May 2013
165 posts
5 tags
May 25th
114 notes
Brain, brain, go away; come again another day.
May 25th
2 notes
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
– Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty (via bareandbleached)
May 25th
5,772 notes
3 tags
May 25th
13 notes
2 tags
May 25th
1,228 notes
7 tags
May 25th
2 notes
May 24th
5,379 notes
May 24th
15,209 notes
5 tags
Adventures In Spelling
Me: You've done a great job spelling, student! Now you choose a word you want to figure out how to spell.
Student: How about "penis?"
Me: ...
May 23rd
2 notes
3 tags
May 23rd
16 notes
4 tags
May 23rd
5 notes
May 22nd
2,857 notes
May 22nd
119,969 notes
6 tags
May 22nd
1 tag
May 22nd
470 notes
4 tags
May 22nd
74 notes
May 22nd
30,244 notes
May 22nd
63 notes
4 tags
May 22nd
567 notes
1 tag
May 22nd
125 notes
Feminism 101: Read Books, Become a Better Womyn →
bareandbleached: autostraddle: librarianpirate: novazembla: lemdi: halvgal: moreapologies: Looking for a good book on feminism? How about 70 of them? We’ve compiled a list of some of the most influential, controversial and must-read feminist titles from the past 200+ years. That’s a lot of books! You should probably get started. Someone has put a lot of worthwhile time into...
May 22nd
316 notes
“My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.”
– Anonymous (via bonjourarmand) Ugggggghghghghghghhgh (via frenetic-heart)
May 22nd
50,443 notes
4 tags
I just killed the biggest fly known to humankind.  [[MORE]] Correction: I actually just swatted said fly with a ridiculously thin newsletter until it was incapable of flying.  As it languished on the ground, I proceeded to swat it multiple times until its buzzing became higher pitched and eventually silent.  Upon retrieving a paper towel to pick it up & dispose of it in the trash can, I felt...
May 22nd
1 note
3 tags
May 22nd
14,755 notes
“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
– Frédéric Chopin (via decembrist)
May 22nd
8,494 notes
May 21st
131 notes
2 tags
For the first time in a long time, I think I feel truly happy.  I also feel a little tipsy right now, so that may have skewed things a bit. 
May 21st
7 notes
May 21st
6,693 notes
5 tags
May 21st
64,505 notes
May 21st
10,307 notes
May 20th
945 notes
May 20th
251 notes
5 tags
So Here's the Thing:
I do things really slowly.  I don’t jump in headfirst most times and rarely do I make the first move, say the first thing, or give the first glance.  Things are deliberate and things are delicate and I want so much to explain that these things are not strange. Yet here we are, depathologizing inborn tendencies against the backdrop of societal romantic norms. The silences and pauses are the...
May 20th
5 notes
“It’s not uncommon for people to come out as gay after being in heterosexual...”
– Eradicating biphobia within gay communities and gay media (via cbrachyrhynchos)
May 20th
4,079 notes
May 20th
2,433 notes
May 19th
969 notes
May 19th
1,865 notes
May 19th
2,143 notes
1 tag
May 19th
1,021 notes
May 19th
1,932 notes
May 19th
82,578 notes
3 tags
May 19th
2 notes
May 19th
11,328 notes
5 tags
“Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and...”
– Edward Sapir, Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech (via victoriousvocabulary)
May 19th
429 notes
6 tags
May 19th
4 notes
2 tags
May 19th
2,001 notes
6 tags
May 19th
5,736 notes
5 tags
May 19th
4 tags
May 18th
9 notes
2 tags
“The truest direction comes from inside.” —Audre Lorde
May 18th
12 notes