#on the body

[newvision]

— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

[millionsknives]

i do not inhabit my body i am my body, i am not a brain in a meat suit i am wonderful flesh and bone and veins and synapses and cartilage, my soul is not separate from my body they are one and the same and they are me, and if god did not care about the body he would not have promised to resurrect it

[kaptenorgazmo]

her body and other parties, Carmen Maria Machado

Painting by Aleksandra Waliszewska

Closer, Dennis Cooper

Sunburns, thomas mailaender

Anatomy, Kitty horrorshow

[thismustbeso]

Relative Fiction, Julien Baker

[stargir1z]

Becoming Woman: Or Sexual Difference Revisited by Rosi Braidotti

[kitchen-light]

Allowing our hearts to crack, is an insistence on remaining open, remaining human. It forms a pathway of return to the hearts of our mothers, our brothers and children of Palestine. The tenderness of grief allows us to humanise and hold the contradictions of this moment.

Sanah Ahsan, from her essay "Allowing Our Hearts To Break: Poetry, Our Embodied Method of Resistance", published in Too Little / Too Hard, Issue 2 Winter 2023

[respirelejasmin]

Does a body worry if you keep it inside ? Does it feel home? Can a body survive ? Will you take it to the cellar, the bones and the tether, Lay the bones of the dog and the body together ?

Cricket Blue, Alicia from the store

[voicedwords]

Parabola Is the Most Beautiful Word in the English Language, Sirianna Helleloid

[bitchfitch]

writing advice for characters with a missing eye: dear God does losing an eyes function fuck up your neck. Ever since mine crapped out I've been slowly and unconsciously shifting towards holding my head at an angle to put the good eye closer to the center. and human necks. are not meant to accommodate that sorta thing.

[karlovycross]

Summer Berry Mix 🍓🫐 ♡⊹˚₊

[newvision]

— Ella Baxter, from New Animal

[fantasticcute]

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[thismustbeso]

The River, Mary Oliver

[stargir1z]

Gut Feelings: Indigestibility as an Archive of Surplus Otherness by Danni Cheng

[kitchen-light]

It’s hard enough to move around in the world as a body that invites scrutiny, the presumption of intimacy, and motivated ‘interest,’ you know? So I do think there is something about the gap in the lyric as enabling, also, the impossibility of closeness between writer and reader that I appreciate, that allows me to write poems at all.

Cameron Awkward-Rich, from “Cameron Awkward-Rich | Interview by Mag Gabbert”, Underblong, Issue 4