right now I’m having flings with Christian Bok, Amy Gerstler, and Olena Kalytiak Davis. They all write strange & wonderful poems that push the limits of language and color the way you look at the world. Plus, who...
hoppin' on the formspring train
Ask me something! I’m bored & guilty about not writing poems.
Social Science
seaponies:
mzreport:
Many people who call themselves vegans and animal rights activists, have little or no knowledge of social science; and, often, what they do know about the connections between society and nonhuman nature is loaded with conventional means. For example, it is not uncommon to hear vegans argue that it is the consumption of livestock which causes world hunger. After all, more...
“I found god in myself / & i loved her / i loved her fiercely.”
– Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay; born October 18, 1948) is an American playwright, and poet. As a self proclaimed black feminist, much of the content of her work addresses issues relating to race and feminism.
Shange is best-known for her Obie Award winning play, For Colored...
Jay Rubin, participating in an e-mail roundtable... →
libraryland:
youmightfindyourself:
Then, in 1989, I read Haruki Murakami. I had only been vaguely aware of his existence—as some kind of pop writer, mounds of whose stuff were to be seen filling up the front counters in the bookstores, but I hadn’t deigned to read what was sure to be silly fluff about teenagers getting drunk and hopping into bed. Some months before A WILD SHEEPCHASE came out...
