January 2012
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September 2011
45 posts
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the opposite of jealousy
parabless:
Compersion : a state of empathetic happiness and joy experienced when an individual’s current or former romantic partner experiences happiness and joy through an outside source, including, but not limited to, another romantic interest. This can be experienced as any form of erotic or emotional empathy, depending on the person experiencing the emotion.
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How ebooks can't reach the poor, and libraries... →
nocureforcuriosity:
Was linked to this lj post through Neil Gaiman’s twitter. It’s a good read.
How many of these people do you think have access to an ebook reader? I grew up so far below the poverty line that you couldn’t see it from my window, no matter how clear the day was. My bedroom was an ocean of books. Almost all of them were acquired second-hand, through used bookstores, garage...
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“The ultimate irony of gay liberation is that it has made it possible for...”
– That’s Revolting! Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (via carlykitty)
This.
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“There is a clear double standard when it comes to men, women, and hair removal....”
– Jessica Valenti, He’s a Stud, She’s a Slut, and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know (via petitefeministe)
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“Love doesn’t much take to being stuffed into forms, which is what...”
– Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy, The Ethical Slut
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“Like that poem I knew, about how you sit and read your way through a book then...”
– Ali Smith, Girl Meets Boy
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“Rapture. The heart seized, carried away, as if by some large bird of prey.”
– Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
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“These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational...”
– Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
“Joss Whedon’s world is like Tori Amos’s world, which is like Jesus’s world....”
– Snarkey’s Machine (via woj)
Haha.
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August 2011
48 posts
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Me gusta:
1. Sociology in general (electing to study this in my first year of university has proven to be an excellent life choice)
2. Post-modern feminist queer theory.
3. Eroticised power exchange & control. Power gets me off (usually yielding it) but I’m fascinated by it in a theoretical/academic sense too: particularly by what Foucault & subsequent Foucauldians have to say...
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