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Have I ever had “ANY unwanted/undesired physical or sexual contact”? →
Earlier in this pregnancy, I filled out my “Initial Health History” form for prenatal and birth care. You know: check the box if you’ve experienced severe headaches, diabetes, all sorts of things. After the usual “Emotional abuse,” “Physical abuse,” “Sexual abuse,” I got to this very interesting item: ”ANY unwanted/undesired physical or sexual contact.”
read the link. so spot on.
[trigger warning LIKE WHOA at the link for rape culture, coercion, and general unwanted attention]
Because I can hardly stand the thought of these constant erosions of personhood seeming normal to our daughters and sons.
READ THIS
Moving and important.
I tried to explain all this to husband once and unfortunately he didn’t get it. I don’t understand why this is so difficult for cisgender men to get but hopefully this article can explain it better. This is still rape culture, even if you’re lucky enough to not have been raped.
(Source: manifestfreedom)
Quote reblogged from THE WONDERFUL WORDS OF JOHN GREEN
I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.
Quote reblogged from THE WONDERFUL WORDS OF JOHN GREEN
I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.
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Hey Meghan. She sounds like Kate Bush.
I’m obsessed with Alex Winston
make sure to skip to 2:00. it’s her best song i think.
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Awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be. When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with a sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.
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Thoughts on SOPA from New Orleans
In which Hank walks around the French Quarter and discusses the freaking sweet internet blackout that resulted in a great number of congresspeople dropping their support for SOPA and PIPA. The internet is coming into it’s own as a powerful political force, and just in time to face serious threats.
Note: All buskers in this video received at least a $5 tip. Posting a video of a busker is a really interesting intellectual property discussion, actually. If I were to take 20 videos of that one man band and create a YouTube channel all about him and then make a bunch of money off of it and not give him any, that would clearly be wrong, but it would not (as far as I can tell) be illegal. He’s performing in a public space and I am thus allowed to record him. It’s another example of the rule “don’t be a dick” being far more important than any law congress can pass on copyright reform.
We are entering a brave new world here, thank you for standing up for the internet, helping to defeat SOPA and PIPA, and thinking deeply about these issues.Man I wish there was a transcription of this video……
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I forgot how much I love to read
I haven’t put off work and stayed up late to finish a book instead in years. Not since high school. It felt good.
That moment right before the climax when you become absolutely hooked, when you can’t wait to read what the author had been building up to all this time, when something pivotal happens. And the anticipation for the downhill whooosh of the roller coaster as the book unwinds to its conclusion, that goes by faster that you even realize. Then the moment when you turn the last page, expecting more. But there isn’t.
And then your immediately stuck by a kind of grief, after you begrudgingly go home after a unexpectedly fun late night out, or as if your parting with a close friend.
Some of my favorite quotes from the book:
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You just use the future to escape the present.”
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.”
That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
The book is endlessly quotable, like, ugh. I need to read it again.
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+ Tangled Ever After (2012)
if you guys saw my face right now IF YOU EVEN SAW MY FACE RIGHT NOW!!!!
GAH…WAH..adsfgjihkjhkbhd
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“Vampire Boy”-Ester Rimbaud
Madly in love with this song.
As am I. This twenty-something Canadian artist has a few vidoes online but they’re hard to find, since their either “unlisted” on youtube, meaning you have to have the link to see it, or “private”, meaning only 50 people invited to see it can. But holy fucking sh*%! I haven’t been so excited about a new artist for so long. Here’s another video of his : http://youtu.be/5OQF0rFyjX8. It’s all I could find. Lo siento.
He’s studying at the national ballet school in Canada. This song reminds me a lot of Bright Eyes. And I love the contrast of the light and whimsical musical theme with rather dark and melancholy lyrics.
And I love that it pokes fun at the whole Twilight Vampire obsession going on right now. Lolz.
According to his youtube channel, he’s been busy working with Florence and the Machine’s and Marina and the Diamonds, so hopefully we’ll be hearing some new work from him soon.
xx Genevieve
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