"My biggest trouble is that people look at me and think that no serious trouble has ever troubled my little head. They seldom realize the chaos that seethes behind my exterior."
- Sylvia Plath
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“The most frustrating, agonizing part of creative work, and the one we grapple with every day in practice, is our encounter with the gap between what we feel and what we can express.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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“Our stereotypical formula, “practice makes perfect,” carries with it some subtle and serious problems. We think of practice as an activity done in a special context to prepare for performance or the “real thing.” But if we split practice from the real thing, neither one of them will be very real. Through this split, many children have been irrevocably taught to hate the piano or violin or music itself by the pedantic drill of oppressively boring exercises. Many others have been taught to hate literature, mathematics, or the very idea of productive work.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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“We need to remember that no therapist heals a child: children heal themselves, but they can be helped to get in touch with their own healing mechanisms.”
Anne Bannister
Creative Therapies with Traumatized Children
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“Power comes from people building relationships and coalitions and fighting for their space.”
Rachel Casiano Hernandez
“Lessons for the Long Term: One Story of the Queer Appalachia Platform “
Published in Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
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“Disability may stem from injustice, but it is not itself injustice. To equate disability with suffering is to ignore the value of disability, disabled people, and disability culture.”
Rebecca-Eli Long
“An Appalachian Crip/Queer Environmental Engagement”
Published in Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
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“Queer organizing that works to move beyond recognition, inclusion, and rights and toward collective transformation predicated on a collective privileging of intersectional activism that seeks to root out systemic injustice is world-making.”
Heather Brydie Harris
“Home Grown: Critical Queer Activism in Appalachia and the South”
Published in Y’all Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
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me 🫱🏻🫲🏼 spending copious amounts of time organising my goodreads shelves
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“Creativity exists in the searching even more than in the finding or being found.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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“the steeplehouse, and the ground whereupon it stood were no more holy than that mountain” - the Journal of George Fox
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“Improvisation is acceptance, in a single breath, of both transience and eternity.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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“How does one learn improvisation? The only answer is to ask another question: What is stopping us? Spontaneous creation comes from our deepest being and is immaculately and originally ourselves. What we have to express is already with us, is us, so the work of creativity is not a matter of making the material come, but of unblocking the obstacles to its natural flow.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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“In a sense, all art is improvisation.”
Stephen Nachmanovitch
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
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“A society which cannot tolerate genderbending or cross- dressing ultimately will not tolerate homosexuality, bisexuality, or any other deviance from sexual or gender norms, no matter how closeted or assimilated.”
- Dagger: On Butch Women, 1994
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“The n… th day God regretted having created Heaven and Earth.
He wanted to destroy his work. But it had fallen into the public domain.
So he descended in himself, divided himself into three to diminish his responsibility, invented the Serpent – and changed pseudonyms.”
Claude Cahun
Disavowals
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“We get the god we deserve, unfortunately for us.”
Claude Cahun
Disavowals
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“Children today fear only one thing: That their dreams will come true.”
Claude Cahun
Disavowals
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