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me, driving down the road: I am so much happier now that I’m dead. Technically, missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lying, cheating, obvlivious–

my driving instructor: please stop doing that

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Tried listening to the soundtrack to The Handmaiden while studying.....it just made me feel Romantic and Wistful

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i’m homoplatonic i’m only friends with other gays

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sharon olds

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Being bipolar means I have a leg up in my pharmacology class. Therapeutic indeces?We’re good friends!

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“You can never have too much sky. You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky.”

— Sandra Cisneros, from The House on Mango Street; “Darius & the Clouds,”

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Hi I’m never on here anymore bc midwifery school is kicking my a** I have to put so many things in my brain lmao

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my wife’s so cute because we both love animals so much but her way is very pure and genuine whereas my family is:

me, holding up my cat: stinky

wife: no!! don’t be mean!!!

me, swaying him back and forth in the air: stinky bastard man

wife: No!!!!!!!!

my mother, not looking up from chopping veggies: naughty boy. brat cat

wife, distraught: NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The purest form of love, I think, is having someone who wants to learn about you, from you and with you.

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me looking at the dawn of a new day, ready to fix my life

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looking at “detox” tips like No Thanks I already have a Liver 🤔

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A Queer Native Feminist Reading List

Readings

Decolonization is not a metaphor (Eve Tuck & K. Wayne Yang)

Everyday decolonization: Living a decolonizing queer politics (Sarah Hunt & Cindy Holmes)

Refusal to forgive: Indigenous women’s love and rage (Rachel Flowers) 

A Glossary of Haunting: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (Eve Tuck, C. Ree, Angie Morrill, Kathryn Recollet, and the Super Futures Haunt Collective)

The end of (the capitalist white supremacist heteropatriarchal hate-full order of) the world, a survival guide (Zoe Todd)

Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation (Leanne Betasamosake Simpson)  

Can the Other of Native Studies speak? (Billy-Ray Belcourt)

These are stories of resilience. Or, emblems of resistance. (Naomi Sayers)  

Not Nowhere: Collaborating on Selfsame Land (Eve Tuck, Allison Guess, Hannah Sultan)

Of Dogma and Ceremony (Tara Williamson)

Ahkii: A Woman is a Sovereign Land (Gwen Benaway)

Video & audio

Embodying Self-Determination: resisting violence beyond the gender binary (Sarah Hunt)

Indigenous Feminist Resurgence, Love and Resistance in Indigenous Women’s Contemporary Storytelling (Dory Nason)

Making Love and Relations Beyond Settler Sexuality (Kim Tallbear)

Coming In: Indigenous Resurgence, Body Sovereignty and Gender Self-Determination (Alex Wilson)

Our Bodies and Lands are Not Your Property (Erica Violet Lee)

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s 2016 NWSA keynote address

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“My childhood, closed to me forever, turned gold like an autumn garden,”

— Louise Glück, from Fugue in “Poems 1962-2012″ (via adrasteiax)