May 2012
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Norming Access, s. e.smith →
“Inaccessibility is the norm, right now. It’s assumed that all spaces are inaccessible until proven otherwise because this is usually the case. In fact, the reverse should be true; it should be highly abnormal for a space to be inaccessible, and it should be extremely unusual for someone to have an accommodation need that isn’t covered in routine site preparation.”
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The Ten Commandments of Slam Poetry: a list! with...
1. Thou shalt adhere to the time limit
You’d think this one would be easy,
but some people just don’t seem to care.
Or they get caught in the moment,
or trapped in the glare-
like a rabbit
in headlights.
2. Thou shalt perform… something.
Something like a poem.[1]
(Whether swaggering, staggering, strutting your stuff,
owning the stage, your
staccato statements...
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People get really irritated by mental illness. “Just fucking get it together!...
– Maria Bamford in an interview with Slate (via this-is-what-i-meant)
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Dear girls of the world today;
There is nothing wrong with you.
Everything I...
– Seanan McGuire, Dear Girls of the World Today…
April 2012
14 posts
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FACT: Everytime a queer person is misgendered, a...
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Anne reblogs: how to decode a person with an... →
annereblogs:
how to decode a person with an anxiety disorder
euclase:
things we are trying to do all the time:
be safe
things we can’t help but do all the time:
second-guess ourselves
behave impulsively and reactively
take everything personally
worry
worry
worry
have difficulty accepting…
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What the Dragon Said: A Love Story, by Catherynne...
“What the Dragon Said: A Love Story”
So this guy walks into a dragon’s lair
and he says
why the long tale?
HAR HAR BUDDY
says the dragon
FUCK YOU.
The dragon’s a classic
the ‘57 Chevy of existential chthonic threats
take in those Christmas colors, those
impervious green scales, sticky candy-red firebreath,
comes standard with a heap of rubylust...
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Don’t listen to depression, it is a liar and a fraud.
– http://ironedorchid.tumblr.com/ (via annereblogs)
Occasionally I say things that people on the internets find quotable.
Go me.
[I said it on a different platform, but she linked to my account here because she was posting here.]
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But the brouhaha over Hilary Rosen’s injudicious remarks is not really about...
– Katha Pollit, in The Nation
hat tip to Sabotabby
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What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t A...
Do you remember when we met
in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless,
and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing
you, when we were young, and blushed with youth
like bruised fruit. Did we care then
what our neighbors did
in the dark?
When our first daughter was born
on the River Jordan, when our second
cracked her pink head from my body
like a promise, did we worry
what...
March 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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The problem is that Marks seems to think it’s okay to require black kids to be...
– Kelly Virella: If I Were The Middle Class White Guy Gene Marks
marrows cruel mock →
And I’ve posted this here there and everywhere so very many times, but I don’t fucking care right now.
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This is probably my very favourite passage from Hoban ever, bar none. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve typed it out by now.
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Barrow full of rocks? said the yellow paper.
That’s just my name for it, said Word. A pneumatic.
Mnemonic, said the yellow paper.
Whatever...
Three Excerpts from Kleinzeit
theheadoforpheus:
In memoriam Russel Hoban.
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