Mona Eltahawy

Making conflict worth prolonging…

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:18:41 -0400

Making conflict worth prolonging…

#FeministRyanGosling

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:18:10 -0400

#FeministRyanGosling

"I had just broken up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment in Oakland with a German woman I..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:35:31 -0400

“I had just broken up with my boyfriend and moved into an apartment in Oakland with a German...

therumpus: Today is Cher’s birthday and that means its a...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:05:51 -0400

therumpus:

Today is Cher’s birthday and that means its a special Cher edition of Madame Clairevoyant, courtesy of her bad-ass illustrator Jen May.

Aries: This week is going to be about sincerity and about wonder, so much so that it’ll be almost embarrassing. This feeling can be overwhelming and weird, but this week it will also be bracing, cleansing, to let yourself feel this stunned, this small, in the face of everything that exists in this world. Read books that make you feel young. Go to the tops of the buildings, climb up hills, so you can see for miles. Visit to the Natural History Museum, go to the aquarium, walk to the woods, find a desert.

Taurus: This week’s going to be about work, about patience, about being open to the world in a way that might be a little frustrating and might be a little exhilarating. This week the world is going to make demands of you. The spaces you move through, the people you know, will ask for your sweat and for your love. Try to give these things; try to give exactly as much as you’re able. More than ever, this week, more than you can even imagine, everything you give will be paid back.

Gemini: This week’s going to be a little hazy, a little thoughtful, a little strange. It’s good time for brooding and a good time for moving. Retrace your steps. Find ways of being and ways of feeling you thought you lost. Listen to the mix cds you made five years ago; listen to the ones you made a decade ago; listen to the different rhythms that have held your life in place, that anchored you to the ground, that pulled you up to the sky.

Cancer: This week, you’re going to be overwhelmed by love for the people and places and mountains and cities in your life, overwhelmed by feelings that are strong enough to knock you over. It’s a good week to do what you want to do, it’s a good week to do everything for the people you love, it’s a good week to watch lightning in the sky and believe in miracles. It’s a rare and magical thing, this kind of heady generosity, this strange power. Let it make you kind; let it make you wild.

Leo: This week will be filled with slow sunrises and bright afternoons and long blue evenings; the earth and the air are going to be kind to you this week. This week is a time for you to trust the things your own body feels, the things your body knows. The world is going to be clear and expansive and bright, and it’ll feel good, right, to be intentional, to be sure of yourself, to be safe, to be generous. Read Marilyn Chin, read Warsan Shire. Let them set you on fire.

Virgo: This week is going to be about friendship, about love, about the people you share your world with. It’s going to be a bright week, a warm week, a week for you to share your secrets, to share your food, to give all the different kinds of love you know how to give. It’s also a week to take good care of yourself, in the bright tangle and mess of so much wild love. Spend some moments alone, spend some moments thinking about nothing, spend some moments listening to the silence outside your window at night.

Libra: You might feel a little down this week, you might feel a little weird, you might feel like the balance of your world has shifted, like it’s left you spinning and stumbling to find your footing on this new plane. This is a good week for learning to take up space in a different way, for learning new moves, quick or slow or slanted, to take you through the streets of your life. It’s a good week to be around other people; it’s a good week for listening. Read about trees, read about whales, watch Star Trek.

Scorpio: This week is going to be glowing and wide and wonderful; it’s a ripe time to cultivate new kinds of strangeness, new kinds of powers. Spend your days walking around alone or talking to strangers in the park, in the coffee shop, in the mall. Spend your nights exploring the weirdest and brightest parts of your brain. Wear clothes that are loud or clothes that make you invisible or strong and strange perfume. Watch movies about witches; watch movies about monsters. Read The Cyborg Manifesto.

Sagittarius: This week, when you’re not even expecting it—when you’re distracted by the cloudy sky or the sounds of car alarms outside your window—you’re going to find a sudden sturdy feeling of clarity. Try not to look too hard for it or everything will start to seem like clutter, like noise, like nothing. Just keep living your life and while you’re on the bus home from work or while you’re cooking dinner or while you’re waking up in the morning, the world will come into focus. It’ll all be clear and airy and bright, and you’ll know what you have to do.

Capricorn: This week, the world you live in might look a little dim, a little drab, compared to how the future looks to you, compared to the colors that are waiting for you on some distant day, compared to the bright sunlight on the tops of the trees, compared to the cool quiet mornings. Try not to get so worked up over it, try to remember how good it is to feel this kind of hope, how good these dreamy days are. Spend your days in the library, spend your time looking at photographs of faces and maps of the moon.

Aquarius: This week is going to mark some kind of shift for you, some kind of brightening, a sweet and surprising change. Spend your days outside and feel the way the air touches your skin. Spend your days at the ocean and fall asleep at night feeling salty and clean. Spend your days driving to places you’ve never been before, cooking things you’ve never made before, dreaming weird and brilliant dreams you’ve never quite dared to have before. The world is going to be good to you, this week. Take advantage of it. Get joyful, get weird, get wild.

Pisces: This week you’re going to find yourself wanting to do nothing but talk and tell stories and share everything with everyone, every thought you’ve ever had, everything you’ve ever felt. This week, talking’s going to make you feel lighter, talking will make you feel free. It’s a good week to write weird emails to everyone you’ve ever loved, or to write strange small poems about joy and madness, or to stay up late out on the porch, talking to your friends or your dog or yourself. Sing in the shower. Sing in the car. Listen to Rihanna.

"I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way."

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:04 -0400

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.” - Simone de Beauvoir (via...

Prison Reform Movement: David Silva- beat to death by cops while begging for his life...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:26:50 -0400

Prison Reform Movement: David Silva- beat to death by cops while begging for his life...:...

motherjones: theamericanprospect: fastcompany: The sitting...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:56 -0400

motherjones:

theamericanprospect:

fastcompany:

The sitting Congress has the most women of any in history. Artist Emily Nemens is capturing each of them in paint, and using their likenesses in graphics to show how far we still have to go to bring gender equality to Washington.

The women of Congress, in fabulous watercolor infographics

This is awesome. Ladies in the HOUSE. No, really. Record number of ladies in the House!

O hai Tammy Duckworth

Prison Reform Movement: This is Zero Tolerance in effect…

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:12:31 -0400

Prison Reform Movement: This is Zero Tolerance in effect…: prisonreformmovement: Uncle Sam’s...

anniewerner: at Tumblr HQ

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:57 -0400

anniewerner:

at Tumblr HQ

Everyday Neruda: 121 I Have Gone Marking

Mon, 20 May 2013 09:21:42 -0400

Everyday Neruda: 121 I Have Gone Marking: neruda-daily: He Ido Marcando translated by M.S....

Because the Night: Patti Smith Group

Mon, 20 May 2013 07:24:54 -0400

Because the Night: Patti Smith Group

thereconstructionists: Few artists have done more to...

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:06:44 -0400

thereconstructionists:

Few artists have done more to reconstruct the course of contemporary culture than Patti Smith (b. December 30 1946). Celebrated as the “Godmother of Punk,” her musical influence reverberates across acclaimed artists from Garbage to Morrissey to Madonna, and Michael Stipe famously cited her as the core inspiration for founding R.E.M. As a poet and visual artist, she has explored with lyrical poignancy issues of irrepressible urgency, ranging from foreign policy to mortality.

Among Smith’s greatest feats it the systematic demolition of the the perilous and artificial divide between “high” and “low” culture. In 1978, her song “Because the Night” from the groundbreaking album Horses reached #13 on the Billboard 100 chart; in 2010, her remarkable memoir Just Kids earned her the National Book Award. William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud have inspired much of her music, which has moved generations of hearts and bodies across dance floors and mosh pits. In 2005, she was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture; in 2006, she brought down the house at CBGB’s with an extraordinary 3½-hour masterpiece of a performance. The following year, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Allen Ginsberg once bought her a sandwich in the East Village after mistaking her for “a very pretty boy.”

In the decades between Horses (1975) and Banga (2012), Smith recorded nine other studio albums, delivered countless poetry readings, and authored a number of books, including the breathtaking The Coral Sea, which chronicles her grief over the loss of her onetime lover, lifelong friend, and comrade-in-artistic-arms Robert Mapplethorpe.

In Just Kids, which documents how Smith found her creative voice during her early life with Mapplethorpe when both were aspiring artists in New York City, she articulates the singular duality of her muse:

It’s the artist’s responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

Learn more: Just Kids | Wikipedia

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Sun, 19 May 2013 22:41:42 -0400

My happy place, aged 11

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:13:57 -0400

My happy place, aged 11

millionsmillions: Ireland debuted a new stamp featuring a...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:34:40 -0400

millionsmillions:

Ireland debuted a new stamp featuring a 224-word short story written by Dublin teenager Eoin Moore. That’s right. Ireland’s so bookish that even its postage is literary.

Knife edge

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:02:00 -0400

Egyptian woman carrying blade during a protest earlier this year against sexual violence vs women....

Ode to Laziness - Pablo Neruda

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:30:21 -0400

Yesterday I felt that my ode wouldn’t get up off the ground. It was time, it should at...

I am staying on Tumblr, but...

Sun, 19 May 2013 16:08:28 -0400

paulmasonnews: If they try to own my data, or integrate it with any other Yahoo service, I will...

therumpus: DRAWING DAILY SUNDAY EDITION: MINIMALISTIC SUNDAY by...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:12:30 -0400

therumpus:

DRAWING DAILY SUNDAY EDITION: MINIMALISTIC SUNDAY by Steven Kraan.

Everyday Neruda: 120 Your Breast Is Enough

Sun, 19 May 2013 03:55:46 -0400

Everyday Neruda: 120 Your Breast Is Enough: neruda-daily: Para Mi Corazon translated by M.S....