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nobody does chapter titles like charles dickens
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A Burst of Light, Audre Lorde
Anonymous asked:
Am I to understand that you--a lover of books, reading, and free expression--are now advocating for censorship? That we should now all start boycotting authors who may have expressed an opinion different from our own?
That list you shared is 21st Century McCarthyism at its worst.
Barbara Kingslover MAY be a Zionist--it's unclear because she hasn't made an actual statement--no sources--but let's put her on the 'danger' list anyway.
Because only those who participate in "Books for Gaza" are fighting the true fight.
What's next? A good old-fashioned book burning? And unless you pledge allegiance to the new kids in charge, repeating the correct phrases and dancing the latest jig, you will be added to the pyre?
How does any of this help the people of Gaza?
All it says under Kingsolver is that she is "allegedly pro Palestine" and that it's "unclear." I would hope that people looking at the list have the critical reading skills to figure out what the word unclear means. All I did was share a post providing information. People can do what they want with it. At the end of the day people will spend their money as they see fit. Idk it makes sense to me that people don't want their money to go to someone who could then use that money for something they don't want to support. I imagine Kingsolver is doing just fine anyway.
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You should never have shame about your academic journey. It's a journey. You're growing and learning. You're going to face challenges alone for one of the first times in your life. Shit's hard. It's ok to struggle.
I haven't had a pretty journey at all. I'm graduating with a bachelor's degree at 25. I've been in college nonstop since I was 18. I've failed a lot of classes and had to go part time. So many things have happened. But I will have the degree. And that degree is worth the exact same as someone who got it in 3 years. The knowledge I have is mine to keep.
How I got here doesn't matter. I'm here. I am going to graduate in a few months. I have won this chapter of my life. And to those who try to shame me for how I got here and how long it took, I pray that you never experience the things I have that have made it take long. May you live a life of comfort and luxury and have hands soft as silk until you die. And hopefully I will get the same grace from the universe eventually.
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when the warmer weather starts it's like, this is it. it's time to start reading a fuck-off huge novel and cart it around various parks to read throughout the summer
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would encourage people to follow @ booksagainstgenocide on instagram. they post about the big five publishers’ complicity in israeli apartheid and occupation of palestine + western literary culture’s broader participation in legitimising israel as a state and zionism as an ideology
additionally, here is a well curated google doc list with information on whether your favourite author is a zionist (or not), backed up w sources u can message the op (@/moyurireads) on twitter if you have further contributions
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six graders to their english language arts teacher
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“Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable—your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers—and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves.”
— Richard Siken, Editor’s Pages: Black Telephone
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prince with a thousand enemies
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1996 Wishbone Stickers (via: eBay)
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"um actually Penelope didn't recognize Odysseus until after he killed all the suitors" to YOU to me she knew the moment she asked him who he was and he started lying out his ass
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Feeling normal about Javert and Eponine today
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why do modern retellings always try to make the source material less fucked up. what if i wanted to make it worse. ovid style.
Anonymous asked:
post about whatever! im in grad school hell and love to see other ppl out here burning. solidarity
my condolences to you
Anonymous asked:
Why aren't you posting on Tumblr like you used to? Come back!
Just general busyness, I guess. I'm not reading much literature these days because I need to be writing. The only things I have to talk about are grad school related, and I don't know how many people are interested in hearing about that all the time. This was never really meant to be a grad blog. I guess if people are interested I could post about my daily grad school work, but I've gotten out of practice of doing so & starting up again knowing 50k people are following this blog is a little unnerving tbh!
That, and whenever I'm not working I'm playing Pokemon.