January 2012
December 2011
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How Knitting Behind Bars Transformed Maryland... →
gadgetry:
inspiremekaelri:
fragmentsshoredagainstmyruin:
In late 2009, Lynn Zwerling stood in front of 600 male prisoners at the Pre-Release Unit in Jessup, Maryland. “Who wants to knit?” she asked the burly crowd. They looked at her like she was crazy.
Yet almost two years later, Zwerling and her associates have taught more than 100 prisoners to knit, while dozens more are on a...
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so much joy it hurts: Two Countries, Naomi Shihab... →
kathleenjoy:
Skin remembers how long the years grow when skin is not touched, a gray tunnel of singleness, feather lost from the tail of a bird, swirling onto a step, swept away by someone who never saw it was a feather. Skin ate, walked, slept by itself, knew how to raise a see-you-later hand. But skin felt it was never seen, never known as
““@evajackie I hope u can read english, because your magazine is a poor...”
– Rihanna’s responce to this
i fuckin LOVE rih rih
(via lover-root)
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been in the city for 4 days now
and instantly i slip back into the skin of something i thought i left, this endless urging pulse of nightlife and public transit and activity and crowd. there’s no denying that i love it so much, i take a lot of pride and exhilaration out of being about to navigate the city. but the coldness and neverending show that goes on beyond the glitz and grit? the night after night of clubs and bars...
“Madness is too glamorous a term to convey what happens to most people who are...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via flakkery)
“In terms of the tumblr “social justice” community, I’ve said it before and I’ll...”
– akagoldfish (via anticapitalist)
akagoldfish, on occasion, will say things that make a lot of sense and that I agree with
(via logicallypositive)
i would not extend this to every single SJ blogger on tumblr, but most definitely true.
Not Worried
anonaud:
When things like this are going on it seems luxurious to consider my own responses to them. In the valley the flames are smudges of yellow but I still perambulate around my feelings of horror and disbelief. I used to live there but now I don’t. Now I don’t live anywhere. Are you worried? Because I’m not.
- Slowly Downward
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HEY THERE! I'M GOING TO GROPE YOU IN THE FACE.
#pickuplinesthatonlyiwouldfindeffective
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In my experience,
delacroix:
Anyone who tells you they’re super nice, non-judgmental, or that they really value people will probably turn out to be a judgmental cunt.
This is pretty true. This is me.
“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is...”
– Christopher Hitchens. Good bye Hitch. You were one of the good ones. I think the best thing I’ve heard on this is one of the top Reddit quotes: “I was alive when Christopher Hitchens was alive.” (via timomorris
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“Twenty-two years ago, 14 women in Montreal were murdered. The next morning, when...”
– - Dave Tough on the École Polytechnique Massacre. (via garconniere
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“I actually attack the concept of happiness. The idea that - I don’t mind people...”
– Hugh Mackay (via dondante)
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“First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
...”
– Pastor Niemoller (via cultureofresistance)
this was one of those quotes that had a huge huge impact on me as a kid
(via youarenotyou)
“star-far from the person right next to me, but
closer to me than my bones you...”
– (via dondante
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