March 2012
24 posts
February 2012
43 posts
“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake (via bluetehanu)
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Due in part to training for work and in part due to my recent desire to not leave my apartment, I have only been to derby one time this month. Tomorrow I am scrimmaging with my team in Bloomington against their C team. I hope I remember how to play.
I also haven’t been to the gym in a while. I won’t make attendance for February which means I won’t be rostered for our first bout...
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As I’m training for my new job working with kids with psychiatric and behavioral problems, learning behavior support and emotional first aid and therapeutic crisis intervention and etc,
it’s occurred to me that I’m really not much better at managing my emotions than my residents, I just cope in different maladaptive ways. Like, I want to say: “I really, really get it,...
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
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Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You
This poem kills me.
you are a shadow my body leaves on other girls
I need to read more of his stuff.
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“Male privilege has been with us for — how long? Ten thousand years? A hundred...”
– Sara Robinson, on “Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now”
Everyone should read this article.
(via coketalk)
Yep.
I'm spending $700 of the money I have set aside...
autostraddle:
YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE!
Ask Riese a brand new thing
Hey I wrote that.
marymonster:
Studying Stones - Ani Difranco
i...
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Addiction and Death and The Internet
kimyadawson:
I am not going to assume how Whitney died. Maybe it was drugs. Maybe it was illness. Maybe it was sadness. Maybe her heart failed her. Maybe it was a combination of things.
Regardless of HOW she died the fact is she died AND she was an addict. When addicts die the shit talk becomes thick and painful on the web which just deepens the message to addicts who still suffer that they...
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gawd, i have so many feelings tonight.
feeling excessively vulnerable, like a failure, and absolutely unlovable.
i’ve decided i don’t want to finish my english degree. i just, i can’t do it. or i don’t want to do it. i would switch my major but i also don’t want to be in college anymore than i absolutely have to, either. i really don’t know if i’m going...
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants to Tie You →
Autostraddle BDSM photo gallery? I can get into this in a big way.
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...