physically i am here barely surviving with the monumental weight of a capitalist society on my shoulders but mentally i am sitting with a lover on a rooftop having a rousing discussion about a book while gazing at the stars
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personal “i love humanity” moodboard
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Roland Barthes, from Mourning Diary
Emily Dickinson
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Zero Bars (Mr Smith) - Gary Numan
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.” — Cassandra Clare
Mary Oliver
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i find it hilarious how every single book cover of dorian gray just has the Most ugly man on the front. like the cover artists rly saw the whole “he is the most attractive man. a fine beauty. eternal youth. very pretty.” and collectively went “lol you know what would b funny”
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miranda july / don delillo / holly warburton / richard siken / aaron diaz / ross gay / robert anton wilson
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adding:
carly simon / @oozins
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Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
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On the set of Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright
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ARTICLES I READ THIS WEEK AND ENJOYED, BY GENRE.
— feminism and race.
- atlanta spa shootings: how we talk about violence by holly honderich
- does your daughter know it’s ok to be angry? by sorya chemaly
- hunting the men who kill women: mexico’s femicide detective by meaghan beatley
- my mum was born into one of ireland’s mother and baby homes – this is why everyone should know her story by molly mulready
- pm, are you listening? here are our stories. hear us roar (tw for rape, sexual assault)
- red river women by joanna jolly (tw for murder and violence against indigenous women)
- the grooming gap: what “looking the part” costs women by mindy isser
- when did recipe writing get so… whitewashed? by priya krishna (with yewande komolafe)
- women’s suffrage and the democratic peace by joslyn n. barnhart, robert f. trager, elizabeth n. saunders, and allan dafoe
— fine arts.
- a brief history of death by nir baram
- a rainy day with ruskin bond by mayank austen soofi
- arthur rimbaud: the aesthetics of intoxication by enid rhodes peschel
- crying in h mart by michelle zauner
- eleven by sandra cisneros
- nick cave’s letter to a fan grieving their loved ones
- sadako and the thousand paper cranes by eleanor coerr
- sunflower sick by sara heise graybeal
— history and science.
- cricket and politics in colonial india by ramachandra guha
- scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain by yudhijit banerjee
- the cosmos from the wheelchair (the economist obituaries)
- the death of the department store and a dwindling middle class by jason pallant, sean sands
- the gruesome history of eating corpses as medicine by maria dolan
— politics:
- amazon has transformed the geography of wealth and power by vauhini vara
- caste and politics: identity over system by dipankar gupta
- implicit bias against asians increased after trump’s secretary of state and others popularized “chinese virus” by eric w. dolan
- making pledges was the easy part but it’s a long road to net-zero emissions by angel hsu
note: some of the articles are behind paywalls, but can be read for free with outline.
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“I don’t think all writers are sad”, she said. “I think it’s the other way around - all sad people write.”
— Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure (via perfectquote)
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Han Kang, Human Acts (translated by Deborah Smith)
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Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things
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no one is ever going to fucking love me. omg another movie to analyze
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Yes I have a nightly routine it’s called being Insane in my room till I pass out
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the worm king’s lullaby by richard siken
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The Waves by Virginia Woolf
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my definition of productivity is finally watching the movie that i hadn’t gotten around to watching