a word. a thought. a song. a lady.: Archive

Dec 31st

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →

The Beatles (62) Amy Winehouse (43) Sigur Rós (21) Boney M. (20) Vince Guaraldi Trio (16) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 27th

Dec 26th

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Dec 25th

Dec 24th

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The Limitless Void: A Sex Blog: Anal sex is sex →

limitlessvoid: cuntflavor: whenever so called “feminists” start talking about anal sex i start rolling my eyes so hard. You and me both. The article takes it as a given that anal sex is almost always painful. As we covered in our anal sex workshop last night (part of a series of workshops put on by a… SEX IS NOT JUST PUTTING A PENIS IN A VAGINA

Dec 23rd

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →

Amy Winehouse (78) Lana Del Rey (19) Etta James (16) Leslie Hall (15) Nitin Sawhney (12) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

Dec 22nd

Evolutionary Pop Psychology Strikes Again

limitlessvoid: The Vitals health blog at MSNBC reported earlier this week on a new study out of Williams College which shows that straight men tend to overestimate their chances of pairing up with women, and their estimates become less realistic the more conventionally attractive the woman is. Interestingly, more conventionally attractive men have a more realistic view of their chances than...

Dec 22nd

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mental illness

One of the best things about being bipolar is learning never to trust your own thoughts.

Dec 21st

I spend a lot of my time struggling with feeling like a Foolish, Over-Emotional, Irrational Woman.

Dec 21st

Katie West: One teachers approach to preventing... →

togetherforjacksoncountykids: “It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got… Bah, this is so important!!

Dec 20th

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No Simple Solutions: State Violence and the Sex... →

limitlessvoid: “We know that each of our experiences of the sex trades are unique, and there are no one-size fits all solutions. We are members of families and communities struggling to survive and make the best possible choices given the options available to us. For many of us, the truth about the sex trade is somewhere between a completely empowered experience of the sex trade, which requires...

Dec 20th

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Dec 20th

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I approve of this.

txtsfrmlstnght: (316): Yes, he made a MIX CD for our booty call…

Dec 19th

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sewing sequins on this sweater

damn, I look good

Dec 18th

Dec 17th

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societal expectations of a properly gendered body

body hair stresses me out so much more than body fat

Dec 16th

Trying to put myself first really just feels like screwing other people over/letting them down. I try not to make plans I’m not sure I can keep, but recently I’m needing to back out of even sparse/minimal commitments. It is relieving to carve out those little bits of space/time for myself, but also i feel like a big jerk. At least am at a point in my life where I feel pretty sure that...

Dec 16th

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I spend too much of my life on the verge of an audible whimper. I don’t even have time for a proper cry.

Dec 16th

A Muscular Empathy →

A great response piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates to the infuriating “If I was a poor black kid” post on Forbes (that I’m not going to bother to link to—but kudos to Forbes editors for providing links to a number of responses, including this one).

Dec 15th

I have a recent obsession with Lana Del Rey →

[i suppose a better word would be “current” or “ongoing”]

Dec 15th