February 2012
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Sister Spit April 2012 Nationwide Tour →
fuckyeahfemmes:
Tuesday, April 10 Portland, OR Holocene, 1001 SE Morrison St. Doors 9pm; $10 adv/$12 door With Nicole J. Georges & “Valencia-The Movie” chapter by Aubree Bernier-Clarke!
Rocco Katastrophe talked this up when he was here, I’m definitely going to try to go when they come to Chicago. And Dorothy Allison will be there!
followers, halp! I don't know how to do dating!
What do you do for Valentines day (if anything!) for a man that:
-you’re spending a lot of time, including sexy time, with
-you’re Not Officially Dating
-you don’t want to seem too pushy or wanting to get too serious
-you still want to do something sweet for him and acknowledge the day.
I was thinking, lobster-shaped cookies (I found a cookie cutter in my kitchen the other...
Will roller derby be included in the 2020... →
merbyderbyschmerby:
I can trim this down to two words:
absolutely not
I hope not.
Today I got offered a job at a residential treatment center for kids 6-18 with psychiatric problems. I’m probably quitting my waitressing job to work there, thank god. I’m also doing school and all the other things I do, of course.
Having been in inpatient and residential treatment multiple times as young teenager, I know how important the relationship is between the kids and the...
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I wish I wasn’t so dependent on other people’s attention and affection to feel validated, wanted, attractive, etc.
If I don’t get the affection/attention (romantic, sexual or even platonic) that I want or feel like I need, I feel crushed and my self esteem crashes.
I’m needy, basically. I really need to get over it. I just want to be completely emotionally...
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Komen cuts grants for Planned Parenthood cancer...
jessicavalenti:
I’m sure that most folks know by now that Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a breast cancer charity and advocacy organization, announced that they were cutting funding to Planned Parenthood for cancer screenings. In the last five years, the money from Komen allowed PP to providealmost 170,000 breast exams and 6,400 mammogram referrals.
As I said in Salon, whether the organization...
January 2012
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F to eMbody
I’m just hanging out, texting back and forth with Harvey Katz of Athens Boys Choir. No big whoop.
Tomorrow I am going to the airport to pick him and Rocco Kayiatos (Katastrophe) in my car. My messy, dented POS of a car. Also remember how I can barely drive? That’ll be fun.
I’m so excited for the show! I’m also excited for it to be over so I don’t have to worry about...
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“He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how...”
– wasted. pg 205
bell hooks - Feminism Is For Everybody (free... →
One of my favorite books about feminism. Easy to understand but beautifully written.
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every time i go out with someone really attractive and successful (okay, on the rare occasions this happens)
i get so self-conscious and concerned that too weird and i’m not attractive, successful, charming, etc enough
i really need to stop. it’s ruining my game.
but i just had a really nice first date. i said to liz “i think i want to start dating men again” and she...
“The thin ideal does not cause anorexia nervosa. Contrary to popular belief, AN...”
– Dr. Sarah Ravin, “The Thin Ideal and Anorexia Nervosa: It’s Not What You Think”
YES. YES. YES. This entire fucking article is gold. Go read it, now.
(via unknowablewoman)
Yes yes all this.
referencesavailable asked: I just borrowed Mrs. Dalloway to read. I'm not familiar with Woolf's work, so I suppose this would be an interesting start.
“Some people are uncomfortable with silences. Not me. I’ve never cared much for...”
– Miranda July, No one belongs here more than you (via ehsisyphus)
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"In Those Years," by Adrienne Rich
hateshiploveship:
In those years, people will say, we lost track of the meaning of we, of you we found ourselves reduced to I and the whole thing became silly, ironic, terrible: we were trying to live a personal life and, yes, that was the only life we could bear witness to
But the great dark birds of history screamed and plunged into our personal weather They were headed somewhere else but...
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“It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train starts to pull away, and the lover on the platform begins to trot along and then jog and then sprint and then gives up altogether as the train speeds irrevocably off. Except in this case I was all the parts: I was the lover on the platform, I was the lover on the train. And I was...
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“A man who assisted in autopsies in a big urban hospital, starting in the...”
– “The Way It Was” — Mother Jones Magazine — Abortion before Roe v. Wade. (via deltumbles)
read this article, it’s 100% incredible.
(via homotronic)
Trigger Warning: Article describes molestation by a backalley abortion provider.
(via prolifehypocrisy)
Roe V Wade closed off entire wings of...
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“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life;...”
– Miranda July (via thislionsmane)