April 2012
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“It is dangerous to erase the past. It prevents dealing with memories and...”
– Anne Spirn, Language of Landscape
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“Be intellectually and morally rigorous in your own decision-making, and expect...”
– Rachel Maddow, Smith College 2010 Commencement Address
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Polyamory: that’s the kind of adulthood I want. →
“I got a vision of five or six or seven of us, cooking and fucking and lazing around near a lake, and I thought, “Maybe that’s what people mean by ‘leather family.’ That’s the kind of adulthood I want.””
“as soon as I looked around, I saw examples of sparkly poly couples—many of whom we already knew—who quietly date multiple people. And I probed deeper, and I realized there’s...
Planned Parenthood is on Tumblr!
plannedparenthood:
Planned Parenthood is excited to be launching our new Tumblr that’s all about sexual and reproductive health – bodies, birth control, relationship issues, “is it normal for this to do this?” type things. In the coming weeks and months we’ll be sharing what we know, answering questions, and just… tumblring.
We hope you like it! And we hope it helps.
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Terrible allergies? Feeling shitty? Wear glitter shoes and a bright floral ascot.
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The role of slang has always been to keep others... →
“Standard English has just a handful of words for being intoxicated. Slang, on the other hand, has over 3,000. In dictionaries of slang, drunkenness comes third in the number of terms that have existed for it over the centuries, after crime and drugs. Today, you can...
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“The erotic is the nurturer or nursemaid of all our deepest knowledge.”
– Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Paper delivered at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Mount Holyoke College, August 25, 1978.
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“Another important way in which the erotic connection functions is the open and...”
– Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
Paper delivered at the Fourth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Mount Holyoke College, August 25, 1978.
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Classes I could take this summer at the community...
Dental Hygiene
Diagnostic Medical Sonogram
Emergency Medical Technician: Paramedic
Gerontology (the scientific study of old people aging)
Intro. to Women’s Studies (whoot!)
Nanotechnology
Parenting (non-credit)
Pharmacy Technician
Radiologic Technology
Respiratory Therapy
Sustainable Integrated Pest Management (the best part is I probably will take this one)
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instead of killing my love life, herpes has... →
“Before herpes, I didn’t think about my body much. But the virus had jolted me into self-awareness. I ate better. I exercised more. I felt more fragile and powerful and worthy of careful handling than ever. Herpes, oddly, did not turn me into damaged goods. Instead, it became a filter for expendable men in my life.”
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“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society, 1989.
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Sierra DeMulder - Love, Forgive Me
My sister told me a soul mate is not the person
who makes you the happiest, but the one who makes you feel the most. Who conducts your heart to bang the loudest. Who can drag you giggling with forgiveness from the cellar they locked you in. It has always been you. You are the first person I was afraid to sleep next to, not because of the fear you would leave in the night but I didn’t want to...
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Poverty In America: Defining The New Poor →
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We cannot enrich the minds of our students by... →
“In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with incarcerated parents, abusive parents, neglectful parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless or who live in crowded apartments in violent neighborhoods; kids who grew up in developing countries. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic — the giving way of...
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I softly kiss the phone before I put it down. From this far away, all I can offer is to listen. I know you don’t want any more from me, but I’m often filled with an ache to pull you close and hold you.
Your pain is not my pain, but I wish I could help shoulder it anyway. Even the little things.
This is what love means to me.
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Avifauna for Rubelli →
maartenkolk-guuskusters:
Avifauna for Rubelli Collection of 13 Avifauna birds Studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters Commissioned by Rubelli, art direction by Edelkoort ETC 2012 For Italian textile producer Rubelli, studio Maarten Kolk & Guus Kusters made a special series of Avifauna birds, which will be shown at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, during the 2012 Salone del Mobile in Milan. The...
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When I mention new friends to my mother she doesn’t use any pronouns and instead repeats their name in every sentence until I am reminded to tell her their pronouns. “I’m trying to be so careful!!!” It’s wonderful and adorable.
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How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death →
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distinction without difference: why i’m rethinking... →
“Queer is your get out of gay free card.”
“There is – or should be – room for queer feminism outside the walls of the ivory tower. And academic queerness should be taking its cues from the outside – not trying to force its privileged nouvelle definition(s) of queerness on queers.”
“I will not call myself queer for the sake of not calling myself gay. Let me say that...
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Producing Bodies in Anti-Smoking Campaigns →
“What’s most striking about these ads is how they use and portray the human body. Medical sociologist Deborah Lupton suggests that health promotion campaigns such as this one do not simply depict bodies but also produce them; that is, the ways we talk about and create images of certain bodies says something about who or what that body is and what it does. […] Lupton suggests that...
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Have you ever met someone so beautiful it hurts?
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“To the End” by Alan Stewart Carl →
That evening, after I’d patched myself up, she called me to the back porch to point out a double rainbow, duel arcs untouching, colliding into the hill behind our house.
She stood with arms crossed, shirt still stained with the sauce and wine of her latest fit, hair unwashed for how many days I wish I could say. Her face was turned away, but I could hear her breathing, heavy, as if taking in the...
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Unnatural Causes: is inequality making us sick? →
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