May 2013
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“My friends and I aren’t a faction- We’re a Grassroots Solution.”
May 10th
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Poet Tara Hardy/ A fundraising campaign for... →
denisejollyspoken: andrewgibby: Community, the U.S healthcare system sucks. If you are able please support (and share) this campaign for Tara Hardy, one of the most influential, heart-open, generous poets of our time. BOOST Please donate and share. Tara Hardy is one of the most impacting queer educators and writers in the international spoken word community and she NEEDS our HELP. Tara...
May 8th
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May 8th
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May 5th
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May 3rd
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theresapoem asked: Thanks for introducing me to Delta Rae
May 2nd
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May 1st
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April 2013
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“The mistakes I tend to make in my first draft are too many adjectives. When I...”
– Sharon Olds, interviewed by Mike Pride for the Concord Monitor (via nps2013) What a hero!
Apr 30th
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Favorite restaurant?
That’s an easy one. Red Arrow Diner all day.
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Black guy kills some people.
News: Criminal.
Muslim guy kills some people.
News: Terrorist.
Latino guy kills some people.
News: Criminal.
White guy kills some people.
News: Mental illness. (lost soul, complicated psyche, quiet loner, misunderstood, frustrated with life, experienced recent, traumatic, life-altering events that set him off; not to mention all the positive descriptors that are attached to him, i.e. intelligent, PhD candidate, honor roll student, etc.)
Teenage boys rape a girl
News: Potential NFL athletes, popular students, class presidents, funny, intelligent, bright, enthusiastic, handsome, sought after, promising, polite, "poor boys who lost their future dream"
Teenage girl is raped
News: What was she wearing? Was she drunk? How much was she drinking? Was her cleavage showing? Well maybe she was asking for it? Well was it really "rape"? She was a slut. Teens today are too sexually active. Did she lead them on?
Apr 25th
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Apr 23rd
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Apr 23rd
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“A List of “Men’s Rights” Issues That Feminism Is Already Working On Feminists...”
– Autostraddle (via notaprincessdestinedtobeawitch) Guys. You need to read this. (via abaldwin360)  I reblogged this a while back, but it is important to reread, refresh, remember these items. Always. 
Apr 23rd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Apr 19th
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~IN THE MEANTIME~
Guess who didn’t get any sleep last night. I’m about to smash a found poem.
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Apr 6th
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National Poetry Month Spotlight: Sam Sax →
nicalea: poemsonpoems: Sam Sax is brilliant. I have been lucky enough to call him a team mate, tour mate, and most importantly, a friend.  I will sing his praises til my voice is dust.  this picture is not even real. love up on the shmu. Sam Sax is a gentleman and a craftsman with tercets.
Apr 6th
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Anonymous asked: GET ON HERE MORE OFTEN AND GIVE ME MORE ABOUT YOURSELF TO HATE
Apr 6th
50 Ways to Love Yourself Better Than You Do Right... →
motherlotus: Examine the feeling of not being good enough and the reasons you struggle to love yourself and replace them with a sense of wonder and ease. Create a long list of all the things you do well and read it to yourself often. Say only nice things about your body and the amazing things it enables you to experience in your life. Lift your head up as you walk – and SMILE as you go! ...
Apr 1st
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“What I am to you is not real What I am to you you do not need What I am to you...”
– Damien Rice (via nuclearharvest) Yes, thank you Neens.
Apr 1st
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“If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always...”
– Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (via poemsbydes)
Apr 1st
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March 2013
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 29th
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Mar 27th
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Body Empowerment: "An Invitation to Let Go" by... →
bodyempowerment: An Invitation to Let Go By Caroline Rothstein Do you know of the heart’s pulse – its rapid penetration, crowding up against chest walls when words are no longer enough to capture the gut-wrenching shrill of a lover’s presence? Is it not magnificent? Are there not layers… Caroline Rothstein writes into all depths.
Mar 27th
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Protest Poems →
I am writing to let you know you are not Alone. No matter how romanticized the rogue in you is. For all my wanderlust roving dreams, I am writing in hopes you know better than to dismiss instincts pressing forward, Contrary to a plague of widespread wishful thinking we have not done well. Set your stake in the status of exchanging claims from policies pressuring politicians with black mail...
Mar 25th
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Protest Poem #3 →
Open bidding for social action. I hear We live and create a nocturnal process of discrepancy towards pleading. An outpost to one urban dogma boomed fat and heavy. Too foul mouthed about lifestyle in America. I hear three boys heading for the workmills whirling big city problems while we stand watching. Four briefcases. Reaping. Folk songs for the modern age to the cities forgotten....
Mar 25th
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gerti giggles appreciation blog: Straight, cis... →
thegutlesswonder: Straight, cis folks need to realize that I am not begging for allies like spare change. If your reaction to lesbians is fetishizing and creepy, I reject your ally application. If you want a “gay best friend”, I reject your ally application. If you’re transphobic, I reject your ally… Things I would say to my high school friends? Please read.
Mar 25th
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evolutia: Helping a marginalized group should not... →
evolutia: Helping a marginalized group should not be conditional, especially if it’s one individual that is upsetting you. If that bothers to such an extent you weren’t cut out to be an ally to begin with. You shouldn’t need a batpack to do the right thing. If I see someone who fell on the street, “I’m not…
Mar 25th
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“Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to...”
– Aurora Levins Morales  (via laurenzuni) Yes, this. Thank you for reblogging, Lauren.
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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I caught myself...
Sitting in the Loft sewing an listening to Tristan Prettyman. I think my roommates are rubbing off on me.
Mar 24th
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Mar 24th
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“After the tenth mile, my legs no longer belong to me. I am one hundred yards...”
– Rachel McKibbens, “A Child With No Arms Running Through A Field (Wyoming),” published in Nailed Magazine (via nps2013) Rachel is a fierce kind of guardian angel.
Mar 24th
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Mar 23rd
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Mar 22nd
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brasssnuggles asked: Idk why I wan't following you before... but I'm glad the universe corrected itself.
Mar 22nd