May 2012
3 posts
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“We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you teach her that you’re in control of her body? If I teach her that I’m in charge of whether or not she can touch her hair, she’s going to replace me with some other man when she goes out in the world. She can’t cut my hair but that’s her hair. She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the...
April 2012
8 posts
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of...”
– Wallace Stevens
Are you sitting down?
Cleave is its own antonym.
“The world, the universe, confronts us every day with a vast complexity that we...”
– The New Aesthetic and I | Damien G. Walter (via new-aesthetic)
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
March 2012
9 posts
“All of which is simply to say: it’s in the nature of grand structural...”
– Aaron Bady, The Jimmy McNulty Gambit
“There are symbolic dreams — dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
February 2012
7 posts
“In my career as a psychologist, I have talked with hundreds of people previously...”
– Why Anti-Authoritarians are Diagnosed as Mentally Ill
Interview: Rachael Goodman-Williams, Founder,... →
jenbokoff:
I had the privilege to interview Rachael Goodman-Williams who founded And It Was Wrong, a website devoted to collecting and sharing women’s experiences with sexual assault. I was drawn to the poignant simplicity and comforting rawness of the website, and the fact of its mere existence. A…
“My apologies to chance for calling it necessity.
My apologies to necessity if...”
– Under One Small Star- Winslawa Szymborska (via ksquared)
And It Was Wrong →
My friend and I have re-launched anditwaswrong.com. It’s an amazing project, and I’m so fortunate to have been involved on the design and technology side.
And it was Wrong is a grassroots compilation of women’s experiences with sexual assault.
It is a project made up of women giving voice to a problem society silences: that of sexual assault as it occurs in our everyday lives....
January 2012
11 posts
“It’s easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
– Frederick Douglass
(via good-morning-fire-eater, thesearepeopleyouknow)
“They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his...”
– The Fountain (via ksquared)
“Olajuwon, who endorsed a sneaker made by Spalding which retailed for $35, is one...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olajuwon#Off_the_court
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
8 posts
“I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell,
but just coming to the end of his...”
– from “Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert (via neighborbit)
“According to one of my students at Yale, where I taught English in the last...”
– William Deresiewicz, Generation Sell
An Elephant Burial →
“Cynthia Moss, in Elephant Memories, describes the response of elephants in Amboseli National Park when a poacher’s bullet entered the lungs of a young female, Tina.”
October 2011
8 posts
“If you can find a host for me that has a friendly parrot, I will be
very very...”
– Richard Stallman’s Rider
“[Programmers] imagine we spend most of our time power-typing, curly braces and...”
– Douglas Crockford
“Sometimes I believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Carroll