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Anaïs Nin, The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1923–1927

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We are also reading Aracelis Girmay’s “You Are Who I Love,” in which the speaker unfurls a list of people they love, people they want to see survive, people doing what those not committed to close and tender attention might call the daily tasks of living: a person stirring a pot of beans, a person selling roses out of a cart, a person crossing a border, a person carrying their brother home, a person singing Leonard Cohen to the snow. You, reader, do not personally know these people, but their motivations spark a familiar feeling—here is someone trying to survive in a world that can render a person unable to get out of bed. You, too, may love a person who cannot get out of bed, which is why you cherish the things that convey, I am trying to stitch together enough small moments to have a life for a little bit longer.

Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

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Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

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— Jonathan Safran Foer

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Joy Sullivan, from “At the Airport”, Instructions for Traveling West

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It's my 2 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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It's the end of the month, so here are some weekend reads! My favorite are in bold <3

The ‘Espresso’ Theory of Gender Relations | archive.org

Everyone Is Beautiful and No One Is Horny | archive.org

Time Loop Narratives Are About Love | archive.org

Barry Keoghan's Dominic Is Crucial To Understanding 'The Banshees of Inisherin' | archive.org

The people choosing their friends based on aesthetics | archive.org

‘It was like she was possessed’: how Q Lazzarus made Silence of the Lambs’ most bewitching song – and then vanished | archive.org

Carly Rae Jepsen Loves You Back | archive.org

(I've heard 12ft.io is great if you get stuck behind a paywall, but you didn't hear that from me!)

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David Whyte, “Self Portrait”

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— James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk

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Margaret Atwood, from Power Politics

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— Megan Fernandes, “I’m Smarter than this Feeling, but Am I?” from I Do Everything I’m Told

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An empire, I read somewhere,

Maintains itself through

The cruelty of its prisons.

—Charles Simic, "January"

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