Oh How The Horror Of Existence Eats Away At My Heart But Look How I Cling On To The Simplest Acts Of

fuck does anyone have that poem thats like the speaker used to press her ear to conch shells when she was a child but as an adult the world has closed its second mouth or something

— mimi evangeline, from girlhood is godhood

every woman 20 years older than you who you admire had to sit on the floor of her bathroom and wail more than once to get where she is these things have to happen will happen will be useful to you someday

ARTICLES I READ THIS WEEK AND ENJOYED, BY GENRE.

— feminism and race.

atlanta spa shootings: how we talk about violence by holly honderich

does your daughter know it’s ok to be angry? by sorya chemaly

hunting the men who kill women: mexico’s femicide detective by meaghan beatley

my mum was born into one of ireland’s mother and baby homes – this is why everyone should know her story by molly mulready 

pm, are you listening? here are our stories. hear us roar (tw for rape, sexual assault)

red river women by joanna jolly (tw for murder and violence against indigenous women) 

the grooming gap: what “looking the part” costs women by mindy isser

when did recipe writing get so… whitewashed? by priya krishna (with yewande komolafe)

women’s suffrage and the democratic peace by joslyn n. barnhart, robert f. trager, elizabeth n. saunders, and allan dafoe 

— fine arts.

a brief history of death by nir baram

a rainy day with ruskin bond by mayank austen soofi

arthur rimbaud: the aesthetics of intoxication by enid rhodes peschel

crying in h mart by michelle zauner

eleven by sandra cisneros

nick cave’s letter to a fan grieving their loved ones

sadako and the thousand paper cranes by eleanor coerr

sunflower sick by sara heise graybeal

— history and science.

cricket and politics in colonial india by ramachandra guha

scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain by yudhijit banerjee

the cosmos from the wheelchair (the economist obituaries)

the death of the department store and a dwindling middle class by jason pallant, sean sands

the gruesome history of eating corpses as medicine by maria dolan

— politics:

amazon has transformed the geography of wealth and power by vauhini vara

caste and politics: identity over system by dipankar gupta

implicit bias against asians increased after trump’s secretary of state and others popularized “chinese virus” by eric w. dolan

making pledges was the easy part but it’s a long road to net-zero emissions by angel hsu

note: some of the articles are behind paywalls, but can be read for free with outline.

1.pat the bunny, I'm not a good person // 2. // 3. mitski, a pearl, art by @hauntedomens // 4.hieu minh nguyen, buffet etiquette // 5.art from pinterest // 6.christa wolf tr. by jan van heurck, cassandra: a novel and four essays // 7.extracurricular (2020) dir.kim jin min // 8.louise bourgeois, destruction of the father/reconstruction of the father: writings and interviews 1923-1997 // 9.alice osman, radio silence // mitski, fireworks, art by uol.art (on insta)

“A woman sits up straight: she’s on edge. She leans into the cushions: she’s provocative. She leans over to another woman: she’s a gossip. She holds the other woman’s hand: she’s queer. She holds an apple in her hand: she’s a temptress. She slices the apple: she’s tame. She slices your heart out: she’s a bitch. She wears a heart at her throat: she’s a beauty. She wears a silk tie at her throat: she’s butch. She wears a silk camisole: she’s a slut. She’s slutty: she’s a celebrity. She celebrates herself: she’s got nerve. She’s celibate: she’s pathetic. She’s empathetic: she’s a sweet thing. She sweetens the deal: she’s a honeypot. She hones her tongue: she’s a shrew. She’s shrewd: she’s deadly. She’s dead: she’s innocent. She’s a virgin: She’s on edge.”

— 20 Ways by Eva Heisler (via hush-syrup)

“Medusa lost her beauty—or rather, it was taken from her. Beauty is always something you can lose. Women’s beauty is seen as something separate from us, something we owe but never own: We are its stewards, not its beneficiaries. We tend it like a garden where we do not live. Oh, but ugliness—ugliness is always yours. Almost everyone has some innate kernel of grotesquerie; even fashion models (I’ve heard) tend to look a bit strange and froggish in person, having been gifted with naturally level faces that pool light luminously instead of breaking it into shards. And everyone has the ability to mine their ugliness, to emphasize and magnify it, to distort even those parts of themselves that fall within acceptable bounds. Where beauty is narrow and constrained, ugliness is an entire galaxy, a myriad of sparkling paths that lurch crazily away from the ideal. There are so few ways to look perfect, but there are thousands of ways to look monstrous, surprising, upsetting, outlandish, or odd. Thousands of stories to tell in dozens of languages: the languages of strong features or weak chins, the languages of garish makeup and weird haircuts and startling clothes, fat and bony and hairy languages, the languages of any kind of beauty that’s not white. Nose languages, eyebrow languages, piercing and tattoo languages, languages of blemish and birthmark and scar. When you give up trying to declare yourself acceptable, there are so many new things to say.”

— What If We Cultivated Our Ugliness? Jess Zimmerman (via kuanios)

harry styles for rolling stone magazine / matty healy for dazed magazine 

Hi, could you please make a web weaving about the childhood that you know won't come back?

oumaima, I Will Be Leaving the Party Early

@traumacure (x)

Li-Young Lee, A Hymn to Childhood

Taylor Swift, Never Grow Up

Gregory Orr, Origin of the Marble Forest

Andy Muschietti directing It: Chapter Two (via)

Mitski, Two Slow Dancers

Adonis, Celebrating Childhood (trans. Khaled Mattawa)

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