July 2012
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“Young people understand the ways in which reproductive and sexual health and...”
– Andrew Jenkins: From Generation Roe to Generation Now
via RHRealityCheck.org
I am sick of older generations refusing to understand that there is no longer a single-issue movement or a simple path to change that focuses on checking issues off individually. I am sick of older women asking women my...
Questions for Novelist Gary Shteyngart - New York...
oh-ew:
The death of reading is a longstanding fear of futurists.
Maybe we’re all wrong and there’s going to be a huge comeback in 10 years where all the kids are going to drop their iKindles and start reading like crazy. “Dude, did you read the latest Turgenev? It’s so sick. This dude is like all over the subject of love and serfdom.”
That would be nice.
I don’t know how to read anymore. I...
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“We don’t lift weights in order to look hot, especially for the likes of men like...”
– Zoe Smith, 18 year old weightlifter currently representing Great Britain at the Olympics, responding to tweets labelling her muscles “unattractive” and “unfeminine”. (via rawwomen)
Best. Good response Zoe, and 18? Maybe our world IS producing awesome young women! Duh of couse, but yay.
(via...
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Dear friends,
Please do not email me during the workday and expect any sort of thoughtful response. Please do not expect me to take action on anything. When you send me flurries of emails asking if I have bought something or booked something or picked something out or made plans for something, I will not respond.
I have time to write quick Facebook posts and send back emails with no capital...
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“Like Jordan Baker, people with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes....”
– Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect” | Mictlantecuhtli
Brooke sent this to me tonight and the whole thing is so good. But this section is seriously pertinent to my current life error. (Surely anyone paying attention to my insanity over the past few months can guess? It’s not as bad as it could be but...
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“Most of our donated clothing does not end up in vintage shops, as car-seat...”
– Excerpted from Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion. By Elizabeth L. Cline, excerpted at Slate.com.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to your clothes after you drop them off, with the best of intentions, at your local Goodwill, wonder no more. After discarding bin...
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“There are not enough years in this lifetime to create the kind of distance where...”
– Roxane Gay: Rape jokes - Still Not Funny
There are not enough years in this lifetime.
That is all I have to say on this topic, ever.
“There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for...”
– Alain de Botton on Twitter
(via wearethedigitalkids)
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“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with...”
– Jim Barksdale, former CEO of Netscape (via brycedotvc)
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newyorker:
Next month, “Just Tell Me That You...
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“The passions provoked by the show—among both critics and admirers—suggest...”
– Anna Holmes, from “The Age Of Girlfriends,” in the New Yorker.
“Can you even make art unless you allow yourself to be ugly, which is a huge part of being human?”
I think one of the most powerful ways for women to live is to continually have conversations, as friends, that are not...
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“Heat. This is what cities mean to me. You get off the train and walk out of the...”
– Don DeLillo, White Noise (via mllehazelwood)
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“The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief...”
– Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again.”
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via believe-prepare-achieve)
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“Listen, if somebody’s gonna impress me, whether it be a Maharishi or a...”
– John Lennon, on Yoko Ono.
There comes a point when the emperor has no clothes.
This seems to be a fairly important reminder for all those we let fill our lives. 