December 2011
7 posts
seattle life
i got into college a couple of weeks ago, and my life has kind of been plunged into tumult because of it - granted, it is my safety school which I am not overwhelmingly interested in going to - but i was surprised to find that this whole college thing wasn’t as thrilling as it used to be. At this moment, I’m not going to go to college next fall unless I can come up with a reason to do...
'Girls' are not like apples. →
I tried to copy/paste a good snippet, but it’s all just so worth reading.
EBook: The Revolution Starts At Home →
TRIGGER WARNING: PARTNER ABUSE, ACTIVIST TRAUMA
“A form of racism which surfaces during adolescence and may continue throughout...”
– Maria P.P. Root, “Resolving ‘Other’ Status: Identity Development of Biracial Individuals,” Readings in Ethnic Psychology (1998)
okay so i’m finally getting around to writing my paper/reliving shitty memories and analyzing them. this quote seems pretty relevant to basically my whole life in utah and...
“You are so young; you stand for beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle)
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processing collective lifeee
just had a really heated discussion with my best friend at the collective about when it is appropriate for people with privilege to interrupt oppressive behavior in group settings. a lot of my points didn’t get through to him AT ALL. i still feel like he disagrees with a lot of what i had to say, but didn’t quite figure out how to phrase his objections so that i could understand. but...
