May 2012
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May 31st
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May 31st
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May 31st
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“Most women aren’t funny. But that’s because most PEOPLE aren’t...”
– Lindy West for Jezebel.
May 30th
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May 30th
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May 30th
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Sex Worker Activists Targeted By Arson Attack →
strippertweets: The fearless New Orleans organization Women With A Vision, a group that’s done considerable work for sex worker rights, suffered an arson attack at the end of last week. Their outreach resources—condoms, educational materials, HIV rapid test kits, and anatomical models to demonstrate self-care—were destroyed. This act was one of domestic terrorism; it’s on par with attacks on...
May 30th
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May 29th
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May 29th
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“The lonely, like the fictive, love one-way watching. For lonely people are...”
– David Foster Wallace. “Act Natural.” A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again.
May 28th
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May 28th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 27th
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"Indeed, depictions of women often command the... →
May 25th
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“By God, I stood by and witnessed the incident, the woman does not have an atom...”
– The Immodesty of Nailpolish (via @manal_alsharif) Short version: religious police attempt to expel Saudi woman from mall for wearing nailpolish.  She responds by video-taping them, and threatening to upload it to social media.  The woman is an ‘effin hero. (via mollycrabapple)
May 25th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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May 23rd
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“Last night I felt unbelievably sad and sometimes it happens that way: a...”
– David Wojnarowicz. Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration.
May 21st
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May 17th
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May 15th
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In a long line for a coffeeshop bathroom
The bathroom door has been closed for 10 minutes or more. Two young men emerge together. The woman at the front of the line enters. People at nearby tables look up & mouth “Did they just…?” to those in the queue. We collectively snicker and roll our eyes. The woman from the front of the line exits a minute later and announces, “It goes really fast when you’re not...
May 15th
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“‘She gives everyone the feeling of calm assurance that one’s best is...”
– Jane Addams: Spirit in Action. Louise W. Knight
May 12th
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“Around the world, the response to chronic youth unemployment has been...”
– Stephen Marche for Esquire.
May 11th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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Friday Evening, Delancey & Essex
Man in group of young men who blocked my path: "Yo, my friend is interested in fat girls."
Me: "I'm interested in men who don't act like assholes."
May 6th
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May 5th
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“For the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today,...”
– Maggie Nelson. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning.
May 5th
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