can’t criticize plastic surgery as an institution because it’s none of your business if a woman wants to “fix” her insecurities. can’t criticize the makeup industry or beauty standards because some women feel good when they shave and wear makeup. can’t bring up the challenges women face in the workplace because some women want to be stay at home wives instead of working. everything a woman does is automatically feminist and we shouldn’t stop to think about the context surrounding her actions because that would be misogynistic. here’s what i had for girl dinner. according to my girl math the barbie movie was a revolutionary piece of feminist media. i may not show it but i feel the life slowly draining from me day by day.

transsexuals will be like is anyone else gonna relate to the minotaur

i see your face in every crowd. i see your profile and your smile on unsuspecting waiters. now i’m searching for signs in a haunted club. i thought i saw you at the bus stop, i didn’t though. chasing shadows in the grocery line. i’m still at the restaurant.

i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing

glenn dean, landscapes of the west / user @petrichara

you made crusty bread rolls… by gary johnson

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

between autumn equinox and winter solstice, today by Emily Jungmin Yoon

"Oranges" - Gary Soto, June 1983

one of my very favorite poems. that last line slays me. it has stayed with me for years and years.

Natalie Haynes, from 'Stone Blind'

From the play "Eurydice" by Sarah Ruhl.

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

grabbing every 13 yo girl by the arms and yelling "YOU LOOK FINE !!!!!!! DON'T SPEND UR ALLOWANCE ON CONCEALERS GO SEE A BAD MOVIE INSTEAD !!!!!!!!!!! BEAUTY IS POETRY AND SONGS AND LAUGHTER W FRIENDS AND COLORFUL LEAVES !!!!!!!!!! GO READ A MARY OLIVER POEM AND YOU'LL BE OK!!!!!!!!!"

not for riches but for love medieval posie ring

"John Waters Is Ready for His Hollywood Closeup", The New Yorker

a slow week