February 2011
8 posts
warsan versus melancholy →
warsanshire:
for 2011 i decided i would create a joy blog. to document all the small defining moments of unrefined effortless joy. sometimes there is so much sorrow that we can’t remember when the world was at our mercy. when each part of our body was submerged in such deep euphoria that we were just laughter with limbs, existing within that moment. i want to pay homage to the love we as humans...
Everything I've Ever Wanted to Tell You About Your... →
dearcoketalk:
you shouldn’t be such a bitch about grammar. only uppity 15 year old ‘gifted’ girls who reblog harry potter do that. as long as one is intelligible, whatever dude. some of the greatest writers of all time have ignored many facets of grammar. it doesn’t make you an idiot. it just means you are…
On Toni (And Happy Belated 80th Birthday)
You knew, didn’t you, how I needed your language and the mind that formed it? How I relied on your fierce courage to tame wildernesses for me?
Toni Morrison, in her eulogy for James Baldwin
While Toni was speaking of her friend (and another one of my writer-heroes) James Baldwin, the above quotation captures in no small part the myriad, un-nameable ways I feel indebted to writers like...
Because I'm so daggone tired of conservative... →
Ten years ago, after George W. Bush was sworn in as president, he almost instantly rolled back abortion-rights polices and appointments. I suggested in a column that, for President Bush’s first Presidents Day in the White House, Americans who disagreed with the president but agree with his wife, Laura (who is for abortion rights, as are Nancy Reagan, Betty Ford and Condoleezza Rice) should...
