January 2012
10 posts
When an oppressed individual says "that's... →
…they are not inviting you to start a debate. They are saying “what you are saying/doing is oppressing me/others,” and if you can’t just listen and respect that and acknowledge that they’re the best person in the world to gauge how oppressed they feel by your actions/statements… well, then you’re just an asshole.
If I say you are hurting me, you’re hurting me… and trying to tell me that...
xi.
So: jumping, jumping; plunging plunging. 3 days ago I decided to slide off a waterfall in Selangor despite my entrenched fear of being submerged. It wasn’t as bad as I thought.
Being reckless: probably my best trait.
I don’t even know you.
“even in friendly conversation
I get the bell hooks-ian urge
to kill...”
– All Oppression is Connected, Staceyann Chin
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“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without...”
– The Castle, Franz Kafka
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“The darkness was comforting and terrifying all at once; she couldn’t find...”
“love,
the breaking
of your
soul
upon
my lips”
– excerpt from As Is The Sea Marvelous, E.E. Cummings
“The pursuit of individual happiness has been acknowledged as a universal right....”
– Ways of Seeing, John Berger
December 2011
15 posts
“Political activism is acting with the knowledge that you will fail, but that you...”
– Hannah Arendt
“Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical;...”
– Franz Kafka
“love me / for holding the level of my head / in the hands of my tornado chest /...”
– Andrea Gibson
“…the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
– Edith Wharton
“Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write...”
– Helene Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa
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“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin, We
“And why don’t you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your...”
– Helene Cixous
x.
I am feeling that feeling I feel when I lose control again.
My stomach churns and I feel physically sick. The thought of offing myself feels peaceful, pleasant. You know what the psych industry calls it: suicidal ideation.
I’ve been pushing my body and mind past its threshold in the recent months. I am running on a deficit. I’m sitting on a seat in this crowded subway train listening...
“The thing I like about love as a concept for the possibility of the social, is...”
– Lauren Berlant, No One is Sovereign in Love: A Conversation between Lauren Berlant and Michael Hardt
“Queerness is also a performative because it is not simply a being but a doing...”
– Jose Esteban Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
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November 2011
6 posts
“A precise emotion seeks precise expression.”
– Jeanette Winterson
“Activism does not need to be some kind of organized ‘against’ protest. When my...”
– bell hooks
“When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you...”
– Audre Lorde
“Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it...”
– Albert Camus
“There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you’re...”
– Hakim Bey
October 2011
28 posts
“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think...”
– Looking for Alaska, John Green
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“What my ghost would see:
a cupboard left open, clothes
that signaled once
at...”
– Cyril Wong
“I crash into things in the dark, even when the lights are on. And I am wrong...”
– Andrea Gibson
“And like the cat I have nine times to die.”
– Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath
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“Your memory is a monster; you forget, it doesn’t. It simply files things away....”
– John Irving
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“Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a...”
– Terence McKenna
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“I lie in the dark
wondering if this quiet in me now
is a beginning or an end.”
– Jack Gilbert
“Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates. It is also...”
– The Practice of the Wild, Gary Snyder
“We’re not the generation that gets to feel comfortable. We’re the generation...”
– Judith Plaskow
“The relationships I make are never with categories, but with individuals,...”
– Wolfi Landstreicher
“in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.”
– C. Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993
“You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.”
– An Abundance of Katherines, John Green
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“Power, as I understand it, is not static or monolithic. It is contested and...”
– Melissa Petro
“I became a writer to deal with the complexities of my life. If I’d had the...”
– Debra Dickerson, “Ethics in Personal Writing,” Telling True Stories
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“You know one thing about memory? You don’t just keep the stuff in your head....”
– Alfian Sa’at
“Although the possibility to satisfy demands is becoming harder, demands are...”
– We Demand Nothing, Johann Kaspar
“Life has no genuine intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by want and...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
“The Spanish artists Cabella/Carceller “portrayed collaboration as a kind of...”
– J. Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
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