May 2011
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April 2011
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“Beauty makes me hopeless. I don’t care why anymore I just want to get away. When I look at the city of Paris I long to wrap my legs around it. When I watch you dancing there is a heartless immensity like a sailor in a dead-calm sea. Desires as round as peaches bloom in me all night, I no longer gather what falls.”
—Anne Carson, On Hedonism (via mitochondria)
“Type Four: The Individualist
The introspective, romantic type. Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity. At their Best: inspired and highly creative, they are able to renew themselves and transform their experiences.” —RHETI Sampler Test Results
The introspective, romantic type. Fours are self-aware, sensitive, and reserved. They are emotionally honest, creative, and personal, but can also be moody and self-conscious. Withholding themselves from others due to feeling vulnerable and defective, they can also feel disdainful and exempt from ordinary ways of living. They typically have problems with melancholy, self-indulgence, and self-pity. At their Best: inspired and highly creative, they are able to renew themselves and transform their experiences.” —RHETI Sampler Test Results
“MOM: Emma Watson leaving Brown for another school. Got bullied out. Should have used her sweet Defense Against the Dark Arts skills.”
—DADA | When Parents Text
“Lofton notes that Gospel means “good news.” According to the Gospel of Oprah, “You are your good news.” According to the New York Post, to write her book, Lofton reviewed over 1,560 show transcripts, 105 issues of O magazine, 17 issues of O at Home, 68 Book Club selections and 52 Spirit Newsletters.”
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Div School prof pens book on Oprah and religion | Yale Daily News
[this woman talks so fast she literally does not breathe.]
What About American Girls Sold on the Streets? - NYTimes.com →
nytimes.com
ut in the United States we see girls all the time who have been trafficked — and our hearts harden. The problem is that these girls aren’t locked in cages. Rather, they’re often runaways out on the street wearing short skirts or busting out of low-cut tops, and many Americans perceive them not as trafficking victims but as miscreants who have chosen their way of life. So even when they’re 14 years old, we often arrest and prosecute them — even as the trafficker goes free.
“Sometimes I wonder if part of the eager reception of the print-media-is-dead trend juggernaut ouroboros, aside from the obvious, is how much certain people who like books like to be the only person they know who likes books, or the person who loves books the most. They have a persona and they’re sticking to it and they seem to like how much the news confirms that their persona more special by the day. I feel like I hear a lot in conversation, after a person learns I am a bookseller, a variation on the following: “Well, I personally just love books, especially, you know, the feel of the paper under my fingers, but nobody else seems to want those things. People don’t even read anymore. What can you do?” And then he shrugs, or even laughs, as though he is not talking about me losing my job, or as though it doesn’t bother him that he thinks that people don’t read.”
—Sometimes I wonder if part of the eager reception…
“Joining the now-excommunicated women who have stepped forward to be ordained as Roman Catholic priests, the latest victim of the Church’s strong-armed resistance towards women’s equality is internationally beloved Father Roy Bourgeois. The Church hierarchy, in its treatment of Bourgeois, is showing that it considers any advocacy of women’s ordination to be much, much worse than priestly pedophilia.”
—Easter Sunday Paradox: Father Roy Must Recant, But Pedophile Priests Go Free : Ms Magazine Blog
Gender Across Borders » Blog Archive » Oversimplifying Sex Slavery: Demi, Ashton, and Badvocacy →
genderacrossborders.com
And what about the individual woman’s experience? A gradient exists among those who have been kidnapped and enslaved, and those who are engaging in sex work commercially. It’s easy for anti-trafficking efforts to devolve into a paradigm whereby a [privileged] [man] rides in on a white horse to “rescue” a [poor] [woman]. With this dynamic, it’s easy to steamroll over the individual rights and dignity, and complicated personal experience, of the individual.
