January 2011
26 posts
“Most of us, in our daily lives, do not think about rape at all. Women, however,...”
– Pornography, Lad Mags, Video Games and Boys: Reviving the Canary in the Cultural Coalmine Matthew B. Ezzell (via iwillnotshavemyvagina)
This x1000. Being on guard a majority of the time is exhausting.
(via reclusiveobscenities)
Reminds me of a time in sexuality and legal theory when my prof was...
I need this dress so badly. →
Grey slouchy sweater dress with dolman-ish sleeves? Right up my alley; fingers crossed it comes back in stock in a size small.
Lame Lame Lame
The high school in the town where I go to college (it’s a tiny town and the HS is literally 3 blocks from my school) is closed for snow, but the college remains open. I want a snow day, dammit—all of my other college friends have gotten them one time or another over the past 4 years, why can’t I?
An interesting observation.
I’m taking a relaxation/stress reduction class for PE credit this term (very busy, so I figured it would be best that I have at least 2 hours/week to relax!) and our instructor yesterday went over the various physical manifestations of stress. She asked the room who tended to find themselves crying inordinately when stressed; exclusively (and almost all of the) women answered. When she asked...
“It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could...”
– Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (via junkbondtrader)
“Expression is living. Suppression is dying, or worse.”
– Oscar Wilde (to Alice Pike Barney, from Barney’s memoirs)
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For the first time this term...
I woke up today when my alarm went off—no setting it back another hour because I fell asleep late. No, 5:20 rolled around and I was up immediately. I have incredibly noisy neighbors and they’ve prevented me from getting to bed on time all year. I’m still operating on only about 5 or so hours of sleep, but at least I had the willpower to get up anyway.
So yay me.
