March 2012
56 posts
February 2012
64 posts
Print Pre-Orders! →
drawgabbydraw:
Ends at the end of today! Pre-order and get a surprise mini painting. :)
I did! And I can’t wait to hang it on my wall!
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“I feel that as women we’ve allowed ourselves to be deluded
by certain ideas...”
– Marianne Williamson (via sagittariusthoughts)
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“For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds...”
– Anaïs Nin (via misswallflower)
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“The best definition of forgiveness I ever heard is giving up the hope that the...”
– Oprah (via beautiful-ambition)
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Con or Bust: Signed copy of HUNTRESS + handmade... →
malindalo:
Con or Bust is an auction that raises money to bring fans of color/non-white fans to science fiction conventions, including WisCon (which I will be attending this year!). I’ve donated a signed hardcover of Huntress, along with a hand-made print version of “The Fox.” Get all the details at the Con or Bust LJ. (Bidding starts at $25.)
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a handful of stones: Bird Collides with Window →
My small stone of a poem is up at a handful of stones.
“I feel sorry to say I have no favorite place in Beijing. I have no intention of...”
– Monsterbeard
From Chinese activist Ai Weiwei’s heartbreaking piece in Newsweek.
I saved this quote a while back and keep thinking about it over and over. For all the frivolousness of my favorite sorts of writing, this clean bleakness is what sticks with me.
(via beenthinking)
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Racism 101: White Privilege: Sight Unseen →
racismschool:
The biggest problem (I believe) with White Privilege is that white people are born with it so they never have to acknowledge it as a “Thing.” There was never a day when they didn’t have it. They never had to live without it and then wake up one day to see a package of white privilege in the mail.
An excellent post. I definitely recommend reading the entire thing.
Ally: The Basics
For my family and friends who may read this and not know what an ally is, it means a person who is not a part of a minority community, whether racial, sexual orientation, queer, transgender, and so forth, but is an ally in achieving the human rights that that community deserves. (If I have that definition wrong, please let me know.)
racismschool:
Only make a mistake once-I don’t mean you only...
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“A lot of parents will do anything for their children, except let them be...”
– Banksy (via stellablu)
This has been on my blog before. And it will be again. (via kiriamaya)
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Plunge Magazine: Queer. Women. Genre. by ailelie —... →
“Plunge Magazine will publish quality short stories, poems, and articles about queer women in a variety of genres from space operas to mysteries, wild west to fairy tales, superheroes to the end of the world.
This Kickstarter campaign is to fund the first year of this ezine (2013). Year One will include two issues, publishing in February and August. Starting in Year Two the ezine will...
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“Let’s get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans...”
– Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, and filmmaker. His book “The Lone Ranger and Tonto’s Fist Fight in Heaven,” was on the banned curriculum of the Mexican American Studies Program.
http://progressive.org/sherman-alexie
(via chicanainchoos)
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Mission Impossible:... →
brightwalldarkroom:
by Edward Montgomery
Impossible Nostalgia, or
What was it that was written above the gates of Hell? “Surrender hope, all ye who enter here,” or some variation thereof?
Anyway, I just thought I’d toss a warning your way—your eyeballs will bleed, and it’ll be a while before we…
A fantastic essay on what heroism means.