Feed the Madness and it Feeds on You

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my-own-little-nerd-paradise:

“I am a writer” I say as I’m staring at the blank piece of paper for hours.

“I love writing” I say, grinding my teeth and breaking my pencil in half.

“Writing keeps me sane” I say, laughing like a maniac and spinning my head around 360 degrees while climbing up the wall.

I’m laughing so hard

Reblogging again because it’s true.

(Source: james-baechanan-barnes, via sarabibliomania)

• 13 Feb 2017
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Let’s do better!!!

Ok so I’m all for taking the stupid things male (mostly republican) politicians say about female (mostly democratic) politicians like “nasty women” or “Nevertheless, she persisted” and turning them into feminist battlecries. And yes, I’m a little too sensitive to the commodification and capitalizing of religions, thoughts, or sets of ideology. What can I say? I was raised Christian. I’m super super sensitive and wary of this phenomenon. 

However, there is so much wrong with this shirt, and I’m not even talking about the very obvious typo (women should be woman). The most glaring problem I find with this is the line “Don’t flirt with me” and the last line “She will murder you.” 

Because without those lines, I can interpret “crazy” to mean something other than the sexist use of the word crazy– y’know the term all women are branded if they exhibit any behaviors or feelings that are even remotely negative. Without those lines, I interpret the word “crazy” to mean that society calls her crazy because of her zealous passion for crushing the patriarchy and she’s totally owning it.  

With the inclusion of those lines though, it very quickly moves into “crazy (ex) girlfriend” territory, playing into a patriarchal stereotype that delegitimizes women’s rights to negative feelings like anger and hurt. A girlfriend who would murder, even hyperbolically, simply due to another woman flirting with her boyfriend is the exact sexist stereotype female writers and actresses have been pushing back against– the crazy girlfriend who is so controlling and insecure that she doesn’t like another woman even being near her bf/husband. This shirt playing into this stereotype delegitimizes everything the hashtag/phrase “Nasty Woman” has come to mean. It undermines the cause, a cause that erupted from a candidate for president calling his female opponent a nasty woman simply because she was stating facts that made him look bad. 

I love that we’ve reclaimed the term Nasty Woman as a feminist war cry. But I also think we need to be very cognizant of the way we brand this term, and this tshirt and merchandise like it is detrimental to the movement. 

• 13 Feb 2017

So whenever I go on a trailer watching binge on YouTube, I play this game called “Count the white People” pretty quickly I get tired of holding such a large number in my head though there’s hardly ever a long pause between white characters in movies. So I switch to a game called “count the poc” and then I get sad with how long I have to pause between counting poc characters in upcoming movies. So then I stop, swearing off all movies with humans.

Lather rinse repeat.

• 19 Jan 2017
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For anyone who thinks living on your own is glamorous

I had to rush to work this morning so I could pee because I ran out of toilet paper

• 19 Jan 2017
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#ShoutOutToMyEx I really love it when you don’t respond to my texts. It reminds me of when we were dating.

Some context: me and my ex are in the same grad program and we run the student newspaper together. So we’re stuck working together and yet even in a professional context, the motherfucker still won’t answer his damn phone.

• 18 Jan 2017

I have been low-key crying since last night because of Netflix’s One Day at a Time

Because in this show I have what I found in Jane the Virgin

I found a story about a family that looks remarkably similar to mine

I found a TV show with writers who respect the culture of the show’s family and the individuals they have created 

And you know the other gifts the writers gave us?

They gave us well-rounded relateable characters. They gave us Elena, a Latinx queer character who is unashamedly feminist and strong.

They gave me the opportunity to laugh at the things that ring true and cry at the things that are heartbreakingly familiar. 

And you know what the best part about those funny and heartbreaking parts is? That not all of them are based on the fact that the family is a Latinx family, that not all of them are at the expense of this family for being different than the white hetero-normative culture we’ve been led to believe is “normal” 

Because the issues the writers tackle are not limited to racism. The show tackles feminism and relationships and family politics and LGBTQ rights and so. much. more. 

I found accurate, heartening, funny, encouraging, sometimes horribly accurate  representation

And I am so happy about this that embarrassingly, I am crying at my desk at work

so thankful. so fucking thankful.

• 9 Jan 2017
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