“A golden cage is still just a cage.”
-Anita Krizzan
the world is spinning faster and I'm here seated, writing.
chaotic academia is [writes on hand] [ink on ankles] [ink on elbows] [ink on neck] [urge to buy white flowy dresses] [writing unfinished poems] [making a big deal of birthdays] [writing prose and poetry for friends] [forgetting mundane schoolwork] [researching something niche] [reading old queer love letters] [editing a friend's book] [wishing for love] [shouting into the void silently] [reading incessantly]
She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married
Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell
Oxford, Oxfordshire.
“Its a hard world to be different in.”
remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.
I recognize no dichotomy between art and protest.
Ralph Ellison, interviewed in The Art of Fiction No. 8 (via theclassicsreader)