aniknik

"This is a poem about rain, not you, so you will forgive me if I only refer to you in the..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:19:09 -0400

“This is a poem about rain,
not you,
so you will forgive me
if I only refer to you in the oblique,
fleetingly,
between the L-shaped sounds
of water,
shadowy places,
and a cerise sky.
Sometimes,
when the night is deep
you are out on the streets
and I’m waiting for sleep,
I send out rain
to follow you,
lopsidedly, as if a kind
ghost, as if through an
hourglass
you were seeing
sand at a slant.
So if I open the window a little,
swaying against glass,
test the air
for a possibility of rain,
perhaps you will forget
how, sometimes,
rain is complicated,
rain can break you if it wants.
Who knew, one night
rain under streetlamps
would aspire to the condition
of glow-worms?
This rain is a letter,
how it pulses through,
angling words
out of the slow scent of raw earth,
sudden lights.
But this poem is rain,
on you.”

- C.S. Bhagya, “On Rain” (via larmoyante)

"The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:17:42 -0400

“The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

- Milan Kundera (via tattoolit)

"Self-confidence and self-love come from within. You can’t love another person so hard that your..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:17:24 -0400

“Self-confidence and self-love come from within. You can’t love another person so hard that your perception of them seeps into their subconscious and affects how they view themselves.”

- Anonymous, Let’s Not Sexualize Insecurity (via larmoyante)

"You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:16:34 -0400

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”

- Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty (via larmoyante)

"I think understanding of sexual consent—what it is, why it matters—is sorely lacking in society and..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:15:45 -0400

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I think understanding of sexual consent—what it is, why it matters—is sorely lacking in society and crucially important.

These two really, really need to go together. If abstinence-only sex ed is like driver’s ed without talking about cars, then sex ed without talking about consent is like driver’s ed where they show you the gas and the brake, but assume you’ll pick up all the “how to follow traffic laws so you don’t kill people” bits on your own.

”

- Yes, yes, yes, a thowsund teims YESSSSS. Cliff over at The Pervocracy nails it again. (via evaporites)

Cliff is wonderful. :3

—BB

(via fuckyeahsexpositivity)

mindgames-and-logicpuzzles: stfuconservatives: sulitati: I...

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:14:37 -0400

mindgames-and-logicpuzzles:

stfuconservatives:

sulitati:

I know I made a post about this a while ago, but I’m going to make it again since we’re getting into the hottest time of the year.

If you’re out in the Sonoran Desert in AZ and you see any of these [bottles with insults], please pick them up and throw them away. Vigilante groups are leaving intentionally empty gallon jugs in popular crossing points and that is the last thing that somebody needs to see as they’re trying to cross.

If you can, carry clean and full jugs with you and leave them where you see these. Gatorade or Electrolit are also really good for re-hydration.

Contact Humane Borders if you meet anyone in need of medical attention.

Signal boosting.

fuckers.

Who would make the effort to do a water drop with hate messages!?

grimyboy: honestly how can you not love lil b

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:14:20 -0400

grimyboy:

honestly how can you not love lil b

xxredrum: eeeee

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:54:54 -0400

xxredrum:

eeeee

kikismisandryservice: womanwithaflowerhead: ghost-of-algren: p...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:51:26 -0400

kikismisandryservice:

womanwithaflowerhead:

ghost-of-algren:

punkpedagogy:

note-a-bear:

sugarplumsandgunshots:

thisiswhiteculture:

rhythmandblue:

Passive Resistance Training, SNCC, Atlanta, GA, 1960, by James Karales, courtesy Duke University Library

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/photo-tractatus/4915553610/in/photostream/)

people had to be trained to deal wit the evil of white people

I hope this makes it clear to folks that non-violence as expressed during the Civil Rights Movement was not simply a moral or political choice. It was a tactical application as well.

Do y’all think SNCC, SCLC, CORE, MLK, Jr. or anyone else wanted to witness their people being beaten, that they wanted to stay their fists and guns when their CHILDREN were being murdered? If you do, I suggest you go back to history class, because MLK, Medgar Evers, Bayard Rustin, almost any person you can think of who advocated non-violence had armed guards and personnel in place for their and their people’s safety.

Non-violence as a resistance strategy was an attempt at provocation. Recognize that. Recognize that’s why these folks are training. Because they’re performing provocation through passive resistance. By not striking back they were illustrating the madness and vitriol of white supremacy. They were exposing in the most dramatic manner possible the denial of their humanity.

Understand: This was not turn the other cheek, this was looking into the eyes of the Devil and not backing down.

this is a damn good point to counter all the nonviolence moralistic liberal bullshit going on continuously in activist spaces.

Can we also take a moment to talk about how important it was that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had the foresight to bring in a professional photographer to create a document of this sort of training. That the conversation taking place in this tumblr thread is only occurring today because of a photographic record created years ago is a testimony to the importance of the photographer to radical discourses.

Bolded for emphasis.

remind me to reblog this on monday

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Fri, 10 May 2013 02:17:22 -0400

‘I think I might have inhaled you I could feel you behind...

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:16:00 -0400

‘I think I might have inhaled you

I could feel you behind my eyes

You’ve gotten into my bloodstream

I could feel you floating in me’

anikasbasementshow: so the Los Angeles Music Video Festival...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:09:45 -0400

anikasbasementshow:

so the Los Angeles Music Video Festival happened. and apparently our video damn near won the whole thing. if you haven’t seen it yet, check it out!

bad-dominicana: lividula: gnostic-forest: architectureofdoom: ...

Wed, 08 May 2013 14:02:43 -0400

bad-dominicana:

lividula:

gnostic-forest:

architectureofdoom:

Road washed out by flood, WA state.

This is so beautiful

Officially my new favorite picture in the whole world.

Nature was like fuck you! I want a stream here! You dont run me!

mindgames-and-logicpuzzles: aniknik: If anyone can tell me who...

Mon, 06 May 2013 18:02:00 -0400

mindgames-and-logicpuzzles:

aniknik:

If anyone can tell me who painted this and where it came from I will be very very grateful.

Remedios Varo. “Locomocion Capilar”

Thank you!!

“Of the painting, Varo herself has written: ‘These men are detectives dsguised so as to go unnoticed: their beards also serve as their means of locomotion. The man looking out of the window uses his beard to capture the poor, frightened girl who is just around the corner.’”

-Francie Kate-Arries

Poster 'only fully visible to kids'

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:33:07 -0400

Poster 'only fully visible to kids':

“Spanish organisation the Anar Foundation used lenticular printing - a technique which means those looking at different angles see a different image.

On the poster, a “secret” message showing a child helpline would show up when seen from a child’s height.

The foundation said it helped children gain confidence to call the number.

The campaign was designed get the information about where to find help to children who may be accompanied by their abuser.”

"We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:29:48 -0400

“We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.”

- Arthur C. Clarke (via mad-as-a-marine-biologist)

swansoft: bonbeauchat: tastyfuck: A young Peruvian girl rests...

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:29:32 -0400

swansoft:

bonbeauchat:

tastyfuck:

A young Peruvian girl rests with her baby alpaca named Carmelo near Colca Canyon, Peru on May 6, 2009.

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Sun, 05 May 2013 11:28:49 -0400

librarianpirate: whiskey-robot: christiantheatheist: In a...

Sun, 05 May 2013 11:28:23 -0400

librarianpirate:

whiskey-robot:

christiantheatheist:

In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.

The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.

The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy.

Fuck yeah kindness!

Life is basically good.

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Sat, 04 May 2013 15:21:19 -0400