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Books read this month

I had a baby, so reading went on the backburner. It took me almost all month to finish The Hobbit because my mind is made of soup right now and concentrating is hard.

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Books I read this month

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#longread #feminism

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your library | @myjetpack

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college gothic

someone in your class mentions communism. they speak about it at length. you are in biology class.

you text your mother. she does not respond for 3 days. you text her again and then realize that it has only been 2 hours since your first text.

freshmen travel in packs. what are they afraid of.

your class is in room 153. the numbers start at 201. you cannot find the first floor.

someone is talking about communism. it is not the same person as last time. this is an english class.

your transcript says you have an A in philosophy 3310. you do not remember taking this class. what did you learn? what did you do?

you meet your elevator buddy. you do not speak. you never do. you ride in silence. one day, they are not there. you miss them.

your advisor refers you to the registrar. the registrar refers you to admissions. admissions refers you to both the registrar and your advisor. you have spoken to two people who do not exist and one who has been dead for ten years.

the boy who sits next to you wears the same clothes everyday. you think this is strange but when you mention it, he tells you that this is the first time he has worn this outfit. you realize that you have lived this day before.

you pass someone sleeping in the quad. he has always been there. stop looking at him.

someone answers, “communism.” it is not someone who has been previously mentioned. the question was, “what is an example of the art of ancient greece?”

you have a doppelganger on campus. you have never met them. they know all of your friends.

the seniors speak only to professors. their eyes are dead. they have given up the safety of the pack long ago.

the professor is talking about STD’s. your math class is very strange.

the powerpoint is in comic sans. you suspect that your economics professor is an extraterrestrial being after all.

“communism,” the man serving you lunch insists. wearily you nod. that’s what everyone says.

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Books I finished this month - it took me FOREVER to get through these, and I gave up on Bad Feminist half way through because it was not what I wanted to read and not interesting at all.

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Source

To clarify: she’s not talking about “framing” as in “falsely accuse of a crime.” She means, “when we think about rape we are focusing on “how did she (our daughter, our sister) let this happen to her,” and not “why did he (our brother, our father) do this?!?”

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Colorized photos of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, circa 1920s.

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Social Media Bingo Write something about feminism on social media. Mark the square when you see the comment. Play alone or with friends! So much fun! Source: The Nib

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Animal Species Illustration Posters by Kelsey Oseid on Etsy

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Over one million migrants crossed the Mediterranean Sea in 2015. The majority were Syrian refugees who had fled to Turkey and were now fleeing to Greece. Many of these migrants purchased life jackets, but unbeknownst to them, thousands of these life jackets were fake. In fact, some were even packaged with sponge.

Thousands of these life jackets are now piled on the Greek island of Lesbos, leaving behind a grim reminder of those that perished in the water while attempting to escape their war-torn countries. Over 1,500 life jackets are discarded there. Each one symbolises a life. According to the International Organisation for Migration, over 3,700 migrants perished while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in 2015.

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me: i should show more temperance in how i express myself politically in these dangerous times

also me making small talk, on a first date or at a drive thru window:

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"Why do we go out? Because if what we want more than anything is to attain self-confidence, health, energy, and peace of mind, we should stay in. We could be like little Buddhas, meditating and masturbating and watching TV. And we could imagine ourselves to be brilliant, and kind, and good speakers, and good listeners, and utterly loving – and there would be no way to prove it otherwise."

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"The left will always need its journals and polemic and academic writing, but there are times when it is both right and proper to terrify the bourgeoisie with your own feralness. Reclaiming vulgarity from the Trumps of the world is imperative because if we do not embrace the profane now and again, we will find ourselves handicapped by our own civility. Vulgarity is the language of the people, and so it should be among the grammars of the left, just as it has been historically, to wield righteously against the corrupt and the powerful. We cannot cede vulgarity to the vulgarians; collegial intellectuals will always be niche, but class war need not be."

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Society grows great when old people* plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

Greek proverb

Photo: Steven Godfrey (* The original quote uses the word ‘men’ rather than people. Planting trees is a responsibility of all of us; not just some of us. 🌳)

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#anthropology #labor #childbirth #pregnancy