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“It is problematic to construct the Afghan or Muslim woman as someone in need of saving. When you save someone, you imply that you are saving her from something. You are also saving her to something. What violences are entailed in this transformation?”

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Lila Abu-Lughod, Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

“What presumptions are being made about the superiority of that to which you are saving her?”

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Anaïs Nin operating her handpress in Macdougal Street studio in the 1940s

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my job is "funny" in that sometimes I'm doing what I think is a routine call with clients to make sure the right papers are being sent and I end up having to break the news to them that their aunt died

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watching my promised afternoon thunderstorm slip from a 90% chance to a 20% chance.... baby come back i can change

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"What strikes you at once about Vuong’s prose is its bludgeoning inexactness – not a fruitful, poetic ambivalence, but sheer clumsiness." "If this wasn’t enough, the book is intolerably busy with vatic, empty utterances." "This language is not poetic, but ridiculous, sententious, blinded by self-love and pirouetting over a chasm. Vuong trivialises his subjects by refusing to look at them directly, to describe them patiently; he seems not to trust the strength of his own material, or the perceptions of the reader." "I groaned​ my way through The Emperor of Gladness. I writhed. I felt real despair every time I forced myself to open the covers. It was one of the worst ordeals of my reading life."

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A Roman stucco relief panel, 2nd half of 1st century A.D.

Source: metmuseum.org

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Senán! Good name imo.

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Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur; France, 15th century; Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 134, f. 49v

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Théodore Chassériau - Les Deux Sœurs, 1843

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Hanif Abdurraqib, In Defense of Despair

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Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) - Untitled, 1983

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sister giving birth and I'm supposed to be at work and be normal and chill and actually do things?????????????????????????????

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Divine Liturgy

Fr. Seraphim Aldea , St. Oran's Chapel, Isle of Iona, Scotland

(Images via Fr. Seraphim used with permission)