inexplicable beauty

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:31:08 -0400

““There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.””

- Ernest Hemingway (via gildedprep)

This IS how I feel about today. I wish I were at the studio...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:32:53 -0400

This IS how I feel about today. I wish I were at the studio right now.

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Mila Kunis: You Dont Say http://bit.ly/12V1xXB

jungillest: can we stop blaming poor people for buying cheap products that were made in sweatshops?...

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 07:43:35 -0400

jungillest:

can we stop blaming poor people for buying cheap products that were made in sweatshops? can we stop acting like alternatives to products that are made through things like child labor are always accessible and/or affordable? can we stop talking like participation in the game of capitalism is always a choice made willingly and not something poor people are forced to play a part in even when they don’t want to?

Let’s work for food justice by donating good food to...

Tue, 28 May 2013 11:29:38 -0400

Let’s work for food justice by donating good food to people experiencing homelessness.

marywilliams: My Brachiosaurus reconstructions. The musculature...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:54:19 -0400

marywilliams:

My Brachiosaurus reconstructions. The musculature is based heavily off of our extant friend the giraffe. I’ll finish this series off with the skin—I’ll hopefully start and finish it today and have it up here sometime next week. :)

theniftyfifties: Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on the cover...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:19:14 -0400

theniftyfifties:

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck on the cover of Picturegoer magazine, October 1952.

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:27:26 -0400

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”

- Rosa Luxemburg (via downbeatlove)

WHEN CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS ASK SILLY QUESTIONS

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:27:07 -0400

everydayimpastoring:

I reply to them all like

WHEN ONE OF MY PROGRESSIVE CLERGY FRIENDS PROCEEDS TO MANSPLAIN SOMETHING IN RESPONSE MY POST ON FACEBOOK

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:29:28 -0400

everydayimpastoring:

(Usually in an attempt to appear smarter or more justice-driven.)
(Note: Women can mansplain, too.)

THIS. You can try bigger words and more of them. I am fine with it. It won’t make you right and it won’t make you smarter than me.

mikeatron: Electric Lazer Dinosaur Jumprope disaster! (Fuck it,...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:08:42 -0400

mikeatron:

Electric Lazer Dinosaur Jumprope disaster! (Fuck it, I’m going to keep posting until I have to make more art to show you)

"It is sometimes so bitterly cold in the winter that one says, `The cold is too awful for me to care..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:42:29 -0400

“It is sometimes so bitterly cold in the winter that one says, `The cold is too awful for me to care whether summer is coming or not; the harm outdoes the good.’ But with or without our approval, the severe weather does come to an end eventually and one fine morning the wind changes and there is the thaw. When I compare the state of the weather to our state of mind and our circumstances, subject to change and fluctuation like the weather, then I still have some hope that things may get better.”

- Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Theo van Gogh in August 1879 (via awritersruminations)

katiepdx: The flowers outside my door are so geometric Did you...

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:40:29 -0400

katiepdx:

The flowers outside my door are so geometric

Did you get that flower from outer space, Katie? How wild.

ardora: Kathleen Cleaver, one of the Black Panther women

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:38:44 -0400

ardora:

Kathleen Cleaver, one of the Black Panther women

HRC and Me—Issues with Marriage Equality

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:56:16 -0400

HRC and Me—Issues with Marriage Equality

Acting Out Of Love...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:57:54 -0400

fabianromero:

acting out of love isn’t about being nice. sometimes it is asking people to change because they are hurtful or insensitive, racist or oppressive. it is pushing people to grow and rethink their behavior.

love is many things but when its limited to being nice, manipulation can easily be labeled love.

fabian romero- indigenous immigrant queer boi writer

"There is a very common reason that people do not visit or call others who are in pain: they simply..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:28:47 -0400

“There is a very common reason that people do not visit or call others who are in pain: they simply don’t what what to say…And so often we choose not to call, not to visit. Our culture doesn’t know what what to do with silence. Silence frightens us. It unveils an intensity that we are not used to facing…If we can get over our fear of silence, if we can learn to embrace it, we will soon come to see that silence is where God lives”

- Rabbi Naomi Levy, To Begin Again p.54 (via revnaomiking)

my conclusions are not always pleasant: muckrakingiswomenswork: i mean proper crediting of sources is just...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:47:58 -0500

my conclusions are not always pleasant: muckrakingiswomenswork: i mean proper crediting of sources is just...:

muckrakingiswomenswork:

i mean proper crediting of sources is just baseline

and crediting/citation is used to protect the supposed integrity of the researcher/academic/writer themselves

to protect THEM from being accused of plagarism NOT to protect the source of the information

so…

this sums up the injury to my friends the zinesters, the poets, the scrawlers…

What does it mean to be a seminarian of color?

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:04:00 -0500

Joan Amtoft-Nielsen is a physician who works with cancer patients. She borrows words from Mother Teresa to express how she connects action with service:

“Ironically, we can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch. This was Mother Teresa’s basic message: “We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.”

For the explanation of how action is a context for my call, I must look beyond the surface of how Unitarian Universalism. Though, as Unitarian Universalists, we aspire to be multicultural, my experience is largely of a white dominant culture. (I am, for example, the only Latin@ student in my year at seminary.) It would be easy to speak generally to action; instead, I believe that a mujerista context, Latin@ feminist theology, reflects closely values that are aligned with my culture, such as contemplation and growth in community. Ada Maria Asisi-Diaz summarizes the mujerista theological perspective this way:

“Mujerista theology encompasses the way grass-roots Hispanic women understand the divine and grapple with questions of ultimate meaning in their daily lives. Theological reflection cannot be separated from theological action. Therefore, mujerista theology is a praxis, which consists of two interlinked moments: action and reflection. Mujerista theology is a doing of theology that does not place reflection and articulation above action. Neither does mujerista theology see the theological enterprise as a second moment following the praxis, for all action, at the moment that it is taking place, has a reflective quality. Because mujerista theology is a praxis, it is, therefore, the community as a whole which engages in the theological enterprise#.

I am called to listen to the voices that are not heard as loudly as white voices are by those who are accustomed to being dominant voices. I am called to act for love and justice in a way that holds daily life as sacred as times of worship or times of meditation or study. I am called to preserve my identity as a Latin@ and to support others in preserving their cultural and theological identities. While I can provide these things for white congregants and colleagues as well, I am clear that being a Latin@ minister is, in part, a call to include the threads of narratives of many people and cultures. A poem from educator and activist Gabriela Mistral is a lyrical expression of my call:

Those Who Do Not Dance

A crippled child
Said, “How shall I dance?”
Let your heart dance
We said.

Then the invalid said:
“How shall I sing?”
Let your heart sing
We said

Then spoke the poor dead thistle,
But I, how shall I dance?”
Let your heart fly to the wind
We said.

Then God spoke from above
“How shall I descend from the blue?”
Come dance for us here in the light
We said.

All the valley is dancing
Together under the sun,
And the heart of him who joins us not
Is turned to dust, to dust.

tranqualizer: [photo: a pug has two front paws on the steering...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:38:03 -0500

tranqualizer:

[photo: a pug has two front paws on the steering of a car. the pug also has their tug sticking out.]

me when i whip around my mom van

"The question lesbian and gay people need to answer is not “Why are transgender issues suddenly..."

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:29:58 -0500

“The question lesbian and gay people need to answer is not “Why are transgender issues suddenly demanding so much attention?” but rather “Why have we abandoned transgender people and their concerns in our rush for equality?”.”

- Transgender Communities: Developing Identity Through Connection
Lev AI in Bieschke et al (2007)

This is for true. We can’t leave anyone behind—or, we must bring everyone along as we advance in rights.