April 2010
thecre8ive:
After joking around with the editors at work for the last few weeks about our need for an and/or symbol, I came to the conclusion that there is an actual need for a punctuation mark. I mean, how many times have you written ‘and/or’ and wished you could have just used a single symbol? Not to mention the ability to be clearer on character-restricted platforms like Twitter....
katoleary:
I don’t think being aware of how the feminine is devalued is at odds with being aware of compulsory femininity. They’re sort of two sides of the same coin. It’s like, be this way so I can hate you for being this way. I dress like a Disney Princess and am sometimes not taken seriously as a result, but if I weren’t traditionally feminine I would have a much...
““In Poetry I have a few Axioms,” wrote John Keats in 1818....”
themerchgirl:
hazeldooney:
While waiting in yet another queue of hopeful tenants-to-be outside a pigeon-infested, non-descript apartment block, I got to thinking about how several of the artists, writers and musicians I most admired had lived for months, even years, in New York’s Chelsea Hotel. […] There is no equivalent of the Chelsea in Australia. But I thought, fuck it, I’d just come...
It is decidedly fucking Tuesday.
lemdi:
I prefer Mondays, really. On Monday you can pretend it’s a new week with promise. By Tuesday, you know better.
some weeks, every day is decidedly fucking tuesday.
isabelthespy:
i think for a lot of young people it is often less beneficial to say “you can be better” - even if you mean it in a really positive empowering way - than to say “it’s okay. you’re okay. you’re doing okay. maybe you’re also messed up, but it’s okay to be messed up. maybe you are fucking up, but it’s okay to fuck up.”
if there were a thing i had to guess would be the single thing...
Morning by Frank O'Hara
isabelthespy:
novazembla:
rachelbrowne:
I’ve got to tell you how I love you always I think of it on grey mornings with death in my mouth the tea is never hot enough then and the cigarette dry the maroon robe chills me I need you and look out the window at the noiseless snow At night on the dock the buses glow like clouds and I am lonely thinking of flutes I miss you always when I...
sexisnottheenemy:
I’m not saying that people are not born gay. But this rhetoric is too limiting to be useful in the long run. As an argument, it seems to lend legitimacy to the idea that being gay is an undesirable state, like “hey, we’d be straight if we could and we have tried as hard as we can but we just can’t do it because we are biologically incapable! So that’s why you should...
“Long and mild are the dawns of Tammuz and Av,
When I hold my wakeful head
On a...”
– Kadya Molodowsky
(translated from the Yiddish by Kathryn Hellerstein)
“What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh,...”
– —Tennessee Williams 