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THE CRUCIBLE X KELLY AKASHI

Arthur Miller, The Crucible

Kelly Akashi, sculptures, Bound (2017) + Feel Me (2017)

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Tell a man he hurt you and watch him get offended.

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Isolated Building Series

David Schalliol

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the word lover is so infinitely soft. So universal. So timeless. Two girls with awkward, hungry hands. A boy and a girl in the dark. Two men in empty light. A marriage of 40 years. Letters over eons. Sappho’s poems. The corner of a mouth. Lovers, lovers, lovers.

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Jenny Holzer

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examine your intentions. don’t move, why are you here? is your anger self righteous or misdirected? are you holding yourself accountable? what are the consequences of your actions? are your feelings facts, are they a tool for you to win an argument? are your actions consistent with the love you say you have for another? what does love mean to you? is your language mindful of another’s illnesses and traumas? do you respect another’s autonomy and critical thinking skills? are your emotions enriching this conversation or damaging it?

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In me the winter’s warm, since I cradle it, and it melts in me this crying lump of salt.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, from Multitudinous Heart: Poems; “Elegy,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

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I like my hair messy. My love wild. And my sex aggressive. But I’m still a sensitive woman, just with passion.

Sade Harrison (via sheabutterbitch)

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen vintage paperback classics by Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and others! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on February 25, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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peak liberalism is asking the consumer class to ‘go green’, recycle, and turn off their lights for an hour each year to save the planet instead of telling the agricultural/oil industry and multi-billion corporations to cut out 99% of the shit they’re pulling every single hour of every day

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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond. If I look at my most vulnerable places and acknowledge the pain I have felt, I can remove the source of that pain from my enemies’ arsenals. My history cannot be used to feather my enemies’ arrows then, and that lessens their power over me. Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself

Audre Lorde (via beyonslayed)

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Asian lesbian couple kissing, 1991 From UCSD

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36 MORE Life Changing Poems Everyone Should Read

I told my friend Anne Marie that I could come up with a list of 36 poems everyone should read to rival Buzzfeed’s list, which was great, but I felt was missing a few important names. 36 names to be exact. Here are 36 heart-polishing poems. 36 atmosphere-shattering poems. 36 poems I love by 36 poets I love. This list is not exhaustive, & by no means should these poems be the only one read of each poet.  Enjoy! HAPPY POETRY MONTH Y'ALL 1. Jeremy Radin, “Moon Wasps”

2. Sara Woods, “City Girl”

3. Heather Christle, “Pursuits”

4. Anis Mojgani, “When We Were Geese”

5. Annelyse Gelman, “Heart”

6. Sierra DeMulder, “The Genius Goes to Church”

7. Karen Finneyfrock, “The Owl Cycle”

8. Aracelis Girmay, “Elegy”

9. Danez Smith, “sideshow”

10. Lesley Yalen, “The Problem of People”

11. Jamaal May, “There Are Birds Here”

12. Cassandra de Alba, “The Bears”

13. John Mortara, “Every Night I Call the Cops On Myself”

14. Franny Choi, “Bird Watching”

15. Saeed Jones, “Thallium”

16. Rachel McKibbens, “A Child Without Arms Running Through a Field”

17. Angel Nafis, “Angel’s Heart Clowns the Ocean”

18. Brennan Bestwick, “Surname Nasa”

19. Tracy K. Smith, “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?”

20. Rob Sturma, “Christopher Robin’s Breakup Note”

21. Nikki Finney, “Cattails”

22. Caroline Crew, “The Weather Radio”

23. Kevin Young, “from Book of Hours”

24. Rebecca Lindenberg, “Litany”

25. Shanny Jean Maney, “I Love Science”

26. Farrah Field, “Consciousness Enlarges in an Untoward Present”

27. Airea D. Matthews, “Hero(i)in”

28. Fatima Asghar, “He Huffed and He Puffed”

29. Megan Falley, “new york craigslist>personals>missed connections”

30. Kelly Schirmann, “not asia, exactly.”

31. Emily Kendal Frey, “My Definition of Rape”

32. Carrie Lorig, “Scatterstate”

33. Mathias Svalina, “The Future”

34. Richard Siken, “Saying Your Names”

35. Zachary Schomburg, “The One About the Robbers”

36. Ocean Vuong, “Revelation”

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“It is in your own self interest to find a way to be very tender.”

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Cold Specks - A Broken Memory / Tricky - Does It / Kelis - Get Along With You / Adrien Daniel - Fool / O.Children - Holy Wood / Cold Specks - Absisto / Mirel Wagner - No Death / VV Brown - Beginning

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