Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies
The Pink Box, Yesenia Montilla
Find Me as the Creature I Am, Emily Jungmin Yoon
Rebecca Solnit, Hope In The Dark
Natalie Díaz, from “Skin-Light”, Postcolonial Love Poem
"what if things were different" is a poisoned well and drinking from it will kill you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Survival (1983–85) by Jenny Holzer
the worst part of "you'll understand when you're older" is that you really do understand when you're older
JENNY HOLZER, DETAIL FROM LUSTMORD, 1994
I WISH IT HAD ALL BEEN DIFFERENT!!!!!
sure, I may be little more than a dog for the military industrial complex, but every once in a while, they let me place a hand on one of their mass-produced wargrinders and feel the heat radiating off of the plate metal like a stovetop I'm not entirely sure I turned off
in the throes of this ecstatic contact, I can pretend for just a moment to be crawling along the spiritual spiderweb of something bigger, more beautiful, and one day, that beautiful thing might see it fit to sink its teeth into me, too