Her lips were red, her looks were free,
Her locks were yellow as gold:
Her skin was as white as leprosy,
The Night-mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she,
Who thicks man’s blood with cold.
— “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Thought for the Day
Thought for the Day
There should be word for the exhilaration of a half-success coupled with the glowing disappointment of the half-failure, that two-sided coin.
— Claire Light, “Sense8 and the Failure of Global Imagination”
Thought for the Day
I’m sure we’ll continue to talk amongst ourselves about how to handle the current crisis. Cis people don’t get to lead that conversation. We don’t care what you think. We’re more concerned with what you do, or more often, what you don’t do.
— eastsidekate at Shakesville
Thought for the Day
My adult understanding of my childhood with my father doesn’t erase the effects of his policing. I felt his gaze always following me, making me feel isolated as I quietly grappled with my identity. The loneliness and self-consciousness from these exchanges made me vulnerable in a way I wasn’t able to recognize until decades later.
— Janet Mock, Redefining Realness
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Cornel West reminds us that justice is what love looks like in public.
Thought for the Day
I am what you designed me to be. I am your blade. You cannot now complain if you also feel the hurt”
— Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
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Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times — times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation — that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils.
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
— Nelson Mandela’s speech in support of “Make Poverty History”
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I would stop talking about the past, if it weren’t so present.
Thought for the Day
Because being an asshole is not an opinion, it’s just being an asshole.
— Mary Robinette Kowal
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Here’s the thing: People fucking despise trans women. Often the nicest thing they can thing of to say to trans woman is “gosh, you are so little like a trans woman!” Being trans is something to avoid, to exclude, to escape, at worst to nobly bare up under.
But I’m done with it. You can be trans or cis. You can be super femme, you can be ultra butch. You can be straight or queer. You can have people saying you’re a transcendent beauty who just stepped off a Renaissance canvas, you can have people saying you’re a stomach turning monster. You can be a light in the world who every person you meet loves and devotes themselves to, you can be an awkward storm cloud who drives everyone away.
— Vivian Taylor, I’m A Trans Woman And I’m Not Interested In Being One of the “Good Ones”
