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I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:

Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director C��line Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen

#to read #syllabi #library

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the marriage cure, katherine boo

new yorker insurers can evaluate your social media use—if they can prove why it’s needed, leslie scism

am i too weird and contradictory to find love?, heather havrilesky

a black legacy, wrapped up in fur, jasmine sanders

the rise and rise of the disposable black girlfriend, yomi adegoke

william goldman’s strange, sad, captivating children’s book about a girl and her blanket, rivka galchen

cyntonia brown: 15 years on – free at last?, lucy small

the vertical farm, ian frazier

why are young people pretending to love work?, erin griffith

american retail workers face mass layoffs, michael sainato

o’keeffe, and not just georgia, generating fresh buzz in art world, chadd scott

getting deep with jenny slate at sundance, rachel handler

murder in hospital parking garage shows danger. fbi confirms the risk, raquel rutledge

the ugly side of becoming a surgeon, dr yumiko kadota

the year that skincare became a coping mechanism, jia tolentino

the layoffs at buzzfeed and the case of the teen-aged quiz-maker, charles bethea

the art of decision-making, joshua rothman

massachusetts attorney general implicates family behind purdue pharma in opioid deaths, christine willmsen and martha bebinger

boston trial opens what could be year of reckoning for executives, joanna walters

do you keep a failure résumé? here’s why you should start, tim herrera

the family business that put nashville hot chicken on the map, paige williams

how capitalism turned women into witches, sady doyle

thawing of earth’s ‘3rd pole’ could affect 1.9 billion people, study says, thomson reuters

a suspense novelist’s trail of deceptions, ian parker

how taming cows and horses sparked inequality across the ancient world, lizzie wade

all the letters i’ll never send, clare sestanovich

how a mysterious beaumont, texas murder was solved, mark bowden

the cognitive upside to an extended adolescence, jessa gamble

all-female termite colonies reproduce without male input, katherine j. wu

what happens when a casual wine drinker sits in on the chronicle’s esteemed wine tasting panel?, maggie gordon

rising temperatures could melt most himalayan glaciers by 2100, kai schultz and bhadra sharma

european slaughter of native americans changed the climate, study says, lauren kent

the bizarre virtue—and the real problem—of the rise of instagram-centric ‘exhibits’, john semley

on friends who want to die, aisha mirza

obsessive compulsive disorder made cooking a compulsion. then it was my cure, david tamarkin

shining new light on the pineal gland

a day with complex post traumatic stress disorder, jody allard

scientists are working on a pill for loneliness, lauren entis

the gay history of america’s classic children’s books, jesse green

cbd-infused food and drinks have been banned from nyc restaurants and bars, helen holmes

human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination

new study confirms beaked whales’ incredible diving abilities

#to read #articles

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Things read in May

Essays & Articles:

On Hyperpersonalized Sexual Identity

How Duolingo created a Yiddish course with a secular scholar and Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn

A manifesto for decorating

Remembering the Poetry of Neil Armstrong

What Phone Calls Have Given Me That Video Chat Can't

Thoughts on openings

Elif Batuman on Writing Fiction vs. Nonfiction

The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

What is Authority

The Legend of the Mighty Fionn Mac Cumhaill

You Need This Crust: a guide to properly adoring microbiotic soils

The Gatekeepers Who Get To Decide What Food Is "Disgusting"

Forget "Game of Thrones." No One Does Violence Like Euridipes.

The Taxonomy of Country Boys

Eimear McBride: "I'm generally left cold by art with no sex in it"

Philadelphia discovers the cremated remains of MOVE bombing victims after a city health official's resignation

No Creed Is Not the Same as No Theology

Face by Alice Munro

Palestine, (un)Naturally

Reel Talk: Cheryl Dunye on Inventing a Film Genre

The Secret History of Hurricane Katrina

When does a native become a settler?

This Instagram Influencer's Failed Tour Will Satisfy Your Fyre Fest Nostalgia

The Palestinian Right to Remember

Playing by Ear, Praying for Rain: The Poetry of James Baldwin

Canada's blackout of Israel's crimes against humanity

One Teacher's Brilliant Strategy to Stop Future School Shootings--and It's Not About Guns

Poetry:

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oral Traditions by William Nu'utupu Giles and Travis T.

Journal, Day Three by Richard Siken

Song of the Sea by Rainer Maria Rilke

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

The Wasteland: Five Limericks by Wendy Cope

Real Estate by Richard Siken

Sisters by Lucille Clifton

Backwards by Warsan Shire

My Father's Hands by Dave Harris

Books:

The Psyche by Hans Christian Andersen (free online)

Words on Bathroom Walls by Julia Walton (free pdf)

Turtle Island by Gary Snyder

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

#to read #articles

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american leftists seem extremely focused on anti imperialism (good) but rarely- if at all- discuss decolonization in their own fucking country, despite acknowledging that it is a settler colonial state.

#library #pol #j #bookshelf #save

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I want to live by myself when I move out of my parent's place but I'm really afraid of money problems? I'm afraid that the only place I can afford will be in the ghetto and it'll all be torn apart and I'll only be allowed to eat one granola bar a week. I'm really stressing out about this. I don't know anything about after school life. I don't know anything about paying bills or how to buy an apartment and it's really scaring me. is there anything you know that can help me?

HI darling,

I’ve actually got a super wonderful masterpost for you to check out:

Home

what the hell is a mortgage?

first apartment essentials checklist

how to care for cacti and succulents

the care and keeping of plants

Getting an apartment

Money

earn rewards by taking polls

how to coupon

what to do when you can’t pay your bills

see if you’re paying too much for your cell phone bill

how to save money

How to Balance a Check Book

How to do Your Own Taxes

Health

how to take care of yourself when you’re sick

things to bring to a doctor’s appointment

how to get free therapy

what to expect from your first gynecologist appointment

how to make a doctor’s appointment

how to pick a health insurance plan

how to avoid a hangover

a list of stress relievers

how to remove a splinter

Emergency

what to do if you get pulled over by a cop

a list of hotlines in a crisis

things to keep in your car in case of an emergency

how to do the heimlich maneuver

Job

time management

create a resume

find the right career

how to pick a major

how to avoid a hangover

how to interview for a job

how to stop procrastinating

How to write cover letters

Travel

ULTIMATE PACKING LIST

Traveling for Cheap

Travel Accessories

The Best Way to Pack a Suitcase

How To Read A Map

How to Apply For A Passport

How to Make A Travel Budget

Better You

read the news

leave your childhood traumas behind

how to quit smoking

how to knit

how to stop biting your nails

how to stop procrastinating

how to stop skipping breakfast

how to stop micromanaging

how to stop avoiding asking for help

how to stop swearing constantly

how to stop being a pushover

learn another language

how to improve your self-esteem

how to sew

learn how to embroider

how to love yourself

100 tips for life

Apartments/Houses/Moving

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 1: Are You Sure? (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 2: Finding the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 3: Questions to Ask about the Damn Apartment (The Responsible One)

Moving Out and Getting an Apartment, Part 4: Packing and Moving All of Your Shit (The Responsible One)

How to Protect Your Home Against Break-Ins (The Responsible One)

Education

How to Find a Fucking College (The Sudden Adult)

How to Find Some Fucking Money for College (The Sudden Adult)

What to Do When You Can’t Afford Your #1 Post-Secondary School (The Sudden Adult)

Stop Shitting on Community College Kids (Why Community College is Fucking Awesome) (The Responsible One)

How to Ask for a Recommendation Letter (The Responsible One)

How to Choose a College Major (The Sudden Adult)

Finances

How to Write a Goddamn Check (The Responsible One)

How to Convince Credit Companies You’re Not a Worthless Bag of Shit (The Responsible One)

Debit vs Credit (The Responsible One)

What to Do if Your Wallet is Stolen/Lost (The Sudden Adult)

Budgeting 101 (The Responsible One)

Important Tax Links to Know (The Responsible One)

How to Choose a Bank Without Screwing Yourself (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting

How to Write a Resume Like a Boss (The Responsible One)

How to Write a Cover Letter Someone Will Actually Read (The Responsible One)

How to Handle a Phone Interview without Fucking Up (The Responsible One)

10 Sites to Start Your Job Search (The Responsible One)

Life Skills

Staying in Touch with Friends/Family (The Sudden Adult)

Bar Etiquette (The Sudden Adult)

What to Do After a Car Accident (The Sudden Adult)

Grow Up and Buy Your Own Groceries (The Responsible One)

How to Survive Plane Trips (The Sudden Adult)

How to Make a List of Goals (The Responsible One)

How to Stop Whining and Make a Damn Appointment (The Responsible One)

Miscellaneous

What to Expect from the Hell that is Jury Duty (The Responsible One)

Relationships

Marriage: What the Fuck Does It Mean and How the Hell Do I Know When I’m Ready? (Guest post - The Northwest Adult)

How Fucked Are You for Moving In with Your Significant Other: An Interview with an Actual Real-Life Couple Living Together™ (mintypineapple and catastrofries)

Travel & Vehicles

How to Winterize Your Piece of Shit Vehicle (The Responsible One)

How to Make Public Transportation Your Bitch (The Responsible One)

Other Blog Features

Apps for Asshats

Harsh Truths & Bitter Reminders

Asks I’ll Probably Need to Refer People to Later

Apartments (or Life Skills) - How Not to Live in Filth (The Sudden Adult)

Finances - Tax Basics (The Responsible One)

Important Documents - How to Get a Copy of Your Birth Certificate (The Responsible One)

Important Documents - How to Get a Replacement ID (The Responsible One)

Health - How to Deal with a Chemical Burn (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting - List of Jobs Based on Social Interaction Levels (The Sudden Adult)

Job Hunting - How to Avoid Falling into a Pit of Despair While Job Hunting (The Responsible One)

Job Hunting - Questions to Ask in an Interview (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - First-Time Flying Tips (The Sudden Adult)

Life Skills - How to Ask a Good Question (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - Reasons to Take a Foreign Language (The Responsible One)

Life Skills - Opening a Bar Tab (The Sudden Adult)

Relationships - Long Distance Relationships: How to Stay in Contact (The Responsible One)

Adult Cheat Sheet:

what to do if your pet gets lost

removing stains from your carpet

how to know if you’re eligible for food stamps

throwing a dinner party

i’m pregnant, now what?

first aid tools to keep in your house

how to keep a clean kitchen

learning how to become independent from your parents

job interview tips

opening your first bank account

what to do if you lose your wallet

tips for cheap furniture

easy ways to cut your spending

selecting the right tires for your car

taking out your first loan

picking out the right credit card

how to get out of parking tickets

how to fix a leaky faucet

get all of your news in one place

getting rid of mice & rats in your house

when to go to the e.r.

buying your first home

how to buy your first stocks

guide to brewing coffee

first apartment essentials checklist

coping with a job you hate

30 books to read before you’re 30

what’s the deal with retirement?

difference between insurances

Once you’ve looked over all those cool links, I have some general advice for you on how you can have some sort of support system going for you:

Reasons to move out of home

You may decide to leave home for many different reasons, including:

wishing to live independently

location difficulties – for example, the need to move closer to university

conflict with your parents

being asked to leave by your parents.

Issues to consider when moving out of home

It’s common to be a little unsure when you make a decision like leaving home. You may choose to move, but find that you face problems you didn’t anticipate, such as:

Unreadiness – you may find you are not quite ready to handle all the responsibilities.

Money worries – bills including rent, utilities like gas and electricity and the cost of groceries may catch you by surprise, especially if you are used to your parents providing for everything. Debt may become an issue.

Flatmate problems – issues such as paying bills on time, sharing housework equally, friends who never pay board, but stay anyway, and lifestyle incompatibilities (such as a non-drug-user flatting with a drug user) may result in hostilities and arguments.

Your parents may be worried

Think about how your parents may be feeling and talk with them if they are worried about you. Most parents want their children to be happy and independent, but they might be concerned about a lot of different things. For example:

They may worry that you are not ready.

They may be sad because they will miss you.

They may think you shouldn’t leave home until you are married or have bought a house.

They may be concerned about the people you have chosen to live with.

Reassure your parents that you will keep in touch and visit regularly. Try to leave on a positive note. Hopefully, they are happy about your plans and support your decision.

Tips for a successful move

Tips include:

Don’t make a rash decision – consider the situation carefully. Are you ready to live independently? Do you make enough money to support yourself? Are you moving out for the right reasons?

Draw up a realistic budget – don’t forget to include ‘hidden’ expenses such as the property’s security deposit or bond (usually four weeks’ rent), connection fees for utilities, and home and contents insurance.

Communicate – avoid misunderstandings, hostilities and arguments by talking openly and respectfully about your concerns with flatmates and parents. Make sure you’re open to their point of view too – getting along is a two-way street.

Keep in touch – talk to your parents about regular home visits: for example, having Sunday night dinner together every week.

Work out acceptable behaviour – if your parents don’t like your flatmate(s), find out why. It is usually the behaviour rather than the person that causes offence (for example, swearing or smoking). Out of respect for your parents, ask your flatmate(s) to be on their best behaviour when your parents visit and do the same for them.

Ask for help – if things are becoming difficult, don’t be too proud to ask your parents for help. They have a lot of life experience.

If your family home does not provide support

Not everyone who leaves home can return home or ask their parents for help in times of trouble. If you have been thrown out of home or left home to escape abuse or conflict, you may be too young or unprepared to cope.

If you are a fostered child, you will have to leave the state-care system when you turn 18, but you may not be ready to make the sudden transition to independence.

If you need support, help is available from a range of community and government organisations. Assistance includes emergency accommodation and food vouchers. If you can’t call your parents or foster parents, call one of the associations below for information, advice and assistance.

Where to get help

Your doctor

Kids Helpline Tel. 1800 55 1800

Lifeline Tel. 13 11 44

Home Ground Services Tel. 1800 048 325

Relationships Australia Tel. 1300 364 277

Centrelink Crisis or Special Help Tel. 13 28 50

Tenants Union of Victoria Tel. (03) 9416 2577

Things to remember

Try to solve any problems before you leave home. Don’t leave because of a fight or other family difficulty if you can possibly avoid it.

Draw up a realistic budget that includes ‘hidden’ expenses, such as bond, connection fees for utilities, and home and contents insurance.

Remember that you can get help from a range of community and government organizations.

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Keep me updated? xx

#irl #ref

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some of u need to delete twitter and just fucking read articles. i did some very uhmm nerd activities for 2 yrs in school and spent time researching international stuff every day, here are the news/informational sites that i consider to be the best (unbiased, accurate, analytic, etc) and how to read them:

don’t forget to research the publications themselves, al jazeera for example is great but don’t expect to find criticism of Qatar because they’re funded by their government. every good news site has to get funding from somewhere, meaning they likely have a big corporation on the board/providing funding, which is why it’s important to read more than one. also, sites like ap news or reuters are great for information/updates, but only reading those and not anything more analytical is harmful. and not every journalist is the same, just because they’re writing for a good publication doesn’t mean they’re a good journalist. anyways here’s the list

al jazeera, ap news, center for strategic and international studies, council on foreign relations, vox news , south china morning post, reuters, the diplomat, the atlantic, the economist, yale journal of international affairs, npr, the guardian, international consortium of investigative journalists, statista, global slavery index, asia times, africa check, nasa climate, intergovernmental panel on climate change (reports)

#academia

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in a time where palestinians in sheikh jarrah and other neighborhoods whose houses are on the precipice of being stolen and occupied by israeli settlers are literally ASKING people to amplify their voices so that their stories are heard so they have a fighting chance for a semblance of justice, it is outrageous and completely unacceptable for some to say that people aren’t required to have an “opinion” about the “israeli-palestinian conflict”

first of all call it what it is: the illegal israeli occupation of palestine. calling it a “conflict” is wrong, because implies that both parties are on equal footing and have equal power. understand and acknowledge that it is a colonial relationship of domination and subjugation. anyone telling you it’s a “clash of civilizations” and a culmination of a centuries old feud between two religions is misinforming you and also perpetuating the myth that the “conflicts” in the middle east are due to civilizational backwardness stemming from religion and archaic cultural practices

second, what happened to “if you’re neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor”? why are people so scared of non-neutrality and educating themselves when there is a whole robust academic field with scholars from all over establishing the history and politics of the occupation? if you need reading material here are some books/articles/scholars to start with:

Regina Sharif, Non-Jewish Zionism Hannah Arendt, “Zionism Reconsidered” Michael Selzer, The Aryanization of the Jewish State Walter Laqeuer, A History of Zionism Ali Abunimah, The Battle for Justice in Palestine Ella Shohat, "Sephardim in Israel: Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims" Michael Hart, Social Science and the Politics of Modern Jewish Identity Edward Said, The Question of Palestine Lenni Brenner, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators, A Reappraisal Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity Joseph Massad, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question Shlomo Sand, The Invention of the Jewish People Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun Ghassan Kanafani, Returning to Haifa Sara Roy, The Gaza Strip. The Political Economy of De-Development Neve Gordon, Israel’s Occupation Jeroen Gunning, Hamas in Politics Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel

you should be able to find most if not all the books on libgen.is

finally, if you can’t do that, then keep up with the people on the ground in sheikh jarrah who are providing updates on the situation: journalists mohammad el-kurd @m7mdkurd and muna el-kurd @munakurd.13 based in occupied jerusalem

#palestine #bookshelf #j #global #colonialism

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Yesterday, Israel bombed one of the biggest bookshops in Gaza. The Samir Mansour bookshop was one of the few publishing houses in Gaza as well. I saw a video of the owner of the bookshop fighting tears and talking about how much this bookshop meant to him and how he used to skip meals to be able to save money to get this bookshop going. This bookshop was part of the Kahil building which had various stores and offices.

In another video that was circulating, a guy from Gaza was explaining why Israel targets these buildings and towers. Every day you hear about a building targeted and leveled. He explains that these towers have been the main destination for the youth of Gaza as they usually contain coffee shops, bookshops, restaurants, educational and learning centres. So by destroying them, Israel is destroying memories and any potential for communal relationships.

This is what we mean when we say Israel is not only committing a full blown genocide as we have been witnessing publicly for days now, with over 200 deaths in the span of a week (as of May 19, 2021), but also this other form of incremental genocide that has been ongoing for decades; even when Israel isn’t bombing Gaza on a daily basis, there has always been an effort to erase Palestinian history and culture, from appropriating tatreez and the Palestinian cuisine to destroying literary works.

Highly recommend watching The Great Book Robbery documentary for more on that as it goes into the details about Israel’s appropriation of Palestinian books during the Nakba.

Erasing culture is an essential component of settler-colonialism, and what Israel is targeting in Gaza right now is by no means coincidental or “accidental”.

#ref #to watch #palestine

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If you’re genuinely interested in learning more about settler colonialism and answering questions like “wait what does land back look like?” “What can I do?” and “What are the contexts informing this and why do Indigenous people reject being part of the US/Canada?” there are free syllabi online which can answer these questions (they will not answer it directly, the point is to get you to think for yourself and ask more questions that can lead you to thinking more deeply about this and how you can personally take action towards better practices of solidarity)

Here’s the Standing Rock Syllabus:

https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com/standingrocksyllabus/

Allyship and Solidarity Guidelines of Unsettling America:

https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/allyship/

Towards Decolonization and Settler Responsibility:

https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/2016/10/04/towards-decolonization-and-settler-responsibility-reflections-on-a-decade-of-indigenous-solidarity-organizing/

Sample Syllabi of the DEcolonization Resource Collection:

https://nationalhistorycenter.org/decolonization-resource-collection-sample-syllabi/