LIL KITTY
My friend Chris is so brilliant. Chris, can I buy some of your art? You doodled in one of my journals once and I’m keeping it forever, but I need more.
Female privilege is having a popular movement for your rights (feminism) whereas men’s rights groups are basically treated like woman-hating nutters.
My boyfriend and I discuss this issue a lot. We’ve taken to calling ourselves gender egalitarians since we believe there are a lot of negative gender stereotypes/gender expectations for men as well (although I wouldn’t know personally). I’ve witnessed some men speaking out on being male and men’s rights and felt like they were woman-hating nutters, but there are plenty of men who are unafraid to speak openly about their problems as males and listen to female issues as well. Nothing is going to be accomplished from listening to only half the people in a community.
IT’S THE UNEMPLOYMENT FASHION SHOW WITH 22!
This is one of the most brilliant things I’ve seen in a while. Not surprised, just happy I watched it. You should too!
(via kaitrokowski)
Women are expected to be nice and sweet, to make other people feel comfortable. A woman who says ‘hey, I think there’s a problem here’ is being ‘negative.’ A woman who doesn’t smile while she’s being harassed is ‘humourless.’ A woman who prefers to stay focused on tasks is a ‘cold bitch.’ Significant gendering is involved here; women have an obligation to look and act a certain way and when they don’t, they need to be hassled until they do.
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Unknown (via grrl-meat)
Story of my work situation. Every time I bring up a problem at work, I’m turned into the villain… even if the problem is sexual harassment.
(Source: daughterofzami, via jayandsilentboob)
This Is What I Learned Today: This Is What I Learned in The Past Year
Some brilliance that I stumbled upon pretty randomly. This advice has helped me so much already.
I graduated from college nearly one year ago. Here’s what I’ve learned since then:
1. I love my parents.
2. I love my hometown.
3. I could never live with my parents.
4. I could never live in my hometown.
5. Taxes suck.
6. Realtors and Landlords suck.
7. Insurance is…
“A Letter to Alexander Graham Bell from his Deaf Wife, Mabel” a poem by Karly Fesolowich and winner of the Coaches Award for Best Persona Poem at CUPSI 2012.
Remember when I said I’d only post poetry videos here this month if you absolutely *had* to watch them? Well, today is the last day of NAPOWRIMO, and this is WORTH IT.
SUUUUUUUNY!
The Third Annual Wade-Lewis Poetry Slam Invitational is gonna be off the hook. Performances by Mo Browne, Eboni Hogan, Urban Lyrics, and One Way. Collegiate slam teams from all over this great nation including Wesleyan, UPenn, Dartmouth, Yale, Brown, Clark, Oneonta, and of course, New Paltz. This shit cray. You’re gonna want to be there. Tell your friends.
September
Organized and hosted my first slam… and it wasn’t a total failure! In fact it was really a lot of fun. I met Jon Sands, which was crazy. Other than that, there were more Rock Hawk slams, and that was fun stuff.
August
Dan and I went to Maine to visit my parents. We hiked through their backyard, rode in inner tubes up the river, ate and drank lots of lovely food and drinks. My dad proclaimed that someday this will all be mine. We bought a ton of liquor in New Hampshire on the way back because there’s no tax on alcohol in New Hampshire.
August was also the first Rock Hawk Slam. I got to see Mike Rosen and Josh Smith again. It was like falling back into an old and comfortable life. Slamming again was awesome, but I also realized that if I want to continue to do it, I’ll have to continue writing new three minute poems.
Speaking of poems, I also got 3 of my poems published in The Legendary in August. Woot! It was the first time I ever submitted anything anywhere. A month later, some of my other less amazing poems got rejected from a few other online poetry journals. That brought me back to reality finally after nearly a year of only accomplishments, and I realized that if I want to produce good writing, I’m gonna need to give each piece a lot more of my time. Anything good I’ve ever written has started out as a piece of crap that I slowly polished to gold.
