May 2013
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Brain, brain, go away; come again another day.
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)
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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: ...
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Feminism 101: Read Books, Become a Better Womyn →
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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...
My biggest fear is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.
– Anonymous (via bonjourarmand)
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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...
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I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.
– Frédéric Chopin (via decembrist)
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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.
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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...
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)
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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)
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“The truest direction comes from inside.” —Audre Lorde